Soo-Shin Choi
- 513 237 0850
- 6481 Aronoff
- sooshin.choi@uc.edu
MFA (Industrial Design), Hongik University, 1991
BA (Industrial Design), Seoul Nat'l University of Technology, 1986
Autumn Quarter 2009 Courses
- 23INDL331 Seminar: Theory of Industrial Design
- 23INDL391 Independent Studies
- 23INDL491 Independent Studies
- 23IDTR531 Seminar: Social Issues in Design
- 23INDL531 Design Seminar
- 23INDL591 Independent Studies
- 23DSGN721 CDRI/Consortium Projects
- 23FDST731 Design Graduate Studies
- 23FDST831 Design Graduate Studies
Topics of research and/or creative and professional work
Universal Design / Inclusive Design
Transportation Design
Recent Work
Strategic Use of Universal Design as a Business Tool for 21st Century, Design Perspective, mexico (2005)
Universal Design - A practical tool for diverse future, International Journal Of Diversity In Organisations, Communities And Nations.(2006)
Function Begins With Fun: Emotional Design Makes Products More Innovative and Universal, International Conference of Kansei Engineering & Emotion Research (2007)
Medical Lab Space design for SeaOrbiter (2007)
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Associate professor Sooshin Choi has studied industrial design in Korea and worked as an automotive designer for Daewoo Motors Corp. and Kia Motors Corporation. His designs include passenger sedans, minivans, trucks and the crossover vehicles. He also studied at the Royal College of Art, London, with a sponsorship from Kia Motors Corp. After working 18 years in automotive industry, he moved to Fursys, a leading system office furniture manufacturer in Korea to lead R&D group as a director of design. His designs received major design awards such as iF Hanover Product Design Award, iF Hanover Ecology Design Award, Japanese G-Mark, Grand prize of Korean Industrial Design Award, and Korean Good Design Award. Besides working as a designer and director, he has taught industrial in colleges, universities as well as graduate school for 8 years. He also contributed to Korean design periodicals and automotive periodicals for more than 12 years.
In 2000, he moved to US and studied industrial design at the Ohio State University as a Graduate Teaching Associate focusing the universal design and the product semantics. While studying at OSU, he was offered a lead industrial designer position at DEKA Research & Development, NH, where he was involved in the product development including the iBOT, a personal mobility system for a people with disabilities.
Professor Choi's interests are to develop the universal product design process with the product semantics approach, to transfer the experience and knowledge from his 25 years of design practice to students, and pursue interdisciplinary research and development projects. He has been very active presenting the successful application of universal design at conferences, universities, and industries.
He is a member in several associations including Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), Korean Industrial Designers Association (KIDA), and Korean Design Science (KDS).