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Projects

All UX/HCI projects below are industry-academic collaborations or design projects worked with our team as a researcher at KAIST, Next interface lab. 

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Aalto University l 2024

Trust M: Conversational AI for Migrants

Creating trustworthy and accessible digital public services for migrants: The project aims to create trustworthy digital public services for improved integration of migrants in Finland, hence strengthening Finnish society through increased inclusion and economic vibrance.

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iF Design Award 2024

Evergrow: Investment Education Service

Evergrow is a FinTech app that empowers beginners to participate in stock management and investment, fostering self-growth in their financial literacy. It achieves this through a unique representation of a user's portfolio as a forest and enhancing understanding of stocks .

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iF Design Award 2024

Doolpay: e-wallet service for rethinking purchase

Doolpay helps people make better purchase decisions by nudging them to think about both the rational and sentimental factors related to that purchase before the payment is completed. 

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Collaboration with Samsung Electronics

Next + Wearable: Exploring the next wearable scenario

This project aims to explore potential avenues and conceptualize future products for the next wearable. It involved literature research, market analysis, and empathizing through experience. This process led to the generation of ideas and the concretization of 15 scenarios.

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CHI 2023

AI Exhibition: AI with Weird Wonderland

The AI exhibition “AI with Weird Wonderland” is a project that provokes the public to think critically about the AI impact. Designers, artists, and AI developers collaborated to design the exhibitions with interactive artworks and exhibition space.

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Collaborate with NAVER

YORKIE: API-based service with CRDT algorithm

Yorkie is API-based services to help developers to add collaboration features to apps. Our team developed use cases for real-time collaboration based on the Conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) algorithm to support simultaneous editing of multiple users.

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iF Design Award 2022 l IDC 2022

MODU: A Story-Based Empathy Expression Training Game

The story-based serious game MODU was developed to address this gap and support emotion recognition and empathy behavior training in children with mild intellectual disability (MID) and borderline intellectual functioning (BIF).

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Collaborate with NH investments & security

UI design of investment app for foldable mobile display 

Our team revealed the usability problems of the investment app on the current foldable smartphone, set the design direction to provide a UI optimized for the foldable smartphone, and provided a better user experience by establishing design guidelines.

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iF and Reddot Design Award 2022 l IASDR 2022

Korea Aid for Respiratory Epidemic: Mobile clinic module

KARE MCM is a mobile negative pressure isolation ward. In the design process, designers, medical staff, and manufacturing companies worked together. KARE MCM addresses all aspects of functionality, efficiency, cost, usability, and emotional satisfaction.

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iF Design Award 2022

Aline: Stock investment app based on ESG

Our team revealed the usability problems of the investment app on the current foldable smartphone, set the design direction to provide a UI optimized for the foldable smartphone, and provided a better user experience by establishing design guidelines.

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iF Design Award 2022

Stockbox: Stock invetment app for novice investors 

Stockbox is a new stock investment platform that makes it easy for people to enter the stock market by utilizing a metaphor of tangible gifts. Stockbox also serves as a learning space to help novice investors continue to learn and create their own investment portfolios.

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iF Design Award 2022

AQUA: Asset management app

based on Mental Accounting

AQUA is a new way of managing personal assets, an interactive banking app that takes its cues from how people do accounting in our heads. This service was built based on the notion "mental accounting" and turns it into a visual and tangible system.

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iF Design Award 2022

Pinto: investment education and experiencing service

Pinto is an investment education and experiencing service for teenagers and parents. Proper education from an early age is essential to prevent financial illiteracy. Pinto solves such social problems by providing a guided investment experience to teenagers.

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Collaborate with SAMSUNG electronics

Developing interaction model of proactive voice agent

Our team developed an interaction model and exploring design considerations for proactive conversational agents. To examine major elements of interaction with proactive agent interaction, design workshops, and content analysis were conducted.

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Collaborate with SL

Designing scenarios & guidelines for autonomous vehicles

Our team developed user-centered UX scenarios and design guidelines using the front and rear displays of autonomous vehicles. We conducted designer workshop and developed user journey map. As a results, we prototyped user-centered UX scenarios as a 3D gif.

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Reddot Design Award 2018

AI meeting assistant: service for effective productive meeting

Based on AI technology, this meeting assistant helps teams work efficiently and productively. It can identify individual people and record the meeting by SpeechTo-Text in the cloud to make it easier for team members to understand the conclusions of a meeting. 

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Reddot Design Award 2018

AI kids edition: voice user interface for kids

AI Kids Edition is a voice user interface that has been developed for Naver Clova which can be adapted to any kind of AI speaker. Four key features that make it easy for children to interact with the AI speaker enrich children’s experience during listening to a story.

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Reddot Design Award 2018

Orbit: Smart speaker toward natural communication

The Orbit smart speaker provides users with a natural communication experience, since it does not need a wake-up command to start a conversation but by itself shows the will to communicate. The device uses LED lights to indicate types of information to share for users.

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Collaborate with NAVER

Designing UI of Naver service using Voice agent

Our team discovered opportunities to improve user experience of voice user interface interface (VUI) to Naver services and presented design guidelines for each service based on studying theoretical background of VUI and prototyping and user evaluation.

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