The 7th Smart Health Community of Practice (CoP) Forum: Living Digital 2040: The Impact of the Future of Work on the Future of Healthcare

Mr POON King Wang is Director, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He is concurrently Co-Director of the SUTD-JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation Centre. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the BCA Centre for Sustainable Buildings Ltd (a collaboration between Singapore’s BCA and the UNEP). He was the Principal Investigator for Living Digital 2040.

Dr LIM Wee Kiat is Research Fellow, Asian Business Case Centre at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He studies organizational change concerning technology, risk, and disasters. Before receiving his Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Colorado at Boulder,     Wee Kiat held research and planning positions across telecommunications and defense sectors in Singapore. He was the Co-Principal Investigator for Living Digital 2040.

Dr Hyowon LEE is an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design. His research area is in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and interaction design for novel application scenarios.  He was the Co-Principal Investigator for Living Digital 2040.

Mr Aaron YONG has been an industrial designer for the past 9 years. He has helped to design products for regional and global markets, ranging from consumer electronics, to baby and mother care products, to household kitchen appliances. He has designed for many companies, including Sennheiser, Pigeon Singapore Pte Ltd, Creative Technologies Pte Ltd, a major ODM manufacturer in Hong Kong, and several creative consultancies. 

He has a proven track record in user experience design, and is guided by his belief that design should make the greatest pleasures in life more enjoyable and the chores in life easier. He now teaches the Diploma in Design for User Experience at Republic Polytechnic. He was the Senior Industrial Designer for Living Digital 2040.

Dr Youngjin (Marie) CHAE is a visiting researcher at the Institute of Symbiotic Life-TECH, Yonsei University (Korea), and a research scientist in the field of technologically-intensive design for functional garments and wearable electronics.

Her research interests are in the areas of creative design in smart clothing and E-textiles by considering emotional and humanitarian aspects of wearable devices and comfort issues of functional garments.