Serious Gaming

People are bombarded every day with news stories that may or may not be truthful, but it is not always easy to sort the real from the fake. What if a game could show players how news is manipulated and fake stories generated? Breaking News, a game developed by...

Virtual Visibility

Now supporting more than 2,000 users within and outside the University of Hong Kong, Curios is a virtual teaching and learning tool that is open for teachers and students to use in facilitating their courses.The platform grew out of a decision by Mr Mathew Pryor,...

Connecting through Campusland

“The Data Science Lab (DSL) developed HKU Campusland and used mixed reality to bring the virtual world to the real world and vice versa,” said Dr Adela Lau, Deputy Director of DSL in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science (SAAS). “Users create an avatar...

Voyage of Discovery

Located on a rocky peninsula on the southside of Hong Kong, on the shores of Hong Kong’s only Marine Reserve, the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) is one of the premiere coastal research centres in Asia. Recent expansion work has included state-of-the-art...

From Landscape to Laptop

The Digital Arboretum (DA) is the brainchild of Mr Gavin Coates, Senior Lecturer at HKU’s Division of Landscape Architecture. “Teaching planting design, landscape technology and landscape representation are my specialities and, for all of these, taking groups of...