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How Do People Adapt to Use of an IoT Air Purifier?: From Low Expectation to Minimal Use

Minji Cho
Department of Industrial Design, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

Minji Cho is a PhD candidate in the Department of Industrial Design, KAIST. She received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design and Business and Technology Management with minor in Computer Science from the same school. After spending five years as a member of the Human-Centered Interaction Design Lab led by Kun-Pyo Lee, she joined the Next Interface Lab led by Sangsu Lee. Her research interests lie in interaction design, focusing on user experience at home with a smart conversational agent.

Sangsu Lee
Department of Industrial Design, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

Sangsu Lee is an assistant professor at the industrial design department at KAIST and leads the Next Interface lab, which studies more natural and human-centered future interfaces for everyone. After he received his PhD at the Human-centered interaction design lab, he worked at Samsung Mobile as a UX Lead and was designing user interfaces for the Galaxy series for several years. Based on his experience in the design industry, he is interested in practical design research in the field of user interface design that bridges the gap between academic research and practice.

Kun-Pyo Lee
School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of

Kun-Pyo Lee is Dean of the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is an Honorary Fellow of the Design Research Society. He was a professor and head of the Dept. of Industrial Design at KAIST, Korea, was the co-founder of IASDR, has served as President of the Korea Society of Design Science and the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility, and has also served as Vice President of the Ergonomics Society of Korea. He studied design at Joong Ang University (BFA) in Korea, at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology (MS) in the USA, and at the University of Tsukuba (PhD) in Japan. For some years, he was in charge of designing entire product lines as head of the Corporate Design Center and Executive VP at LG Electronics. His research interests include design planning, user-centered design, design innovation, design strategy, and more recently, AI design.