Sin-Hwa Kang is a doctoral candidate in Communication with concentrations in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) at |Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is also a graduate research assistant in the Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory (SBRL) where the facility promotes interdisciplinary research efforts in HCI, CMC, Cognitive Science, Community Informatics, and Technology Studies. She has been participating in National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects where she designed the interface of a web information system for kids and evaluated usability of a computer simulated application for the blind. Prior to attending RPI, she studied in the Master's program of Information Design & Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology. She participated in projects exploring new digital media and digital storytelling as a graduate research assistant in the Laboratory for Advanced Computing Initiatives (LACI). Before coming to the US, she worked in industry, researching and developing web applications for online commu-nities, marketing, and industrial training for many years in South Korea where she earned her bachelor's degree from Ewha Woman's University. Based on her experience and interests, she brings international view and adopts interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approach to her research in social psychological and cross cultural contexts. Her research focuses on mobile technology mediated communication and its interface embodying social psychological approach. She has been working on modeling a novel approach to test users' perceptions of a message, a person, and the medium itself in mobile-phone communication. She is specifically seeking a new approach to study interfaces including the adoption of social actors representing interactants over emotionally engaged communication using a mobile phone.