Research Grants
External Grants
| External Grants | |||
| Year | Project Title | Funding Agency/PI | Award Amount |
| 2024 | Imaging Skin Tones and Cultural Preferences in Southeast Asia | Tecno Mobile Ltd | S$283,400 |
| 2024 | Facilitating Disability in Cinema: Workshops, Film and Industry Employment | SG Enable Ltd (Assoc Prof Ian Dixon) | S$27,792 |
| 2024 | Empowering Senior Self-Health Management Through Smart IoT | MOE-SSRTG (Assoc Prof Kang Hyunjin) | S$865,806.50 |
| 2024 | Online Harms, Perpetration, and its Effects on Adolescents' Well-Being in Singapore: A Longitudinal Panel Study | MOE AcRF Tier 2 (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$661,700 |
| 2024 | Personalised Online Learning Experience Through Digital Nudging | MOE, TRF (Assoc Prof Lee Chei Sian) | S$95,768.8 |
| 2024 | Avoiding Blind Trust: Evaluating Credibility of Generative Artificial Intelligence Content in Higher Education Information Searching | AI Singapore (Assoc Prof Lee Chei Sian) | S$249,987.79 |
| 2023 | Disabled Workers’ Perceptions of Emerging Technology (AI) at Work | SG Enable Ltd (Dr Victor Zhuang) | S$5,000 |
| 2023 | Climate Transformation Programme - Cross-cutting theme 1 | MOE ,Tier 3 (Prof Shirley S. Ho) | S$5,321,327.40 |
| 2023 | Tackling Misleading Health Information through Networks of Scientists in Southeast Asia | National Academy of Sciences (NAS) (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$11,595.64 |
| 2023 | Towards Successful Ageing: Leveraging A Community-Engaged Digital Health Technologies Ecosystem in Promoting Physical Activity and Well-Being Among Future and Current Seniors | Social Science and Humanities Research Fellowship (Asst Prof Edmund Lee Wei Jian) | S$907,543 |
| 2023 | Collaborative development of a One Health Participatory Surveillance System for Infectious Diseases for Chiang Mai Thailand | The Tides Center (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$65,702.55 |
| 2023 | Exploring Concerns of Inappropriate Conduct in Sport: Athlete’s Perspectives in Singapore | Sport Singapore (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$30,000 |
| 2023 | Investigating the acceptance of delayed prescription among the population in Singapore: An explorative study | National University of Singapore (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$48,900 |
| 2023 | Overcoming Spiritual Barriers to Cancer Screening: An Intervention to Decrease Cancer Fatalism among Singaporeans | Singapore Cancer Society (Assoc Prof Kim Hye Kyung) | S$30,000 |
| 2023 | Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Examining Deepfake Identification, Impact and Instruction | MOE AcRF Tier 2 (Assoc Prof Goh Hoe Lian, Dion) | S$644,761 |
| 2022 | Fostering Empathy for Older Adults Among Young Singaporeans Using Virtual Reality: Employing Embodied Perspective Taking via Construal Level Theory | Social Science and Humanities Research Fellowship (Asst Prof Benjamin Li Junting) | S$877,552 |
| 2022 | Persuasive Communication of Safety in the Metaverse to Children and Youth | Meta Platforms, Inc. (Assoc Prof Goh Hoe Lian, Dion) | S$129,865.08 |
| 2022 | AUTOMATING TRUTH & ACCOUNTABILITY? Public Attitudes toward AI and Human-Machine Communication in Singapore | AI Singapore (Assoc Prof Edson C Tandoc Jr.) | S$299,975 |
| 2022 | Preparing for the Era of AI-powered Synthetic Advertising: Theoretical Development, Practical and Policy Recommendations | AI Singapore (Asst Prof Chen Lou) | S$299,904.80 |
| 2022 | ATTAIN*SG: Achieving public TrusT in AI in autoNomous vehicles in SinGapore | AI Singapore (Prof Shirley S. Ho) | S$498,024.80 |
| 2022 | Consumers' Risk Perceptions, Rational and Implicit Considerations in Alternative Protein Acceptance Behaviours | A*STAR (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$1,960,200 |
| 2022 | Policies and Strategies for Sustainable News Media in Small Markets | MCI (Prof Ang Peng Hwa) | S$149,500 |
| 2022 | Singapore Food Demand Survey | Singapore Food Agency (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$495,950 |
| 2022 | Shaping Public Adaptive Capacity for Environmental Infectious Disease (SPACE) | CNRS@CREATE Ltd (Prof Shirley S. Ho) | S$1,417,227.50 |
| 2022 | Understanding the Roles of Discrete Emotions in Privacy Management | Meta Platforms, Inc. (Asst Prof Kang Hyunjin) | S$136,220 |
| 2022 | Piloting a sustainable community-care ecosystem of gamified digital health technologies to improve elderly mobility and well-being in Singapore | NRF (Asst Prof Edmund Lee Wei Jian) | S$249,665.26 |
| 2022 | A Review of Trade-Related Digital Libraries | Hinrich Foundation Limited (Assoc Prof Goh Hoe Lian, Dion) | S$44,430.68 |
| 2022 | A Longitudinal Assessment of Children’s Advertising Guidelines on Child Food Consumption and Preferences in Singapore | NMRC (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$424,800 |
| 2021 | Intelligent Modelling for Decision-making in Critical Urban Systems (DESCARTES): WKW (Sub-project 2) | CNRS@CREATE Ltd (Prof Shirley S. Ho) | S$389,500 |
| 2021 | Perceived and Actual Effectiveness of COVID-19 Communication - What, How and Whom to Address | DSO National Laboratories (Assoc Prof Kim Hye Kyung) | S$197,139.60 |
| 2021 | Strengthening the Social Fabric of Singapore: Perspective from Intergroup Contact Theory | DSO National Laboratories (Asst Prof Nuri Kim/Asst Prof Benjamin Li) | S$321,310 |
| 2021 | Strengthening the Sense of Belonging to Singapore: Explicating Cognitive, Affective and Neural Pathways (Excan) | DSO National Laboratories (Assoc Prof Kim Hye Kyung/Asst Prof Ben Turner) | S$639,164.90 |
| 2021 | Examining and inoculating against the digital deception of deepfakes | DSO National Laboratories (Asst Prof Saifuddin Ahmed/Assoc Prof Edson C Tandoc Jr.) | S$731,280 |
| 2021 | Gamification of Hand Rehabilitation Exercise with Wearable Data Gloves | Singapore Health Technologies Consortium (HealthTEC) - NUS (Asst Prof Edmund Lee Wei Jian) | S$50,000 |
| 2021 | Video composite lectures, guided gaze, and content depth position | TechSmith Corporation (Asst Prof Sonny Ben Rosenthal) | S$10,000 |
| 2021 | Trust to Train and Train to Trust: Agent Training Programs for Safety-Critical Environments [AISG RP] | SMU (Assoc Prof Vivian Chen Hsueh-hua) | S$740,439.81 |
| 2021 | Conversations for life: Laying the groundwork for more effective communication in palliative care | NMRC (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$705,588 |
| 2021 | Vaccine communication and messaging: Addressing COVID- 19 vaccine hesitancy and promoting population acceptance | NMRC (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$1,184,400 |
| 2021 | Skillsets Mapping for Future-Ready Seniors: Comparative Investigations within the Food Services Sector | SkillsFuture Singapore Agency (Assoc Prof Goh Hoe Lian, Dion) | S$403,556.40 |
| 2020 | ZurichMOVE: Mobile Application Development & Feasibility Testing | ETH Singapore SEC Ltd (Prof Theng Yin Leng) | S$414,000 |
| 2020 | Feasibility study to investigate contactless health coaching for older adults | NRF (Prof Theng Yin Leng) | S$49,200 |
| 2020 | Skillsets Mapping for Future-Ready Seniors: Comparative Investigations within Retail Sector | SkillsFuture Singapore Agency (Prof Theng Yin Leng) | S$330,904.20 |
| 2020 | CoSIC: Developing a Pedagogical Co-Skilling Framework and Recommender System for School-Industry-Community (SIC) Partnerships | MOE - NIE Education Research Funding Programme (Asst Prof L.G. Pee) | S$328,373 |
| 2020 | LAZADA Cross-Cultural Research: Experience design in E-Commerce platforms for Southeast Asia | Lazada South East Asia Pte Ltd (Asst Prof L.G. Pee) | S$76,626.16 |
| 2020 | Border Crossings in Celluloid Asia: South Korea's Encounter with Sinophone Cinemas in Southeast Asia | Academy of Korean Studies (Asst Prof Lee Sang Joon) | S$28,120.96 |
| 2020 | Consumers' implicit and explicit responses to sensory cues in alternate protein foods: A cross-cultural investigation | A*Star (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$203,280 |
| 2020 | PIONEERS: Public Opinion of Nuclear Energy and other Energy Sources | NRF (Prof Shirley Ho) | S$697,500 |
| 2020 | Anonymizing Driver and Passenger Data | Grabtaxi Holdings (Prof Theng Yin Leng) | S$120,000 |
| 2020 | Media communication, online falsehoods and population responses surrounding the novel coronavirus disease crisis (COVID-19) in Singapore | NMRC (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$275,400.00 |
| 2020 | Sustainment, Development and Enhancement of a Mobile Surveillance System for Vector-Borne Diseases: Mo-Buzz+ | Tides Foundation (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$151,673.59 |
| 2020 | Littering – Reducing Litter through Group Competition | NRF (Asst Prof Sonny Rosenthal) | S$542,929.90 |
| 2020 | Modelling and analytics for the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Singapore (COVID19RF-004) | MOH (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$168,000 |
| 2019 | Defining, Determining, and Dealing with Deliberate Online Falsehoods in Singapore | MOE-SSRTG (Assoc Prof Edson Tandoc) | S$385,984 |
| 2019 | Is Correction Fluid? How to Make Fact-Checks On WhatsApp More Effective | WhatsApp (Assoc Prof Edson C. Tandoc Jr.) | S$67,602.97 |
| 2018 | Virtual and augmented reality training systems for the elderly in Singapore | WDARF (Prof Jung YounBo) | S$1,079,820 |
| 2018 | Preventing obesity-related diseases from young: Evaluating the longitudinal impact of multimedia intervention in promoting self-regulation of calorie consumption in children | MOH-NMRC (Prof May Oo Lwin) | S$423,055.20 |
| 2018 | Home First Study: Information Seeking Behaviour on Ageing Well | AIC (A/Prof Alton Chua) | S$44,400 |
| 2018 | Mobile gamification strategies to manage online emergence of nativism | MOE, Tier 2 (Assoc Prof Arul Chib) | S$602,856 |
MOE Tier 1
| MOE Tier 1 | |||
| Year | Project Title | PI | Award Amount |
| 2023 | Need for Precision in Information Interactions (NPII): Creating and validating a new construct and measurement scale | Assoc Prof Joanna Sin Sei Ching | S$88,137 |
| 2023 | Development and Validation of a Novel Scale to Assess Susceptibility Towards Health Misinformation | Prof May Oo Lwin | S$76,500 |
| 2023 | Navigating Transitions: An Information-based Perspectives to Understanding Lifelong Learning for STEM and SHAPE majors | Assoc Prof Lee Chei Sian | S$74,480 |
| 2023 | Is (Real) News Still Important? Assessing News Importance in the era of Fake News | Prof Edson C Tandoc Jr. | S$76,894.4 |
| 2023 | CometoCare: Investigating the Roles of Computer-mediated Self-disclosure and Social Support on the Psychological Well-being of Family Caregivers of the Elderly | Prof Shirley S. Ho | S$90,000 |
| 2023 | Understanding the Role of Social Media in Extremism: Triangulating evidence from surveys and big data | Asst Prof Saifuddin Ahmed | S$84,830 |
| 2023 | A theorization of the utility of film criticism in the education of the military professional | Asst Prof Kevin Chew | S$50,000 |
| 2023 | Self-effects via online digital platforms in a mental health context: How people can persuade themselves by making self-presentations, and the factors that facilitate this phenomenon | Asst Prof Lew Zijian | S$50,000 |
| 2022 | Preemptive Defense Mechanisms against the Strategic Use of False Information | Asst Prof Poong Oh | S$81,367.10 |
| 2022 | Narratives, perceived experience, and false memories of climate change | Asst Prof Sonny Ben Rosenthal | S$89,208 |
| 2022 | Information Fatigue Among Online Information Seekers: Defining It and Exploring Its Impact | Asst Prof Li Junting Benjamin | S$86,670 |
| 2022 | Piloting the Equitable use of Telehealth Technologies Among the Underprivileged in Singapore: A Sustainable Community-Centric Approach | Asst Prof Edmund Lee Wei Jian | S$49,900 |
| 2022 | Why don't you fact-check? Investigating how to encourage individuals to use fact-checking sites to fight fake news | Assoc Prof Edson C Tandoc Jr. | S$89,514 |
| 2022 | Leveraging Social Media Influencers and Artificial Intelligence For Psychosocial Wellbeing Interventions Among the Elderly | Asst Prof Chen Lou | S$100,000 |
| 2022 | Intergenerational Digital Media Socialisation for Enhancing Elderly Digital and Health Literacy | Prof May O. Lwin | S$196,500 |
| 2021 | Videoconference Fatigue: Defining it, understanding its impact and assessing potential solutions | Asst Prof Li Junting Benjamin | S$83,358.00 |
| 2021 | Automatic Profiling of User Accounts Driving Scholarly Communication on Twitter | Assoc Prof Jin Cheon Na | S$79,733.34 |
| 2021 | A multi-methods approach to investigate factors shaping public acceptance of cultured meat in Singapore | Prof Shirley S. Ho | S$152,000 |
| 2021 | Planned seeking of secondary risk information about climate change mitigation | Asst Prof Sonny Ben Rosenthal |
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| 2021 | Examining health mobile apps and wearables use through the lenses of communication equality | Asst Prof Edmund Lee Wei Jian | S$50,000 |
| 2020 | Understanding and reducing prejudice through perspective taking in Virtual Reality | Asst Prof Saifuddin Ahmed | S$87,931.02 |
| 2020 | The Social Laboratory of Apps: Tech, Everyday Life and Trust from Mobiles to Internet of Things | Prof Gerard Goggin | S$88,316.28 |
| 2020 | An Investigation of the antecedents and user responses to the personalization-privacy paradox of the Internet of Things | Asst Prof Kang Hyunjin | S$83,737.80 |
| 2020 | Using public opinion to reach common ground on a contentious social issue: Attitudes toward lesbians and gays in Singapore 2005-2020 | Assoc Prof Benjamin Detenber | S$89,478 |
| 2020 | Us and AI: Public Opinion on Artificial Intelligence in a Post-Trust Era | Asst Prof Saifuddin Ahmed | S$84,498.50 |
| 2019 | Framework for the Sustainability and Viability of Media in Small States | Prof Ang Peng Hwa | S$82,450 |
| 2019 | Social oil and social glue: Sharing news on smartphones as ritualised performances of self and community, and its impact on society. | Asst Prof Duffy Andrew Micheal | S$59,500 |
| 2019 | Redefining Parasocial Relationship in Social Media Marketing and Ensuring Adequate Consumer Protection | Asst Prof Chen Lou | S$66,640 |
| 2019 | Public Practices and Misconceptions Surrounding Antimicrobial-Related Behaviors in Singapore | Prof May Oo Lwin | S$84,541 |
| 2019 | Fake vs. fact: The rise of fact-checking in Asia | Assoc Prof Edson C. Tandoc Jr. | S$56,896 |
| 2019 | U.S. Propaganda and the Cultural Cold War in Asia | Asst Prof Lee Sang Joon | S$59,040 |
| 2018 | Motivating physical activity among elderly Singaporeans: The role of fitness tracking and social context | Prof Richard Seyler Ling | S$87,426 |
| 2018 | Science Communication on Social Media: Investigating the Roles of Spokesperson Credibility, Issue Controversy, and Discourse Civility on Public Perceptions of Science & Technology | Assoc Prof Shirley Ho Soo Yee | S$89,910 |
| 2018 | Broadening minds through intergroup contact: A test of a new scale for representative thinking | Asst Prof Nuri Kim | S$79,920 |
| 2018 | Social responses to virtual FinTech agents: Social presence of virtual FinTech agents and its implications on people's everyday financial activities | Prof Kwan Min Lee | S$99,700 |
| 2018 | ‘SynBio & Singapore’: convergent research cases to prioritize public engagement and promote policy-making | Asst Prof Christopher L. Cummings | S$59,460 |
| 2018 | Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Defensive Resistance in Health Communication | Asst Prof Kim Hye Kyung | S$58,800 |