Product and Service Design for Ageing and Health: Developing inclusive products and services that empower healthier living, support independent ageing, and enhance quality of life.
Design for Healthier Community Spaces: Exploring how design can shape inclusive, supportive community spaces that foster physical, mental, and social well-being across the lifespan.
Visual Communication, User Experience (UX) and Interaction Design: Designing user-centered visual and interactive systems that integrate communication and technology to enhance usability, accessibility, and emotional engagement.
Lai is interested in understanding the transmission dynamics and intervention effectiveness for infectious diseases; Quantifying seasonal human mobility, social connectivity and migration using novel data sources, e.g. mobile phone data; Investigating spatiotemporal interactions between human behaviour, environmental change and infectious disease dynamics.
