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.
iF Design Award 2023 finalist l CHI 2023
Art 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. The exhibition aims to help the public become critical and responsible AI users by interacting with exhibits and reflecting on their own AI experiences.
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.
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).

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.