제 17 호 Department of Industrial Design Participated in the ETRI Intelligent Convergence Research Laboratory Project
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Department of Industrial Design Participated in the ETRI Intelligent Convergence Research Laboratory Project as a Capstone Design
By Seo-Won Hong, Reporter
The Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University became a best practice by applying the project, which is being carried out as a technology development project in the industrial field with the ETRI Intelligent Convergence Research Laboratory, to the class of "UX Design", a capstone design subject. Based on the major knowledge of Sangmyung University's Department of Industrial Design, the UX Design course is designed and produced by students themselves. The UX design course is a comprehensive design course to cultivate creativity, practical skills, teamwork, and leadership. The UX design course is conducted by industry consulting on the operation of the subject. In this article, I will introduce the Capstone design course (UX Design course) of the Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University. Also, in this article, I would like to introduce the Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University.
UX design refers to designing various applications contained in the web, smartphones, etc. to be more convenient to use. Through this, the Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University conducted a class of "UX Design", an industry-academic-linked project class, so that students can participate in the development process of the "Life Safety K-Guard App" being developed by ETRI. The class performance result of "UX Design", a capstone design subject, was reflected in the "Life Safety K-Guard App Advancement Course" and became an exemplary example of the operation of the capstone design subject.
Life Safety K-Guard App Developed by ETRI
ETRI has developed an app that informs various risk information in daily life, such as flooding, fire, and disappearance, for people to live in safety. ETRI, along with LH Land and Housing Research Institute and Daegu Metropolitan City, said it would demonstrate life safety services that inform and prevent safety risks in daily life for three months from August for Seo-gu and Indongchon 100-year villages in Daegu.
K-Guard, a life safety risk prevention service app developed by ETRI, provides 11 types of services such as flooding risk, fire risk, daily safety, sole safety, and missing accidents according to regional characteristics. In particular, this service is customized for users and provides various safety risks in daily life according to individual safety vulnerabilities such as user's location, age, and disability. Developed by ETRI, the Life Safety K-Guard app provides alerts of higher risk levels for visually impaired, crutches/wheelchair users, pregnant women and the elderly with high safety vulnerabilities, even at the same risk. In addition, apps developed by ETRI provide automatic notifications near dangerous points by voice, vibration, and text depending on your choice without running the app one by one, so you can pay attention to safety risks from time to time. The life safety K-guard app developed by ETRI is a service that contributes to community safety by informing the risk of exposure to various parts of the neighborhood through voluntary participation such as active reporting and reporting by users. As a result, it is possible to prevent safety accidents by receiving notifications when visually impaired, elderly, or nearby pedestrians pass the area and bypassing them with caution.
Kim Hyung-joon, director of the ETRI Intelligent Convergence Research Laboratory, said, “Citizen-participating activities have been greatly activated due to the development of ICT, and various disaster and safety data of government, local governments, and public institutions have been interlinked through a standard-based service structure.”
In addition, he said, “Through this, it is meaningful to provide a foundation technology that can create a safety community on its own with civic participation in safety around daily life, going beyond government-led disaster response national safety services.”
To summarize, ETRI has developed the “Life Safety K-Guard App,” a public app service that utilizes public data and crowdsourcing held by the government, public institutions, and local governments, by providing customized information and alerts on safety risks in daily life using smartphones. In addition, UX design considers making it more convenient to use various applications on the web and smartphones, and students majoring in industrial design at Sangmyung University participated in the development course of the UX design of "Life Safety K-Guard App" developed by ETRI.
Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University’s Capstone Design course, “UX Design”
The Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University and the ETRI Intelligent Convergence Research Laboratory signed a business agreement for the joint operation of the Capstone Design subject, “UX Design”. Through this, the detailed technology, development process, and app accessibility knowledge of the Life Safety K-Guard App being developed by ETRI were shared with the students in the UX Design curriculum, and the students participated in the Life Safety K-Guard App usage review and UX/UI plan development process. In addition, field experts from the ETRI Intelligent Convergence Research Laboratory and students who took the Capstone Design course, "UX Design," were able to interact smoothly.
Kim Yong-woon, a senior researcher at ETRI Intelligent Convergence Research Laboratory, said, “Students have sincerely and responsibly investigated the detailed problems of UX/UI design from a user perspective that can be overlooked by app technology developers in the field and suggested various app UX/UI design improvements based on the results of the K-Guard app’s UX/UI experiment.” In addition, he said, “We will make sure that the students' fresh ideas can be reflected in the Life Safety K-Guard App Advancement Project in 2023.”
Kim Hyun-jung, an industrial design professor at Sangmyung University, said, “With the experience of operating a social-tailored course with the ETRI Intelligent Convergence Research Institute in 2019, the two institutions signed an agreement to continue operating the Capstone design course and develop industry-academic project programs.” She also said, “I thank the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) for working together to incorporate technology development projects in the field into the Capstone Design class.”
Bae Joo-eon, 3rd grade at the Department of Industrial Design student at Sangmyung University, said, “It was very meaningful and beneficial to participate in the UX/UI design of theLife Safety K-Guard App, a national technology development project conducted by ETRI through the in-school capstone design UX Design class.”
Significance of “UX Design”, Capstone Design Course of Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University
This joint operation method is meaningful in that it is evaluated as a best practice by incorporating the educational content needed in the industrial field into the operation of the capstone design curriculum. Through this capstone design course, UX Design, the possibilities of endless development in Sangmyung University’s Department of Industrial Design have been revealed externally. In addition, it can be confirmed that external exchanges between Sangmyung University's Department of Industrial Design will occur more actively in the future.
Best Practices for Capstone Design Curriculum Operation for Sharing Technology Development Projects in Industrial Sites
Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University
The slogan of the Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University is “A major promoting industry design leaders leading the fourth industrial revolution.”
The Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University is striving to cultivate international industrial design leaders who lead the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution and leaders with comprehensive problem-solving skills based on human-centered sensibility, culture, and technology. In addition, the Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University is constantly researching to foster creative design leaders who can lead a new culture and professional practical design leaders through in-depth practical education.
The Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University is promoting the endless development of students at the Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University by learning various subjects such as product design, furniture design, environmental design, planning management design, transportation device design, and UX design.
In summary, the Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University is establishing a specialized education system for high-tech information culture design as well as design theory and technology education necessary for various industries with the aim of fostering industrial design leaders in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution. In addition, the Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University operates various curriculums for training design professionals such as product designers who can respond to all industrial technologies and marketing fields and UX/UI designers based on user experience research.
Through this article, if you are a student at the Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University, you will be able to be interested in UX design, a capstone design course. Let’s look forward to the future of the Department of Industrial Design at Sangmyung University, the pride of Sangmyung University.
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