Project A – Design for Web-based Smart Emotional Care System 'EmoMate'
Role: UX Researcher, Interaction Designer
Methods: Literature Review, Interviews, Focus Groups, Prototype Evaluation
Tool Developed: EmoMate – AI-enabled emotion regulation system
Key Contribution: Proposed a human-machine collaboration framework for generating personalised emotion interventions.
Research Background
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, emotional well-being has become a growing concern, especially among university students. In the post-pandemic era, students continue to face anxiety, stress, and depression. This project aimed to explore how digital tools, guided by UX research, could support emotion regulation tailored to individual needs.
Through my research, I discovered a meaningful relationship between personality traits and individuals' activities. This insight inspired me to develop design guidelines for effective interventions—such as interactive activities—aimed at enhancing emotional and well-being.
The primary goal was to design and evaluate a digital tool for emotion regulation. To guide this, I investigated:
"What are the key psychological and contextual factors affecting emotion regulation?"
"How can known emotion regulation strategies be translated into effective design principles?"
"How can we personalise and adapt digital interventions using AI?"
Then I proposed design solution guidelines for the tool design.
Tool Overview: A personalised, context-aware system generating AI interventions (e.g., prompts, messages, tasks).
Technology Used: Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, UX Design
Visuals: Screenshots, wireframes, interaction flows
Designing for emotion is complex and deeply human. This project deepened my belief in empathetic design and the role of AI as a collaborator, not just a tool. I plan to explore how this framework can be applied in broader well-being and health-tech contexts.
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Project B – Fabric Care Eco-system UX research and App Design
In modern society, where fast fashion is prevalent, more and more people pursue clothing based on how quickly it can be replaced. Driven by economic interests, manufacturers continue to use low-cost fibers as raw materials to mass-produce fashionable and attractive clothes. The "microfiber vicious cycle" behind this is gradually emerging. After frequent washing, clothes shed a large number of microfibers, which cannot decompose and are carried through the drainage system into the ocean. These microfibers are then ingested by marine life, which eventually enters the human body when people consume seafood.
In this research, the design team analyzes the current situation using creative thinking, contemporary context, and research methods. It applies design thinking to construct a problem framework, integrates contemporary issues for a holistic reflection, and ultimately proposes a solution.
Our solution is to design an app that collects old clothes and processes them in a unified, sustainable way. Through the app, users can locate collection points and receive directions, helping to resolve uncertainties around how to dispose of old clothing. Based on this solution, we created a series of GIF posters to raise consumer awareness and designed an environmental company logo to reinforce this message.
Project C – Design for Net-Zero Project funded by the British Academy
Key research questions are as follows
"What is Needed to Inspire & Establish Sustainable Living?"
"How Can the Local Community Engage with Decision Makers?"
"How Can the Local Community Engage with Decision Makers?"
To define the research direction,
we applied quantitative research methods in collaboration with key stakeholders throughout the project.
From our co-creation experience, advisable solutions to the challenges (as our research contributions) include (1) quickly developing or having a well-prepared alternative plan to actively talk to and invite potential participants to the research location, (2) using alternative qualitative research methods such as short semi-structured surveys or interviews to do on-site ‘pop-up’ research in the wild, and (3) to locate a workshop where is easier to find participants in the ‘pop-up’ way and so gather data that can be clearly communicated to the stakeholders able to design and implement future sustainable development for the local community and the future sustainable design of the local environment and energy provision.
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