Research
Alex is an assistant professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology. His research interest lies in
Healthcare tech / User-Centered Design /
Digital Content Accessibility
Alex’s research is grouped into two themes:
Healthcare Technologies
Enabling the visually impaired
An Assistive tool for the visually impaired to interpret dynamic content. This tool allows the user to interact with dynamic content.
Keywords: Web Accessibility; Digital Content Accessibility; Screen readers; assistive technology;
Enabling Motor Neurone Disease (MND) patients
Assistive tool to communicate by drawing Chinese characters. Targeted users are people with low Chinese literacy.
Keywords: Eye tracker; assistive technology
Healthcare for Diabetes
To improve diabetes healthcare and earlier and alternative detection.
Keywords: foot plantar pressure;
Education Methods
SiDSDE
Investigating the effectiveness of Just-in-time learning for software engineering students. To assist students to be more ready to work on software development lab activities.
Keywords: Applying learning pedagogy
Bringing real industry projects into the classroom as projects for the students learning.