LING CAI
Design Researcher · Strategic Advisor
Reimagining how people relate, create, and collaborate with emerging technology through Design and innovation.
Ling is a design researcher and strategic advisor examining the evolving relationship between people and technology. A PhD candidate in Information Experience Design (IED) Innovation at the Royal College of Art, her research interests span global collaboration, multi-user environments, and human-centred AI. Drawing on professional experience in international design strategy, virtual communication, workplace collaboration, and digital transformation, Ling brings research and practice into dialogue to explore how design might contribute to more inclusive and human-centred ways of working, creating, and collaborating in an increasingly intelligent world.
She is also the author of several verse novels such as Home.
Research Papers (Selected)
2025
Cai, L. (2025). Relationality as Process for Virtual Collaborative Experience (VCE). Exhibition and Publication at RCA Research Biennale 2025 (21–27 February), Royal College of Art.
2024
Cai, L. (2024). ‘Virtual Collaborative Experience (VCE): an experimental method for designing research questions in the context of a study of VCE’, itinerant space, 2, Royal College of Art. Available at: https://itinerant-space.co.uk/mini-abstract/virtual-collaborative-experience-vce-an-experimental-method-for-designing-research-questions-in-the-context-of-a-study-of-vce/ (Accessed: 2 January 2025).
2024
Cai, L. (2024). ‘Virtual Collaborative Experience (VCE): an experimental method for designing research questions in the context of a study of VCE’, in T. Triggs, N. Bell, K. Bosy, K. Rehal (eds) itinerant space: Papers 2024 © 2024, Royal College of Art, ISBN 978-1-3999-9067-7.
2023
Cai, L. (2023). Demystifying Experience: Crafting Research Questions for Virtual Collaboration, RCA. Research Biennale. Available at: https://research-biennale.rca.ac.uk/projects/demystifying-experience-crafting-research-questions-for-virtual-collaborative-experience (Accessed: 2 February 2024).
2021
Cai, L. (2021). Connecting Experience: The Mobile V&A Visitor Experience (2012-2020). History of Design Master’s dissertation. Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art.
2020
Cai, L. (2020). Shaping Innovation: Design Thinking, the 1950s to the Present. History of Design Master’s Essay. Victoria & Albert Museum and Royal College of Art
2019
Cai, L. (2019). A Corno Ducale Hat and Doge Silvestro Valier: Design and Human Experience in Late Renaissance Venice (1600s-1700s). History of Design Master’s Essay. Victoria & Albert Museum and Royal College of Art
Relationality as Process for Virtual Collaborative Experience, RCA Research Biennale 2025, The Royal College of Art. (Image: Author's own)
Experience Research (Image: Author's own)
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