Hi, I'm Jialin (Jelly) Deng
Jialin Deng is a researcher in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and a current Ph.D. candidate in Human-Centred Computing at Monash University. Her research delves into the future of comestible interfaces focusing on the development of food-based computational artefacts characterised by their programmability, reconfigurability, and consumability. Jialin's research seeks to carve new frontiers of FoodHCI, fostering inspiration in interdisciplinary fields, including multisensory interactions, material science, and unconventional computing.
Previously, Jialin was actively involved in the creative industries, intertwining media arts, visual communication, food, and experience design in her practice. She holds an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts Studies from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and a master's degree in Narrative Environments from the University of the Arts, London. Jialin's works have garnered recognition, her project was honoured with the first runner-up prize at the Mullen Lowe NOVA Awards in 2015, and her work was showcased at the London Design Festival the same year. She has been invited to share her insights at a number of events, including 'Living in a Material World' at the London Design Festival 2015, 'Young People Matter' in Shanghai 2017, TEDxGuangzhou in 2019, Dagstuhl Seminar (Eat-IT) in 2022, and CHI-Melbourne in 2022.
jialin.deng [at] monash [dot] edu
Press
2022
Logic Bonbon: Welcome to the Very Real World of Cyber Food, Gizmodo Australia, May
2022
可以吃的「逻辑门」:这些科学家把甜点做成了「迷你计算机」, 机器之心, Sep
2022
Using desserts to decode computer science, Tech Xplore, May
2019
Spotlight: Jelly Deng, Designer and All Around Creative, that's magazine, Oct
2015
Whispery Savoury's interactive dining event maximizes culinary pleasure, FRAME Magazine, #106
2015
The Sound of Sweetness, Riposte magazine, Issue #5
Talk
2023
"From Food Design to Human-Food interaction", Designing at the Intersection of Food & Technology, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2022
"Eatable HCI", Physical Computing, Zurich University of the Arts (Online)
2022
"Logic Bonbon: Designing Food as Computational Artefact", CHI-Melbourne, Australia
2022
"CyberFood: Food-Computation Integration", Dagstuhl Seminar: Eat-IT, Germany
2019
"How Other Senses Affect How Food Tastes", TEDxGuangzhou (formerly TEDxXiguan), China
2017
Multisensory Eating at Young People Matter, Shanghai, China
2015
Living in A Material World, London Design Festival, London, UK
Exhibition
2015
Plants Out Of Place at London Design Festival
2015
Living in a Material World at London Design Festival
Award