Title：Overcoming Gulfs in Digital Fabrication
Date：2026/06/09 15:40-17:00
Location：R117, 學新館
Speaker：Prof. Hyunyoung Kim, University of Birmingham
Host：Prof. Lung-Pan Cheng
Abstract:
Despite rapid advances in digital fabrication, users face persistent gulfs: between creative intent and technical execution, between novice makers and expert knowledge, and between research prototypes and real-world use. This talk presents a body of work addressing these gulfs through fabrication tool design, novel interactive applications, and user-centered evaluation.
Bio:
Hyunyoung Kim is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, where her research sits at the intersection of HCI and digital fabrication. She builds tools that enable people to fabricate interactive objects for their own unique needs — spanning shape-changing interfaces, pneumatic computation, and HRI. Her work combines hands-on fabrication with user studies and novel application design, and has been published at premier venues including CHI, UIST, and ACM DIS. She completed her PhD at Université Grenoble Alpes in 2020 under Céline Coutrix and Anne Roudaut, followed by a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen with Daniel Ashbrook before joining Birmingham in 2021.