- BCogSc (1st Hons) (HKU)
 - MHCI (Carnegie Mellon)
 - PhD (HKU)
 - CPsychol
 
Assistant Professor
Tel : (852) 3963 5494
Email : leolie@hsu.edu.hk
HSUHK Scholar: Kin Pou Lie – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Dr Lie is a Chartered Psychologist specializing in Experimental Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction. He holds a Bachelor of Cognitive Science (First Class Honours) and a PhD in Psychology from The University of Hong Kong and a Master of Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer.
Research Interests
Visual Perceptual Learning; Visual Attention; Human-Computer Interaction
Courses Taught
- GEN1007 Psychology and Life
 - GEN2030 Cognition in Everyday Life
 - PSY2001 Research Methods inPsychology
 - PSY2003 Statistics in Psychology
 - PSY2004 Biological Psychology
 - PSY2006 Cognitive Psychology
 - PSY2008 Learning and Behaviour
 - PSY3007 Cyberpsychology
 - PSY3008 Psychology of Human-Technology Interaction
 - PSY3012 Psychology of Love and Sex
 
Grants
2017 – 2018. Co-Principal Investigator. Positive Neuroscience: A Dialogue Between Scientists and Practitioners. Inter-Institutional Development Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (UGC/IIDS15/H01/17). Award: HK$785,665.
Awards
- Dean’s Honour List, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
 - Sir Edward Youde Memorial Prize, Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund
 
Publications
Selected Journal Articles
- Lie, K. P. (2023). Cascaded acquisition of spatial contextual cueing. Perception, 52(6), 423–431. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231171357
 - Lie, K. P. (2015). Hierarchical acquisition of visual specificity in spatial contextual cueing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77(1), 160–172. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-014-0754-8
 
Selected Patents
- Au, M., Chan, S. F. D., & Lie, K. P. (2017). Device for playback of multimedia files (Europe Patent No. EP1702257B1). European Patent Office. https://shorturl.at/duDSY
 - Au, M., Chan, S. F. D., & Lie, K. P. (2012). 멀티미디어 파일의 재생용 디바이스 [Device for playback of multimedia files] (Korean Patent No. 1011480410000). Korea Intellectual Property Office. https://doi.org/10.8080/1020067013278
 
Selected Presentations
- Lie, K. P. (2003). Does orthography influence location learning of menu-driven computer interfaces? In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1374). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5cj148x5
 - Lie, K. P. (2003). Location learning in Chinese versus English menu selection. In G. Cockton & P. Korhonen (Eds.), CHI ’03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1034–1035). ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/765891.766134
 - Myers, B. A., Lie, K. P., & Yang, B. -C. (2000). Two-handed input using a PDA and a mouse. CHI Letters, 2(1), 41–48. Also in T. Turner et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the CHI 2000 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 41–48). ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/332040.332405