Dr Beta Yip (right) received the award at the presentation ceremony of 2018 Meritorious Websites Contest Healthy Mobile Phone / Tablet Apps Contest.
Developed by Dr Beta Yip Chi-lap and Dr Ivy Wong Ka-yan of the Department of Computer Science, a mobile app “HKcBirds Common Birds of Hong Kong” was selected as one of the “Top 10 Healthy Mobile Phone/ Tablet Apps” in the 2018 Meritorious Websites Contest Healthy Mobile Phone / Tablet Apps Contest.
The app is the first cross-platform information app in Hong Kong which allows users to access multimedia information of common birds in Hong Kong. It was a collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society and was supported by the HKU Knowledge Exchange Fund in 2013/14.
The contest, which was organized by the Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration, aims to encourage young people to browse healthy websites and recognise the contributions of healthy websites producers and Apps developers.
To know more about the app, please visit the project website at http://www.cs.hku.hk/~hkbirds/.