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Personal profile
Research Interests
Major research interests
My over-riding research interests include the following:
- User Experience Research
- User-centred Design of Products and Services
- Product/Service Innovation, including the development of research methodologies for examination of interaction with innovative technologies and products
- Human factors and collaboration in design
- Human-Computer Interaction
Personal profile
Dr. Sun is a Professor in 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 obtained her Doctorate degrees from Loughborough University and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Leicester University and University of Nottingham. Her research in ‘Human-Centred Design’ has produced new products on the market, over 20 patents, and over 70 peer-reviewed publications. She has secured over RMB5 million in funding from various high-level funding bodies (NSFC, AHRC) and industries. Her development of sustainable working relationships with industry has create opportunities for students to showcase their designs to a broader audience and to businesses. Over 30 of her supervised students’ designs have been recognised by the world’s largest, most prestigious and influential design accolades, such as IF design, A ‘Design award, International Design Awards, European Product Design Award.
Supervision Responsibility of PhD students
I am currently supervising 10 students in their PhD research (9 as principal/first supervisor). I have supervised a total of 16 PhD students in my career, of which 6 have completed in the past years. All students passed their viva exams first time, subject to only minor corrections of their theses.
- Name: Xiaosong Zhou (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ Completion of PhD with minor corrections of the thesis.
- Name: Joyce Addae (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ Completion of PhD with minor corrections of the thesis.
- Name: Lanyun Zhang (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ Completion of PhD with minor corrections of the thesis.
- Name: Pinyan Tang (full-time)/ Supervision status: Second/ Completion of PhD with minor corrections of the thesis.
- Name: Nan Wang (full-time)/ Supervision status: Second/ Completion of PhD with minor corrections of the thesis.
- Name: Cao Zhang(full-time)/ Supervision status: Second/ Completion of PhD with minor corrections of the thesis.
- Name: Leijing Zhou (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ Submitting thesis.
- Name: Siyuan Zhou (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ Third year.
- Name: Hua Ma (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ Second year.
- Name: Jing Ma (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ Second year.
- Name: Fang Yang (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ Second year.
- Name: Yifan Yang (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ Second year.
- Name: Jiming Bai (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ Second year.
- Name: Mengshen Yang (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ Second year.
- Name: Yifan Zhang (full-time)/ Supervision status: Second/ Second year.
- Name: Ruiheng Lan (full-time)/ Supervision status: Principal/ First year.
Teaching
- Physical Ergonomics
- RSA Design Project
- BEng Major Design Project
Person Types
- Staff
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Integrating Ergonomics into the Design and Autonomous Driving System
Sun, X. (PI)
1/04/21 → 31/03/23
Project: Government Funded Projects › Vertical-National Government Funded Projects
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Improvement of Pilot Training Performance in the Context of Virtual Training Environment
Sun, X. (PI)
Project: Contract Projects › Horizontal-International Contract Projects
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Hefeng Creative Lab Phase II
Sun, X. (PI)
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Contract Projects › Horizontal-Ningbo Municipal Contract Projects
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Human-Computer multi-sensing data collection, analysis and design research
Sun, X. (PI)
20/05/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Contract Projects › Horizontal-Ningbo Municipal Contract Projects
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Design and Development of High Precision Mini Home Use Instrumentation “
Sun, X. (PI)
20/10/20 → 20/10/21
Project: Contract Projects › Horizontal-Ningbo Municipal Contract Projects
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Investigating the impact of emotions on perceiving serendipitous information encountering
Sun, X., Zhou, X., Wang, Q. & Sharples, S., Jan 2022, In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 73, 1, p. 3-18 16 p.Research output: Journal Publication › Article › peer-review
7 Citations (Scopus) -
Shaping driver-vehicle interaction in autonomous vehicles: How the new in-vehicle systems match the human needs
Sun, X., Cao, S. & Tang, P., Jan 2021, In: Applied Ergonomics. 90, 103238.Research output: Journal Publication › Article › peer-review
51 Citations (Scopus) -
A Tool to Facilitate the Cross-Cultural Design Process Using Deep Learning
Zhou, L., Sun, X., Mu, G., Wu, J., Zhou, J., Wu, Q., Zhang, Y., Xi, Y., Gunes, N. D. & Song, S., 1 Jun 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. 52, 3, p. 445-457 13 p.Research output: Journal Publication › Article › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Factors Affecting Pedestrians' Trust in Automated Vehicles: Literature Review and Theoretical Model
Zhou, S., Sun, X., Liu, B. & Burnett, G., 1 Jun 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. 52, 3, p. 490-500 11 p.Research output: Journal Publication › Review article › peer-review
19 Citations (Scopus) -
Exploring Personalised Autonomous Vehicles to Influence User Trust
Sun, X., Li, J., Tang, P., Zhou, S., Peng, X., Li, H. N. & Wang, Q., Nov 2020, In: Cognitive Computation. 12, 6, p. 1170-1186 17 p.Research output: Journal Publication › Article › peer-review
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