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Jay (JungKyoon) Yoon is an associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design at Cornell University, where he leads the Meta Design & Technology Lab. Yoon's research investigates how products can be systematically designed to enrich users' momentary as well as long-term experiences. He builds on knowledge and methods from human-centered design, human-computer interaction, and positive psychology.

Yoon's research findings and design supports (i.e., design methods and tools) have been applied to and

Armin Mostafavi is a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University’s Design and Augmented Intelligence Lab (DAIL) in the Department of Human-Centered Design. His interdisciplinary research merges architecture, environmental psychology, and neuroscience, focusing on how built environments influence human behavior and cognition. Through innovative biofeedback and behavioral frameworks, Dr. Mostafavi aims to enhance architectural design by understanding and leveraging human responses.

Since 2019, he has worked on NIH-, NSF-, and NIDILRR-funded research projects led

Jan Jennings, a Professor in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, is a multi-disciplinarian by education, training and work experience in the fields of interior design, historic preservation and urban planning. From 1969 to 1973 she was one of three principal planners with the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission who directed the preparation of the Comprehensive Plan update (Vision 2000) and designed and administered the citizen participation element of the Plan revision. She opened

I have three areas of expertise in teaching, involving three types of design literacies. These are visual literacy in design (DEA 1101), material literacy in design (DEA 2422) and ecological literacy in design (DEA 4220).

My research interests are related to the idea of "Nature inside" both in a theoretical and a practical sense. In the theoretical domain, I am interested in the aspects of material culture of the built environment that express a society's

Heeju Terry Park is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design at Cornell University. He obtained his Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University with an expertise in functional apparel and smart clothing. Dr. Park has participated in multiple funded multidisciplinary research projects aiming to improve the mobility and thermal comfort of personal protective clothing system including ballistic body armor and firefighters’ bunker gear. His professional career as an athletic apparel & footwear manager at

Catherine Kueffer Blumenkamp is a designer and educator whose work is guided by her interest in material culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and collective meanings of design.

As a lecturer in Human Centered Design, she teaches courses in fashion, aesthetics and society and fashion draping; hosts workshops that invite outside experts to share their experience with the Human Centered Design community; and serves as associate director of the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection. She is