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I am a assistant professor in the Department of Design, College of Music and Media, Loyola University New Orleans. 

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I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Housing and Interior Design from Kyung Hee University. Then, I moved to UNCC and received two more master’s degrees in Architecture and Software and Information Systems. During this time, I explored design principles to engage users in the large public display using gesture-based interactive systems.

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I completed my Ph.D. in the Department of Software and Information Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) supervised by Dr. Mary Lou Maher. My Ph.D. study is an ethnographic one, aimed at revealing the importance of older adults’ engagement with technology and the context in which such engagement is most likely to succeed. In my thesis, I present a new model of engagement, identify a new way of categorizing older adults into the active and passive spectrum and identify new engagement values that have the potential to lead to successful designs and the adoption of engaging technology among older adults. 

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My research interest focuses on the significant impact of technology on cultural issues and cognition in three aspects: The significance of technology for aging populations, the cognitive effects of embodied interaction, and research methodologies and analytic models.

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Currently, I am a Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Age-Friendly Technologies: Interaction Design with and for Older People" of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 

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I am a Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Environmental Psychology (Specialty section of Frontiers in Psychology) 

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