PuffinLearn is a project aimed at college students, offering peer tutors to help with academic learning and cultivate interests and hobbies. Through this platform, students can connect with knowledgeable peers who can provide guidance and support in various subjects. The project aims to enhance the learning experience by fostering a collaborative and interactive environment. PuffinLearn…
This project aims to develop a health assessment scale based on the World Health Organization’s framework of intrinsic capacity, providing simple, practical, and quantifiable indicators. The scale is specifically designed for economically capable and self-manageable urban elderly Chinese aged 60 and above in Kunshan, Shanghai, and Taicang regions. The project aims to offer an evidence-based,…
The Health Digital Twin project is an innovative approach to brain health research. Using an OpenBCI headset, real-time brainwave data is collected and analyzed using EEG techniques. This data is used to construct digital twins of the brain on the AWS cloud platform, reducing research costs and improving diagnostic accuracy. The digital twins can be…
Everchem Labs is a team with a keen interest in investigating the molecular mechanisms that underlie environmentally persistent chemicals on human physiology. Among those are the GenX and PFAS ‘forever compounds’ that coat various everyday products and bear a higher risk of accumulating in human’s bodies. Due to the prevalence of GenX and PFAS in…
Fifty-six percent of Chinese students face a serious mismatch between study time and study outcomes. Of all the possible causes, ADHD is a significant contributor to a child’s difficulty concentrating. In order to solve this social dilemma, this project hopes to come up with a system that can help children alleviate ADHD problems and effectively…
This project attempts to make subjective pain visible and compare differences and commonalities among individuals, such as electrophysiological signals and facial expressions. In comparison to another pain visualization project aimed at finding dynamic visualizations of subjective pain, this project focuses more on identifying commonalities among different types of subjective pain, which may be manifested through…
This project will be focusing on the conceptualization of subjective pain in one or multi-sensory forms, in particular when verbal articulation is not readily accessible or less accurate. This representation is a technical and/or artistic representation of the individual’s pain experience in visual, auditory, tactile, or other forms. To be specific, various approaches like the…
This study will focus on the Creative Talents who migrated from the urban to the villages by using ethnographic research such as observation, interviews, and documentaries. First, understand who they are, how they perceive themselves; where they locate; how a place could attract them; and how they differ from their urban counterparts. Second, explore how…
The number of depression patients in China has reached 379.8 million by 2021, accounting for 26.9% of the population, and the disease has shown a youth-oriented tendency in recent years. This project intends to combine the destigmatization of depression with immersive theater, which is popular among young people. By merging entertainment with knowledge promotion on…
Vortex is a VR puzzling and escape room game independently designed and developed by students. It talks about the topic of gender issues currently rising in society, aiming at showing the subtle, unobvious, however truly existing bias and unequal treatment females received, as well as the danger they face and the resultant emotion of fear…
