News & Events

12/17/2023

HyunJoo has been invited to speak at the opening session of the special exhibition hosted by KAIST ID in Seoul, Korea. Her presentation is titled "Design Competencies for a Sustainable Future."

10/25/2023

HyunJoo receives the Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation Award at Georgia Tech. She will be teaching her proposed course on “Creative Reuse of Useless” in Spring 2024!

10/10/2023

HyunJoo has been selected as a member of the inaugural cohort for the Energy Equity, Environmental Justice & Community Engagement Faculty Fellows Program (2023-24) at Georgia Tech.

10/9/2023

Akash's Master's in Industrial Design (MID) thesis, which focuses on expanding the Sensing Kirigami concept to rigid materials, will be presented at the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) conference in 2023!

9/8/2023

HyunJoo, Noah, Tymirra, and Tingyu, along with Sherry and Colin from BSCS Science Learning, have published an article in the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (IJCCI) on the MCVT project. This marks the first comprehensive paper detailing the design and implementation of the MCVT toolkit under the NSF project.

8/26/2023

Jin and Junzhe will host another CoDe Craft Café on Wireless Communication for middle school youth in collaboration with CEISMC.

6/21/2023

Two awards from Core 77!! With Functional Destruction, Tingyu has been honored as the Student Winner in the Sustainability category at the Core 77 Design Awards 2023. AND! SwellSense (also led by Tingyu) has been recognized as a Student Notable work in the Interaction category.

4/23/2023-4/28/2023

Two papers will be at CHI 2023: Tingyu presents SwellSense and Functional Destruction (honorable mention!).

4/23/2023

HyunJoo will host a workshop with colleagues on Beyond Prototyping Boards: Future Paradigms for Electronics Toolkits at CHI 2023.

4/15/2023

Jin, Karina, and Junzhe will host CoDe Craft Café on Wireless Communication for middle school youth from the Metro Atlanta area.

11/2/2022

Tingyu is named as a finalist of the Foley Scholars award 2022!

9/8/2022

Fantastic News! Duco & PITAS (both led by Tingyu) being named as a finalist and an honorable mention respectively in the Students category in Fast Company’s 2022 Innovation by Design Awards!

7/18/2022-7/22/2022

Jin hosted CoDe Craft Café on Wireless Communication for middle school youth in collaboration with Sherry Hsi at Explora museum in NM.

7/11/2022-7/15/2022

CoDe Craft team (Tymirra, Nadean, William, Yejun, Noah and HyunJoo) hosted CoDe Craft Café on Paper Computing for educators in collaboration with BSCS Science Learning team (Sherry Hsi and Colin Dixon).

6/30/2022

Jin presents My:Talkies at ACM IDC 2022.

6/29/2022

PITAS (led by Tingyu) is named as a student notable interaction award in 2022 Core77 Design Award!

5/16/2022

Nadean, William, and Yejun join the group as Frances Wood Wilson Foundation-funded undergraduate researchers. Welcome on board everyone!

5/2/2022-5/5/2022

Three projects are at CHI 2022: Tingyu presents PITAS, Hongnan presents FlexHaptics, and Clement presents ShapeHaptics.

2/15/2022

Jin presents Strawctures at ACM TEI 2022.

12/2/2021

HyunJoo speaks at Embedded.fm.

11/13/2021

HyunJoo talks at Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at University of Georgia (Host: Anne Abraham).

11/3/2021

HyunJoo talks at CS colloquium at University of New Mexico (Host: Leah Buechley).

9/23/2021

Tingyu presents Duco at ACM UbiComp 2021.

7/24/2020

CoDe Craft team (Jin and HyunJoo) hosted CoDe Craft Café on Wireless Communication for middle school youth in collaboration with BSCS Science Learning team.

7/12/2021 - 7/16/2020

CoDe Craft team (Tymirra, Noah and HyunJoo) hosted CoDe Craft Café on DIY sensing technology for middle school youth in collaboration with BSCS Science Learning team.

5/14/2021

HyunJoo talks at CDM Research Colloquium at DePaul University (Host: Christina Harrington).

5/1/2021

We’re excited to kick off our new collaborative project under Facebook research sponsorship.

10/10/2020

HyunJoo joins “Remembering Mike Eisenberg” panel with Leah Buechley as a co-host at FabLearn 2020.

10/10/2020

HyunJoo presents Tangible Data project with Xiuxiu, Mika and Colin Dixon at FabLearn 2020 demo.

9/16/2020

Tingyu presents SilverTapt at ACM UbiComp 2020!

8/1/2020

HyunJoo receives an NSF grant as a PI (Co-PI: Sherry Hsi @ BSCS). Thank you NSF!

7/20/2020 - 7/24/2020

CoDe Craft team (Akash, Prabodh and HyunJoo) presents PaperMech tools and techniques at Infosys Pathfinders Summer Institute in collaboration with Concord Consortium, CodeJoy, and Chibitronics teams.

7/2/2020

HyunJoo receives an NSF grant as a Co-PI (PI: Sherry Hsi @ BSCS & Co-PI: Darrell Porcelo @ Children’s Creativity Museum). More coming soon!

6/10/2020

Silver Tape is featured at Hackaday!

5/13/2020

HyunJoo is awarded a Faculty Development Grant from College of Design.

4/24/2020

Xiuxiu is nominated for the best HCI Master Thesis project with her Tangible Data project. Congrats!

4/10/2020

Himani successfully defended her ID Master Thesis on a Upcycling Plastic project. Congrats!

2/11/2020

CoDe Craft team (Chris, David, Sienna and HyunJoo) presents SPIN (Self-powered Paper INterfaces) at TEI 2020 in Sydney!

1/6/2020

Silver Tape is accepted to ACM IMWUT 2020!

12/11/2019

SATURN article appears at ACM GetMobile 2019 Magazine

11/7/2019

HyunJoo speaks at College of Design Research Forum.

10/31/2019

HyunJoo speaks at GVU Brown Bag Seminar.

10/23/2019

HyunJoo speaks at Choose to be curious podcast.

10/8/2019

SPIN (Self-powered Paper INterfaces) is accepted to ACM TEI 2020!

8/14/2019

Designing for Curiosity class is featured at Georgia Tech News Center & ID News.

6/27/2019

Sensing Kirigami receives a Best Pictorial award at ACM DIS 2019!