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SUMMARY:Beyond Looking Back: A Seven-Year Journey of Co-Designing Sound-Based Reminiscence with People with Blindness
DESCRIPTION:MinYoung You\, Simon Fraser University\nAbstract\n\nHow do people with blindness remember\, capture and share meaningful moments of life with their loved ones? What are their desires\, wishes\, and dreams for the future of reminiscence technology for people with blindness? In this talk\, MinYoung reflects on a long-term research trajectory spanning from his master’s to his current PhD work\, focused on designing sound-based reminiscence technologies with people with blindness.\n \n\nThrough a series of individual and group interviews\, participatory activities\, and workshops\, MinYoung explores how co-design and co-speculation facilitate sustained\, collaborative inquiry toward deeper insights into participants’ lived experiences. Central to this seven-year journey is the reciprocity within the researcher-participant relationship. This engagement has deeply informed his approach to creating audio documentaries\, sonic mementos\, and design fiction stories that present research outcomes in ways participants\, their loved ones\, and their support networks can easily access and enjoy. Min’s talk will offer a window into this ongoing\, evolving collaboration and advocate for a more creative\, reciprocal process for design research.\n \nBio\nMinYoung Yoo is a PhD Candidate in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University\, advised by Will Odom\, Ron Wakkary\, and Arne Berger (Anhalt University of Applied Sciences\, Germany). Expected to graduate in Summer 2026\, MinYoung’s work sits at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)\, Research through Design (RtD)\, and Participatory Design (PD).\n \n\nMinYoung’s research explores how interactive technologies can be co-created to support the lived experiences of marginalized groups and surface alternative perspectives that are often overlooked in design. His doctoral research involves co-speculating sound-based reminiscence technologies with people with blindness. MinYoung’s work has continued from his master’s project\, spanning over seven years. As this collaboration reaches its conclusion\, MinYoung is currently navigating and investigating a proper “closure” of this longitudinal research process — examining how knowledge\, outcomes and relationships can be meaningfully closed or maintained.\n \n\nBesides his thesis\, MinYoung co-developed and proposed the concept of “Alternative Research Outcomes (AROs)”\, which advocates for expanding academic knowledge into “alternative forms” other than written publications\, such as documentary\, audio\, podcast\, zines\, and exhibitions\, to reach broader audiences\, including research participants and the public.\n \n\nMinYoung holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo in Canada and has gained extensive industry experience through software engineering internships at IT companies\, including Microsoft\, IBM\, and SAP. His diverse background enables him to connect complex software architecture\, algorithms and systematic thinking with creative\, reciprocal design to produce high-fidelity\, robust research artifacts.
URL:https://ixdlab.itu.dk/event/beyond-looking-back-a-seven-year-journey-of-co-designing-sound-based-reminiscence-with-people-with-blindness/
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