HSUHK Innovation Project Competition 2019

Abstract
After the observation during our studies, it is noticeable that students often face the problem to find a suitable place to study, without being disturbed by the people around. It is always a challenge to find a good place in the library, since not only you are going there to study. What is more, at a certain point you will meet the closing time of the library or the place you are studying is not available. By developing the concept of “my own moving space to study”, it is aimed to create a number of study offices within an electronic truck. Once you make a call, the truck will come to your location to pick you up. It will find a place to park until the moment of a next order. The interior of the truck will be designed to separate the students to offer them a completely silenced environment.

Movmov is an innovative solution for the problem mentioned above, that has been established for students in order to have quick access to a suitable study environment no matter when and for how long they wished to use our service.

Abstract
Many parents are very eager to send their children to learn various extra-curricular skills. Music is one of the most popular choice. Among all western musical instruments, violin and piano are two common choices. However, some of them may have to stop their learning journey due to financial reasons such as the unaffordable price of the instrument and tuition fee; or mismatch of interest. Some learners may face difficulties in practicing because problems for example, noise, is serious in a dense place like Hong Kong. Such reality may hinder many young talents from developing into future musicians. In addition, the social atmosphere is deteriorating year by year. The number of mental disorder patients are kept increasing recently. Music is proven to be an effective way of reduce stress, anxiety and at the same time boosts one’s creativity and productivity. This project has several aims to help the situation as the following listed to improve the learning environment of music:

1) To increase the exposure of music (piano and violin) to primary school students, and,
2) To provide alternative, affordable and effective means of instruments designed for practice

Abstract
Owing to the rapid development of the smartphones, various text-based messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messengers, are becoming more popular for users to carry out interpersonal communications. According to Alshenqeeti (2016), language is becoming terse, short and vital communication cues, particularly non-verbal ones were being lost, devaluing overall communicative ability. In order to tackle the problem of lacking non-verbal cues, such as the intonations and gestures during the speeches, emojis become one of the measurements to compensate the loss of physical cues during the text-based communication while Blagdon (2015) suggests “[…] can benefit majorly from some extra characters to show contextual information.” Emojis consist of facial expressions, common objects, signs and some other symbols. This project focuses on the use of vivid facial expression of emojis during the process of customer engagement since the understanding and interpretations of emoji might vary from person to person.

Abstract
Hong Kong as an international city is a place where everything happens very fast paced. According to a survey done by South China Morning Post, more than 50% of Hong Kong workers work more than 44 hours per week (SCMP, 2014). While people here work day and night, it seems that nowadays what they lack isn’t money but time for themselves and family and friends around them or even just a nice meal after work. One of the interviewee claimed – “ I work 12 hours a day, 72 hours a week. Where do I get the time to be with my family? I don’t even have enough time to rest” (SCMP, 2014). With a goal to improving living standards here in Hong Kong, the idea of our project is to create a sense of home and to improve interpersonal relationships for our fellow users as well as taking care of their health by providing home-made meals for different users at the same time as a type of small dinner gathering.

Our target audiences for the application are those who have no time to shop for ingredients and cook after work and home chefs who share a passion for cooking and don’t mind hosting and cooking for a mini dinner gathering for our guests. We will ensure that everyone is in a position that they are comfortable with and enjoy the session as much as possible.

Abstract
According to the HKSARG press release, the issue of recycling have been concerned since 1998. Numerous three-color separation bins was placed in various districts throughout the territory. Those bins encourage people separate and collect waste paper, plastics and metals from other waste. However, some environmental groups pointed out the usages of these three-color bins are relatively low. Even when people throw in the recycling materials, nearly 37.5% are rubbish instead of true recycling materials.

Three noticeable reasons should be taken into serious consideration. The first one is the generally low public awareness on recycling. Rather than doing recycling, they tend to throw into the rubbish bin, showing that they have low environmental protection awareness. Secondly, there are insufficient recycling bins in the city, people cannot find the recycling bins easily, it is inconvenient when they want to do recycling, so the inconvenience would be a reason that people do not do recycle. Last but not least, low motivation to recycle. People do not have incentive to do recycling because they would not receive any benefits in return.

Therefore, the project has two main objectives, the first one is to enhance the recycling awareness of public, and the second one is to raise the amount of recycle.