RESEARCH
PROJECTS
Serve as PI
- The effects of forest therapy on anti-aging–Perspective of brain and cognitive sciences (08/2021-07/2024). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($90,800 funded).
- Effects of forest therapy on cognitive performance and mental health in older adults (08/2021-07/2024). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($90,000 funded).
- Health benefits from recreational experience in virtual reality: Case study of forest bathing (08/2020-07/2021). Ministry of Science and Technology, ($21,800 funded).
- Health benefits of forest therapy on middle-aged and elderly individuals: A case study of Xitou Nature Education Area (08/2019-07/2020). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($27,200 funded).
- Healthy Forests, Healthy People: Psychophysiological healthy benefits of forest bathing and environmental characteristics of therapeutic forests (08/2016-07/2019, Young Scholar Elite Grant Award). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($56,500 funded).
- Forest recreation benefits on health and quality of life (08/2015-07/2016). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($17,500 funded).
- Investigating the connections of tourism impacts, tourism-related community quality of life, resident support for tourism development, and tourism development stage (08/2013-07/2014). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($22,300 funded).
Serve as co-PI
- Planetary health by healing forests as nature based solution (2024-2026, under review in the pre-proposal stage). Biodiversa+—European Biodiversity Partnership, the European Union ($162,000 requested).
- The cardioprotective and mentally protective effects of Mediterranean-DASH intervention for Neurodegenerative delay (MIND) diet combination of Forest Bathing (FB) among adults with elevated blood cholesterol: A randomized controlled study (01/2024-06/2026). School of Nursing, Tung Wah College, Hong Kong ($130,000 funded).
- Impacts and adaptation strategies of climate change on ecotourism in Choshui River Valley (05/2021-04/2025). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($168,000 funded).
- Cognitive maps of the environment in the aging brain (08/2021-07/2024). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($121,000 funded).
- Lego robot programming intervention for enhancing older adult cognitive health (08/2021-07/2024). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($96,800 funded).
- The training effects of Tinkering activities on cognitive flexibility in older adults from Communities (08/2021-07/2024). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($77,200 funded).
- Develop and explore the effects of virtual reality based natural environment intervention programs on improving attention, emotion, and cognitive function of elders with mild cognitive impairment (08/2022-07/2023). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($30,000 funded).
- Effects of fine particle constitutions and surrounding greenness on elderly health using geospatial information technologies and land-use regression (II) (08/2018-07/2019). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($22,500 funded).
- Effects of fine particle constitutions and surrounding greenness on elderly health using geospatial information technologies and land-use regression (I) (08/2017-07/2018). Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ($25,400 funded).
GOVERNMENT PROJECTS
Serve as co-PI
- Developing Taiwan forest therapy business alliance (11/2023-10/2025). Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Taiwan ($160,000 funded).
- Forest therapist certification development and training platform (II) (05/2023-07/2024). Forestry Bureau, Taiwan ($96,500 funded).
- Forest therapist certification development and training platform (I) (12/2021-02/2023). Forestry Bureau, Taiwan ($95,000 funded).
- Health promotion and outreach in National Forest Recreation Areas (II) (07/2019-06/2021). Forestry Bureau, Taiwan ($230,000 funded).
- Health promotion and outreach in National Forest Recreation Areas (I) (04/2018-03/2019). Forestry Bureau, Taiwan ($64,000 funded).
- Forest therapy development strategy and action plan (02/2017-12/2017). Forestry Bureau, Taiwan ($100,000 funded).