About Ting

Mother/ Designer/ Educator

Ting Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Digital Media & Design at the University of Connecticut and Director of the mHealth Design Lab. She is an award-winning designer and artist whose research and creative practice focus on healthcare design, with an emphasis on human-centered UI/UX design, digital health interventions, and health communication for underserved communities. She collaborates with interdisciplinary research teams to design websites, mobile applications, and interactive products that support behavior change, health, and well-being.

Her healthcare design projects include DiaOral©, a web-based oral self-care intervention for adults with diabetes; Zuri, an mHealth application designed to support sexual self-efficacy among adolescent girls through animation and gamification; and QuanXR, a website and VR game for learning quantum phenomena. Her research has been supported by the American Diabetes Association, the UConn STEAM Grant, the UConn SFA Research Grant, and the UConn Innovations in Quantum STEM Education Award, among other internal and external funding sources. She is also the recipient of the 2025 SECAC Award for Excellence in Graphic Design. Her design work has received GDUSA Digital Design Awards and GDUSA Health+Wellness Design Awards, and her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Her recent research also explores design history, human rights, and data visualization through projects that engage historical imagery, social justice, critical design education, and the two-body problem in academia. Through both research and teaching, Zhou explores how design can function as a form of care infrastructure and social intervention by making information more engaging, accessible, and equitable.

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