Peer-reviewed work first, newest first, then reports and other outputs. Most of the peer-reviewed work sits at ACM venues (CHI, DIS, FDG, HCII, Mindtrek) and at design venues (DRS, the International Journal of Design).
Kim, R. & Zhou, J. (2025). Inclusive Molecular Sketching: Accessibility Barriers in AI-Driven Protein Biodesign Workflows. Mindtrek '25.
Kim, R., Zeng, F., Ellis, T. & Karana, E. (2026). Living Therapeutic Skin: Design Opportunities and Challenges of On-Skin Living Artefacts. In What's Around Design? Strategic and Speculative Biodesign for a Sustainable Future, Vol. 1, pp. 5–20. Springer. Honourable mention, WAD 2024.
doi:10.1007/978-3-032-08163-6_1
Groutars, E.G., Kim, R. & Karana, E. (2024). Designing living artefacts for multispecies interactions: an ecological approach. International Journal of Design 18(2).
Kim, J., Kim, R., Martins, J. & Karana, E. (2024). Becoming microbes: an approach to cultivating microbial sensibilities in biodesign. DRS 2024, Boston.
Kim, R., Risseeuw, C., Groutars, E.G. & Karana, E. (2023). Surfacing livingness in microbial displays: a design taxonomy for HCI. CHI '23, Article 156, 21pp.
Zhou, J., Kim, R., Doubrovski, Z., Martins, J., Giaccardi, E. & Karana, E. (2023). Cyano-chromic interface: aligning human-microbe temporalities towards noticing and attending to living artefacts. DIS '23. Honourable mention.
Kim, R., Linehan, C. & Pschetz, L. (2022). Navigating imaginaries of DNA-based digital data storage. CHI '22.
Kim, R. (2021). Virus as quasi-living bio-material for interaction design. CHI EA '21.
Kim, R., Thomas, S., van Dierendonck, R., Bryan-Kinns, N. & Poslad, S. (2020). Working with nature's lag: initial design lessons for slow biotic games. FDG '20. Exceptional Paper Honourable Mention.
Kim, R. (2020). DNA as Digital Data Storage: Opportunities and Challenges for HCI. HCII 2020, Springer.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-60700-5_29
Kim, R. et al. (2019). Growable, invisible, connected toys. Halfway to the Future (HttF '19).
Kim, R. et al. (2019). Moldy ghosts and yeasty invasions. CHI EA '19.
Kim, R. et al. (2019). Augmentable experiences. Acoustic Space Journal, vol. 17.
Kim, R., Thomas, S., van Dierendonck, R., Kaniadakis, A. & Poslad, S. (2019). Microbial integration on player experience of hybrid bio-digital games. INTETAIN 2018, LNICST vol. 273, pp. 148–159. Springer.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16447-8_15
Kim, R., Thomas, S., van Dierendonck, R. & Poslad, S. (2018). A New Mould Rush: Designing for a Slow Bio-Digital Game Driven by Living Micro-organisms. FDG '18.
Kim, R. et al. (2026). Biodesign × AI: Interactions in the Algorithmic Wet Lab. Panel, CHI EA '26.
Workshop paper, DIS Companion '26.
Living bits. CHI EA '23.
Designing living artefacts: opportunities and challenges. SIG, DRS 2022, Bilbao.
Narratives in biodesign. IASDR 2021, Springer.
Microbe-HCI: Introduction and Directions for Growth. SIG, CHI EA '21.
Speculating on biodesign. CHI EA '21.
Archives in DNA. Mindtrek 2021.
Decoupled communication. SpaceCHI '21.
Kim, R., Heinis, T. & Pschetz, L. (2026). Trusted Molecular Memory: Investigating Molecular Trust in Hybrid Bio-Digital Systems. Technical report.
Kim, R. (2025). AlphaFold Futures Workshop Report. Technical report.
Kim, R., Thomas, S., van Dierendonck, R., Wood, C. & Poslad, S. (2020). Toward growable computer games: insights from biotic game ideation workshops. Interactions 27(2), 82–85. ACM.
Kim, R. (2020). Effects of Microbial Integration on Player Experiences of Hybrid Biological Digital Computer Games. PhD thesis, Media and Arts Technology, Queen Mary University of London.
Kim, R. (2019). The thing with E. coli. Preprint, arXiv.
Kim, R. (2017). Designing Interfaces for Cyano-Bacterial Pigment Synthesis. Poster, Doctoral Consortium, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, March 2017.
Kim, R. (2015). Fungal indices. In A. Arozqueta & M. Azaola (eds), Future Mirrors, pp. 11–14. Modelab. ISBN 978-0-9941220-1-8
Kim, R. (2014). Microbial Money. In D. Benqué (ed.), Blueprints for the Unknown, pp. 120–130. Royal College of Art. ISBN 978-1-910642-04-7
Kim, R. (2012). Designing for micro-paradise. In T. Boontje & O. Kular (eds), Paradise, pp. 21–22. Royal College of Art. ISBN 978-1-907342-50-9
I write about materials, proteins, and the decisions people make around them. New work usually appears in the newsletter first.