Department of Media and Communication

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JRFS: From Burden to Asset: Empowering Hong Kong's Older Adults Through AI-Driven Health Technology for Proactive Physical Activity Engagement

LEE, E. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

23/06/25 → …

Project: Research

REG-Small Scale: Designing AI-Powered Mental Intervention through Positive Expressive Writing

JIANG, L. C. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator) & XU, J. (Co-Investigator)

1/06/25 → …

Project: Research

REG-Small Scale: Gamification of AI-Powered Digital Health Technologies in Addressing Physical Activity and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults

LEE, E. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator) & LI, H. (Co-Investigator)

1/06/25 → …

Project: Research

SSF-CityUHK: Designing Scientifically Validated Deception Detection Tasks to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Anti-Scam Strategies in Chinese Contexts

JIANG, L. C. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), LIU, X. (Co-Principal Investigator), DAI, Y. (Co-Investigator) & MARKOWITZ, D. (Co-Investigator)

1/06/25 → …

Project: Research

SSF-CityUHK: Gamifying AI-Powered Digital Health Technologies for Brain Health Management Ecosystem (G.A.M.E) in the Greater Bay Area

LEE, E. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), CHAN, W. Y. K. (Co-Principal Investigator), HO, D. (Co-Principal Investigator), JIANG, L. C. (Co-Principal Investigator), KWOK, C. W. R. (Co-Principal Investigator), LI, X. (Co-Principal Investigator) & XIN, M. (Co-Principal Investigator)

1/06/25 → …

Project: Research

REG-Small Scale: Understanding the Benefits and Challenges of Machine and User Agency in Human–AI Interaction

KIM, K. J. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator) & PARK, E. (Co-Investigator)

1/06/25 → …

Project: Research

TDG(CityU): Theories and Skills for Designing Generative AI-based Chatbots from a Communication Perspective

KIM, K. J. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

1/01/25 → …

Project: Research

GRF: Balancing DAO Governance: The Interplay of Organizational Structure, Decision-making, and Sustainability

LIU, X. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator) & Liang, H. (Co-Investigator)

1/01/25 → …

Project: Research

SRFS: Navigating Trust in Turbulent Times: Gauging Situational Trust Dynamics Model (STDM) Through A Five-Year Longitudinal Study Across Chinese and Western Societies in Crisis Contexts

HUANG, Y.-H. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

1/01/25 → …

Project: Research

GRF: Bounded Legitimacy of Emerging Technology: Social Construction of Face Recognition Technology in China

LIN, F. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), LIU, X. (Co-Investigator), LIU, N. (Co-Investigator) & LIU, S. (Co-Investigator)

1/11/24 → …

Project: Research

GRF: From Persistent Distrust to Resilient Trustors: A Six-Year Longitudinal Study of the Contextual and Individual Determinants of Public Trust in Hong Kong

HUANG, Y.-H. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator) & Dong, D. (Co-Investigator)

1/10/24 → …

Project: Research

TDG(CityU): Coding-free Data Journalism: A Deep Integration of AI Assistant Technology into Teaching and Learning

LIU, X. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

19/08/24 → …

Project: Research

GRF: Enhancing Diagnosticity and Credibility of Healthcare Information in Websites through Integrating Multiple Information Sources: Impact of Prior Beliefs and Consistency of Different Information Sources

SIA, C. L. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), NAH, F. H. (Co-Investigator), Peng, C.-H. (Co-Investigator) & SIAU, K. L. (Co-Investigator)

1/01/24 → …

Project: Research

ConRes-SRI: 农民智能助手：农药安全使用的语音对话应用

LIU, X. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

28/07/23 → …

Project: Research

ConRes-SRI: 农民智能助手：农药安全使用的语音对话应用（补充协议）

LIU, X. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

28/07/23 → …

Project: Research

TDG(CityU): MEDIACITY - A metaverse space for learning media and information literacy with computational thinking

NAH, F. H. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

16/01/23 → …

Project: Research

GRF: Mitigating Prejudice toward South and Southeast Asian Immigrants in Hong Kong: A Mixed-Method Investigation of the What, How, and If

DAI, Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator) & YANG, S. (Co-Investigator)

1/01/23 → …

Project: Research

GRF: Balancing Authoritarian Innovation and Accountability: An Empirical Study on the Dual-Track of Patent Intellectual Property Right Protection in China (1986-2020)

LIN, F. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), Chen, S. (Co-Investigator) & DING, W. W. (Co-Investigator)

1/01/22 → …

Project: Research

DON_RMG: Can Third Party Fact-checker on Facebook Reduce Affective Polarization? - RMGS

SHEN, F. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

1/10/20 → …

Project: Research

TSG(CityU): Role of interactive digital technology in "Read/Only" versus "Read/Write" cultures

KIM, K. J. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

1/06/18 → …

Project: Research

ResCtrs: The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies (HCLS)

FANG, C. A. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), CATEDRAL, L.H.-C. M. (Co-Investigator), HAFNER, C. (Co-Investigator), HUANG, Y.-H. (Co-Investigator), KIM, J. W. (Co-Investigator), LEE, J. S. Y. (Co-Investigator), MAI, Z. M. (Co-Investigator), SCHILLER, N. O. (Co-Investigator), YAN, X. (Co-Investigator) & ZHANG, Q. (Co-Investigator)

1/04/05 → …

Project: Research

ResCtrs: Centre for Complexity and Complex Networks (CCCN)

CHEN, G. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), CHAN, S. C. (Co-Investigator), DAI, L. (Co-Investigator), LIU, X. (Co-Investigator), TSE, C. K. (Co-Investigator), WU, D. (Co-Investigator), ZHANG, Q. (Co-Investigator) & ZUKERMAN, M. (Co-Investigator)

1/09/00 → …

Project: Research

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GRF: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Performance Evaluation of Longitudinal Studies in Communication Research: A Systematic Review

ZHU, J. H. J. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

1/01/26 → …

Project: Research

GRF: Building Societal Resilience to Digital Disinformation

ZHOU, S. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

1/01/26 → …

Project: Research

GRF: Piloting Gerontechnologies for Active Ageing in a Multinational Ecosystem (G.A.M.E): Advancing Digital Inclusivity In Health Technologies for Older Adults in Hong Kong and Singapore

LEE, E. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

1/01/26 → …

Project: Research

GRF: How does censorship drive conspiratorial beliefs? The roles of information uncertainty and motivated reasoning

Zhu, Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), ZHANG, X. (Co-Investigator) & Fu, K.-W. (Co-Investigator)

Project: Research

Finished

PPR-GOVT: Using Deliberation to Reduce Polarization and Build Consensus: An Experimental Study

SHEN, F. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

15/08/21 → 14/02/23

Project: Research

GRF: AI Application and Privacy Concerns: Comparing Users' Perceptions of AI Chatbots and Human Agents

LIU, Y.-L. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator) & SONG, C. Y. (Co-Investigator)

1/07/21 → 28/02/24

Project: Research

CRF-ExtU-Lead: (Mis)communication, Trust, and Information Environments: A Comparative Study of the COVID-19 "Infodemics" in Four Chinese Societies

Wei, R. (Main Project Coordinator [External]) & HUANG, Y.-H. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

1/06/21 → 31/08/24

Project: Research

TDG(CityU): Interacting Socially with Artificial Intelligence: Learning to Code, Communicate, and Collaborate with a Smart Robot

KIM, K. J. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

1/01/21 → 31/12/22

Project: Research

HKgovt: A Study of Online Media Representation of Ethnic Minorities and Online Racial Discrimination in Hong Kong

WANG, Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)

30/11/20 → 17/08/22

Project: Research

GRF: Why fact-checking fails? Factors influencing the effectiveness of corrective messages countering misinformation on social media: A comparison of Hong Kong, the United States, and the Netherlands

ZHANG, X. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), PENG, T.-Q. W. (Co-Investigator), ZHU, Q. (Co-Investigator), Chen, L. (Co-Investigator) & Guo, S. (Co-Investigator)

1/09/20 → 31/08/22

Project: Research