According to Hsu Mu-chu, a researcher at Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology, "Teng Hsiang-yang's status as a member of the medical community and his wide contacts among the aborigines enabled him to make a key contribution to the research project."
「醫檢師的專業加上在原住民部落的人脈，鄧相揚做了很關鍵性的協助。」