Prof. KwanMyung Kim’s team was highly commended for excellence at AHFE 2021 International Conference

A joint research paper, supervised by Professor KwanMyung Kim in the Department of Design at UNIST was highly commended for excellence at the 12th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, also known as AHFE.

Their work, entitled “Understanding Challenges of Designing for Complex Users by Adapting the Existing Framework,” has been selected for the 2021 AHFE Best Student Paper within the Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design division. This paper has been co-authored by Malika Gabbas, YeDam Ryu, and JaeHan Park under the supervision of Professor KwanMyung Kim.

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This award has been given to them in recognition of their contribution to the design community by serving as a validation of adjusting existing frameworks to help designers extract correlations between identified problems, trends, etc., and understand which items to tackle first. The design team hopes that this study will inspire other designers to find new adaptations of existing frameworks from other areas, like business and management, in their design development processes.

Adapted matrix analysis framework: information inquiry levels and challenges of designing for complex users
Framework adaptation insights: relationship between challenges with complex users

This award is a tremendous honor, and as design students, this kind of recognition really motivates us to continue our research and work even more diligently for research development in the design field. We are very happy and grateful to receive this award and would like to take this chance to give thanks to our mentor, Professor KwanMyung Kim.

Malika Gabbas, the 1st author

김관명 교수팀, 제12회 AHFE 컨퍼런스서 우수 학생 논문상 수상

김관명 디자인학과 교수 연구팀이 인간공학과 관련된 다양한 이론과 응용 분야를 다루는 제12회 응용 인간공학 국제 컨퍼런스(12th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, AHFE)에서 우수학생논문상(Best Student Paper Award)을 수상했다.

수상한 연구에는 말리카 가바스(Malika Gabbas), 류예담, 박재한 대학원생이 참여했고, 김관명 교수가 지도했다.

(논문명: Understanding Challenges of Designing for Complex Users by Adapting the Existing Framework)

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이 연구는 연구팀이 병리학 슬라이드 스캐너 디자인을 위한 프로젝트를 진행하면서 겪은 경험을 바탕으로, 콤플렉스 유저(Complex User)를 대상으로 한 디자인 프로세스 향상에 도움을 줄 수 있는 방법론을 제시했다.

이번 연구는 산업디자인 분야의 디자인-공학 공동 프로세스 섹션에서 우수한 평가를 받았다. 디자인 현장에서 발생할 수 있는 문제들을 파악하고, 효율적인 디자인 작업이 진행될 수 있는데 적용될 수 있다는 점을 인정 받은 것이다.

Adapted matrix analysis framework: information inquiry levels and challenges of designing for complex users
Framework adaptation insights: relationship between challenges with complex users

AHFE와 같은 세계적 컨퍼런스에서 수상하는 것은 정말 영광스러운 일로, 새로운 연구에 더욱 몰입할 수 있는 계기가 될 것 같습니다. 그리고 우수한 성과를 낼 수 있도록 지도해주신 교수님께 특히 감사합니다.

Malika Gabbas, 1저자