Gyeongwon Yun from KAIST department of Mechanical Engineering has joined CIDR lab as a new master candidate student. He double-majored Industrial Design and Professor Tek-jin Nam was the advisor for his graduation thesis. His research interests are wearables and smart IoT systems.

SketchStudio, an experience prototyping tool for 2.5D animatied design scenarios, is now available on http://sketchstud.io

Han-Jong Kim, Chang Min Kim, and supervisor Tek-Jin Nam presented SketchStudio project at DIS 2018. The paper 'SketchStudio: Experience Prototyping with 2.5-Dimensional Animated Design Scenarios' was presented, involving overview of the experience prototyping system with desgin scenario and study result with professional designers. The demonstration was also held to introduce and experience VR-based experience prototyping at DIS venue.

Yun Woo Jeong and Seyeong Kim  got their research works accepted at CHI 2018 with the advisory of professor Tek-Jin Nam. Ph.D candidate Yun Woo Jeong got his paper, ‘Mechanism Perfboard: An Augmented Reality Environment for Linkage Mechanism Design and Fabrication’ accepted. Master candidate Seyeong Kim got her poster work(Late-breaking work), ‘Thermal interaction with a voice-based intelligent agent’, accepted. They will be presenting their works at ACM CHI 2018 at Montreal, Canada during 23th April to 26th April.

Hyung-Jun Cho from ID Kaist has joined CIDR lab as a new master candidate student. His research interests are humanizing technology and fun/playful interaction design.