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Younah Kang

강연아

UX Design Researcher

Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Underwood International College Yonsei University

Office : Veritas C 418

Tel: +82-32-749-3089

E-mail: yakang@yonsei.ac.kr

https://ibtm.yonsei.ac.kr/faculty/name_search.do?mode=view&userId=CJ9Y8W8E%2F4cMgcPlktJvpA%3D%3D&sosokcd=

Curriculum Vitae

  • 2019-present: Associate Professor, Yonsei University

  • 2015-2019: Assistant Professor, Yonsei University

  • 2012-2015: User Experience Researcher, Google HQ

 

Academic Credential

 

  • 2012: Ph.D. Human-Centered Computing, Georgia Tech

  • 2006: M.S. Information (HCI), U of Michigan Ann Arbor

  • 2004: B.S. Industrial Design, KAIST

Awards/Honors/Memberships

  • HCI Korea, Organizing Committee

Design for Experience in Yonsei (DEY) Lab

사용자경험디자인 연구실

Design for Experience in Yonsei (DEY) lab aims at designing more convenient, pleasant, meaningful, and valuable experience in interacting with technology. ​Our research and teaching unifies the areas of human-computer interaction and user experience. ​Depending on the research objective, we employ different approaches including empirical, theoretical, design-driven ways of generating and experimenting knowledge. We are interested in both the product and the process of user experience design and focused on designing, building, and evaluating computational artifacts based on a deep understanding of users. Ultimately, we believe that a well-thought technology can truly help people communicate with each other.

DEY 연구실에서는 보다 편리한, 즐거운, 의미있는 사용자 경험을 위한 연구를 수행합니다. HCI/UX의 기본 과정인 리서치 -> 디자인/개발 -> 평가에걸친연구를통해인간과기술간의상호작용을탐구하고 지속적인 디자인 혁신을 시도합니다. 인간에 대한 깊은 이해를 바탕으로AR/VR, IoT. AI등의 새로운 기술이 궁극적으로 사람 간의 소통을 도울 수 있다고 믿으며 이를 구체화해 나가는 과정을 연구합니다.

Research Keywords:

HCI, UX for AI, Design thinking and innovation, Visualization 

 

인간컴퓨터상호작용, 사용자경험, 디자인사고와 혁신, 데이터시각화

Research Interests/Topics:

Design and evaluation of products and services for better experience / Understanding users through empirical studies / Design thinking for innovation

 

제품및서비스의사용자경험디자인,평가/사용자조사를통한 디자인 요구사항 도출 / 디자인사고방법론

Research Publications (selected)

Kang, Y., Lee, J., & Kang, Y. (2020). User’s Needs for Voice Agents in a Smart Home Context. Archives of Design Research, 33(4), 175-188.

Kang, Y., & Lee, K. (2020). Designing technology entrepreneurship education using computational thinking. Education and Information Technologies, 25, 5357-5377.

Jeong, Y., Lee, J., Kim, S., & Kang, Y. (2020). How Voice Interface Influences Users’ Music Experience: An Exploratory Study Using YouTube Videos. Archives of Design Research, 33(1), 165-177.

Kim, S., Baek, S., & Kang, Y. (2020). “To All the Money I’ve Spent Before”: Why People Share their Bookkeeping Records with Strangers. 한국 HCI 학회 논문지, 15(2), 5-15.

Chung, K., & Kang, Y. (2020). Deriving Design Guidelines to Address Complexity Issues in eCommerce Apps for the Elderly. Archives of Design Research, 33(4), 137-157.

Moon Kyeong Kim, Hee Youn Kim & Youn Ah Kang (2019). Influence of Gift-Giving in Social Network Games on Social Capital: Relationship Types, Gift-Giving Types, and the Big Five Factors of Personality, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 35:1, 38-52.

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