Xu Sun

Biography

Dr. Sun is an Associate Professor and course director for Product Design and Manufacture at University of Nottingham Ningbo China. She is a Chartered Technological Product Designer of the Institute of Engineering Designers (iED, UK). She has worked on a number of design projects at various universities (e.g. University of Nottingham, Leicester University, Loughborough University) as well as with a number of industrial Companies (e.g. Philips, Shell, Océ).  Dr. Sun brings over 10 years’ experience in design led research  through which her work has developed interaction and interfaces which operate between physical and digital spaces. She has worked on a number of international, national (NSFC), municipal  projects and industrial projects in the fields of serendipitous information seeking, information search engine, intellectual property rights in design, digital adaptive educational game, creative computer supported cooperative work, transportation design, cultural patterns in product design, and sustainable product design.

Research Interest

Human-Computer Interaction User Experience Research User-centred Design of Products and Services Product/Service Innovation, including development of research methodologies for examination of interaction with innovative technologies and products Cultural factors and collaboration in design Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning