So-Yeon Yoon

So-Yeon Yoon

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House Fellow
Associate Professor, Human Cantered Design
College of Human Ecology

So-Yeon Yoon is an associate professor of Design and Environmental Analysis and the director of Design-User Experience-Technology (DUET) Research Lab at the College of Human Ecology. She is currently the president of the Design Communication Association. She practiced interior design and architecture in Korea and the U.S. With her education and industry experience in design with digital media, she taught the School of Design at the University of Ulsan in Korea and worked with industry partners on large-scale interface/interaction design projects. From her experience in both interior design/architecture and application development, Yoon earned her PhD in Information Technology with emphasis on Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Missouri, in order to address the effect of design using simulations and the user-technology interaction based on empirical research findings for design decision-makers and users.