



Researcher · Engineer · Designer
Sueyoon
(Susie) Lee
I build immersive worlds to understand how people behave, from observations to numbers.
Currently — PhD, TU Delft & CWI
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Work
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2025 — Design and evaluation of dyadic experience in social VR
How does the design of a virtual space shape the social life inside it? My doctoral work follows that question through three rooms: a meeting room, a lobby and a laboratory. The last one is a VR trolley dilemma, where people make moral choices with others watching. Some of those others are human. Some are not.
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2022 — 25 Immersive media at industry scale
Design research across two EU consortia, worth €14M combined. I ran focus groups and co-design workshops with XR studios, theatres and conference organisers in six countries. The main finding: XR production stalls on communication between people, not on software.
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2020 — 24 A social VR lobby for remote opera
When opera went online, audiences kept the performance but lost each other. I designed a lobby around the four reasons people go to the theatre, built it in Unity, and studied what shared presence gives back.
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2021 — 22 Biosignals as social cues
Avatars miss most of what bodies say. Four ways of showing heart rate and breathing on avatars, tested in a virtual jazz bar. I designed, built and studied it end to end.
Earlier, 2016 — 2024 +
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2024VR prototyping: from brainwriting to bodystorming

A 3.5-hour lecture and workshop guiding students through ideation techniques for designing VR experiences.
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2024Reinventing Korean banchan in Dutch culture

A week-long diary study and co-creation workshop: Korean side-dish tradition meets Dutch everyday eating.
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2024Co-design theory and practice

A two-hour workshop on user-centred design methods and collaborative ideation.
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2020De'Longhi PrimaDonna redesign

A usability-driven redesign of a high-end coffee machine interface.
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2020MoodFlight — an eVTOL cabin for 2030

An interactive aircraft interior for group travellers in 2030.
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2019How Was yoAR Movie?

An augmented-reality experience for reflecting on a film after leaving the cinema.
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2018Shall We Light?

An interactive curtain that responds to voice and gesture.
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2017Science Expedition

A science-museum programme for families with elementary-age children.
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20163-Steps to Hobby

A hobby-box subscription that helps elderly people start a new hobby in three easy steps.
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2016Color Palette

An educational lamp for children: mix coloured light with brushing motions.
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Papers
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- 2021Designing and Evaluating Avatar Biosignal Visualization Techniques in Social Virtual Reality
Updates itself from OpenAlex. Full record on Google Scholar.
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Paintings
I picked up oil painting after a sudden call at Christmas 2023. First brush in January 2024. I never knew I could paint, until I was subconsciously influenced by Dutch museums. Wish me luck on future (possible) exhibitions :-)






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About
Industrial design at KAIST, interaction design engineering at TU Delft, now a PhD at TU Delft and Design Engineer at CWI.
- Education
- PhD, TU Delft · CWI
MSc Design for Interaction, TU Delft
Full-ride scholarship · top 2 of 300
BSc Industrial Design, KAIST
Full-ride scholarship · Magna Cum Laude - Also
- Certified yoga teacher (RYS 200)
Korean, English, Chinese and more
Full record
Experience 7 +
- 2021 —Researcher · Design Engineer (XR)
- 2024 — 25Researcher · Lecturer (XR)
- 2019 — 20Game Designer
- 2019Research Intern
- 2017UX · UI Designer
- 2017Research Intern
- 2016 — 17XR Lecturer
Education 5 +
- PhD Candidate, TU Delft
- MSc Design for Interaction, TU Delft
- BSc Industrial Design, KAIST
- IB Diploma, YCIS Beijing
- 2024Yoga Teacher, Ashtanga & Vinyasa (RYS 200)
Talks & workshops 5 +
- 2024Co-design theory and practice
- 2023A practical guide to human-centred design: co-creation for XR
- 2023A practical guide to human-centred design workshops
- 2021Social VR and opera
- 2021Social VR and opera: immersive shared performing arts
Honors & awards 12 +
- 2019 — 21Justus & Louise van Effen Excellence Scholarship (€60,000)
- 2019Magna Cum Laude, excellence in leadership & volunteering
- 2016 — 17National Scholarship for Outstanding Engineers
- 2016 — 17Guwon Scholarship
- 2016 — 17Academic Excellence Scholarship
- 2016Excellent Paper Presentation Award
- 2016Dean's List, Engineering
- 2016KAIST Leadership Award
- 2016Idea Contest, 3rd place
- 2015Excellence in Volunteering (Ethiopia)
- 2015Certificate of Excellence
- 2014Highest Academic Achievement, Valedictorian
Service & community 7 +
- 2023 —Reviewer: CSCW, DIS, CHI
- 2018 — 19Tech Translator
- 2017 — 18CS101 Tutor
- 2016 — 18Korea Design Membership
- 2016 — 17Freshman Department Proctor
- 2015 — 16IT & Science Educator, KAIST Global Volunteers
- 2015President, KAIST Tennis Club STROKE