Hi, I’m a Ph.D candidate in Department of Design, Aalto University.
As a design researcher, I’ve worked in areas of Experience-Centered Design, User-Centered Design Methods, Interaction Design, and Cross-cultural Design.
My doctoral research investigates how the collective users, beyond the traditional concept on a user as an individual, experience interactive technologies together and can be modeled as reference for designing technologies (and services). I especially draw on role-identity models to explain how the collective thinks, acts and feels with technology. The model also helps explore the affect of socio-cultural boundaries on collective users’ experiences.
To explore this issue, I’m taking research-through-design cycles. A series of interactive prototypes is designed to unfold social scenes for observation and gaining insights for design.
Check out my CV:
Publications
Journals
Lee, J.-J., & Lee, K.-P. (2009). Facilitating Dynamics of Focus Group Interviews in East Asia: Evidence and Tools by Cross-Cultural Study. International Journal of Design, 3(1). [PDF]
ACM Magazine
Vaajakallio, K., Mattelmäki, T. & Lee, J.-J. (2010) “It became Elvis”: co-design lessions with children. Interactions, 17(4). pp. 26-29. [PDF will be available soon]
Conferences
Lee, J.-J., Koskinen, I., & Mikkonen, J. (2009). Co-Experience in a Cross-Cultural Notion: Unpacking the Effect of Culture on Users’ Social Interaction. In Proceedings of IASDR 2009, Seoul, Korea. [PDF]
Lee, J.-J. (2009). Culture and Co-experience: Cultural Variation of User Experience in Social Interaction and its Implications for Interaction Design. In Proceedings of HCI International 2009.
Vaajakallio, K., Lee, J.-J., & Mattelmäki, T. (2009). “It has to be a group work!” – Co-design with Children. In Proceedings of the IDC 2009. [PDF]
Koskinen, I., & Lee, J.-J. (2009). Inspiration, Interpretation, Explanation: Inference in Constructive Design Research. In Proceedings of the IASDR 2009, Seoul, Korea. [PDF]
Mikkonen, J., Lee, J-J. & Koskinen, I. (2009). Using Video with Active Markers. In Proceedings of AMI 2009. [PDF]
Lee, J.-J., Koskinen, I., & Mikkonen, J. (2008). Visual-Talk Table: Understanding Co-Experience in a Cross-Cultural Notion. Interactive paper at the CSCW 2008, San Diego, US.
Lee, J.-J., & Lee, K.-P. (2007). Cultural Differences and Design Methods for User Experience Research: Dutch and Korean Participants Compared. In Proceedings of DPPI 07, Helsinki. [PDF]
Lee, J.-J., Tran, T.-T., & Lee, K.-P. (2007). Cultural Difference and Its Effects on User Research. In N. Aykin (Ed.), Usability and Internationalization, Part I (pp. 122-129). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

