Heekyoung Jung, Ph.D.

Master of Design Program Director
Associate Professor of Interaction Design
Myron E. Ullman Jr. School of Design
College of DAAP at University of Cincinnati
Curriculum Vitae
Google Scholar
Drawing on human-computer interaction design and creative practice, my work approaches technology as material, tool, and object of design, extending design as a reflective mode of inquiry across these areas:
Collective Futuring
Augmented Creativity
Sensory Engagement

Across my research, making plays a central role in eliciting values, surfacing tensions, and probing alternative possibilities.


Collective Futuring 

Who gets to design the future, and how?  I explore storytelling as both method and outcome of interdisciplinary knowledge sharing and participatory design futuring, weaving diverse perspectives across past and present into shared visions.


Augmenting Creativity

How do we design with and for creativity? My work investigates creativity as a more-than-human process engaging machines, nature, people, and things as collaborators from design tooling and pedagogy to everyday making and caring practice.


Sensory Engagement

How does sensing shape knowing and designing? I reflect on and probe how material and sensory experience ground the way we relate to others, places, non-human entities, and intangible ideas as fundamental modes of being, knowing, and making.
Publications & Projects
Future of Creative Education with AI: Workshop (C&C’26)

Faculty AI Readiness & AI Literacy in Curriculum (2026)

Design Knowledge in AI: Workshop (DIS’25)

Future Mobility: HATCI x MIT x DAAP (Design Challenge’24)

Hybrid Approach to Intelligent Design Agents (Digital Creativity, 2024)

Seeing w/ Computer Vision (CHI’22)

Practicing Noticing Through Making (DIS’21)

Art Therapy App Design for Clinical Testing (2024)

Reflection Through Felt Senses (The Design Journal, 2024)

Sensory Reflection in Design Studio Courses (2020 - 2023)

Sensory Reflection in Travling Art Residency (CHI’20)

Courses Taught and Hosted



Hosting Masterclass’24UX Research
Collage
Hosting Masterclass’25UX Storytelling
w/ Data & AI
Hosting Masterclass’26Branding for
Sensorial
Experience

Featured Course Projects

This collaborative studio extends the human-centered design approach to automate and AI-enabled system design scenarios. Beyond optimizing workflows to increase efficiency, we envision new modes of work that is augmented by human-machine collaboration, speculating about their un/intended consequences. 


Yibo Jao’s MDes Thesis project, “UX Design Approach to Guide Parametric Product Customization,” was presented at IASDR 2023 in Milan, Italy. (Chair: Heekyoung Jung; Committee: Alejandro Lozano Robledo, Brigid O'Kane)
A student group project, “GardenSpace with Eden,” was selected as one of the 24 finalists in 2023 IxDA Awards.
Crown Equipment sponsored to design safe and smart lift truck training systems. Our research and design outcomes were presented at SEGD 2016 in Seattle.

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