Est. 2021 ・ Soochow Sociology ・ RCAIS
While everyone learns to use AI, sociology asks: how will AI change people, relationships, and society?
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Latest Newsmore →
- Planned 2027-07-06Planning the "AI, Big Data & Immersive Creation" high-school summer camp and a 2027 winter camp
- 2026-06-22The East Asian Social Futures Lab presented its annual results at the cross-departmental faculty-community showcase
- 2026-06-20High-school AI camp registration closed — fully booked
- 2025-11-04"East Asian Social Futures Lab" received a Human-Centered AI Center cross-departmental faculty-community grant
Eventsmore →
- 2026-09-18TalkYing-Fen Lin (Researcher, Institute for Information Industry): Where does AI come from? Global supply chains, geopolitics, and Taiwan’s role (with the Office of Personnel)
- 2026-10-02TalkChien-Hua Tseng (veteran comic artist): Hands-on AI comic drawing (with the Office of Personnel)
- 2026-10-13TalkMing-Hsiang Su (Assoc. Prof., Data Science): From idea to app: building your digital product with Codex (with the Office of Personnel)
- 2026-10-16TalkMeng-Cong Zheng (Prof., Industrial Design, National Taipei University of Technology): From design psychology to behavior change, the role of kansei in interdisciplinary research
- 2026-10-22TalkKai-Yi Chin (Dean, College of Big Data Management): Crossing the virtual–real boundary: creating and experiencing XR (with the Office of Personnel)
- 2026-10-29TalkMei-Jung Chen (Assoc. Prof., English): An AI dialogue experiment for business students (with the Office of Personnel)
- 2026-10-30TalkYing-Hsiang Lin (Assoc. Prof., Chinese Literature): Cultivating AI literacy (with the Office of Personnel)
- 2026-11-06TalkFang-Yi Huang (Assoc. Prof., Sociology): When vibe coding meets AI agents: reshaping UI/UX and the future of human–AI co-development (with the Office of Personnel)
Awards & Honorsmore →
- 2026-07Pei-An Yen’s "When AI Meets Gender" was approved for an NSTC undergraduate research grant (advisor: Fang-Yi Huang)
- 2026-06Yu-Han Chang’s "The impact of location-tracking apps on college students" won a departmental paper award
- 2026The Director was selected for the MOE Digital Humanities Innovation and Humanities-AI pilot programs
- 2025Research results advanced to the second round of the NSTC AI Innovation Award
Research & Publicationsmore →
- 2026"Cumulating Precarity in a Hybrid Platform Economy" reached second-round review at the Journal of Asian Public Policy
- 2026-01At Yonsei University’s six-country "East Asian triple transition" workshop, Fang-Yi Huang presented on Taiwan’s pension reform
- 2026Chapter assignments completed for the draft "White Paper on Social-Security Policy in the Age of AI"
- 2026Abstract submitted to the EASP 2026 Annual Conference
Interactive Learning
Exploration IslandsAI 探索島
AI & Social Well-Being IslandsVisit →
- AI for Social GoodGuide to PAI12201: ten islands, nine AI skills, eighteen weeks
- Five AI tools including an AI agent, an agent team and a vibe coding brief each week, with readings linked to Google Scholar and official statistics, class surveys, and Chinese/English versions
AI × Humanities Exploration IslandVisit →
- AI EmployabilityCompanion site for a Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Meeting forum: ten islands probing AI employability and social inequality
- Follow guides Ori and Aya across the bridges to explore four themes and ten questions, with an AI host console, a 3D archipelago view, and Chinese/English versions
Criminology Exploration IslandVisit →
- CourseA guided tour of 4T35 Criminology: ten islands covering four parts and seventeen chapters
- Each island covers about two chapters through designed questions and answers, with linked key concepts and multilingual versions
Family and Society in East Asia IslandVisit →
- CourseA guided tour for the English-taught course East Asian Family and Society: reading Cohen's The Family through East Asian families
- Ten islands cover thirteen chapters through designed questions and answers, with glossary pop-ups, class survey links and multilingual versions
AY 2025–26
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Research Center for AI and Society, Department of Sociology, Soochow University (No. 70, Linxi Rd., Shilin Dist., Taipei)
Tel: +886-2-2881-9471 ext. 6291–6294, 6302 ・ Email: society@scu.edu.tw
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