Dr. CAI, Shengdan 蔡胜丹

Assistant Professor


Contact

Office: Room LC838, Library Complex, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, 12 Wai Tsui Crescent, North Point, Hong Kong
Phone: 2806-5175
Email: scai@hksyu.edu


Academic and Professional Qualification

Ph.D.        University of Nottingham
M.Phil.     University of Cambridge
BA.           University of Nottingham


Specialism and Research Interests

Digital Heritage
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Memory Studies
Museum Studies


Courses

ACT101      Bridging Arts, Culture and Technology
GED220      Becoming Computational Thinkers: Solving Problems in Arts and Humanities
SOC261      Conceptualising Arts and Culture in Modernity
SOC380      Arts and Everyday Life in the Digital Era
SOC346      Science, Digital Technology and Society
 


Selected Publications

Cai, S. & Ch’ng, E. (2024). Lessons from the Field: Engaging Communities in the Virtual Reconstruction of their Past, The Venice Charter [Re]framed: New Heritage Challenges, 27-30 May 2024. Lisbon, Portugal.

Ch’ng, E., Cai, S., Feng, P., & Cheng, D. (2023). Social Augmented Reality: Communicating via Cultural Heritage. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16(2), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3582266

Chan, S. C., & Cai, S. (2023). Preserving and Exhibiting Intangible Cultural Heritage via Virtual Museum: A Case Study of the Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-M-2–2023, 405–411. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-M-2-2023-405-2023

Ch’ng, E., Feng, P., Yao, H., Zeng, Z., Cheng, D., Cai, S. (2021) ‘Balancing Performance and Effort in Deep Learning via the Fusion of Real and Synthetic Cultural Heritage Photogrammetry Training Sets’, in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Special Session on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities, Vienna, Austria: SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, pp. 611–621.

Ch’ng, E., Li, Y., Cai, S., Leow, F.T. (2020) ‘The Effects of VR Environments on the Acceptance, Experience, and Expectations of Cultural Heritage Learning’, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 13(1), pp. 1–21. doi: 10.1145/3352933.

Ch’ng, E., Cai, S., Leow, F.T., Zhang, T. (2019) ‘Adoption and use of emerging cultural technologies in China’s museums’, Journal of Cultural Heritage, 37, pp. 170–180. doi: 10.1016/j.culher.2018.11.016.

Ch’ng, E., Cai, S., Zhang, E., Leow, F.T. (2019) ‘Crowdsourcing 3D cultural heritage: best practice for mass photogrammetry’, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 9(1), pp. 24–42. doi: 10.1108/JCHMSD-03-2018-0018.

Cai, S., Ch’ng, E. and Li, Y. (2018) ‘A Comparison of the Capacities of VR and 360-Degree Video for Coordinating Memory in the Experience of Cultural Heritage’, in 2018 3rd Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHERITAGE) held jointly with 2018 24th International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM 2018). IEEE, pp. 1–4. doi: 10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2018.8810127.


Research Projects

2024 – 2027 “Metaversing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Documenting, Transmitting and Promoting the Chiuchow Yulan Festival and Cheung Chau Jiao Festival in Hong Kong”, $956,000 HKD,  funded the Funding Scheme for Community-driven Projects, Intangible Cultural Heritage Office HKSAR (Co-I)
Feb. 2020 – Aug. 2023 “Shape the Connected Museum II”, £499,329 GBP, funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) UK- China Creative Industry Grant, (Management Board Member)
Oct. 2017 – Sept. 2020 “Cultural Heritage and Cross-Border Digital Communication in the Terrestrial and Maritime Silk Road”, ¥300,000 RMB, funded by Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau (NBSTB) Belt & Road Grant (Core Member)
Feb. 2017 – Sept. 2017 Digital Technology Enhanced Cultural Heritage in the Development of the Knowledge Economy, ¥425,000 RMB, funded by AHRC Centre for Digital Copyright and IP Research in China and Ningbo Science & Technology Bureau (Assistant Research Fellow)



Community Service

2020 onwards
Advisor, Starry Night Chinese Multicultural Organisation