UNIST Department of Design Wins Four Red Dot Design Awards

Design and Technology Integration: Asthma Treatment, Safety Detection, and Caregiving Support

Design Innovation Adds Everyday Convenience... Solving Social Issues

The Department of Design at UNIST (President Park Jongrae) has won four main awards at the 2024 Red Dot Design Award.

UNIST Department of Design research team. (Top left to right: Seongyu Lee, Jinbaek Lee, Yoona Jung, Hongyeol Eom, Sangyun Lee, Jaehyuk Oh, Hwang Kim, Hyunwook Nam, Chajung Kim, Bottom: Nari Kim, Hyejin Lee, Aziza Abdyrazakova, Choeun Park, Gaeul Han, Juhyeon Nam, Jinhee Cha, Sehun Lee)

The award-winning works hold significant industrial value, as they enhance everyday convenience and contribute to solving social issues.

The first award-winning work, ▲'Respa Chups,' is an innovative inhaler for pediatric asthma. Designed in the shape of a lollipop, this inhaler changes the color of its film according to the inhalation pressure, allowing children to visually confirm if they are using the correct pressure. When inhalation is complete, haptic feedback notifies the user, making asthma treatment easier.

Lollipop-Type Inhaler for Pediatric Asthma ‘Respa Chups’

For winter safety, there is the ▲smart ice safety detection device 'Safie.' This device uses CMF sensor technology to visually display the thickness and safety of ice surfaces, warning users of danger through color changes. It can be used for more than six months without recharging, making it highly useful for outdoor activities in winter.

'Safie,' which allows you to check the ice thickness at a glance.

The wearable device ▲'Lumivita,' designed to prevent suffocation accidents at industrial sites, also attracted attention. It detects harmful gases and warns workers through color changes and blinking lights. It can be worn on top of a safety helmet, and the light color changes depending on the gas concentration to indicate danger. Its lightweight and compact design is a key feature.

Wearable lantern module that alerts to suffocation risk, 'Lumivita'.

The digital service ▲'Careever,' designed to assist elderly people living alone and their caregivers, helps alleviate loneliness and facilitates communication with family members. Its calendar feature allows caregivers to easily manage schedules, and the smart memo function enables sharing of care records with family members.

Digital service 'Careever' that supports elderly living alone and caregivers.

The Red Dot Design Award, organized by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Germany, is one of the world's top three design awards and is judged based on criteria such as innovation, feasibility, and functionality. Professor Kim Chajung achieved a grand slam by winning the Red Dot, iF, and IDEA design awards with this latest recognition.

Professor Kim stated, "Through collaboration with engineering professors at UNIST, we developed next-generation new materials," and added, "By combining UNIST technology with design innovation, we have created products and services that contribute to the safety and happiness of humanity."

These award-winning works are the result of joint research with Faru, a printed electronics company, Professor Park Jongnam's team from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST, and Professor Lee Changyoung's team from the Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering. They are also the achievements of the 'Development of User Biometric and Environmental Information Responsive Printed Electronics Color-Changing Chameleon Sheet CMF Design' project, conducted in collaboration with Sungkyunkwan University and KoPEA.

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