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Seminar by Dr. Philip Hung and Dr. Junjie Chen

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Date: 24 March 2025 (Monday)
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Learning Lab (RRS321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU)

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Unlocking the power of VR in learning cardiac electrophysiology

The electrical activity of the heart is a fundamental concept in cardiovascular physiology, where Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a vital diagnostic tool in providing essential information about the electrical activity of the heart. It is used to detect a wide range of cardiac conditions. The ability of healthcare professionals to accurately interpret ECG is indispensable, as it directly impacts patient care and treatment decisions..

Mastering the principles of ECG interpretation is a critical component of medical and nursing education. A deep understanding of ECGs not only enhances students’ diagnostic skills but also lays the foundation for recognizing and managing cardiovascular emergencies. This knowledge is particularly important in fields such as cardiology, emergency medicine, and primary care, where rapid and accurate cardiac assessment can be life-saving.

Given the complexity and significance of ECG interpretation, innovative teaching methods are essential to ensure students achieve proficiency. Traditional lecture-based learning may not provide the interactive and hands-on experience needed to fully grasp the nuances of ECGs. To address this, we have recently developed a user-friendly and interactive virtual reality (VR) platform to enhance the understanding of ECGs. Using this platform, students can learn step-by-step how electrical activities create different ECG waveforms and how various ECG leads determine these waveforms. The VR platform also allows students to see how certain abnormal conditions are reflected in unique ECG patterns.

By immersing students in a virtual environment, VR technology can simulate real-life scenarios and provide a dynamic, engaging learning experience. Students can visualize the heart’s electrical activity, interact with different ECG leads, and practice interpreting various cardiac rhythms in a risk-free setting. This interactive learning approach not only enhances comprehension but also increases retention and confidence.

We have recently developed a user-friendly and interactive virtual reality (VR) platform to enhance the understanding of ECG. Using the platform, students could learn step-by-step how the electrical activities create different ECG waveforms and also how different ECG leads determine the ECG waveforms. The VR platform also enabled the students to learn how some abnormal examples could be reflected by unique ECG patterns.

In this seminar, we would like to share our experience in enhancing the learning effectiveness and interest in learning the basic principles of ECG.

Speaker

Dr Philip HUNG currently holds a joint appointment as a lecturer in the School of Nursing and the School of Biomedical Sciences. He earned his MPhil degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and his PhD from The University of Hong Kong (HKU). Dr. Hung specializes in teaching biomedical and life sciences. Throughout his teaching career, he has instructed biomedical science courses across various programs, including MBBS, Nursing, Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Chinese Medicine at both HKU and CUHK. Dr. Hung is dedicated to enhancing student engagement and learning effectiveness through the development of innovative teaching modules. He has created educational content for multiple platforms, such as web-based applications, mobile apps and virtual reality learning platforms. His commitment to leveraging technology in education aims to foster greater interest and deeper understanding among students.

MetaClass: Innovating Construction Engineering and Management Pedagogy via Metaverse and robotics

By making non-trivial contributions to economy and employment, construction engineering and management (CEM) is a key industry in Hong Kong. However, its professional knowledge teaching and learning (T&L) is often criticized as “disconnected between theories and practices”. To bridge the gap, this project aims to improve CEM knowledge T&L performance via curriculum and pedagogical innovations enabled by metaverse and robotics. The developed class modules, called MetaClass, were implemented in cross-faculty testbeds, with two classes from the Dept. of Real Estate and Construction and the Dept. of Civil Engineering involved. The empirical experiments demonstrated MetaClass’s overall positive effects in stimulating students’ interests and providing immersive and intuitive experience to students’ CEM knowledge learning. It is particularly instrumental in providing a low-cost experiential learning tool at early-stage of CEM T&L, which would benefit both teachers and the students.

Speaker

Dr. Junjie Chen is a research assistant professor in the Department of Real Estate and Construction at HKU. Before his current position, he has been a postdoctoral fellow from 2020 to 2022 at HKU. His research work on “smart inspection using robotic, AI, and BIM” was awarded a nationwide excellent doctoral dissertation in 2022, and selected as an invited talk at the “AI and BIM” session of Eastman Symposium in 2021. He is the awardee of the CIROCM 2022 Best Paper Award, First Prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Award, Hong Kong CIC Construction Digitalization Awards, and Sustainable Development Highly Cited Paper. Dr. Chen has published more than 40 papers on international journals and conferences. He has co-authored a monograph, and obtained seven patents.

Facilitator

Prof. Lillian Luk
Assistant Professor, TALIC, HKU

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