When the Virtual Meets Reality

Prison guards, police officers, cargo handlers, nursing students and others are all benefitting from virtual reality technology developed at HKU.

A Gendered Approach to Mental Health

Psychosis tends to strike women a decade or longer after men. The Department of Psychiatry has a new project that builds on its deep,
long-term work and helps the most economically-deprived female sufferers treat this silent ailment as early as possible.

More than Skin Deep

Hong Kong’s first
psycho-social intervention programme for children with eczema aims to help both the sufferer and their parents.

Do-It-Yourself Help on the Rental Home Front

The development of a DIY residential tenancy electronic package lets undergraduates put their knowledge of property law into practice and helps landlords and tenants save money.

A City Map for Pedestrians

Most street maps are designed to get cars from
A to B. But now the Faculty of Architecture has an alternative: a 3D map that helps pedestrians navigate narrow walkways and footbridges, and provides a trove of data for app makers.