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TEACHER-STUDENT COLLABORATION:
SURVEYING
HONG KONG

This series of assignments is considered the main project of the entire course - but what renders it the main project is not just the weighting of the assignment, but its scale and central message. Each year a collaborative study between students and the teachers is conducted: the students are tasked with data collection, and the teachers process and analyze the data and share the results with the students. We investigated the walkability of the streets in HK in 2019 - 2021, and the topic lined up for 2021 - 2023 is Hong Kong's experiential geography.  Browse the sections below to learn more about the projects.

EXPLORE OUR PROJECTS

WALKABILITY
PHOTOGRAPH
SURVEY

2019 - 2021

The Hong Kong walkability project, is a collaborative effort between students and the teachers to better the walkability of different areas in Hong Kong, especially for children, elderly or disabled people. Students are asked to take regularly-spaced geotagged photographs of all the sidewalks and walking paths in the vicinity of several MTR stations. These images are then analysed to understand the walkability of Hong Kong's streets, and eventually used to train a deep neural network able to predict walkability from any photograph.

EGOHK:
EXPERIENTIAL GEOGRAPHY

2021 - 2023

The EGoHK project aims to sketch an experiential landscape of Hong Kong. Over several weeks, we ask students to record some of their remarkable experiences in the city, whether good or bad, happy or sad, inspiring or disappointing. With a phone app we developed, students can describe these experiences with a colour, a single word, and short answers to a few questions. We then analyse these inputs with Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and create visuals to reveal our subjective experiences, etched as paths within and throughout the city.

© 2022 School of Humanities (Department of Linguistics), The University of Hong Kong

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