Cover Story:
Our Digital Selves
Our Digital Selves
Research:
Living Long, Despite the Odds
Living Long, Despite the Odds
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming deeply embedded into the functioning of our daily lives, often for the better but also with unknown consequences. HKU scholars have been looking at these issues from multiple perspectives, as shown in the examples on these pages – revealing why it is urgently important to improve our ability to communicate with AI; the potential impact on concepts of the self from digitisation; the positive impact on health from AI; how our physical interaction with technology influences our behaviour; and how the art world is producing accessible works that expose and poke fun at the digitisation of our lives.
HKU researchers have revealed why Hong Kong has the longest life expectancy in the world: unlike most other places, it has attained a unique combination of economic development and successful tobacco control. Making the most of those extra years is another matter.
Research:
Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue
Research:
Consuming Interests
Consuming Interests
Marine ecosystems serve the critical environmental function of sequestering and storing blue carbon from the oceans and atmosphere, an essential tool in the fight against climate change. A multidisciplinary project is developing new ways to protect Hong Kong’s precious marine environment using 3D printing.
A study reveals that digital discourse about and involving food – including mukbang (livestreamed eating) and everyday vlogging – serves as a means of realising the sociocultural values of eating together and eating well.
Research:
The Sad Place
The Sad Place
Teaching and Learning:
Vision for a Village
Vision for a Village
Professor Tatia Mei-chun Lee and her team have identified areas in the brain highly related to the intensity of depressive symptoms and shown that greater connectivity in these areas is associated with more intense depressive symptoms.
A project to revitalise and protect the abandoned village of Kuk Po is adopting innovative rural strategies for architecture, landscape and community to achieve cultural and environmental renewal.
Knowledge Exchange:
The Eyes Have It
The Eyes Have It
Knowledge Exchange:
Snuffing out Alternative Tobacco Products
Snuffing out Alternative Tobacco Products
The HKU Eye Centre opened in July, providing space not only for research and teaching activities, but also charitable work to serve people in need.
E-cigarettes and other alternative tobacco products (ATPs) were banned in Hong Kong earlier this year on the back of groundbreaking research by the School of Nursing.
People:
The Mix Master
The Mix Master
Books:
The Impossible Book
The Impossible Book
Professor Rui Yang, the new Dean of Education and an expert in comparative education, hopes to see greater blending of Chinese and Western academic traditions and philosophies in his Faculty and in higher education in general.
Music Professor Daniel KL Chua and his co-author Alexander Rehding describe their new publication purporting an intergalactic music theory of everything as an “impossible book”. It’s certainly out there, combining laughs with deeply consequential ideas about the fundamental nature of music, such as – can we communicate with aliens through music?
Cover Story:
Our Digital Selves
Our Digital Selves
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming deeply embedded into the functioning of our daily lives, often for the better but also with unknown consequences. HKU scholars have been looking at these issues from multiple perspectives, as shown in the examples on these pages – revealing why it is urgently important to improve our ability to communicate with AI; the potential impact on concepts of the self from digitisation; the positive impact on health from AI; how our physical interaction with technology influences our behaviour; and how the art world is producing accessible works that expose and poke fun at the digitisation of our lives.
Research:
Living Long, Despite the Odds
Living Long, Despite the Odds
HKU researchers have revealed why Hong Kong has the longest life expectancy in the world: unlike most other places, it has attained a unique combination of economic development and successful tobacco control. Making the most of those extra years is another matter.
Research:
Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue
Marine ecosystems serve the critical environmental function of sequestering and storing blue carbon from the oceans and atmosphere, an essential tool in the fight against climate change. A multidisciplinary project is developing new ways to protect Hong Kong’s precious marine environment using 3D printing.
Research:
Consuming Interests
Consuming Interests
A study reveals that digital discourse about and involving food – including mukbang (livestreamed eating) and everyday vlogging – serves as a means of realising the sociocultural values of eating together and eating well.
Research:
The Sad Place
The Sad Place
Professor Tatia Mei-chun Lee and her team have identified areas in the brain highly related to the intensity of depressive symptoms and shown that greater connectivity in these areas is associated with more intense depressive symptoms.
Teaching and Learning:
Vision for a Village
Vision for a Village
A project to revitalise and protect the abandoned village of Kuk Po is adopting innovative rural strategies for architecture, landscape and community to achieve cultural and environmental renewal.
Knowledge Exchange:
The Eyes Have It
The Eyes Have It
The HKU Eye Centre opened in July, providing space not only for research and teaching activities, but also charitable work to serve people in need.
Knowledge Exchange:
Snuffing out Alternative Tobacco Products
Snuffing out Alternative Tobacco Products
E-cigarettes and other alternative tobacco products (ATPs) were banned in Hong Kong earlier this year on the back of groundbreaking research by the School of Nursing.
People:
The Mix Master
The Mix Master
Professor Rui Yang, the new Dean of Education and an expert in comparative education, hopes to see greater blending of Chinese and Western academic traditions and philosophies in his Faculty and in higher education in general.
Books:
The Impossible Book
The Impossible Book
Music Professor Daniel KL Chua and his co-author Alexander Rehding describe their new publication purporting an intergalactic music theory of everything as an “impossible book”. It’s certainly out there, combining laughs with deeply consequential ideas about the fundamental nature of music, such as – can we communicate with aliens through music?
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