Dr Xianghua (Sharon) Ding she/her

My research passion is user-centred design of healthcare technologies to promote individual and social well-being. My group has been focusing on designing and developing intelligent technologies to be integrated into social practices to empower people for effective health data engagement, promote healthy living, improve mental well-being, and enable successful self-management of chronic diseases. I am keen to collaborate with researchers working on health and well-being from various perspectives, and would like to contribute human-centred research and design skills to make technologies more usable and useful, and better integrated into related social practices to really empower people.

I would like to supervise projects to co-design and co-develop technologies with various stakeholders to transform healthcare and promote wellbeing. As a supervisor, I seek to create a supportive environment where students get exposed to diverse research, gain awareness of different research perspectives, share resources, and become a self-driven learner and researcher. My supervision is student-driven, and I encourage students to bring their own strengths and disciplinary skills and knowledge to the research team, and find research topics and questions based on their interests and strengths. Some of my graduated students have become academics and others joined research labs to continue to carry out research on healthcare, aging and data engagement. Some have also become leader in industry.

I am a member of our school’s EDI committee.

Research is fun, and interdisciplinary research is more fun.