Faculty Profile

Helen S. Koo
Assistant Professor of Design

Ph.D. Design-Apparel Studies, University of MinnesotaM.S. Clothing and Textiles, Yonsei UnversityB.S. Clothing and Textiles, Yonsei University

Research

Her research and creative activity interests include apparel design and product development, wearable technology, functional garments, and sustainable designs. She has conducted multidisciplinary funded research projects on developing functional clothing for sports, protective garments for extreme environments, clothing for special markets, and smart clothing with sensors for healthcare. She has actively exhibited her designs nationally and internationally.

Publications and Work

Her recent works focus on developing sustainable clothing design techniques and connecting fashion designs with new technologies for advanced aesthetic and functional values.

Awards

She won the award for the best exhibition in the wearable computing design competition of the IEEE-International Symposium of Wearable Computers for her development of health care smart clothing, and she won several other national and international design competitions.

Teaching

Helen Koo is an assistant professor of Design at the University of California, Davis and teaches fashion design courses.

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Announcement

Faculty and Students Win awards for transformable fabric

Helen S. Koo

The A’ Design Award and Competition has announced that Helen S. Koo, assistant professor of design, Jason Lin, design student, and Jasmine Zhou, electrical and computer engineering student, have won A’Awards for Enfold: Smart Transformation Transformable fabric. Their creation was developed in the Fashion Design and Technology Lab (FT Lab). 

Announcement

FT Lab’s Jacket designed for movement disabilities
featured in The California Aggie

Helen S. Koo

Helen Koo’s work with students Jason Lin (Design) and Jasmine Zhou (engineering), the “Enfold,” that she presented in film version at our recent departmental meet & greet, has been featured in an article in the Aggie.

Fourth-year design and psychology double major Jason Lin and second-year electrical engineering major Jasmine Zhou collaborated with Koo to create a jacket that would essentially fasten itself, saving the wearer the difficult tasks of buttoning and fitting into a jacket.

– The California Aggie

Publication

The Art of Wear: Comstock’s Magazine
Helen Koo

Helen S. Koo March 5, 2015

Helen Koo’s recommendations appeared in The Art of Wear, an article about wearable technology that works, in Comstock’s magazine.

The best wearable technology seamlessly combines fashion and electronics in a way that reflects consumer preferences. Helen Koo, assistant professor in the Department of Design at UC Davis, outlines six key areas that make for well-rounded wearable technology products.

— Comstock’s

Her wearable technology products and ideas were also covered in Dress for Success, a Comstock’s article about wearable technology’s progress in 2015.   

Comstock’s is a monthly business publication serving the California Capital Region.

News

Faculty Spotlight: Helen Koo
Davis Humanities Institute

Helen S. Koo

Assistant Professor of Design Helen Koo is one of two new faculty members interviewed in fall, 2014, by the Davis Humanities Institute. Read the article here to find out more about her work and research interests.

 

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