Biography
Dr. Kate Sangwon Lee is a human-computer interaction (HCI) researcher and educator who aims to develop valuable and sustainable products with human-centered design knowledge. She has crossed the area of academics and industry over her career, aiming to bridge the two realms with her practical and hands-on expertise. Before her present appointment, she worked as a Post-doc research fellow for the Digital Twin project at the Division of Industrial Design at NUS, which aims to propose an occupant-centric Digital Twin system.
Her Ph.D. thesis topic, “Responsible Social Media: Development and Evaluation of Key Guiding Principles,” is based on her 10 years of industry experience as a user experience (UX) designer and Product Manager in South Korea’s top tech companies, Naver and SK Telecom, which social platforms contribute to and influence most Korean people’s lives. During her industry experiences, she covered various social platform services across mobile and PC devices, including AI speakers, search, utility apps, and entertainment. Her research interests include ethics and responsibility of social platforms and how to propose inclusive products.
Research Interests
HCI, UX & UI, interaction design, ethical design, ethical AI, social media
Education Background
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2023
Master of Science, Culture Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), 2008
Bachelor of Business Administration, Business Administration, Seoul National University (SNU), 2006
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Industrial Design, Seoul National University (SNU), 2006
Selected Research Papers
- Lee, K. S., & Wei, H. (2022). Design Factors of Ethics and Responsibility in Social Media: A Systematic Review of Literature and Expert Review of Guiding Principles. Journal of Media Ethics, 37(3), 156-178.
- Lee, K. S., & Wei, H. (2022). Developing Responsible Algorithmic Curation Features in Social Media Through Participatory Design. In Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (pp. 2905-2921). Springer, Singapore.
- Lee, K. S., & Wei, H. (2020). Social media as Heterotopia: Applying Foucault’s concept of heterotopia to analyze interventions in social media as a networked public. Archives of Design Research, 33(2), 5-16.
- Lee, K. S. (2019). Explicit disaster response features in social media: safety check and community help usage on Facebook during Typhoon Mangkhut. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI’ 19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 29, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3338286.3340140
- Lee, K. S., Lee, S., & Kim, H. (2014). Quick and participatory: adopting users’ designs to improve a mobile app. In CHI’14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 869-872).