Arthur Chen.
Arthur Chen.

Turning Ideas into Things.

A rescuer carrying a stretcher through a misty pine forest. Illustrative photo, not from the project.
Illustrative photo · U.S. Marine Corps, public domain

Conditionally selected · HKSTP Ideation programme

Under-canopy search & rescue

We’re developing drones to help rescuers find missing hikers beneath forest canopies. Our investigation focuses on how they could fit into rescue operations and improve search efficiency. The project has been conditionally selected for HKSTP’s Ideation programme.

In progress

Dialogues

My friends and I still reach for pencil and paper when we brainstorm. I’m developing Dialogues, an iPad app exploring how the freedom of handwriting and sketching can work together with digital tools and an AI partner for questioning, connecting and developing ideas.

Can we bring the strengths of paper and digital tools together to better support brainstorming, while keeping room for uncertainty, disagreement and changes of direction?

The Dialogues workspace: a list of saved maps. A Dialogues map: two hand-drawn bubbles, Drawing and thinking, joined by an arrow.
The Dialogues prototype on iPad.