Kin Wai Michael Siu

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

INTRODUCTION Studies have indicated the benefits of strong intergenerational connectedness to the wellbeing of people. Technological designs have thus been explored and developed for improving intergenerational connectedness. Also, technologies have been increasingly integrated in our everyday life as parts of the daily infrastructure, requiring ev...

The preservation of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has transitioned from “static” and “living” approaches to a “digital ecosystem”, becoming a significant topic of anthropological research. This study, adopting an anthropological perspective, integrates sentiment semantic analysis with user identity classification to propose the Identity and Se...

Over the past decade, art festivals have become a popular tool for spatial regeneration and cultural innovation. By transforming familiar spaces into new and unknown places, art festivals create a creative atmosphere and give new meaning to day-to-day life. In the pre-exposure stage of event design, promotional materials embody the organisers' crea...

Co-designing technologies with families for mediating family connectedness is an important area of research. However, the literature directly investigating both co-design with families and family connectedness is limited. This review aims to address this gap by analysing empirical studies on co-designing technologies with families for family connec...

As social and economic dynamics continue to evolve and the demand for companionship increases, pet ownership has become an increasingly popular lifestyle choice. Pet parks, as a new form of urban public space, are gaining significant attention. This study, grounded in the theory of spatial justice, employs a combination of questionnaires and semi-s...

Product design and attractiveness are pivotal factors that determine people's positive reactions when viewing a product and may eventually affect their purchasing choices. Comprehending how people assess product design is crucial. Various studies have explored the link between product attractiveness and consumer behavior, but these were predominant...

Every child has the right to engage in play and recreational activities. Public play-spaces offer venues and opportunities for children to socially inter-act with their peers through play. The literature on inclusive play-space design has considered the needs of children with mind–body–emotional differences, who are the direct users. However, curre...

As public awareness of disease prevention and daily exercise increases, urban leisure sports (ULS) are emerging as one of the recognized healthy lifestyles. The behaviours of ULS participants revealed that art and design (A&D) mediate the moving tracks through map techniques, thereby enabling ULS to become distinctive and aesthetically appealing ur...

Understanding the psychological needs of users is crucial for public space designers and healthy city planners. However, there is currently less atten-tion paid to the need for solitude in public spaces, despite psychological re-search demonstrating the positive impact of public space use on physical and mental health. With the only-child generatio...

Technological growth is realizing an ever more intelligent and convenient future. However, is this future equal, and what role does service design play in addressing, or exacerbating, these inequalities? The relationship between technology and inequality is fluid, moving from the elimination of existing inequalities to the creation of new ones, and...

More science and social researchers have advocated to use the high-tech to support the persons with special needs. Since the early 2010s, the design research team of the Public Design Lab has put effort to conduct in-depth qualitative studies on the needs of visually impaired persons (VIPs) in their daily lives. The team has worked with VIPs to pro...

In the era of digital intelligence, integrating digital technologies and social media has revitalized cultural activities in rural communities, attracting the attention of many visitors. Utilizing Mingyue Village in China as a case study, this research explores how poetry creation and dissemination have become new pathways for preserving rural cult...

For the visually impaired, it is harder to learn how to play an instrument. Taking playing the piano as the case, we conducted the research to explore how other senses work better to support this special group to learn how to play the piano. Using the methods of literature analysis and data collection by designed questionnaire, we tried to design a...

Technological growth is realizing an ever more intelligent and convenient future. But is this future equal, and what role does service design hold in addressing, or exacerbating, these inequalities? The relationship between technology and inequality is fluid, moving from the elimination of existing inequalities to the creation of new ones, and serv...

Abstract Sheltered workshops in Hong Kong play a pivotal role for individuals with intellectual disabilities (lDs), offering both skill development and social integration. However, many current workshop designs overlook the specific needs of ageing trainees. This paper identifies primary design shortcomings in these workshops, pinpointing issues li...

Despite the importance of social justice and community attachment for subjective well-being (SWB), the existing research fails to adequately examine these factors in urban emergencies. This study develops a theoretical framework to elucidate the roles of environment perception, social justice, and community attachment in SWB during urban emergencie...

Most of the time children are necessary to go to play spaces with caregivers. However, play spaces in general are designed for children that caregivers are always excluded. Sometimes only basic resting facilities are provided for the caregivers. In the recent years, some studies have already concerned the inclusiveness of public play spaces for the...

Play is essential to children's social, emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being. Public play spaces provide important opportunities for children to participate equally in play and social interaction. In recent years, an increasing number of researchers have begun to focus on the inclusiveness of public play spaces for children with different...

Since the 1980s, cities in Europe, the US and other regions have witnessed a "renais-sance" of public art. More and more artists have also begun to focus on the design process of public art, as well as the definition, function and its impact on urban development. These discussions mostly focus on the concept of public art itself and its location in...

私有公共空间作为增加城市公共空间存量、提升空间品质、激发城市 活力的策略已日渐普遍。然而，私有公共空间被质疑是迎合了当下绅士化审美趋势的产物，是商业资本用以实现社会控制的排他性空间，引发了业界对空间不公的讨论。本研究通过梳理空间正义的相关理论，以香港商业公共空间为实证研究对象，探讨私有公共空间中空间正义的表达。从活动多样性、安全性与管理、邻近与可步行性、公共性和公众参与五个方面剖析其中公私权力的界限，理解私人所有权与空间正义间的冲突性生产关系和微妙的阈限性。挖掘私有公共空间在空间正义语境下作为缓解城市不公的中介效益，有助于实现公共空间的优化配置，缓解社会不公平现象。

Knowledge management (KM) closely relates to team creativity and is a critical strategy for businesses to maintain competitiveness. The synergy between KM and team creativity benefits and empower andragogical leadership by increasing team engagement, which results in organizational success. Prior studies examined the KM models, processes, systems,...

Knowledge management (KM) closely relates to team creativity and is a critical strategy for businesses to maintain competitiveness. The synergy between KM and team creativity benefits and empower andra- gogical leadership by increasing team engagement, which results in organizational success. Prior studies examined the KM models, processes, systems...

This study defined intergenerational integration in communities at a theoretical level and verified whether a series of measures could facilitate negotiation and communication between community residents and other stakeholders to generate a positive and healthy community environment and gradually improve intergroup relations. Specifically, we appli...

As a place for tourists to communicate and interact, the public space of large cruise ships has become an important aspect of the design and construction of large cruise ships due to its dense functional units and core spatial location. In response to the lack of experience and spatial vitality in the public space of large cruise ships, this study...

The access and use of the Internet in public spaces is becoming more extensive, and increasingly regarded as a transitional stage to achieving the ultimate goal of private internet access for all citizens (Viseu et al., 2006). Internet in public spaces does not only narrow the digital divide and promote digital inclusion, but is also a basic requir...

The population of Hong Kong is ageing and is expected to gradually increase, and thus an increase in single older people with mild cognitive impairment is expected. This may progress to dementia overtime. By 2064, a third of Hong Kong's total population is expected to be aged 65 or above, which will put extreme pressure on long-term health services...

Using the pedestrian system in Hongqiao Airport’s New Village in Shanghai as a case study, this study uses participatory research and co-creation workshops to explore the elements of community-based pedestrian systems and design strategies. The study shows that a people-oriented pedestrian system should enhance mobility at the physical level, safet...

Design synthesis is the most challenging stage of the design process because the problem and solution need to be linked to discover the best solution. Designers need to use convergent thinking to ensure the usefulness and practicality of the ideas generated by divergent thinking in other stages. Handling the pressure of an argumentative and judgmen...

The e-market is prosperous in China, but the factors that stimulate or deter its development remain unclear. This study focuses on designers (interaction, user interface, product, and user experience designers) in the Chinese e-marketplace to examine the relationship between creative self-efficacy (CSE), achievement motivation (including motivation...

Many researchers and scholars have focused on designs of products, services and social systems that increase comfort, happiness and satisfaction. Profound experiences are those that produce feelings of extreme intensity. Emotions such as joy, cognition, pride and connection are commonly elicited in various social service interactions. In community...

Recycling activities are common in Hong Kong households because of the establishment of different campaigns and promotions organized by the Government and non-government organizations. However, wheelchair users are excluded from the recycling activities, and the current facilities do not cater for their needs. To address the issues of wheelchair us...

Rapid urban development is inseparable from technological advances, and the application of artificial intelligence in community life is becoming widespread, affecting residents’ lifestyles and psychological well-being. This study investigated a variety of factors that affect the well-being of urban community residents. Environmental and emotional p...

Spatial justice, specifically accessibility, Universal Design and the fulfilment of human rights for vulnerable groups are increasingly deemed relevant issues in urban research and city-level agendas concerning public spaces. Although the development of older adult-friendly urban environments is part of the agenda to promote healthy ageing societie...

“Wang-hong” urbanism is an ever-growing trend in Chinese cities. The concept refers to the phenomenon that the (re)development of an urban district happens on the basis of the interactions among physical spaces, app-based sharing platforms, and certain aesthetic criteria. Businesses market themselves on the internet for the sake of a wang-hong vibe...

Northern China has experienced unprecedented urbanization over the past several decades, with younger Chinese moving to cities while leaving the lion's share of the older population in rural areas. This study explores how this structural change creates unique opportunities and challenges for older adults living in rural houses, which informs their...

The community-based embedded comprehensive elderly center (CECEC) was proposed in 2015 to address ageing population issues in China in existing communities. However, there is as yet no satisfactory solution for how to design the CECEC to properly integrate resources and create social inclusion. Synthesizing the social design and architectural desig...

In this study, we develop an intervention to promote communities’ social innovation activities. We apply the methodology and theory of co-creation and take an intergenerational perspective. Our aim is to promote communication, encourage role switching, build trusting relationships, and change the inherited perceptions of elderly groups and other ge...

In the market, once producers of a particular product category become mature in their production technology, their products will have few functional differences. Thus, the greatest challenge for designers today lies in developing an appropriate design language that fits the tastes of target users. Designers use many user-study methods (interviews,...

In this study, we review and explore the critical barriers affecting design-led small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) of China. Eight in-depth interviews are conducted with key decision-makers in the innovation process, representing a range of SMEs. The results show that collectivism, hierarchy, and market factors...

Bathing elderly residents with assistance is a daily service provided in the Nursing Home (NH). However, it has been widely discussed that assisting bathing is one of the most challenging tasks in caregivers’ service process, and bathing experiences are closely related to the residents’ Quality of Life (QoL). Based on the findings from previous erg...

1. IntroductionA report by the United Nations has revealed the number of older adults in the world is projected to reach 1.4 billion by 2030, and this number is expected to increase to 2.1 billion by 2050. This development will place enormous pressure on current healthcare and social protection systems. If life expectancy continues to rise while fe...

Ever since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in early 2020, it has had an impact on all industries globally, especially the tourism and hotel sector. China’s hotel industry was one of the first to experience the challenge related to COVID-19. However, due to early interventions, Chinese hotels are on a faster recovery route...

In recent years, electric mobility devices (EMDs) have become popular in major cities across the globe. Whereas many cities have embraced and integrated this new form of urban green mobility into their public transport systems, in Hong Kong, the growing popularity of EMDs is being met with growing public and government concern about their safety. T...

The design of public space and facilities in a country park aims to serve a wide scope of people with diverse needs and interests. Research on human factors should include users of different ages and capabilities. Children are often a forgotten category of users for collecting views and preferences in public design. Their voices and ideas are seldo...

Tactile guild paths (TGP) have got changes in designs and constructions all the times. In the recent years, meaning and function of the urban area have got changes too. Hong Kong is a densely populated city. Taking Hong Kong as a case study, this paper presents a comprehensive review on the design, construction and using of TGP in the city. It furt...

In recent years, researchers, urban planners and local authorities have more actively made tremendous efforts to improve the quality of open spaces. Policy strategies for inclusive and barrier-free environments have been promulgated, however, most of the inclusive open space policies and standards are catered for the newly built constructions. The...

With the gradual popularity of television (TV) sets in China in the 1980s. TV sets have become the entertainment center in almost every Chinese family. However, as time changed, intelligent electronics such as smartphones, tablets, laptops provide people with more flexible interaction because of the difference in ergonomics. People are spending mor...

After the implementation of the one-child policy in the 1980s, most Chinese families consist of parents and one child. This phenomenon is along with an increasing special group of elder parents who lost their only child. They are not the elderly in a general sense but have special demands in terms of social support and participation in society. Thi...

Due to the changes of lifestyles brought by COVID-19, people have spent most of their time in residential communities for the past about one year, which makes people pay more attention to their psychological feelings and emotional needs in their living environments. This study aimed to explore the relationship between multiple influencing factors a...

Owing to population explosions, many developing cities are experiencing rapid and chaotic urbanization processes filled with undefined urban transport systems that can’t respond to the growing demand. This study aims at examining how Street-infrastructure supports and encourages NMT in Developing cities. The survey highlights the role of the ‘Walka...

Generating creative ideas is critical in the design process. Currently, massive amounts of design data are existing and effective use of data can stimulate inspiration. However, there has been relatively little research on large-scale design image materials and creative knowledge mining. Here we report a creative idea generation method based on dee...

Local governments and scholars in China have recently proposed and developed community-based comprehensive service facilities for older adults in response to population aging and greater service needs of older adults in urban areas. This study proposes a method to identify the ideal distribution of such facilities by combining the nested ecological...

In densely populated cities, rapid urbanization has accelerated the development of the built environment, which may change residents’ lifestyles and have a great impact on their mental health. As pointed out by many researchers, the built environment is designed to make residents get more happiness, not just physically but also psychologically. Tak...

Rebuilding inclusive facilities in old districts in metropolitan cities with high population density encounters a number of problems. It is necessary to find a solution to renew the city with minimal interruption of people’s everyday life. Through a case study of Hong Kong, the paper addresses the conditions of the public facilities provided for th...

Under the rapid growth of population and the advancement of technology, human life has started to invade nature. The expansion inevitably affects wildlife, and sometimes wild raids are frequent among the households. Based on a serious of basic research and field studies, this paper puts forward two of the new designs, named roller-fence and two-fol...

Recent decades, as the rapid development of urbanization in China, there is a lot of evidence showing that people living in high-density urban spaces are experiencing increased rates of stress and depression, and the living environment takes an important role in this situation. Based on this context, the identification of comprehensive community de...

Country parks in Hong Kong are often located close to residential areas. The waste produced by people living in village houses has affected park wildlife, and animals such as wild boars (Sus scrofa; feral pigs, wild swine, wild pigs) have attacked people for food. Wild boars have destroyed waste management and collection points. Using Hong Kong as...

Researchers and designers are increasingly advocating wider and fairer participation in recycling. However, many people are still excluded from this meaningful social participation. For example, visually impaired persons (VIPs) still face many barriers to participating in recycling independently. Since 2015, a series of studies has been conducted t...

The first volume in the Encyclopedia of Asian Design series, The Encyclopedia of East Asian Design is the first comprehensive publication to focus on East Asian design and its histories. Addressing the histories and contexts of design in China, China’s Autonomous Regions, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Macao, Mongolia, and Taiwan, the Enc...

Urban challenges are multi-dynamics and are associated with several factors including urbanization, urban poverty, social exclusion, social injustice, urban informality, inadequate infrastructure and socio-cultural factors (Tam, 2012 and Tanasescu, Wing-tak, & Smart, 2010). Urban informality and infrastructure challenges are identified significant...

Researchers, economists and policymakers have made tremendous efforts to improve the quality of life (QOL) in many cities. While many researchers point out that open space is particularly essential in providing recreation and leisure zones in densely populated areas, it is challenging to enable high quality open space experiences (QOSE) for people...

Given the importance of recycling to ensuring an environmentally sustainable future, it is imperative that children be taught to recycle at home. Yet in major metropolises such as Hong Kong, household recycling is still uncommon and relevant knowledge is not passed between generations. Based on a Hong Kong case study, the study reveals the importan...

The Chinese government encourages the promotion of community-based older people centres as a way to use space rationally, improve social inclusion and support older residents’ everyday lives. This exploratory study is the first to examine in depth the contradictory and consistent attitudes and suggestions of residents of different age groups for th...

Purpose This study aims to address policy, implementation and management, the three stages of inclusive open space. It compares both the level of design and implementation of open space in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei by following the inclusive guidelines. It also identifies recommendations for policy, implementation and management of inclusive o...

Over the past few years, researchers, designers and policymakers have made tremendous efforts to move towards a barrier-free society for all by enhancing the accessibility of public space. Barrier-free legislation and design guidelines for built environments have been developed in many cities. However, compared with design for individuals with mobi...

Play provides children with fun, enjoyment, and opportunities to develop their cognitive, physical, and interpersonal skills. Most children in densely populated cities, such as Hong Kong, visit public playgrounds, as there is often limited space to play at home. Among the many issues related to public playgrounds, safety is an important concern amo...

With an increasing number of working couples and a growing elderly population, young children are often taken care of by their grandparents or housemaids from the Philippines and Indonesia. The interaction between children and caregivers has thus changed to accommodate urban life. Yet public facilities for children have not kept pace with contempor...

Adopting a case study methodology with mixed methods data collection and analysis, this study investigates causes and mitigation strategies related to urban informal settlement and infrastructure (UISI) in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Seattle, Washington, United States and Lagos metropolis, Nigeria. The study indicates that inform...

Interdisciplinarity refers to the process of addressing a topic or problem from the angle of different disciplines or sciences, not just one. Typically, those who promote interdisciplinarity argue that the complexity of modern societies demands an interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving. This claim has gained traction in the field of Product...

The community-based embedded comprehensive elderly center (CECEC) was proposed in 2015 to address ageing population issues in China in existing communities. However, there is as yet no satisfactory solution for how to design the CECEC to properly integrate resources and create social inclusion. Synthesizing the social design and architectural desig...

This chapter discusses the difficulties of CAD assessment through examining and reviewing existing CAD examination questions in Hong Kong. Based on the review, limitations of the current assessment are highlighted. It is argued that the existing method is inconsistent with the problem-solving nature of the software and is unable to assess students...

The challenges of developing and maintaining open space are global. Open space affects the quality of the environment for working, living, and recreation. The open space challenges in Hong Kong are uniquely related to landmass development patterns, city densities, and city structures. All these factors interplay differently to affect open space ava...

Rising urbanism is both a global challenge and a sustainable development challenge. This study investigates urban informality and infrastructure planning in Hong Kong and the city of Lagos to develop urban design principles for sustainable development. It adopts a case-study methodology and a triangulation method of data collection with multistage...

Aging population comprises 12% of the global population in 2015 constitutes a deep pressure on existing social protection and health care system. There is no doubt that prevalence of dementia will continue to accelerate alongside the world’s ageing population and even more quickly in Asian countries. Government reports shown that the proportion of...

The paper applies the Inclusive Design Cube (IDC) and the Socially Inclusive Design Cube (SIDC) to examine the current design of one of the largest inclusive playgrounds in Hong Kong. The three dimensions of the IDC (i.e., motion, sensory and cognitive capabilities) and the social dimension of the SIDC are used to evaluate how the play facilities a...

Social interventions emerging from the field of social psychology have drawn attention to the social dimension of behaviour change for meeting sustainability objectives. Gamified Behaviour Change Programmes (GBCPs) are one such example, which have been quite effective in stimulating a positive change in behaviour and in establishing a culture of su...

This study assesses the professional perspective of urban informality and infrastructure planning in Hong Kong and Lagos metropolis so as to develop a strategy for sustainable urban development and ameliorate the challenges of urban informal settlement and infrastructure planning globally. The study adopts case study methodology with the qualitativ...

Swing Compass is a configurable recommendation system that turns tablet computers into a compass-like device whose interface shows recommended items at different directions. Turning the compass 90 degrees results in different sets of options. Based on the concept of embodied metaphor and choice architecture theory, the design aims to prompt people...

The challenge of sustainable urban development is a global one and it affects the quality of livelihoods. This study investigates urban informality, housing insecurity, and social exclusion (UHS) in Hong Kong and Lagos metropolis to understand the concept and the characteristics of this threat for sustainable development. The aim of this study is t...

Urban insecurity, loss of life and property are global challenges that affect the living conditions and the geomorphology of urban centers. This study assesses the use of closed-circuit television (CCTV) inclusive design to promote urban safety and security for sustainable urban development. The objectives are to examine the socioeconomic character...

In recent decades, various studies on policy, management, behaviour, norms and economic incentives related to food waste issues have been conducted. Many of the studies are from a quantitative perspective which has given a wider but general coverage of study and analysis on the matters. However, the impacts of context, such as living environments a...

Design education is interdisciplinary by nature and provides a platform for students to learn different knowledge and skills and then apply them to solve design problems. It is inspirational and innovative at many different educational levels. However, the curricula of design education may not be aligned at different levels. To investigate this iss...

The purpose of this study was to explore the design requirements for interactive games and leisure activities for visually impaired young adults that promote social inclusion and ensure equal opportunities for disadvantaged and vulnerable people. Two visually impaired young adults participated in a focus-group interview. A twenty-eight-year-old tot...

The challenges of developing and maintaining open space are global. Open space affects the quality of the environment for working, living, and recreation. The open space challenges in Hong Kong are uniquely related to landmass development patterns, city densities, and city structures. All these factors interplay differently to affect open space ava...

Public play spaces are designed for children to develop their social and physical abilities and enrich their experience. Through play, children can learn various cognitive skills in a relaxing environment. All children should have the same right to play in play spaces. However, many existing playgrounds lack inclusive facilities to facilitate the n...