

About CCDI
CCDI Research Group specializes in design and innovation, with a focus on UX, service design, system design, and entrepreneurship. Key research areas include design patterns, digital transformation, smart tourism, and inclusive design for diverse populations. CCDI employs socio-technical and social construction approaches, emphasizing customer-centered methodologies. Its mission is to drive digital innovation with a customer focus, aiming to create inclusive, mature technological solutions that seamlessly integrate into daily life. CCDI is guided by data-driven design principles and committed to envisioning a superior technological future through human-centric innovation.
Team Members
Dr Jaehyun Park
Associate Professor
As a socio-technical researcher, Dr Park’s research interests are condensed into three genres as interdisciplinary studies: (1) UX & Service Design, Entrepreneurship, and Design Thinking; (2) Smart Tourism, Smart Cities, and Smart Work; and (3) Digital Innovation.
His research highlights exploring new interpretations of products, systems, and services, especially as they relate to the issue of human enterprise in design, innovation, and technology research. For successful business-design solutions, he believes that the most critical issue is to identify emerging relationships among business, design, and technology, and the human-centred approach is the core for successful design and innovations.
Based on this belief, his research has conducted diverse interdisciplinary research and teaching to deliver the values of the customer-centered design and innovation (CCDI) in information systems, design, and tourism & hospitality.
Fan ZHANG (Jennifer)
Ph.D. Student (Sept. 2023-Present)
BEng in Environmental Design
Dalian University of Technology, China
MDes in Architecture & Environmental Design
Dalian University of Technology, China
Research Interest: Service Design, HCI, HRI (Human-Computer interaction), Ergonomics, Healthy Buildings
Sanqi Yang (Sandy)
Ph.D. Student (Sept. 2024-Present)
BA in Graphic Arts
University of Southampton, UK
MDes in Smart Service Design
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Research Interest: UX & Service Design, Digital Innovation & Service Robot, Service Ecosystem, Future Wellbeing
Yueru Chen (Lisa)
Part-time Research Assistant
BEng in Industrial Design
Tianjin University, China
MDes in Intelligent System Design
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Research Interest: HCI, UX, XR, System Design, Tangible Interaction, E-learning
Zihan YU (Nancy)
Part-time Research Assistant
BA in Innovation Design
Central Academy of Fine Arts
MDes in Smart Service Design
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Research Interest: Service Design, Product Experience Design
Kanglan LIU (Connie)
Part-time Research Assistant
BA in Product Design
Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi), Hong Kong, China
MDes in Innovative Business Design
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Research Interest: Product Design, UX & Service Design
Alums
Lei Tang
Part-time Research Assistant
BEng in Water Supply and Drainage Science
Beijing Forestry University, China
MDes in Smart Service Design
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Zhengxi Chen (Leo)
Part-time Research Assistant
BEng in Automotive Engineering
Wuhan University of Technology, China
MDes in Smart Service Design
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Xinyue Zhang (Felicity)
Part-time Research Assistant
BA in Landscape Architecture
Southwest University, China
MDes in Transitional Environments Design
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Ho ShuiHam (Hippo)
Part-time Research Assistant
BA in Product Design
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
MDes in Smart Service Design
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Leung HokSze (Simona)
Part-time Research Assistant
BA in Product Design
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
MDes in Smart Service Design
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Current Projects
Dancing with Design Features of Service Robots for an Ageing Population: A Cross-Cultural Design-Engineering Study
2023-2026
- Grant for World Leading Research Project | HKD 1,203,180
- Role: Principal investigator (PI)
Discovering Design Features of Service Robots Platform for Single Living Seniors in Hong Kong
2023-2024
- Collaborative Research with World-leading Research Groups|HKD 99,988
- Role: Principal investigator (PI)
Past Projects
Toward Smart Tourism Design: Two Studies by
a Human-centered Design Approach
Discovering Different Types of the Customer-centered Value Creations in the Digital Innovation Process
Dancing with Data: Patterns of Digital Innovations
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