About
Designer at the meeting point of culture and computing.
I'm a master's candidate in Visual Communication Design at NYUST. My practice spans cultural design research, instructional design, and human–AI interaction — with a particular focus on translating Taiwanese folk traditions into contemporary visual systems.
Biography
Kathryn (Cai-Ting) Su is a designer-researcher whose work explores how traditional cultural systems — symbols, color, ritual — can be rearticulated through contemporary visual language and emerging technologies.
Her current research investigates Taiwanese Wangye worship and its translation into augmented-reality and parametric design systems, alongside an NSTC-funded project on multimodal generative AI interfaces for children.
Beyond research, she serves as a teaching assistant and lecturer across courses in information visualization, interactive interface design, and AI applications, mentoring students from concept to critique.
Research interests
- Visual communication
- Cultural design
- Cultural computing
- Instructional design
- Educational design
- Project planning
Education
2024.02 – present
M.Des., Visual Communication Design
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (NYUST)
2019.09 – 2023.06
B.F.A., Visual Communication Design
Kun Shan University (KSU)