The coronavirus pandemic has caused adverse impacts on our elderly’s mental health. To cheer them up and to assist them when they are in need, we have invented AiQiYi. This is a mobile application specially designed for the elderly. It has four major functions to provide all-rounded caring services.
Firstly, the elderly’s relatives and social workers can use the voice message function to deliver their warmest greeting messages, which will be played automatically. No more missing messages and no learning curve on the app!
Secondly, our app provides a one-stop entertainment channel. The elderly can enjoy videos that are handpicked by the caregiver based on the elderly’s likes and preferences.
Most useful of all, the elderly can use our app to make requests, such as buying food, cleaning the flat or accompanying them to the clinic. Volunteers who are nearby can immediately reach out to help. And with our reminder functions, caretakers can set reminders for the elderly. The messages will be translated into voice and automatically played at the right time. To further improve the usability of AiQiYi, we have introduced a voice assistant in our app. It will analyse the voice clip with AI technology and execute the elderly’s verbal request. We sincerely wish this app can help our elderly and make them feel loved.

An integrated safety system for workers including a smart helmet and vest is developed in this project. An Arduino microcontroller with sensors such as an IR temperature sensor, an accelerometer, an air quality sensor, and a carbon monoxide sensor was used to detect potential hazards in the workplace. Workers and safety managers will be reminded by vibration motors, buzzers, and push messages of potential hazards so that they may take appropriate action to maintain a safe working environment. This system may help reduce construction accidents (e.g. slips, trips, and falls on the same level, gas poisoning) and health problems of workers (e.g. heat stroke, lung disorders).

Elderly loneliness, social isolation and suicide rate are on an escalating trend especially during the pandemic. Aiming to alleviate elderly anxiety and loneliness in the new normal, ACE360 is a one-touch-easy app to enhance their overall wellness that is spiritual, mental, social and physical well-being.

In A-C-E, ‘Affection’ and ‘Evocation’ link to the elderly’s well-being, by reassuring their value through noticing the love from family and self-love, embracing the past and appreciating their achievements; ‘Connectivity’ refers to cross-generation communication in family and connection to society.

ACE360 is developed by Android Studio, a one touch easy app with 7 personalised functions for the elderly. Using their smartphones, they can install ACE360 to enhance their overall wellness. ACE360 includes “VR360 Past Present Tour”, “Life Story Journal” inspired by Life Review Theory, “Health Tracker” fitness monitoring and 4 other online communicative tools tailor-made for seniors. It helps to reassure their self-value, enhance family communication and strengthen their connection to the society.

ACE360 can shorten the distance between the elderly and their families and help integrate the elderly into the world of technology.

Stroke is a common chronic disease globally with a surging number of sufferers. Over 1 in 4 adults suffered from stroke in their lifetime, Its seriousness leads to a massive number of stroke patients queuing for public physiotherapy and rehabilitation services annually. According to the Nice National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the average allocation period for each patient is as long as six months due to a shortage of physiotherapists. Under these circumstances, many stroke patients have missed the golden recovery period. The EMG Rehab System is a transitional package based on orthodox rehabilitation treatment. The auxiliary approach allows stroke patients to conduct their rehabilitative training at home or at a community center nearby without the continuous supervision of physical and occupational therapies. The training has 3 phases progressively. The first phase offers patients an exoskeleton, which steadies one of their arms, and they can start push-pull exercises commodiously. When the patient has adopted the exoskeleton, the second phase has integrated a muscle sensor and game scene to elevate the efficiency of the training outcome. While the muscle sensor can detect the power of patients’ muscles in order to ensure they use correct and sufficient force, the game scene works as an encouragement for patients and progressive records for their therapy. In the final phase, a more comprehensive scenario involves Virtual Reality technology to establish training in the 3D virtual world. Patients in the immersive scenes have many options to practice different life skills. Therefore, it can effectively train their brain-body coordination ability.

We aim to create a product that effectively monitors vaccine conditions during cold chain transportation. The gold nanorod Time-Temperature Indicator (GoldIn) reflects the vaccine quality in response to time and the temperature of its surroundings by showing a gradual change in its colour. It is found that the rate of colour change increases with temperature.
The reaction rate can be adjusted by using different concentrations of acids, meaning that indicators can be tailor made to suit different vaccines. The hydrogel indicator is attached to the surface of the vaccine vial.