Discovery-driven Prototyping for Human-centered Innovation in Ubiquitous Computing

Speaker
Youn-kyung Lim
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Design, KAIST

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

Bell and Dourish (2005)’s notion of “Yesterday’s Tomorrow” is true for Korea. We already have the platform and the context of making ubiquitous computing now. However, the challenge is not just on the technology side anymore. It may be more on finding valuable opportunities for utilizing the available technology for actual use for people. Many research outcomes in this area we witness nowadays demonstrate the importance of this issue. In spite of this popularity, the issue has not been fully resolved yet. It is rather only in the beginning stage.

In this talk, a new approach for discovering human-centered opportunities to utilize newly emerging technologies for ubiquitous computing we developed will be introduced. For this new approach, we propose the concept of discovery-driven prototyping with which we hope that it enables the “sneak-peek” of the future from the actual users’ points-of-views, that is, what really people want and desire with what are possible by these new technologies, without expensive implementation of a full system of untested ideas. Two different discovery-driven prototyping approaches will be introduced. One is to discover the human-centered roles of functionalities of newly emerging technologies of ubiquitous computing, and the other is to discover the human-centered roles of information captured through those technologies. The ideas of the prototypes we developed and the results of the user studies with those prototypes will be discussed regarding the implications of new design strategies for ubiquitous computing applications.

Speaker's Bio

Dr. Youn-kyung Lim is an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Design at KAIST in South Korea. Prof. Lim received her Ph.D. at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Illinois, and holds a Master of Design (M.Des.) in Human-centered Design from the same university. She holds a B.S. in Industrial Design from KAIST where she now works for as a faculty member. She has been participating in service activities for the CHI community and the Design community as a program committee member and an organizing committee member for international conferences. For research, she has been working on the domains of experience-centered design and aesthetics of interaction as well as prototyping in interaction design especially for creative interaction design. In 2009, she was awarded with the Microsoft Research New Faculty Award by Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) which is given to young faculty members who demonstrate significant leadership quality in their research area showing the high potential to advance the state of the art in computing research field. She is now collaborating with researchers at MSRA through the KAIST-Microsoft Research Collaboration Center.

Host
John Zimmerman