Victoria Kuan
Senior Lecturer

Qualifications

MA (Design for Interactive Media), Middlesex University (Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts), UK
Diploma in Graphic Design, Malaysian Institute of Art

Work Experience

Victoria Kuan is a Senior Lecturer in Media and User Experience Design, she completed her MA in Design (Interactive Media) in Middlesex University, UK in 1998.

She was the pioneer coordinator to set up the Multimedia department and contributed in administering the Multimedia Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programs from Hawthorn Campus, from 2005 to 2006. Prior to joining Swinburne, Victoria taught in LimKokWing Institute of Creative Technology (now known as LimKokWing University of Creative Technology), from 1999 to 2003.

Victoria is a professional Advertising Communication strategist, a Design consultant. Her professional experience with the industries includes e-Branding, design promotions and events management, web portals management and e-Solutions. Her recent work includes consultancy with a local organisation, developing an interactive DVD application as an applicable business solution to promote the company's business, product and services.

She is the chief consultant who drives the creative and product development team that consists of five members. The working team includes SUTS' recent postgraduate multimedia students, local technical video specialist and top notch Audio-visual media professional team from Kuala Lumpur.

 
Research & Scholarship Interests

Victoria's work is always concerned with Media, Technology and Society.

Interaction design and the audience's presence and interactions with the medium have always been her focus in all her professional career since 1995.

Her work has a particular emphasis on the objectives of creating meaning and design values by providing an excellent media form to the audience especially within a mediated environment.

Victoria is currently researching the development of modern design theory in conjunction with innovations in the emergence of today's media as it relates to audience presence, on-line space and interactive environment.