彭颖炘博士

TEACHING AREAS

• Game Design
• Visual Storytelling and Film aesthetics
• Animation
• Interactive Design & Production
• Multimedia studies – Theory and Practice
• Immersive and Experience
• Final Year Project

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Doctor of Education (Educational technology, Creative Arts) – Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Postgraduate Diploma of Education in Vocational and Training Education – Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Master of Design Communication – RMIT, Melbourne Australia
• Bachelor of Creative Arts in Multimedia International studies – Macquarie University, Sydney Australia

EMPLOYMENT

• Assistant Professor, Department of Digital Innovation and Technology, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
• Lecturer, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, The Education University of Hong Kong
• Senior Research Assistant, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, The Education University of Hong Kong
• Lecturer (Fractional), Department of Digital Innovation and Technology, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
• Visiting Lecturer (Part-time), School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Teaching Associate, Hong Kong Design Institute, Vocational Training Council
  Creative Director, IME Group Pty Ltd, Sydney Australia
• Multimedia Designer, Solution 1plus1 studio, Sydney Australia

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• AI for Digital Media Arts
• Immersive and interactive media,
• Interactive Narrative Design
• Design for Intangible Cultural Heritage
• Gamification
• Education

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Pang, W. Y. J. (2025, July). Virtual Mastery: Exploring Motivation in Cantonese Opera Practicing through Serious Game. Paper presented at the 16th Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, Perth, Australia.
• Ma Siu Yee & Pang, W. Y. J. (2025, July). Integrating Immersive Technologies with Cantonese Opera Performances. Paper presented at the 16th Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, Perth, Australia.
• Ma Siu Yee & Pang, W. Y. J. (2025, June). Tension between modernisation and the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. Paper presented at the Island Voice on the Move – Sinophone Research Forum, Leeds, United Kingdom.
• Pang, W. Y. J. (2025, February). Generative AI in Cantonese opera movie. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Xiqu and Intangible Cultural Heritage Development 2025, Hong Kong, China
• Cheng, L, Lau, L.K.P., & Pang, W.Y.J. (2024). Augmented reality book design for teaching and learning architectural heritage: Educational heritage in Hong Kong Central and Western District. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. Advanced online publication.
• Cheng, L., & Pang. W.Y.J. (2024). Making activities for competency development in informal learning among school-age children. IEEE Transactions on Education. Advanced publication.
• Cheng, L, Leung, C.H., & Pang, W.Y.J. (2024). Audience’s expectancy and authenticity of classical music performance by digital musical instrument mobile apps. Music Perception.
• Pang, W. Y. J. (2024, August). The validation of a gamified software for learning Cantonese Opera movement. Paper presented at the 36th World Conference for International Society for Music Education, Helsinki, Finland.
• Pang, W. Y. J., & Leung, B. W. (2023, August). The design process of serious game implementation in Cantonese Opera movement learning. Paper presented at the 15th Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, Seoul, Korea.
• Leung, C. H., Pang, W. Y. J., & Cheng, L. (2023, August). Authenticity and expectedness of digital musical instrument for simulated orchestral performance: A case study of e-Orch. Paper presented at the 15th Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, Seoul, Korea.
• Pang. W. Y. J., & Cheng, L (2023). Acceptance of gamified virtual reality environments by older adults. Educational Gerontology. Advanced online publication.
• Pang. W. Y. J., & Leung. B. W., & Cheng, L (2022). The motivational effects and educational affordance of serious games on the learning of Cantonese Opera movements. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Advanced online.
• Pang, W.Y. J., & Hou Y. A. (2022). Technology-enhanced student-centric learning in information and multimedia technologies in the new normal era. In C. Hong & W. W. K. Ma (Eds.), Applied Degree Education and the Future of Learning. Springer Nature.
• Pang. W. Y. J., & Leung. B. W. (2022, July). Design a gamified software for the transmission of Cantonese opera body movement. Presented at 35^第 World Conference of the International Society for Music Education.
• Pang. W. Y. J. (2021, February). Cantonese opera: Transmission of Sustainability in Hong Kong: Gamified pedagogy in Cantonese opera body movements studies. Presented at Dean’s Research Fund (FLASS) Research Seminar.
• Cheng, L., & Pang, W.Y. J. (2020, December). Experiencing interactive design in undergraduate general education. Paper presented at the International Conference on Learning and Teaching 2020, Hong Kong, China.
• Cheng, L., & Pang, W.Y. J., Lee, O. L., & Chan, H.S. (2020, November), Virtual reality (VR) rehabilitation gaming design. Paper presented at the International Conference on Gerontechnology, Hong Kong, China.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• 2024-2026, Deputy Head of Council, Design Education and Incubation Council of HKDA
• 2020-2024, Executive Committee, Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA)
• 2012-Present, Professional Member, Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA)
• 2012-Present, Member, Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA)