GDVET (UTS) MS (RPI) MS (Duke) BSE (Duke) PhD (UTS) Research Highlights Marilyn Mitchell has pursued a career in both academia and industry. Prior to joining Bond University, she lectured in communication at Southern Connecticut State University, KvB Institute of Technology, and Sydney Institute of Technology. She has also worked in professional communication positions in IBM (USA), Quoin Technology, Brown and Caldwell, Corporate Success Group, and Pioneer Construction Materials. In these positions, she has held a variety of Training Manager, Marketing, and Writer positions. As a professional writer, she has been directly involved in technical documentation, training video scripts, marketing brochures, and educational training materials. She has also managed training in a corporate environment, and delivered professional marketing presentations to Wall St, New York clients for IBM. Following her studies at Duke University, she undertook a second Masters in the field of technical communication at RPI. She also undertook a PhD (ABD) in Organisational Communication at RPI (New York) before migrating to Australia in 1993. In 2006, she completed her PhD in Design through the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Her dissertation is titled The Visual Representation of Time and is about interface design theory and its practical application in developing informative graphics. She completed the research under supervision of Dr. Peter van Sommers, author of Drawing and Cognition, published by CUP. Other Research Interests Marilyn's research interests are in education and training related to organisational communication, and also in visual communication. She is particularly interested in applying modern cognitive learning theory to the development of conventional and interactive multimedia education and training materials.
Articles
Considering a new framework for designing pubic safety 'filler' messages on highway variable-message signs: Applying the behaviour change wheel, Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety (2011)
This paper reviews literature regarding ‘filler’ (particularly safety) messages on variable message signs (VMS), then...
The development of automobile speedometer dials: A balance of ergonomics and style, regulation and power, Visible language (2010)
This paper explains the historical development of analogue and digital speedometer dial designs using the...
An analysis of road signage and advertising from a pragmatic visual communication perspective: Case study of the M1 Motorway between the Gold Coast and Brisbane, Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety (2010)
This paper analyses examples of road signage and billboard advertising along the M1 Motorway between...
Representations of time in computer interface design, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2007)
The linguistic representation of time or tense is based upon a spatial metaphor: time is...
Conference Papers
Evaluating the effectiveness of an organisational communication assessment using frameworks from cognitive learning theory and authentic assessment, Australian and New Zealand Communication Association conference 2009 (ANZCA09): Communication, creativity and global citizenship (2009)
This paper evaluates the learning aims and outcomes of a particular Organisational Communication assessment using...
Conducting ethnographic research on language-like visual communication., Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)
This paper provides guidance to academics, new researchers, and practicing designers or business people on...
Design of the Gregorian calendar: influences of cognitive and social needs, natural phenomena, technology, power structures, and pragmatics, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2007)
What illustrations of the sign language of the deaf tell us about process diagrams, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2006)
As rich visual languages, sign languages of the deaf have great potential to provide theoretical...
Effects of writing on time-related information graphics, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2005)
Different cultures of the world write in different directions and these directions appear to have...