This Research Centre of Future Caring Mobility (RC-FCM) is determined to develop an integrated regional-leading design research cluster to produce practical also forward-looking solutions to tackle on the future ‘living’ especially ‘caring’ related ‘wicked problems’.

This aim has two folds:

•  ‘Living’ matters with mobility - Living well with chronic illness and disability is viewed by the Institute of Medicine as ‘the best achievable state of health that encompasses all dimensions of physical, mental and social well-being’ such that ‘to live well takes on a unique and equally important personal meaning, which is defined by a self-perceived level of comfort, function and contentment with living & mobility’. With a specific focus on exploring and promoting ideal ‘healthy’ and ‘caring’ vision of mobility, this unprecedented convergence of insightful discussions with digital, physical and biotechnological technologies is creating transformative and disruptive innovation.

•  ‘Caring’ matters in mobility - Caring as Same as the physiologic responses, the subjective experience of the patients plays a significant role in caring which plays a crucial role in mobility. Such as in the nursing literature, the key concepts related to ‘caring’ emphasizes on instrumental and affective supports of mobility, which includes ethics, traits, holism, humanism, quality, etc.

Based on such a vision, our RC-FCM is determined to explore the true meaning, long-term vision and challenges of integrating ‘mobility and caring’ related advanced technologies (e.g. data-centric and intelligence technologies, adv-materials, AR/VR, IoT, robotics, etc.) into our industry, market, and society. In terms of research activities, beyond the scope of the application development, RC-FCM takes a more humanity, social, and human-centred approach along with the tech-led approach, emphasises on the potentials of the intelligence technologies proliferation for the real-world healthcare & wellbeing needs, and discuss the future human-technology relationships. By deploying a STEAM (STEM + Art & Design) approach, this social and industry needs driven research strategy has inevitably impacted Design Research in a grand manner.