Teaching at Carnegie Mellon is an indispensable part of my PhD studies, including teaching, co-teaching and assisting courses both at undergraduate and graduate levels. In all these levels, teaching has become a learning experience by itself. Teaching gives me the opportunity to reflect on my own research problems, as well as the ones that are relevant to me. Teaching keeps me alive with students’ always-fresh minds. It is one of the greatest pleasures of my life to see a humorous idea, or sparkling solution developed by one of my students.

 

Designing for Experience (DfE)
Designing for Experience (DfE) is a project-based course I developed from scratch. The course is structured around research-intensive projects where students work on problems situated in the home, in mobile communications, and in social networks. They develop interactive systems that convey their ideas through physical and digital prototypes. The course also consists of two workshops in collaboration with Professor Anne Mundell from the School of Drama. In these workshops, we studied the drama techniques of ritual construction, narrative thinking, and performance parallel to the conceptualization phase in the design process.
Advanced Interface and Interaction Design (AIID)
Advanced Interface and Interaction Design (AIID) is project course I co-taught with Professor Jodi Forlizzi. This course aims to explore different modalities, such as speech, visual, and haptic interfaces, within a broad set of projects situated in various domains. Each project presents an analytical tool, including typology, mood-board, and persona building, for the students to explore their subject matter. In this class, I developed two of the course projects in collaboration with Forlizzi, and ran a basic design workshop for non-major design students.
Meaning of FormDesign studio
Sophomore design, Meaning of Form studio is an industrial design studio I taught as an assistant with Professor Bruce Hanington. In this course, students explore formal means of subject matter and gradually enter into the issues that require consideration of context. This studio course helps students to establish a basis for understanding the meaning of form through creative exploration and decision-making, by providing project experiences with both functional and expressive intent, and contextualizing their design ideas in a process that anticipates and realizes the human response. You can reach at selection of student works here.