Interactive Product Design Lab

IPD Lab.
IPD Lab explores ways for expressing and physically interacting with personal data through the form of everyday objects.

Our lab mainly goes through the industrial design process, technical implementation, and field study to realize our vision; and results are mostly published in ACM CHI & DIS along with HCI-related journals.
IPD works: 2015 to 2022
Research fields

+ Human-Computer Interaction
+ Tangible interaction
+ Personal data as design material
+ Future everyday things
+ Data physicalization
+ Aesthetic interaction qualities
Research Methods
Research topics using RtD

+ Tangible representation of daily activities for self-reflection
+ Reminiscence from creative encounters with personal digital possessions
+ Interaction with data through new material properties
+ Ephemerality of physicalized digital media
Design Examples
Everyday things as a medium for tangible interaction with personal data

Examples of a person interacting with lifelog data (e.g., schedule, reading activity, pedaling, photos, digital music, and emails) through everyday artifacts (e.g., clock, tray, stool, lamp, and frame) in home. Each artifact is showing the amount/status of a certain user’s lifelog data.

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CHI & DIS'25 papers accepted

May 8, 2025 - IPD

Three of our design cases on interactive artifacts for everyday environments, supported by field studies, led to three papers — one presented at ACM CHI 2025 and two accepted to ACM DIS 2025. Congratulations to all contributing authors!

DIS 2023 Paper

May 6, 2023 - IPD

Our paper about the design, development, and study of an interactive artifact supporting three-group communication using physical height change and rotation has been conditionally accepted to ACM DIS 2023 Papers Track. Congratulations!!! Details about Stubbi is here: https://ipd.unist.ac.kr/works/stubbi/

Human Computer Interaction

March 29, 2023 - IPD

Our paper about the design and field study of an interactive frame for everyday emotion archiving has been published at Human Computer Interaction journal - Taylor & Francis, 6.459 (2021) Impact Factor and JCR Q1 in (Computer Science & Methods). EmotionFrame | 감정액자 (2023 June) + 하루에...

CHI 2023 Paper

January 15, 2023 - IPD

Congratulations! Our work on noise privacy in shared houses using tangible interactive speakers has been accepted to ACM CHI 2023 Papers Track. The paper includes a research product's design, implementation, and field study; the details are here: https://ipd.unist.ac.kr/works/tunee-2/