People and Technology
The People and Technology (PAT) group is a collection of human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers interested in understanding, designing, and evaluating digital technologies. The group is committed to experience-centred, participatory approaches to the design of technology. The excitement of experience-centred, participatory design for us is in helping ensure that technological developments give people a chance for a richer life, to include people who too often are excluded, and to ensure that everyone feels free to think about and discuss what matters to them especially those people who feel they have no voice.
Grassroots Wavelengths Project
Grassroots Wavelengths involves pilot testing technology to support inexpensive, community owned and operated radio stations across Europe.
Dr Conor Linehan, Dr Laura Maye, Dr Nadia Pantidi, Prof John McCarthy
Find Out MoreGrassroots Wavelengths is a EU H2020 ICT programme funded project that involves collaboration with academic, community and industry partners in Madeira, Edinburgh, Cork and the Black Sea region of Romania. The project involves pilot testing technology to support inexpensive, community owned and operated radio stations across Europe, in order to encourage citizen engagement, community deliberation, and the free flow of information within, into, and out of discrete geographic communities. Over three years, the project team will: 1) deploy and test a network of low- power community radio stations in Ireland, Portugal, and Romania; 2) work with community groups, journalists, and public good experts to develop a robust platform for expansion across Europe; 3) enhance use and accessibility of networked community radio through text-to-speech, community oriented programming applications, and other community-supported modes for contributing and managing content); and 4) work within the EU framework to establish a public support infrastructure for local ownership and revenue generation.
Collaborators
Prof. Chris Csíkszentmihály, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
https://www.m-iti.org/people/csik
Dr. Simone Ashby, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
https://www.m-iti.org/people/simone
Dr. Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University, Denmark
Contact
Conor Linehan
conor.linehan@ucc.ie
Dementia Care in Community
Interconnected series of Irish Research Council funded PhD participative projects that used participatory action research, ethnography, and design-led enquiry in a variety of dementia care communities
Prof John McCarthy, Dr Nadia Pantidi, Sarah Foley
Find Out MoreAn interconnected series of Irish Research Council funded PhD participative projects that used participatory action research, ethnography, and design-led enquiry with participants in a variety of dementia care community settings (e.g. home, residential care, community care) to understand together how design interventions can enrich community experience. These projects are ongoing and, to date, have resulted in a small number of technology prototypes that embody aspects of emergent understanding of care in these contexts, a better understanding of dialogical aspects of dementia care based in a growing appreciation of civic rights of people living with dementia, some progress on identifying approaches to engaging people living with dementia in these projects
Collaborators
Dr Kellie Morrissey, Open Lab, Newcastle UniversityDaniel Welsh, Open Lab, Newcastle University
https://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/people/
Contact
Dr Nadia Pantidi
konstantia.pantidi@ucc.ie
eSUB
The project aims to design and develop an evidence-based harm reduction intervention for illicit drug use in student populations
Dr Samantha Dockray and Dr Conor Linehan
Find Out MoreeSUB is a project funded by the UCC Student Fees Forum, and carried out in collaboration with the Students Union, the School of Public Health, UCC and the Health Information Systems research centre, UCC. The project aims to design and develop an evidence-based harm reduction intervention for illicit drug use in student populations. This intervention will be a new digital tool with which universities can meaningfully engage with the increasing problem of illicit substance use, and thereby contribute to the wellbeing and health of students in a tangible, measurable, and effective way. By supporting discrete and flexible access to screening and advisory services, it overcomes core barriers to student engagement with health services. The project is ongoing, and is being developed in a user-centered manner, with It also provides a means through which hard-pressed university services can reach the broad student population using technology that is central to everyday student life.
Collaborators
Dr. Michael Byrne, Head of Student Health, UCCDr. Ciara Heavin, Cork University Business School, UCC
http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/B004/cheavin
Dr. Ciara Fitzgerald, Cork University Business School, UCC
http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/B004/cfitzgerald
Dr. Martin Davoren, School of Public Health, UCC
Contact
Dr Samantha Dockray
s.dockray@ucc.ie
False Memories for Online Fake News
This project examines how exposure to fabricated online news sources can distort memory, exploring who is most at risk and what steps online platforms can take to mitigate this risk for users.
Dr Gillian Murphy
Find Out MoreThis project examines how exposure to fabricated online news sources can distort memory, exploring who is most at risk and what steps online platforms can take to mitigate this risk for users. Recent studies have examined false memories for events such as Irish referendums on marriage equality and abortion and have involved collaborations with online news sources (TheJournal.ie). This project has received funding from the Royal Irish Academy and is conducted in collaboration with researchers in University College Dublin and University of California, Irvine.
Collaborators
Dr Ciara Greene, Memory & Attention Lab, University College Dublinhttps://people.ucd.ie/ciara.greene
Professor Elizabeth Loftus, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/eloftus/
Professor Linda Levine, Cognition & Emotion Lab, University of California, Irvine
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/llevine/
Rebecca Hofstein Grady
https://socialecology.uci.edu/students/grad/gradyr
Contact
Dr Gillian Murphy
gillian.murphy@ucc.ie