Rate My Professor Indae Hwang

Dr Indae Hwang is a Melbourne-based interactive artist, designer, researcher, and lecturer in the Department of Design within the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Digital Art and Multimedia Design from Monash University in 2014, with a thesis entitled "The familiar unfamiliar: Digital art and the sense of 'technology-being-with-us'". Before entering academia, Hwang worked for four years as an art director at Pentabreed, a design firm in Korea, contributing to projects for major companies such as Samsung and LG. His commercial experience informs his teaching in user experience and interactive design in the Master of Design program, where he guides students in leveraging emerging media technologies to create rich user experiences. Hwang also serves as a graduate research supervisor.

Hwang's research centers on designing meaningful user experiences with emerging digital technologies and fostering critical reflections on humanity's relationship with these technologies through interactive artworks. His expertise includes interaction design, behaviour change through interaction design, augmented reality, virtual reality, user experience, media arts, interface design, design education, data visualisation, emerging technologies, mixed reality, and physical computing. He contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities). As chief investigator, he leads projects such as "Paradigm: Rugged X-ray CT Scanner for Mobile Care Delivery" (2025-2026), "Self-service airport security checkpoint" (2021-2026), "Visualisation of Predicted Emergency Department Wait Times" (2021), and "QLICKSMART Produce Comparison Research Project" (2019-2021). Hwang has earned recognition including the Good Design Award for Architectural Design ("EVERYDAY Australian Design", 2022) and Design Research ("Victorian Premier's Design Awards Showcase", 2022), Designers Australia Awards Interact category Award of Merit (2022), Australian Graphic Design Association Award of Merit for Spatial/Temporary Installations ("Everyday Australian Design", 2022), and finalist in the Smarter Hobart Challenge - Bus Shelter and Integrated Digital Interface Design Competition (2021). Selected publications encompass "Co-Designing a Consumer-Focused Digital Reporting Health Platform to Improve Adverse Medicine Event Reporting: Protocol for a Multimethod Research Project (the ReMedi Project)" (2025), "Views on the Development and Use of a New Digital Adverse Drug Event Reporting Platform in Australia: A Qualitative Study" (2025), "Security Self-Screening: A Passenger-Focused Approach" (2024), and "Consenting Cities" (2023).