PolyU Design Scholars and Student won Best Paper Award at ArtsIT Conference

We are excited to announce that the recent peer-reviewed and SCOPUS Indexed paper titled ‘Data City: Leveraging Data Embodiment towards Building the Sense of Data Ownership’ by Prof. Stephen J. Wang (Professor in UX Design & Design Intelligence), Dr Jeffrey Ho (Assistant Professor), and our recent graduate of MDes (Interaction Design) Mr Allen Xie have just won the Best Paper Award at the 9th European Alliance of Innovation (EAI) ArtsIT Conference (2020). The conference which was organised in Denmark and took place virtually this year brings together people from across various art forms with a keen interest in modern IT technologies. The Best Paper Award is the highest honour for the paper authors of this competitive international conference with a paper acceptance rate of less than 40%.

The Best Paper explores the emerging area of research of Human-Data Interaction (HDI), investigates people's perception, behaviour and attitude towards data via qualitative research. The authors leveraged embodied interactions to enhance the sense of data ownership and proposed a novel Augmented Reality installation 'DataCity' as a sample application to achieve this goal and provide potential impact to this field.

There were three other papers by MDes (Interaction Design) students accepted and published at this conference’s Special Track “Intelligence & creativity in Healthcare, Wellbeing & Aging” this year. The Track was led by Prof. Stephen J. Wang, supported by three world-leading design institutions: the Royal College of Art, Tsinghua University and PolyU. The authors of these papers are:

• Muñoz, Daniel; Chow, Kenny K. N.; Wei, Huaxin. 'Effects of Virtual Reality in the Area of Responsible Decision-making Training on Adolescents.'
• Yan, Yuxiang; Wei, Huaxin; Ho, Jeffrey C. F.; Yap, Analyn. 'A Budget Setting System as an Intervention for Reducing Personal Expense for Chinese Young Generation.'
• Yap, Analyn; Wei, Huaxin; Chow, Kenny K. N.. 'Bukas: Material Messages for Filipino Migrant Workers and Their Transnational Families.'

Congratulations to all winners and authors!