Academic biography

Hyowon Lee is an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University. His research areas are Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and interaction design, particularly focusing on the User Experience (UX), user-interface design and usability issues in applications to support novel usage scenarios. He has designed over 60 novel applications, of which 32 were formally usability-tested and 10 were deployed and used by real users over time (5 of them were multi-year deployments) all of which envision new usage scenarios and interactivity afforded by various experimental multimedia technologies and interaction platforms and techniques. He has disseminated his design rationale, concepts and prototype design artefacts in over 160 peer-reviewed publications including a monograph book Living Digital 2040 (available on Amazon and other major bookstores) which predicted people's interaction with technology with detailed futuristic sketches and prototypes. His publications are uniquely across two major disciplines of Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction, filling in the knowledge gap faced today by these two communities, and  have received over 2,200 citations (h-index 27). Previously he was an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design and a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He was trained in Active Learning pedagogy and delivered this mode of teaching since 2012, currently a Fellow of AdvanceHE (FHEA) and a holder of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Badge. Since he joined DCU, he has been developing various Active Learning methods suitable for large classes here in DCU. He is a member of DCU's Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) Working Group since 2022, contributing by offering his Active Learning experiences.