Fred Han
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Fred Han is currently an Associate Professor at the School of System Design and Intellectual Manufacturing in the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. Prior to his current position, he served as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for nine years. Preceding to move to academia, he has practiced as an Industrial Designer in industry sectors including Automotive, Consumer Electronics and Technology with a range of globally renowned organizations. These include General Motors and Ford Motor Company in the Michigan in the US, and as a Strategic Design consultant for organizations in Asia Pacific including Philips Design (Hong Kong, China), Techtronic Industry Company (Hong Kong, China) and TCL Electronics (Huizhou, China). The areas of design include automotive, multimedia, personal care, power tools, home electronics, audios and healthcare products.
Praxis Statement
As an industrial design practitioner and educator, have involved over 100 cross-disciplinary product designs for two decades and observed the transformation of the role of design in the new product development. I am interested in defining a relationship between customer and object (or service) with configuration of function, features and form as the definition tools.
Research Interest
Within the realm of healthcare, my interests lie in understanding of user-centered healthcare product for patients’ rehabilitation and aging population’s quality of life. In the healthcare product development, emphatic understanding of the users is critical in terms of defining the product purpose including the application of technologies that diagnose, treat and/or prevent illness and injury.