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LING CAI

Design Researcher · Strategic Advisor

Reimagining how people relate, create, and collaborate with emerging technology through Information Experience 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. 

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Research Papers (Selected)

2025

Relationality as Process for Virtual Collaborative Experience (VCE).

Cai, L. Exhibition and Publication at RCA Research Biennale 2025 (21–27 February), Royal College of Art.

2024

Virtual Collaborative Experience (VCE).

Cai, L. Published on PAPER 2024, Itinerant Space, Issue 2, Royal College of Art.

2024

Virtual Collaborative Experience (VCE): an experimental method for designing research questions in the context of a study of VCE. 

Cai, L. Published on Itinerant Space 2024, Issue 2, Royal College of Art.

2021

Connecting Experience: The Mobile V&A Visitor Experience (2012-2020).

Cai, L. [HoD MA Essay] Victoria & Albert Museum and Royal College of Art

2020

2019

Shaping Innovation: Design Thinking, the 1950s to the Present.

Cai, L. [HoD MA Essay] Victoria & Albert Museum and Royal College of Art

A Corno Ducale Hat and Doge Silvestro Valier: Design and Human Experience in Late Renaissance Venice (1600s-1700s)

Cai, L. [HoD MA Essay] Victoria & Albert Museum and Royal College of Art

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