Jiarong Yu
Programme:
Design - MPhil/PhD
Start date:
September 2023
Mode of study:
Full time
Research title:
Towards Person-Centred STEAM: Embodied Learning Design through Human-AI Collaboration
Biography
Jiarong Yu is a doctoral researcher specializing in interaction design, with an educational background in Information Architecture and Design Informatics. She is the researcher of "Creativity, AI, and the Human" research cluster. Her practice-based work focuses on STEM&Arts / STEAM education, emphasizing Human-AI collaboration, Human-Computer Interaction, and embodied informatics to catalyze future human intelligence. Jiarong champions integrating arts into STEM to promote knowledge construction and underscore the symbiotic relationship between STEM disciplines, humanity, and the arts.
As an interaction designer and producer, Jiarong has launched interactive experience projects involving scientists, artists, engineers, and brands. Her collaborations include work with Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh Futures Institute, Beauty of Science, the Institute for Design Informatics, China Central Television's Science and Education Channel, Tencent's Ethereal Audio Labs, and others. Her sensory-interactive design works have been exhibited at venues like the National Museum of Scotland, Now Gallery, Blue Centre, Inspace Gallery, and Whitespace Gallery.
Research interests
- STEAM (STEM&Arts): The Integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics
- Human-Computer Interaction for Human Intellectual Enhancement; Human-AI Collaboration; Human-AI Cocreate
- Embodied Learning Design
- Emobided Informatics and Immersive Technology
- Phygital Design and Sensory Interaction Design
- Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in Human Learning
Human-AI Codesign for Future Human Embodied Learning
A series featuring sessions of Human-AI co-design pilot workshops paired with audio-visual interactive performances, supported by Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh College of Art, Moray House School of Education and Sport, School of Informatics, 2024)
Chemical Garden: The Potential of STEAM Integration and Embodied Learning (Supported by Design Informatics Institute and Beauty of Science; Blue Centre Showcase, 2023; Inspace Solo Performance, 2022; Whitespace Performance, 2022)
Crowd Reality: Extending Human Sensation of Embodied Experience in Digital Environment through Wearable Robotics (Soft Robotics Conference Showcase, 2022; Edinburgh Art Festival, 2022)
Organ Connection: The barrier between our digital and biological selves (Edinburgh Science Festival 2022, Data Sphere - Data And Me)
KnowledgepunK: Empowering STEAM Education through Gamification (2021)
Sweet Death Society: Unveiling the Biochemical and Cultural Paradoxes of Sweetness from Disease to 'Sick-Cute' Aesthetics (2020)
Air Doesn't Need Our Lung: Sonic Reflections on Disease, Epidemiology, and Cultural Stigma (2020)
I-M-Perfection: Bridging Human and Computer Vision to Rethink Aesthetics in the Post-Human Era (2019)