sol
kang.

sol
kang.

Designer & Researcher based in Montreal, CA

Art / Architecture

The Clock

Designed a living space where the inconvenience in its curvilinear entry sequence is exaggerated through the interior walls that are budding out from the core and the glass.

On the Beach at Night Alone

Metal Sculpture
羞를 접습니다. (Folding 'su')


3D Pen Sculpture
Underground Church

Designed and built a physical model of an underground satanic church that is also a social space forcing solitary experience

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3D Pen Sculpture

German Pavilion Animation

Created a partial digital model of Barcelona Pavilion (also known as "the German Pavilion"), originally designed by Mies van der Rohe, and animated a camera panning around the exterior and the interior of The Pavilion

AirBnB Redesign

A redesign of AirBnB as an emotionally evocative storytelling application for content creation and co-constructing memories with co-travellers

Research

Affective Color Fields

Reimagining Rothkoesque artwork as an interactive companion for artistic self-expression
Anthropomorphic Design Features in HRI

Investigating how human's perception of trust, anthropomorphism, and agency in robots are affected by communication modalities and physical appearances

Development

Futuristic Kahoot

Game-based learning system that analyzes users’ eye gaze location to select an answer choice

Sentiment Classifier

Machine learning application that classifies positive and negative sentiments in text reviews

muse.mind

Short-Form AI Writing Tool

Coming soon...

Advisor360°

Client Management Dashboard

I worked on an early-stage exploration of an interactive dashboard interface for client and advisor management.

Minimap

Auto-Event Creation With Polls

I designed the UX/UI of event creation feature in a social productivity mobile app that organizes users’ day-and-night-out.

Robot Design Features in VR

Human-Robot Interaction Research

For my undergraduate honors thesis, I investigated how different design features of a virtual robot affect people's level of trust and perceived anthropomorphism.

Affective
Color Fields

Interactive Art Research

I built an installation that takes in a textual input from a user and visualizes the emotional analyses as Rothkoesque color fields. This project was published and showcased at the ACM Multimedia 2021.

Minimap

A social productivity mobile app that organizes users’ day-and-night-out via geo-fenced alerts system

Autopedia

Conducted user research and designed the UX and UI of the online encyclopedia for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) in cars

Stylus Redesign

Redesigning an ergonomic stylus that focuses on reducing the movement of user’s arms and the time spent on switching input devices (e.g. from keyboard to stylus)

AirBnB Redesign

A redesign of AirBnB as an emotionally evocative storytelling application for content creation and co-constructing memories with co-travellers

Scraps

Visual Change Detection

Examined the individual hemispatial differences in visual change detection tasks
Elevator

Video Installation; New Media Art

Giacometti and Phenomenology

Reading Giacometti's sculptures and sketches from Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological and existentialist viewpoint while shedding light on his trauma