Hello from Shirley Shi

Hello! I am so glad to meet every one of you here. I just started my first term in MET. I studied Industrial Design at Beijing Institute of Technology in China, and Kansei Science at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. I used to work as a teacher at Beijing Institute of Technology in the field of Industrial Design and User Experience. Teaching has always been something that I enjoyed. Even though I am not working in schools now, I still hope to obtain more pedagogical knowledge and education-oriented techniques and skills. I believe that learning is a life-long process for everyone in the ages of rapidly updating knowledge and technology, which makes technology-supplemented learning more essential than ever.

As I know, smartphones are a kind of magic tool for users, which greatly changed users’ habit of information accessing and knowledge construction. When I worked in BIT, in once investigation on online-shoppers experience, my students and I found that users of internet-shopping who used their mobile phones showed more tendency of impulse purchase than users who worked on desktops. Even though our finding was only based on a limited number of users, it was enough for us to deeply think about how the mobile was involved in data accessing, collection, interpretation and construction in human information processing. Broadly speaking, online-shopping is a process consisting of learning and decision making. In this course, I’d like to explore the particular impacts of mobile devices and networks on our human learning.


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2 responses to “Hello from Shirley Shi”

  1. EmilyChen

    Hi Shirley!
    Welcome to the MET Program! I lived in Shanghai, China for 11 years, and have recently moved to Taiwan. During my time in China, I went to Beijing about once a year, mostly for work, but every time I went I already enjoyed having Peking Duck 🙂 I think your finding is so interesting about internet-shoppings, I believe it because it’s so much easier to keep swiping through the online products and click “buy”. You can be in a much more comfortable position when you’re on your smartphone too. I am certainly a victim of impulse purchases…maybe next time I’ll try to buy things using my laptop instead. Thanks!


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    1. Shirley

      Hi Emily,
      I am very glad to hear from you, thanks! I like Peking Duck too. It was my compelled brush-up cuisine whenever I went back to Beijing. You are right. It is better to sit before a big screen when we do online shopping, in order to check details of a product carefully before placing an order.


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