We invite a small group of HKU students interested in exploring the use of Generative AI for multilingual medical communication to participate in a collaborative project with Griffith University (Australia), University of New South Wales/ University of Technology Sydney, and the Health Literacy Unit of the New South Wales Government in Australia. Working alongside students from Griffith, students will explore principles for effective medical communication, and use generative AI to create accessible, affordable, and culturally responsive translated communication solution to a real world-problems – in this case, the project will focus on creating translated medical information about neurofibromatosis in school settings to ethnic Chinese and other minority populations in Australia. This includes generic fact sheets, but also communications to parents, teachers, medical doctors, and school students. Our community partner will be the Children’s Tumour Foundation of Australia.

Students will investigate:

1. What generative AI applications can be utilised to produce affordable, accurate and culturally relevant home-school medical communication?
2. What generative AI literacy skills are required in health-related fields to make use of such technologies for home-school related medical communications?
   

Students must be available to attend the following mandatory online sessions:

Workshop 1: 29 Jan 2024 11:30 am – 1:30 pm (Introduction, team-forming, community partner sharing)
Workshop 2: 5 Feb 2024 11:30 am – 1:30 pm (Generative AI in medical translations)
Workshop 3: 19 Feb 2024 11:30 am – 1:30 pm (Group progress update and collaboration)
Workshop 4: 26 Feb 2024 11:30 am – 1:30 pm (Group progress update and collaboration)
Workshop 5: 4 Mar 2024 11:30 am – 1:30 pm (Final Presentations)

The project is open to all HKU students. No prior training is necessary. 

The project requires at least 25 hours of total work. Undergraduate students are eligible to earn a certificate and apply for one (1) non-graduating academic credit through HKU Horizons (The credit is transcriptable but does not count towards your GPA). The total hours include all time spent in workshops, meetings, self-study, assignment preparation, and final presentation.

HKU UGC-funded students who satisfactorily complete ALL assigned tasks and research activities including follow-up interviews will be provided with a modest stipend of up to $1,000. Due to UGC regulations, the stipend is not applicable to non-UGC funded postgraduate and international students.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with the project coordinator Dr Jack Tsao (jtsao@hku.hk).