Hybrid Body Lab

ABOUT

Hi! I’m Heather. I am interested in building textiles with tunable mechanical properties. Prior to Hybrid Body Lab, I worked for a design company in Tokyo after receiving my master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the Royal College of Art in London and Ewha Womans University in Seoul.

PUBLICATIONS

• Jin Hee (Heather) Kim, Joan Stilling, Michael O'Dell, and Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao. 2023. KnitDema: Robotic Textile as Personalized Edema Mobilization Device. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 472, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581343

• Kim, J. H. (Heather), Patil, S., Matson, S., Conroy, M., & Kao, H. C. 2022. KnitSkin: Machine-Knitted Scaled Skin for Locomotion. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 391, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502142

• Kim, J. H. (Heather), Huang, K., White, S., Conroy, M., & Kao, H. C. 2021. KnitDermis: Fabricating Tactile On-Body Interfaces Through Machine Knitting. In Proceedings of the 2021 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’21). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1183–1200. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3461778.3462007

AWARDS

• 2021 ACM DIS, Best Paper Honorable Mention, KnitDermis: Fabricating Tactile On-Body Interfaces Through Machine Knitting

PRESS

• Cornell Bowers CIS Information Science News: From Cornell’s Hybrid Body Lab, KnitSkin, A Stretchable Knitted Textile Robot That Can Locomote

• Cornell Chronicle: Weaving Inclusivity, Style Into Wearable Tech