Dr. Elisa Kwon
Dr. Elisa Kwon is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology Management in the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University. Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto and completed her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Also at the University of Toronto, she received her MASc in Mechanical Engineering and BASc in Engineering Science.
Her primary research interests are in understanding how humans use data-driven and AI-enabled tools during the design process and exploring ways to make this interaction more effective. Her research uniquely blends methods and expertise at the intersection of engineering design, human-AI collaboration, and psychology.
- Design
- Creativity
- Human-AI collaboration
| Journal articles |
| Kwon, E., Goucher-Lambert, K. (2024) Comparing and evaluating human and computationally derived representations of non-semantic design information. (external link, opens in new window) Journal of Mechanical Design. 146(3): 031401. |
| Kwon, E., Rao, V., Goucher-Lambert, K. (2023) Understanding inspiration: Insights into how designers search for, discover, and use inspirational stimuli. (external link, opens in new window) Design Studies, 88, 101202. |
| Kwon, E., Huang, F., Goucher-Lambert, K. (2022) Enabling multi-modal search for inspirational design stimuli using deep learning (external link, opens in new window) . AI EDAM, 36, E22. |
| Peer-reviewed conference papers |
| Kwon E, Goucher-Lambert K. (2025) Generating preinventive structures: AI-driven creativity in product repurposing (external link, opens in new window) . Proceedings of the Design Society, 5, 1933-1942. |
| Kwon, E., Patterson, J.D., Beaty, R., Goucher-Lambert, K. (2024) Assessing the alignment between word representations in the brain and large language models (external link, opens in new window) . In: Gero, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition’24. DCC 2024. Springer, Cham. |