A5070415591- Urban Green Space and Health
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Light effects on plants
- Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Soft Robotics and Applications
- Forest ecology and management
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
National University of Singapore
2017-2024
City University of Hong Kong
2023
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2023
Singapore Institute of Technology
2017-2020
Abstract The ongoing biodiversity and climate change crises require society to adopt nature‐based solutions that integrate enhance ecosystems. To achieve successful implementation of solutions, it is vital communicate scientific information about their benefits suitability. This article explores the potential generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as a tool for automating scaling up science communication, outreach, extension solutions. illustrate GenAI, we present three case study...
Abstract Humans may have evolved a need to connect with nature, and nature provides substantial cultural social values humans. However, quantifying the connection between humans at global scale remains challenging. We lack answers fundamental questions: how do experience in different contexts (daily routines, fun activities, weddings, honeymoons, other celebrations, vacations) experiences differ across countries? answer these questions by coupling media artificial intelligence using 31,534...
Abstract Urban parks and green spaces are among the few places where city dwellers can have regular contact with nature engage in outdoor recreation. Social media data provide opportunities to understand such human–environment interactions. While studies demonstrated that geo-located photographs useful indicators of recreation across different spaces, behaviour also varies between groups people. Our study used social assess behavioural patterns park users tropical Singapore. 4,674 were...
Given the importance of parks and green spaces for outdoor recreation in cities, numerous studies have attempted to describe patterns usage understand their determining factors. Recently, social media has emerged as a potentially valuable tool examine people’s use parks. This study examines park Singapore based on count visual content photographs geo-located within Measures use—the number photo-user-days (PUD)—derived from 325,173 94,890 respective platforms Instagram Flickr were compared...
Abstract The climate mitigation potential of urban nature-based solutions (NBSs) is often perceived as insignificant and thus overlooked, cities primarily pursue NBSs for local ecosystem services. Given the rising interest capacities in such projects, forests needs to be better understood. We modelled global limits reforestation worldwide, find that 10.9 ± 2.8 Mha land (17.6% all city areas) are suitable reforestation, which would offset 82.4 25.7 MtCO 2 e yr −1 carbon emissions. Among...
With the emerging need for human-machine interactions, multi-modal sensory interaction is gradually pursued rather than satisfying common perception forms (visual or auditory), so developing flexible, adaptive, and stiffness-variable force-sensing devices key to further promoting fusion. However, current sensor sensitivity fixed nonadjustable after fabrication, limiting development. To solve this problem, we propose an origami-inspired structure achieve multiple degrees of freedom (DoFs)...
Abstract Trees are important components of urban greenery because their large stature and longevity, ability to enhance the environmental quality city landscapes. However, benefits hazards associated with trees depend on size, which changes over time varies among species. While often measured during routine management, full value these data is rarely realised. Our study uses nation-wide inspection records from Singapore develop allometric models for 54 species grown in tropics ( n = 345...
In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, significant changes to human mobility and working environments have prompted a re-think land use distribution in city, particularly for office, residential public spaces such as parks.One prominent trend is rising demand outdoors, urban dwellers turn local parks recreation leisure (Venter et al., 2020).However, current metrics park provision tend focus on summaries area within given region (Tan & Samsudin, 2017).There need characterise wide variety that...