Call for papers: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Special issue: Designing for Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Guest editors: David Coyle, Anja Thieme, Conor Linehan, Madeline Balaam, Jayne Wallace and Siân Lindley Good mental health and emotional wellbeing are fundamental to our quality of life, enabling people to experience life as meaningful, handle daily stresses, [...]
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Online social tools for Higher Education – Journal Club 4.3.2011
John Murray came along to our session on Friday to discuss some ongoing research that he is conducting on developing social tools for Higher Education. We probably shouldn’t give away the specifics of what he’s doing just now, but there were some points that came up that are relevant to all applications that aim to [...]
Mindtrek 2010
LiSC had a presence again this year at Mindtrek in Tampere, Finland. This nifty little conference blends together games studies, social media and ubicomp along with business talks from industry pros. We had two papers to present. Firstly, Ben had a paper about “Emergence and Playfulness in Social Games” (free pdf). Although the paper is [...]
Recently Funded ENACT project – enhancing social networks to augment cognitive behavioural therapy
I have just realised that we have made no mention to the funding that we recently won from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Here’s some official information on what is involved: Dr. Shaun Lawson, Reader at the Lincoln School of Computing Science, leads the ENACT project team which has secured just under £500K [...]
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