Join Us
If you want to design interfaces and interactions, this is a place to do it — and to learn how to find out whether what you made actually worked. Design, humanities and engineering backgrounds are all welcome.
A virtual exhibition, forest scene
The kind of work you would do
Drawn from what the lab has actually done — six research lines and eight funded projects over six years. 7 of our 18 papers are on interfaces.
- Interfaces on a screen A sleep app, a focus app and a festival website, all as industry projects. Products that actually ship.
- Interfaces in space VR game controls, visual guidance in virtual museums, see-through HMD displays for people who are walking. Whether screen conventions survive three dimensions.
- Things that look like people The look of virtual agents and digital humans — how facial proportion shifts the personality people read into them, and how that reading splits across cultures.
- Feeling, given a shape Measuring sensations that resist description, then giving them a visible form. Pain vocabulary turned into 3D glyphs became a CHI 2026 poster.
- Measuring response Surveys and behavioural logs first, EEG when it earns its place. Finding out whether what you made actually worked is half of what happens here. No neuroscience background needed to start.
- Papers are not the only exit A virtual exhibition that drew 8,800 visitors, and work shown at the KSDS international invitational. On papers, students are first authors — master's work has reached international journals.
Undergraduate internship — two months
A way to see what the lab is like before committing to graduate study. Runs during each summer and winter vacation.
| Summer | Apply by the end of June |
|---|---|
| Winter | Apply by the end of December |
Graduate study
Admission follows the regular spring and fall cycles of the Graduate School of Techno Design. Book a 1:1 or email us before you apply, so we can talk through research direction.
What we provide
- 50–100% tuition scholarship depending on project and teaching assistantship
- Equipment Meta Quest 3, i9 + RTX 4070 workstations, learning tools
- Funded research Work on ongoing funded projects as a researcher
For international applicants
Two of our current members came from outside Korea. Coursework and lab meetings run in Korean, but supervision, writing and paper work happen in English. If your Korean is limited, say so in your email — it is not a disqualifier, and we will tell you honestly what it will mean day to day.
Kookmin University handles admission and visa paperwork; write to us first and we will point you to the right office for your case.
Book a time
The open times are in the calendar below. Thirty minutes during term, an hour during the vacation. If you would rather talk before you send anything, book here.
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What to send
- A short introduction
- Portfolio or a link to your work
- The research area you care about
jaewanpark@kookmin.ac.kr Book a 1:1 meeting
If you would rather talk before you send anything, book a time instead. Thirty minutes during term, an hour during the vacation. Google Calendar opens in a new tab.