Kin Wai Michael Siu
Biographic Data
| ID | 233879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kin Wai Michael Siu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kin Wai Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Siu |
| SIGNATURE | SIU K W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9820-8576 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The underestimated contributions
Local Sports Communities (LSCs) have become a prominent avenue for mass sports participation in China, coinciding with the rise of a younger, highly skilled internal migrant population. Challenging the prevalent view of migrants as disadvantaged in sports, this study investigates their proactive roles in LSCs as agents of social capital construction. Through a mixed-methods approach, incorporating semi-structured interviews ( n = 32) and a subseq…
Intentionality is a trap
Challenging the limitations of adult-led, child-centric approaches in urban public play space design, this study advocates rethinking inclusive design through a 'children plus carers' paradigm. This framework relationally considers the dynamic network of children, carers, and play spaces, addressing the situated needs of both groups. Drawing on qualitative field observations and interviews with 23 carers across six public play spaces in Hong Kong…
From data silos to data agency
This study investigates the overlooked yet pivotal role of local sports communities (LSCs) as data agents in the collaborative governance of urban public spaces. Rather than framing citizens’ leisure sports solely as intervention, we develop a triadic framework, comprising Governance Structure, Data Production, and Decision Mediation, to analyze how LSCs generate, manage, and translate data for urban governance. Three integration patterns are ide…
Unwelcome guests? Emotional barriers to adult co-presence in children’s playgrounds
Playgrounds in dense cities function as shared micro public spaces where adult presence can feel uneasy. Adopting a child-first, adult-enabled stance, this study examines how design signifiers and visibility relate to adults’ emotions and patterns of co-presence. Semi-structured interviews, analysed with grounded theory and informed by pilot observations, trace links among appraisals, contextual cues and coping. Embarrassment clustered under high…
Enhancing design ldeation
Unpacking the ‘child-centred’ myth
Tranquillity amidst the bustle
The prevailing paradigm in urban public open space (POS) design emphasises fostering social interaction; it overlooks the equally critical need for urban solitude, secrecy and privacy. In this study, we aim to address this gap by contextualising positive solitude (PS) in POSs within high-density urban environments and examining the spatial conditions that shape these experiences, using Hong Kong as a case study. Empirical research methods, includ…
Enhancing caregiver engagement in public playgrounds
Traditional public playground design often centres on children’s needs, positioning caregivers in predominantly passive supervisory roles. However, active caregiver involvement not only enhances children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development but also strengthens family bonds and fosters community cohesion. Addressing this gap, this study explores caregiver play behaviours in public playgrounds and the spatial characteristics that influen…
Environmental-Behavioral System Design
When approaching issues in either environmental design or behavioral design, researchers invariably consider both environment and behavior. However, to date, academia still lacks a systematic theoretical perspective for viewing the relationship between environmental design and behavioral design. This article explores the characteristics of environmental and behavioral design and introduces a new domain named environmental-behavioral system design…
Participatory Research Methods and Tools for Promoting Children's Psychological Well-Being
With the increasing prevalence of mental health issues among young populations, participatory methods have gained attention for their potential to engage children in the design and implementation of interventions aimed at enhancing their psychological well-being. Despite the growing body of research involving children and adolescents, there remains a significant gap in the literature regarding the systematic use of participatory methods specifica…
How public open spaces co-construct solitary experiences in densely populated urban environments
Loneliness in high-density cities is increasingly being recognised as a public health crisis, but the role of built environments in shaping the feelings of loneliness and solitary experiences remains underexplored. This study investigates how socio-material networks in Hong Kong's public open spaces (POSs) co-construct solitary experiences and contribute to emotional well-being. Using a mixed-methods approach, including individual-centred behavio…
Social inclusion in the localisation of sustainable development goals
Dancing on the asphalt
Exploring the Well-Being of Caregivers in Public Playgrounds
Families with children frequently utilize public playgrounds for leisure activities. Providing care for children in these spaces can yield emotional satisfaction and strengthen parent‒child relationships. Unlike traditional caregiving, this type of care also offers a leisure experience. However, there is Limited research on caregiving needs, resources, and caregiver well-being in the public playground setting. This study gathered empirical data f…
Methodological considerations of technology co-design with families and design implications on mediating family connectedness from empirical research
Co-designing technologies with families for mediating family connectedness is an important area of research. However, the literature directly investigating both co-design with families and family connectedness is limited. This review aims to address this gap by analysing empirical studies on co-designing technologies with families for family connectedness. Seven relevant articles published from 2005 to 2019 were identified from the Scopus databas…
Community resilience in city emergency
Despite the importance of social justice and community attachment for subjective well-being (SWB), the existing research fails to adequately examine these factors in urban emergencies. This study develops a theoretical framework to elucidate the roles of environment perception, social justice, and community attachment in SWB during urban emergencies, with a focus on vulnerable populations. Drawing on the context of COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, …
Learning from Older Adults’ Use of Urban Parks in Hong Kong’s Low-income Areas
Spatial justice, specifically accessibility, Universal Design and the fulfilment of human rights for vulnerable groups are increasingly important issues in urban research and city-level agendas concerning public spaces. Although the development of older adult–friendly urban environments is part of the agenda to promote healthy ageing societies, public spaces (e.g., urban parks) often exclude those in the advanced age group in the community. This …
The Relationship between Creative Self-Efficacy, Achievement Motivation, and Job Burnout among Designers in China’s e-Market
The e-market is prosperous in China, but the factors that stimulate or deter its development remain unclear. This study focuses on designers (interaction, user interface, product, and user experience designers) in the Chinese e-marketplace to examine the relationship between creative self-efficacy (CSE), achievement motivation (including motivation to approach success [MS], and motivation to avoid failure [MF]), and job burnout. Eighty-two questi…
Rooted in earth, rooted in community
Contradictory and consistent views on designing an inclusive community-based centre for older people
The Chinese government encourages the promotion of community-based older people centres as a way to use space rationally, improve social inclusion and support older residents’ everyday lives. This exploratory study is the first to examine in depth the contradictory and consistent attitudes and suggestions of residents of different age groups for the design of an inclusive community-based centre for older and younger people in China. An integrativ…
Assessing the effect of urban informal economic activity on the quality of the built environment for sustainable urban development in Lagos, Nigeria
Urban informality, housing insecurity, and social exclusion; concept and case study assessment for sustainable urban development
Public facility design for sustainability
While many researchers have pointed out that public design can increase users’ sustainable practices, how to achieve good public designs is challenging. To explore the current public design barriers and solutions to household recycling in Hong Kong, our research group, in collaboration with two Caritas Community Centres, adopted participatory action research, including questionnaires, interviews, non-participant observations, collaborative worksh…
The 3Cs model of sustainable cultural and creative cluster
Care
Over the past 20 years, an increasing number of emergency aid products for personal and family purposes have become available on the market. However, little attention has been focused on public facilities. This article is based on a joint design research project conducted by teams from Hong Kong, the United States, and the Chinese mainland. It is review in nature with the supplement of empirical fieldwork findings. Fieldwork was conducted in Wenc…
Dancing on the asphalt
Contradictory and consistent views on designing an inclusive community-based centre for older people
The Chinese government encourages the promotion of community-based older people centres as a way to use space rationally, improve social inclusion and support older residents’ everyday lives. This exploratory study is the first to examine in depth the contradictory and consistent attitudes and suggestions of residents of different age groups for the design of an inclusive community-based centre for older and younger people in China. An integrativ…
Red Packet
Chinese people, particularly those in the southern regions of China, like to give red packets (red envelopes filled with money) to children and young people, both married and unmarried, at Lunar New Year or other holidays (The English-Chinese Dictionary 1532).A red packet tells us not just that there is money inside, but also says something about traditions and the original meanings of festivals, cultural events and customs, as well as how changi…
Rooted in earth, rooted in community
Public facility design for sustainability
While many researchers have pointed out that public design can increase users’ sustainable practices, how to achieve good public designs is challenging. To explore the current public design barriers and solutions to household recycling in Hong Kong, our research group, in collaboration with two Caritas Community Centres, adopted participatory action research, including questionnaires, interviews, non-participant observations, collaborative worksh…
Lanterns of the Mid‐Autumn Festival
Lanterns of the Mid‐Autumn Festival
Chinese Red Packets
The Chinese have always taken ‘family’ as a basic and core element of society and paid attention to the relationship among family members. A clear and strict hierarchy gave senior members of a family an elevated, non-arguable status and authority over junior members (Baker, 1979). Younger members must respect and follow their elders' orders without questioning. The great Chinese educator and thinker, Confucius, also stated that elder and younger …
Red Packet
Chinese people, particularly those in the southern regions of China, like to give red packets (red envelopes filled with money) to children and young people, both married and unmarried, at Lunar New Year or other holidays (The English-Chinese Dictionary 1532).A red packet tells us not just that there is money inside, but also says something about traditions and the original meanings of festivals, cultural events and customs, as well as how changi…
Sustainable Urban Living Environment
Urban renewal brings positive and negative consequences to the living environment. On the one hand, policymakers, property developers and professionals always claim that urban renewal ensures a high standard of living in terms of physical quality of environment, facilities and economic return. For example, most of the time, newly built and reconstructed infrastructure and buildings give larger and safer living places for residents. There is also …
Environmental Sustainability
Environmentalists, sociologists, economists and designers have advocated the importance of environmental sustainability. Different specialists have their own perspectives in looking at the issues and giving suggestions to tackle the problems. In recent years, an increasing number of social and environmental researchers have considered the waste problems appearing in the urban living environment. Since waste disposal and its associated problems ar…
Innovation for Diversity and Fairness
Open Space for the Visually Impaired
Today, many people with special needs are still excluded from open spaces. For example, visually impaired people (VIP) face many barriers when they try to access open spaces, such as parks, independently. A case study on VIP access to parks in Hong Kong was conducted to examine the question of equal access for people with special needs. The focus of the study was on the difficulties of VIP in accessing parks. The study was qualitative in nature a…
City Spaces and Human Relations in Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway
Subways have experienced a tremendous variety of development, securing their positions within cities and producing unique spaces whose characteristics have influenced human relations. This study focuses on the relationships between subways and the cities, spaces, and human relationships that surround them. It explores the connections between subways and the aforementioned elements (city, space, and human relations) to provide insight into how bes…
The 3Cs model of sustainable cultural and creative cluster
Care
Over the past 20 years, an increasing number of emergency aid products for personal and family purposes have become available on the market. However, little attention has been focused on public facilities. This article is based on a joint design research project conducted by teams from Hong Kong, the United States, and the Chinese mainland. It is review in nature with the supplement of empirical fieldwork findings. Fieldwork was conducted in Wenc…
Public facility design for sustainability
While many researchers have pointed out that public design can increase users’ sustainable practices, how to achieve good public designs is challenging. To explore the current public design barriers and solutions to household recycling in Hong Kong, our research group, in collaboration with two Caritas Community Centres, adopted participatory action research, including questionnaires, interviews, non-participant observations, collaborative worksh…
Assessing the effect of urban informal economic activity on the quality of the built environment for sustainable urban development in Lagos, Nigeria
Urban informality, housing insecurity, and social exclusion; concept and case study assessment for sustainable urban development
Contradictory and consistent views on designing an inclusive community-based centre for older people
The Chinese government encourages the promotion of community-based older people centres as a way to use space rationally, improve social inclusion and support older residents’ everyday lives. This exploratory study is the first to examine in depth the contradictory and consistent attitudes and suggestions of residents of different age groups for the design of an inclusive community-based centre for older and younger people in China. An integrativ…
Learning from Older Adults’ Use of Urban Parks in Hong Kong’s Low-income Areas
Spatial justice, specifically accessibility, Universal Design and the fulfilment of human rights for vulnerable groups are increasingly important issues in urban research and city-level agendas concerning public spaces. Although the development of older adult–friendly urban environments is part of the agenda to promote healthy ageing societies, public spaces (e.g., urban parks) often exclude those in the advanced age group in the community. This …
The Relationship between Creative Self-Efficacy, Achievement Motivation, and Job Burnout among Designers in China’s e-Market
The e-market is prosperous in China, but the factors that stimulate or deter its development remain unclear. This study focuses on designers (interaction, user interface, product, and user experience designers) in the Chinese e-marketplace to examine the relationship between creative self-efficacy (CSE), achievement motivation (including motivation to approach success [MS], and motivation to avoid failure [MF]), and job burnout. Eighty-two questi…
Rooted in earth, rooted in community
Community resilience in city emergency
Despite the importance of social justice and community attachment for subjective well-being (SWB), the existing research fails to adequately examine these factors in urban emergencies. This study develops a theoretical framework to elucidate the roles of environment perception, social justice, and community attachment in SWB during urban emergencies, with a focus on vulnerable populations. Drawing on the context of COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, …
Methodological considerations of technology co-design with families and design implications on mediating family connectedness from empirical research
Co-designing technologies with families for mediating family connectedness is an important area of research. However, the literature directly investigating both co-design with families and family connectedness is limited. This review aims to address this gap by analysing empirical studies on co-designing technologies with families for family connectedness. Seven relevant articles published from 2005 to 2019 were identified from the Scopus databas…
Enhancing caregiver engagement in public playgrounds
Traditional public playground design often centres on children’s needs, positioning caregivers in predominantly passive supervisory roles. However, active caregiver involvement not only enhances children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development but also strengthens family bonds and fosters community cohesion. Addressing this gap, this study explores caregiver play behaviours in public playgrounds and the spatial characteristics that influen…
Environmental-Behavioral System Design
When approaching issues in either environmental design or behavioral design, researchers invariably consider both environment and behavior. However, to date, academia still lacks a systematic theoretical perspective for viewing the relationship between environmental design and behavioral design. This article explores the characteristics of environmental and behavioral design and introduces a new domain named environmental-behavioral system design…
Participatory Research Methods and Tools for Promoting Children's Psychological Well-Being
With the increasing prevalence of mental health issues among young populations, participatory methods have gained attention for their potential to engage children in the design and implementation of interventions aimed at enhancing their psychological well-being. Despite the growing body of research involving children and adolescents, there remains a significant gap in the literature regarding the systematic use of participatory methods specifica…
How public open spaces co-construct solitary experiences in densely populated urban environments
Loneliness in high-density cities is increasingly being recognised as a public health crisis, but the role of built environments in shaping the feelings of loneliness and solitary experiences remains underexplored. This study investigates how socio-material networks in Hong Kong's public open spaces (POSs) co-construct solitary experiences and contribute to emotional well-being. Using a mixed-methods approach, including individual-centred behavio…
Social inclusion in the localisation of sustainable development goals
Dancing on the asphalt
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Environmental planning (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)