Jay (JungKyoon) Yoon is an assistant professor in the Department of Design + Environmental Analysis at Cornell University where, he leads Meta Design & Technology Lab. Yoon investigates how products can be systematically designed to enrich users’ momentary as well as long-term experiences by means of emotions, building on knowledge and methods from human-centered design, positive psychology, and persuasive technology. His research findings and design supports (i.e., design methods and tools) have been applied to and iteratively improved through several industry projects that covered multiple design contexts and business domains, e.g., a smart home service, an airport crew-center, a museum tour and a brand loyalty program. 

Yoon has an educational background in industrial design and computer science (BA and BE from Handong University, South Korea). He previously worked as an interaction designer at Naver Corporation where he supported the development of an Internet search service, social media, and product simulations. Prior to joining Cornell, he taught in the Industrial Design division at the University of Liverpool, the United Kingdom as a lecturer. He earned his M.Sc. degree from the program “Design for Interaction” at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and at the same university, he received his Ph.D. degree with a focus on emotion-driven design.