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Youn-Kyung Lim

Contact Information

Office: Eigenmann 936
Phone: (812) 856-2783
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Web Site: www.informatics.indiana.edu/hcid/faculty/younlim.asp

Research Projects

• CoSpace: Shared surfaces and collaborative interactions
• Complexity, Collaboration and Creativity in Human-Computer Interaction Design
• The Design Exchange
• Piki-Wiki
• The Design Information Framework (DIF) - Managing Information and Communication in Interactive Systems Design

Publications

• My primary research areas include followings:

  Understanding Users in Context
  The development of new technology affects the innovation of new products such as mobile, wireless products, invisible computing, and networked systems. Taking into account the context in which such products are used is critical to the success of designing those products. My research primarily addresses this issue, and I have developed new methods that lead to the integration of multiple aspects of human environments to describe effectively the relationship between human contexts and products. These methods include scenario generation mechanisms and prototyping specification mechanisms.

  New Paradigms of Interaction Design for New Technologies
  While computing technologies have become essential elements of our activities and environments, the design of interactive products that embed such technologies have become more complicated. The characteristics of digital have made a design space too open. When we manipulate physical materials for design, constraints are clearly tangible so that we can easily manipulate the constraints to design what we desire. But for digital products which are what interactive products are categorized into, such strict constraints are not naturally given. This issue is what made the design of interactive products difficult, and it is what motivated this theme of my research--exploring new paradigms of interaction design. I have contributed and will continue to contribute to this theme through several research directions: 1) supporting the design of the aesthetics of interaction, 2) enhancing creativity in interaction design, and 3) exploring the nature of prototyping for design.

  Design Information Management for Multidisciplinary Design Environments
  In today's team-driven design world, the management and integration of information is more critical to success than ever. For example, information from the marketing department, engineering department, and design department must be shared and integrated to develop a product. This process affects the efficiency of the design process as well as the quality of the new product. I have developed an information platform that can archive and manage information created during the design process, allowing teams from different departments to share and use these materials. This line of research is continued to be conducted to support the collaboration and interaction of multidisciplinary team members in design activities.

• Publication list
  
• Lim, Y., Donaldson, J., Jung, H., Kumz, B., Royer, D., Ramalingam, S., Thirumaran, S., & Stolterman, E., "Emotional Experience and Interaction Design," Peter C., Beale R. (eds.), Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction, LNCS, Springer, Heidelberg, vol. 4868, 2007.
• Blevis, E., Lim, Y.K., Stolterman, E., & Makice, K., "The Iterative Design of a Virtual Design Studio," Techtrends: A Journal of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Springer US, Vol. 52, No. 1, 2008.
• Lim, Y., Stolterman, E., Jung, H., Donaldson, J., "Interaction Gestalt and the Design of Aesthetic Interactions," Proceedings of Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (DPPI 2007), ACM Press, Helsinki, Finland, August 22-25, 2007.
• Kunz, B., Lim, Y., Stolterman, E., "Improving Work Through HCI: A Case Study on Information Sharing Practices," Proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems 2007 (AMCIS 2007), Keystone, Colorado, August 9-12, 2007.
• Lim, Y., Blevis, E., and Stolterman, E., "Grand Challenges in Design Research for Human-Centered Design Informatics," Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction International (HCII 2007), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007.
• Blevis, E., Lim, Y., Roedl, D. and Stolterman, E., "Using Design Critique as Research to link Sustainability and Interactive Technologies," Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction International (HCII 2007), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007.
• Aneja, S. and Lim, Y., "Designing for Totality of Mobile and Non-Mobile Interaction: A Case Study," Proceedings of CHI2007 Extended Abstracts, ACM Press, San Jose, CA, April 28-May 3, 2007.
• Blevis, E., Lim, Y., and Stolterman, E., Vetting-Wolf, T., Sato, K., "Supporting Design Studio Culture in HCI," Proceedings of CHI2007 Extended Abstracts, ACM Press, San Jose, CA, April 28-May 3, 2007.
• Jakobsson, M., Tsow, A., Shah, A., Blevis, E., and Lim, Y., "What Instills Trust? A Qualitative Study of Phishing." Proceedings of Usable Security (USEC'07) , Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Lowlands, Scarborough, Trinidad/Tobago, February 15-16, 2007.
• Blevis, E., Lim, Y.K., and Stolterman, E., "Regarding Software as a Material of Design," Proceedings of Wonderground - the 2006 Design Research Society International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, November 1-4, 2006
• Lim, Y. K., Pangam, A., Periyasami, S., Aneja, S., "Comparative Analysis of High- and Low-fidelity Prototypes for More Valid Usability Evaluations of Mobile Devices," Proceedings of NordiCHI 2006, ACM Press, Oslo, Norway, October 14-18, 2006.
• Lim, Y. and Rogers, Y., "A Framework and an Environment for Collaborative Analysis of User Experience," International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. (In press)
• (invited book chapter) Bardzell, J. Blevis, E., and Lim, Y. "Human-Centered Design Considerations," In Jakobsson, M. & Myers, S. (Eds.) Phishing and Counter-measures: Understanding the increasing problem of electronic identity theft.
• (invited book chapter) Bardzell, J. Blevis, E., and Lim, Y. "Behavioral Studies," In Jakobsson, M. & Myers, S. (Eds.) Phishing and Counter-measures: Understanding the increasing problem of electronic identity theft.
• Lim, Y. and Saxena, S., "Making Experience-centered Design Operable," Presented at the Workshop on Theory and Method for Experience Centered Design at CHI2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 23, 2006.
• Ozakca, M. and Lim, Y., "Study of Reviews and Ratings on the Internet," Proceedings of CHI2006 Work-in-Progress, ACM Press, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 22-27, 2006.
• Lim, Y. and Sato, K., "Describing Multiple Aspects of Use Situation: Applications of Design Information Framework to Scenario Development," Design Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2006.
• Rogers, Y., Lim, Y., and Hazlewood W.R., "Extending Tabletops to Support Flexible Collaborative Interactions," Proceedings of The First IEEE International Workshop on TableTop2006, Adelaide, South Australia, January 5-7, 2006.
• Lim, Y., Rogers, Y., and Mehta, K., "Designing an Environment for Co-located Collaborative Analysis of User Experience," Proceedings of Workshop of In-Use, In-Situ: Extending Field Research Methods (BCS-HCI), London, UK, October 27-28, 2005.
• Blevis, E., Lim, Y. K., Ozakca, M., and Aneja, S. "Designing Interactivity for the Specific Context of Designerly Collaborations," Proceedings of CHI 2005 conference on Human factors and computing systems, ACM Press, Portland, OR, 2005.
• Blevis, E., Lim, Y. K., and Ozakca, M. "The Design Exchange: A Collaborative Online Community for Designers based on Shared Construction of Design Knowledge," Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction: Online Communities and Social Computing, Las Vegas, NV, 2005.
• Lim, Y., "Multiple Aspect Based Task Analysis (MABTA) for User Requirements Gathering in Highly-contextualized Interactive System Design," Proceedings of Tamodia2004, ACM Press, Prague, Czeck Republic, November 15-16, 2004.
• Rogers, Y., Hazlewood, W. R., Blevis, E., and Lim, Y., "Finger talk: collaborative decision-making using voice and fingertip interaction around a tabletop display," Proceedings on CHI 2004, ACM Press, Vienna, Austria, 2004.
• Lim, Y. and Sato, K., "Scenarios for Usability Evaluation: Using Design Information Framework (DIF) and a Task Analysis Approach," Proceedings of the 15th Triennial Congress International Ergonomics Association, Seoul, Korea, August, 2003.
• Lim, Y. and Sato, K., "Encoding Scenarios with Design Information Framework for the Generation of Multiple Aspect Models for System Implementation," Proceedings of the 7th World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 03), Orlando, FL, July, 2003.
• Lim, Y. and Sato, K., "Aspect Model-Based Methods for Scenarios and Prototype Development," Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction International, Crete, Greece, June, 2003.
• Lim, Y. and Sato, K., "Development of Design Information Framework for Interactive Systems Design," Proceedings of the 5th Asian Design International Conference, Seoul, Korea, October, 2001.
• Sato, K. and Lim, Y., "Physical Interaction and Multi-Aspect Representation for Information Intensive Environments," Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Osaka, Japan, 2000. (received the Best Paper Award)