Soomi Park

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Publications and research outputs

Should Robots Blush? Park, Soomi; Healey, Patrick G. T. and Kaniadakis, Antonios. 2021. Should Robots Blush? CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(14), 717.

The Art in STEAM (Femmes Designers Podcasts): Design Fiction, robotics, and Speculating about the future (episode 4) Yunes, Nour Diab and Park, Soomi. 2023. The Art in STEAM (Femmes Designers Podcasts): Design Fiction, robotics, and Speculating about the future (episode 4).
Disegno Podcasts: Conversations with Map Project Office. Episode 5: Where Next? Should we make friends with tech? Stratford, Oli; Park, Soomi; Lebeau, Laura; Schladow, Zoe and van de Poel, Bas. 2023. Disegno Podcasts: Conversations with Map Project Office. Episode 5: Where Next? Should we make friends with tech?.

Soomi Park & Owen Wells: Between Digital Interaction and Cognitive Psychology Park, Soomi and Wells, Owen. 2022. Soomi Park & Owen Wells: Between Digital Interaction and Cognitive Psychology. In: Hong Juhee and Kim Hyesu, eds. Lucid Dream: Transdisciplinary Creators. Seoul: Diagrama, pp. 61-68. ISBN 9791198040008
Bright Ideas Park, Soomi. 2014. Bright Ideas. In: Garry E. Knell; John M. Fahey; Declan Moore and Melina Gerosa Bellows, eds. Weird But True! Ripped from the Headlines. 1 Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, pp. 60-61. ISBN 9781426315152
LED Eyelashes, Soomi Park Park, Soomi. 2014. LED Eyelashes, Soomi Park. In: UNSPECIFIED, ed. Highlike. São Paulo, Brazil: SESI-SP Editora, p. 42. ISBN 9788582052976

Invited Lecture: Would You, Could You Apologise to the Sad Whales? Park, Soomi and Haines, Agatha. 2025. 'Invited Lecture: Would You, Could You Apologise to the Sad Whales?'. In: IED Summer School 2005: Experience Design for the Extinction of Experience. Royal College of Art, United Kingdom 09 - 13 June 2025.
ICA Panel Discussion: Machine Futurisms Park, Soomi; Moravec, Lisa and Brown, Kate. 2024. 'ICA Panel Discussion: Machine Futurisms'. In: Panel Discussion: Machine Futurisms. Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), United Kingdom 27 November 2024.
HCI Research Group Presentation: Dr. Soomi Park - Should Robots Blush? Park, Soomi. 2024. 'HCI Research Group Presentation: Dr. Soomi Park - Should Robots Blush?'. In: HCI Research Group seminar. Brunel University London, United Kingdom 29 May 2024.

Embarrassed Robots: Robot Prototype Park, Soomi. 2017. Embarrassed Robots: Robot Prototype.

DDB 2024-2025 Park, Soomi; May, Katherine; Haines, Agatha and Rigby, Bethany, eds. 2025. DDB 2024-2025. London: School of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London. ISBN 9781913380892

London Art Collective the 5th International Exhibition Open Call - ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined (Jury for the selections) Park, Soomi. 2025. London Art Collective the 5th International Exhibition Open Call - ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined (Jury for the selections).
SPACE studio/ London Creative Network: Artists Final Presentation (Invited review panel) Park, Soomi; Britton Newell, Laurie; Lie, Ruth and Davies, Karen. 2021. SPACE studio/ London Creative Network: Artists Final Presentation (Invited review panel).
Prototyping Bodies (Special Topic Design Studio), Rhode Island School of Design (RISD): Final Project presentation (External Review Panel) Park, Soomi; Peacock, Adam and Haines, Agatha. 2020. Prototyping Bodies (Special Topic Design Studio), Rhode Island School of Design (RISD): Final Project presentation (External Review Panel).

Synthetic Empathy: Mediating Human-Non-Human Relations Through Technology Park, Soomi and Haines, Agatha. 2025. Synthetic Empathy: Mediating Human-Non-Human Relations Through Technology.
Seminar Series: Design Department Buffets (DDB) Park, Soomi; May, Katherine; Haines, Agatha and Rigby, Bethany. 2024. Seminar Series: Design Department Buffets (DDB).
Should Robots Blush?: Exploring Embarrassment for the Design of Future Artificial Social Agents Park, Soomi; Healey, Patrick G. T. and Kaniadakis, Antonios. 2021 - 2024 Should Robots Blush?: Exploring Embarrassment for the Design of Future Artificial Social Agents.

Embarrassed Robots Park, Soomi. 2023. Embarrassed Robots. In: "Femmes Designers - Through Her Lens: Testing boundaries in STEAM", Shoreditch Arts Club, United Kingdom, 19 October 2023.
Between Dreamy and Dreary: Fiction in Design Park, Soomi and Wells, Owen. 2020. Between Dreamy and Dreary: Fiction in Design. In: "Between Dreamy and Dreary: Fiction in Design", Celine Park Gallery, Korea, Republic of, 21 Aug – 21 Nov 2020.
The Republic of Privacy Park, Soomi. 2019. The Republic of Privacy. In: "The Paradox Of Privacy", Accenture The Dock, Dublin, Ireland, 8 July - 9 September 2019.

Should Robots Blush? Park, Soomi. 2024. Should Robots Blush?. Doctoral thesis, Queen Mary University of London

Femmes Designers Yunes, Nour Diab; Varelidi, Chloe; Cantera, Ana Laura; Hui, Angela Wei Nok; Park, Soomi; Hage, Nour; Tanaka, Kaoru; Richter-Lunn, Katharina; Zhang, Weidi; Estarita-Guerrero, Ana Carolina; Li, Jiabao; Petric, Maja; Tan, Ling; Soula, Noemie; Zeng, Jiani; Zacharias, Maroula and Yan, Shao. 2023. Femmes Designers. Femmes Designers Ltd..
Jeunes Talents: Les robots sensible de Soomi Park Mallet, Élodie and Park, Soomi. 2019. Jeunes Talents: Les robots sensible de Soomi Park. Intramuros, Paris.
Playing with the future Beckett, Kathleen; Park, Soomi; Hildrey, Chris; Danmole, Yinka; Ayaskan, Bike and Ayaskan, Begum. 2017. Playing with the future. The New York Times, New York.