Associate Professor
Graduate School of Technology & Innovation Management
Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
juliahanje@hanyang.ac.kr
Jieun Han specializes in product & service innovation, with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary research powered by emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual and Extended Reality (VR/XR), robotics, and autonomous systems. Her work bridges human-centered design principles with advanced technological capabilities to create immersive, intuitive, and impactful user experiences. Over the past decade, she spearheaded projects funded by major industry partners and national research programs, focusing on customer experience evaluation, intelligent servicescape, and XR-based service interaction models. Nowadays, she aims to expand her capacity to integrate innovation strategy with technology commercialization, ultimately contributing to the development of sustainable, user-focused solutions in future H-AI (Human-AI) service ecosystems.
Research Interests
• Emerging technology–driven product and service innovation
• Human-centered and data-driven user experience design and evaluation
• Technology commercialization in AI, VR/XR, robotics, and autonomous system design
Current position
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Technology & Innovation Management (MOT), Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Education & Career
Assistant Research Professor, Research Institute of Technology Innovation, Hanyang University
Doctor of Philosophy (Unified Master's and Doctor's Course), Interior Architecture Design (Service Design), Hanyang University
Bachelor of Science, Interior Design, Hanyang University
Awards & Honors
• Best paper award, Ergonomics Society of Korea, 2025
• Best paper award, The Journal of the Korea Contents Association, 2024
• Best paper award, The Journal of the Korea Contents Association, 2023
• IF Design Awards, User Experience, Coralis® Shoulder System Sterilization Container, 2021
• Best of Best, Ergonomic Design Awards, The Ergonomics Society of Korea, 2020
• Best paper award, The Ergonomics Society of Korea, 2020
• Best paper award, Korean Institute of Interior Design, 2016
• Achievement award, The Korean Society of Creative Application, 2013
• Government-funded scholarship, Bourse KIM Joong-Up, French Embassy, 2010
• Scholarship, The Kwanjeong Educational Foundation, 2009