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Jay (JungKyoon) Yoon is an Associate Professor at Cornell University, specializing in Human Centered Design within the Department of Human Centered Design. He is also the Director of Graduate Studies. Yoon leads the Meta Design & Technology Lab, focusing on systematically designed products that enrich users' momentary and long-term experiences. His research builds knowledge and methods in human-centered design, human-computer interaction, and positive psychology. The findings of his research inform design support tools and methods, which are applied iteratively to improve industry projects across multiple design contexts. Yoon has an educational background encompassing a B.A. in Industrial Design and Computer Science from Handong University, South Korea, and an M.Sc. in Design Interaction from the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, where he also obtained his Ph.D. He has previous experience as an interaction designer at Naver Corporation and has taught at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. His lab's research themes include experience-driven design, emotions, well-being, design behavior change, and empirical studies of product development.
Department of Architecture