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About
Keywon Chung designs and prototypes tangible user interfaces at the MIT Media Lab. Her recent projects include a haptic social network, a disposable memory device concept, trasparency-adjustable materials for energy saving, and personal fabrication machines. For her Master's thesis, she is exploring how to turn everyday objects and environments into interactive ones with programmable states and to program our reality piece by piece and bottom-up. She also co-founded and organized Sharing Experiences Workshop 2009 introducing Media Lab's culture and research in Korea.
Previously an Interaction Designer at IDEO and Microsoft Office, Keywon holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University with a double major in Design and Human-Computer Interaction. Her work has been featured in ID Magazine, ACM CHI conference, and AIGA Pittsburgh Show.
2008 - Present
- Master's Candidate
- Tangible Media Group
- MIT Media Lab
- Cambridge, MA
2005 - 2007
- Interaction Designer
- IDEO
- Palo Alto, CA
2002 - 2005
- Product Designer
- Microsoft Office
- Redmond, WA
2001 - 2002
- Co-founder, Jack of All Trades
- Studio A/R/K
- Pittsburgh, PA
2000
- Entrepreneual Design Intern
- Reactivity, Inc.
- Austin, TX
1998 - 2001
- Bachelor of Fine Art in Communication Design
- With Seconday Major in Human-Computer Interaction
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh, PA
1996 - 1997
- Seoul National University
- Department of Visual Communication and Industrial Design
- Seoul, Korea