Hye Jun Youn
A researcher at the Tangible Media Group, Hye Jun Youn explores the intersection of design and material science. Her research focuses on developing novel materials to create innovative interactive designs and making prototyping in emerging fields more rapid and accessible to people from all backgrounds.
She was a research affiliate at the Harvard SEAS Material Science Lab and the GSD MaP+S Lab.
Shapes can embody individual emotions. Inspired by the movie Inside Out, I want to create a shape-changing fabric (potentially wearable) that represents three emotions—happiness, sadness, and anger—and responds differently in each emotional state. The project involves two main steps:
