Dr. Li Ping Thong
Associate Dean, Digital Design
Details
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College: School of Design
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Department: School of Design
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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liping.thong@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-7255-3921
About
Dr Li Ping Thong is a digital media designer, researcher and educator. She is a Senior Lecturer at the RMIT Bachelor of Design (Digital Media) program. Dr Thong's work focuses on the thoughtful crafting of digital media experiences for meaningful and positive social impact. Her skills include User Experience (UX) design, Interactive Design, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Digital Storytelling, Mobile App Development, Web Design, Digital Illustrations, Motion Design and Serious Games.
As a Digital Media designer and Senior Lecturer, Dr Li Ping Thong has vast experience practicing, teaching and researching in a myriad range of digital media specialisations, including User Experience (UX) design, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), motion design, app development, interactive media, digital illustration and serious games.
Dr Li Ping Thong was the Program Manager of the RMIT Bachelor of Design (Digital Media) program from 2018-2020 and led a dynamic team of academic staff in the future-focused delivery of one of the most successful digital media undergraduate degrees in Australia. An experienced design practitioner in the industry, Li Ping is also an experienced educator, having over 17 years of internationalised higher education digital design teaching experience across Australia, Vietnam and Malaysia.
A highly collaborative digital media specialist, Li Ping's research projects are often cross-disciplinary with a strong industry and community focus, having successfully worked with external partners such as Foodbank Australia, Porter Davis, Federation Square, Melbourne Girls Grammar School and Golden Plains Shire Council. Of core importance to Li Ping is research that entails in meaningful impact to community. She had been consistently successful in acquiring external and internal grants for research and teaching.
If you seek a collaborator with Li Ping's digital media expertise, please feel free to get in touch for further discussion.
As a Digital Media designer and Senior Lecturer, Dr Li Ping Thong has vast experience practicing, teaching and researching in a myriad range of digital media specialisations, including User Experience (UX) design, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), motion design, app development, interactive media, digital illustration and serious games.
Dr Li Ping Thong was the Program Manager of the RMIT Bachelor of Design (Digital Media) program from 2018-2020 and led a dynamic team of academic staff in the future-focused delivery of one of the most successful digital media undergraduate degrees in Australia. An experienced design practitioner in the industry, Li Ping is also an experienced educator, having over 17 years of internationalised higher education digital design teaching experience across Australia, Vietnam and Malaysia.
A highly collaborative digital media specialist, Li Ping's research projects are often cross-disciplinary with a strong industry and community focus, having successfully worked with external partners such as Foodbank Australia, Porter Davis, Federation Square, Melbourne Girls Grammar School and Golden Plains Shire Council. Of core importance to Li Ping is research that entails in meaningful impact to community. She had been consistently successful in acquiring external and internal grants for research and teaching.
If you seek a collaborator with Li Ping's digital media expertise, please feel free to get in touch for further discussion.
Research fields
- 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
- 3903 Education systems
- 3904 Specialist studies in education
- 4701 Communication and media studies
Academic positions
- Program Manager (Digital Media)
- RMIT University
- DSC|School of Design
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2018 – 31 Dec 2020
- Senior Lecturer (Digital Media),
- RMIT University
- DSC|School of Design
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Apr 2015 – Present
- Senior Lecturer (Design - Multimedia Systems)
- RMIT Vietnam
- DSC|School of Design
- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- 1 Jan 2008 – 1 Jan 2015
- Lecturer
- Taylor's University
- Subang Jaya, Malaysia
- 1 Jan 2006 – 31 Dec 2008
Non-academic positions
- Photographer/Graphic Designer
- Fotorex Holdings
- , Kuala Lumpur
- 1 Apr 2005 – 30 Apr 2005
- AV Application Specialist
- Taylor's University
- Subang Jaya, Malaysia
- 1 Jan 2005 – 31 Dec 2006
- Designer
- Hunter Studios
- , Kuala Lumpur
- 1 Jan 2005 – 31 Dec 2008
- Animator/Line Artist
- FAT Lizard
- , Kuala Lumpur)
- 1 Apr 2004 – 31 Dec 2004
- Animator/Graphic Designer,
- Flextronics Asia
- , Kuala Lumpur
- 1 Jan 2004 – 1 Jan 2005
Supervisor projects
- Crafting Vietnamese Digital Heritage: Navigating Cultural Hybridity through Interactivity and Extended Reality Design Practice.
- 23 Feb 2024
- Mind You!: A Card Game Design for Learning the Pragmatics of a Second Language
- 1 Apr 2019
- Designing an Immersive Virtual Reality Classroom to Assist Pre-service Teachers with Supporting Low-level Challenging Behaviours
- 20 Sep 2018
- Towards Developing an Effective Virtual Reality Instructional Tool for Secondary Students Learning English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Arabia
- 2 Jul 2018
- Volumetric Light Sculptures: Occupying the Space Between the Apparatus and the Image
- 12 Feb 2018
Teaching interests
Contact me about: Research supervision
Teaching Activities
Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) Studio Courses (Selected List)
Golden Plains Stories (2022) - Externally funded WIL project
Remembering Australian Army Nurses (2021) - Externally funded WIL project
Design for All studio with Foodbank and YWaste app (2020) - CRC funded WIL project
Digital Media Creative Collaboration (2018, 2019) - International study tours, funded by DFAT
Xperience VR (2017) - Industry funded WIL project
Core courses taught (Selected List)
Digital Media Studio (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, UX/UI design, web design)
Interactive Media
Advanced Electronic Imaging (Digital Illustration)
Advanced Web Authoring
Advanced 3d Imaging and Animation
Content Design Project (Motion Design)
Serious games, Game-based learning, Interactive media, Virtual reality, Digital media, Interactive storytelling, Animation, User experience design, Digital environments.
Teaching Activities
Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) Studio Courses (Selected List)
Golden Plains Stories (2022) - Externally funded WIL project
Remembering Australian Army Nurses (2021) - Externally funded WIL project
Design for All studio with Foodbank and YWaste app (2020) - CRC funded WIL project
Digital Media Creative Collaboration (2018, 2019) - International study tours, funded by DFAT
Xperience VR (2017) - Industry funded WIL project
Core courses taught (Selected List)
Digital Media Studio (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, UX/UI design, web design)
Interactive Media
Advanced Electronic Imaging (Digital Illustration)
Advanced Web Authoring
Advanced 3d Imaging and Animation
Content Design Project (Motion Design)
Serious games, Game-based learning, Interactive media, Virtual reality, Digital media, Interactive storytelling, Animation, User experience design, Digital environments.
Research interests
Li Ping's research projects are cross-disciplinary and applied research by nature, with existing and emerging digital media technologies designed and developed across diverse array of contexts, such as culture and heritage, education, health, architecture and traffic safety. Her current project involves collaborating with researchers at RMIT University and Australia Catholic University to develop a cutting-edge 3d simulation training platform to allow older pedestrians to respond safely to traffic-related threats.
Li Ping's research interests include:
Virtual Reality (VR)
Augmented Reality (AR)
Serious Games
Interactive Media
Interactive Storytelling
2D/3D Animation
User experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design
Digital Environments
Culture and Heritage
Technology-based teaching and learning with digital media technologies
Innovative Digital Media Projects
Li Ping's PhD study investigated the learning effectiveness of digital role-playing games (RPG) to accomplish learning outcomes in digital media education, in which she interrogated how situated learning could be achieved through game-play in an immersive 3d environment. She designed and developed a serious game – Virtual Designer. Utilising non-linear scenarios, the 3d game simulates a design studio. Students role-played as designers and were confronted with various situations typically faced by design practitioners, in which they apply their design knowledge into workplace contexts.
Li Ping's research interests include:
Virtual Reality (VR)
Augmented Reality (AR)
Serious Games
Interactive Media
Interactive Storytelling
2D/3D Animation
User experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design
Digital Environments
Culture and Heritage
Technology-based teaching and learning with digital media technologies
Innovative Digital Media Projects
Li Ping's PhD study investigated the learning effectiveness of digital role-playing games (RPG) to accomplish learning outcomes in digital media education, in which she interrogated how situated learning could be achieved through game-play in an immersive 3d environment. She designed and developed a serious game – Virtual Designer. Utilising non-linear scenarios, the 3d game simulates a design studio. Students role-played as designers and were confronted with various situations typically faced by design practitioners, in which they apply their design knowledge into workplace contexts.
