Hi, I'm Jialin (Jelly) Deng
Jialin Deng is a Human-Computer Interaction designer, researcher, and currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Human-Centred Computing at Monash University. Jialin's research explores the future of comestible interfaces by designing food-based computational artefacts that are programmable, reconfigurable, and digestible by the human body. Jialin sees her work as a research vehicle that provokes possible world accounts through lifeworld experiences to encourage speculations of HCI futures and inspire cross-disciplinary fields, including food innovation, multisensory interactions, material and embodied computation.
Jialin previously worked in the design industry, her practice was at the intersection of media arts, visual communication and experience design. Jialin holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts Studies at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and a master's in Narrative Environments at the University of the Arts, London. Her works have been awarded the first runner-up prize for the Mullen Lowe NOVA Awards (2015) and exhibited at the London Design Festival (LDF 2015). Also, she was invited as a guest speaker at Living in a Material World, LDF 2015; Young People Matter, Shanghai, 2017; and TEDxGuangzhou, 2019; Dagstuhl Seminar (Eat-IT), 2022, CHI-Melbourne, 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
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