People
Faculty
Huatong Sun
Title
- Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D., Communication & Rhetoric/Human-Computer Interaction, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- M.A., Rhetoric & Technical Communication, Michigan Technological University
- B.A., Chinese Literature, Fudan University, PRC
Research/Teaching Interests
- Intercultural technical communication
- Usability and user experience
- Digital rhetoric
- Social computing
- Design-oriented human-computer interaction
- Visual design
- Information architecture and content management
- Internship administration
Selected Publications
- “Towards a rhetoric of locale: Localizing mobile messaging technology into everyday life, forthcoming in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.
- “The triumph of users: Achieving cultural usability goals with user localization,” 2006 Nell Ann Picket Award for the Best Article of Technical Communication Quarterly.
Work in Progress
Dr. Sun is working on a book project on cross-cultural IT design in the age of participation.