Hokyoung Ryu

Hokyoung Ryu holds a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (1999) and a Ph.D in Psychology from the University of York, U.K. (2004). His current role is as a Lecturer in Information Technology, at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), mobile usability and mobile learning, publishing more than hundred peer-reviewed articles in conferences, journals, and book chapters. He is currently preparing to edit another mobile learning book tentatively entitled “Designing Themes in Mobile Learning”. He is also authoring two books – "Mobile User Interface Analysis and Design" and “Affordance Design”, and currently an associate editor of the International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation. Dr. Ryu is a member of the British Computer Society’s HCI group and the Centre for Mobile Computing at Massey University

Publications

A Comparison of Human and Computer Information Processing
A Comparison of Human and Computer Information Processing
Brian Whitworth, Hokyoung Ryu. © 2012. 12 pages.
Over 30 years ago, TV shows from The Jetsons to Star Trek suggested that by the millennium’s end computers would read, talk, recognize, walk, converse, think, and maybe even...
Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies
Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies
Hokyoung Ryu, David Parsons. © 2009. 434 pages.
Academia and industry have only begun to explore the vast capabilities that the emerging field of mobile learning has to enrich education. To help researchers and practitioners...
A Comparison of Human and Computer Information Processing
A Comparison of Human and Computer Information Processing
Brian Whitworth, Hokyoung Ryu. © 2009. 10 pages.
Over 30 years ago, TV shows from The Jetsons to Star Trek suggested that by the millennium’s end computers would read, talk, recognize, walk, converse, think, and maybe even...
Designing Learning Activities with Mobile Technologies
Designing Learning Activities with Mobile Technologies
Hokyoung Ryu. © 2009. 20 pages.
This introductory chapter focuses not so much on mobile learning technologies per se, but rather on a theoretical foundation and its pragmatic application to designing learning...
Designing Situated Learning Experiences
Designing Situated Learning Experiences
Hokyoung Ryu. © 2009. 18 pages.
To ensure the success of future mobile learning environments, it is essential to develop affordable and effective applications that are well matched to the needs of the users....
Web Usability for Not-for-Profit Organisations
Web Usability for Not-for-Profit Organisations
Hokyoung Ryu. © 2007. 7 pages.
One of the common aspects of software design is to focus on building systems that are easier for people to learn and use, so as to improve their performance at work. The term...
Walkthroughs in Web Usability: Cognitive, Activity, and Heuristic Walkthrough
Walkthroughs in Web Usability: Cognitive, Activity, and Heuristic Walkthrough
Hokyoung Ryu. © 2007. 28 pages.
The evaluators of a website have a need for robust and easy-to-use usability inspection methods to help them to systematically identify the possible usability problems of the...