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Dr Christopher Kueh

PhD (Design), Curtin University of Technology.

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    • Role:
    • Sessional Academic
    • Department:
    • School of Design & Art
    • Location:
    • Architecture and Planning 514D
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 2972

Christopher is a practicing information and graphic designer since year 2001. He has consulted museums, city council, library, and university on wayfinding design in Australia and Malaysia. He is continually active in pushing the boundaries of cross-disciplinary design research and practice.

With interest in user-design interaction, he went on to obtain a PhD in Design, in year 2006, with thesis titled A user-centred approach to effective wayfinding map design: Integrating theory, practice and user participation. He developed a framework that emphasised human-map-space interaction in tourist map design. Christopher's research and design, since then, have crossed over the disciplines of graphic/information design, architecture, and urban planning. He continues to work on research and consultancy projects that deal with human-media-spatial interactions.

Research Interests

  • Cross-disciplinary Design; 
  • Wayfinding Design;
  • Design Methods;
  • Design Management;
  • User-centred Design;
  • Design + Health Care

Research Projects

  • Wayfinding issues among elderly in large-scale shopping centres;
  • Wayfinding Design for library.

Teaching - Undergraduate

  • Design Management;
  • Design Methods;
  • Illustration.

Teaching - Postgraduate

  • Design Issues Seminar;
  • Dissertation Preparation (Architecture);
  • Research Methods (Architecture).

Memberships

DRS (Design Research Society).

Awards

2005 Executive Dean Award, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia.

Publications

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Kueh, C, and Greive, S. 2010. Navigation Issues for Seniors in Large-Scale Shopping Malls: A Planning Concern?. In Planning Perspectives From Western Australia: A Reader in Theory and Practice, eds I ALEXANDER, D GREIVE & D HEDGCOCK, 324-339. Fremantle: Fremantle Press.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Kueh, C. 2007. A sociocybernetic approach to wayfinding map studies: The systems of prople-map-space interactions.. Kybernetes: The International Journal of Systems, Cybernetics and Management Science 36: 1406-1421.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

  • Kueh, C. 2009. Introducing Design Research: Three reasonings to encourage design research among newly established teaching institutes. ACUADS 2009 Conference: Interventions in the Public Domain, 30/09/2009. Griffith University, Queensland, Australia: ACUADS.
  • Kueh, C. 2009. Visual Out-Crime: Assessing the relationships between visibility of space, wayfinding, human activities and crime prevention in Western Australian sub-urban environments. iDOC'09 International Design Out Crime Conference, 02/12/2009. Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Australia: Design Out Crime Research Centre.
  • Kueh, C. 2005. User -Centred Approach in Visual and Spatial Reasoning: Design Research in Wayfinding MAp Design. Futureground Vol 2: Proceedings, 17/11/2005. Victoria: Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University.
  • Kueh, C. 2004. Human-Spatial Interaction: Paradigm Shifts in Map Display. Alchemies: Community exChanges, 01/11/2003. Curtin University, Western Australia: Black Swan Press.