The auditory and articulation app “聰鳴 語音工具箱” and auditory training app “ 精靈小耳朵粵語語音辨別訓練”are available at Google Play. n Android app to help hearing-impaired children with their Cantonese pronunciation, jointly developed by Electronic & Computer Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering researchers, received a Gold Award in the Web Accessibility Recognition Scheme . The team was led by Prof Tim Woo, Prof Albert Wong and research assistant Kobe Lam, Electronic and Computer Engineering, together with Prof Brian Mak and PhD graduate Dongpeng Chen, Computer Science and Engineering. It was the second time in a row that the team had gained the gold prize. In , the team won the Gold Award for an Android auditory training app for hearing-impaired children. The recognition scheme, co-organized by the O ce of the Government Chief Information O cer and the Equal Opportunities Commission, recognizes enterprises and organizations that adopt website and mobile app designs facilitating access to all, including those with disabilities. Second App to Help Hearing-Impaired Children Wins Web Accessibility Gold Award A SENG Summer Camp Draws Overseas and Mainland Elite Students ver top overseas and Mainland students enjoyed a week-long visit to the School of Engineering in July . The SENG Summer Camp for Elite Students, co-organized by the School, departments and programs, was arranged to provide top-caliber undergraduate and master’s students with greater insight into the School’s research postgraduate programs and to increase diversity of the student body. Camp activities included leadership training sessions, introductory talks on HKUST postgraduate programs, campus tours, industry visits, interactive sessions with postgraduate students, and o -campus sight-seeing to give participants rst-hand knowledge of the School and Hong Kong. Students from Mainland China and overseas countries, including Brazil, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Turkey and Venezuela, took part. Those attending came from top institutions, such as Peking University and Fudan University in Mainland China, Kobe University in Japan, University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, and Bogazici University in Turkey, among others. O One particularly proud moment for Prof Yeung was the agreement for MSc students to undertake research at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)’s network of -plus laboratories. It marked the rst time that the CSIC network had opened its doors to a non-Spanish university. The rst cohort of eight SENG students (see also P ) worked across Spain on projects ranging from exo-skeleton research for faster healing to indoor GPS for automated systems. “To show how much they appreciated our students, more than proposal applications were submitted for SENG students to choose from,” Prof Yeung said. Other countries are now also interested in discussing similar arrangements. For Prof Yeung, his time as Associate Dean has been both tough, in terms of negotiating and overseeing such arrangements in addition to his own research and teaching, and highly rewarding. “The goal has been to increase SENG academics’ research opportunities and progress, and to enable our postgraduate students to excel whether they choose academia, their own business, or other elds of work. It has been challenging but also ful lling to see the results.” Continued from P 27 IN FOCUS ....................................................................................................................................
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