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The effectiveness, ethics and risks involved in the use of mHealth apps by psychologists as an additional tool in psychotherapeutic treatment
(2019)
The rapid growth of mHealth apps has led to a new health care setting, offering benefits such as symptom monitoring, diagnosis, patient support outside the therapeutic setting, and more engagement in relation to the ...
The effect of need for cognition on user effort with voicebot and chatbot interactions
(2019)
Voice interfaces are considered a more natural and effective means for people to interact with computer systems (Batish, 2018). However, whilst there has been a huge increase in Voice interfaces being created by technology ...
Increasing cognitive empathy in cyber-bystanders through 360° virtual reality
(2019)
This study examined the use of 360° VR and perspective-taking in cyberbullying from the bystander perspective compared to perspective-taking in 2D format. Both media formats had a significant effect on affective and cognitive ...
Landscape as witness: Aftermath Photography, oral history, and ethnography in representing the Public Works Scheme of the Great Irish Famine
(2019)
The story of the Great Irish Famine/ An Gorta Mor (1845-52) has been passed down over the years through the media of literature and art. This research critically evaluates these media, with particular reference to the ...
The conscious and compulsive connection - An exploratory investigation into potential predictors of nomophobia among Irish smartphone users
(2019)
The concept of Nomophobia is recognised among researchers when describing smartphone separation anxiety. This has been a subject of growing interest; however little research has been done into the phenomena’s correlational, ...
Becoming more human: Changing beliefs through cognitive empathy in video games
(2019)
The goal of this study was to investigate the importance of empathy, and more specifically perspective taking towards an avatar, in the possible change of social belief through video game experience. Participants were ...
Always thank the Bus Driver - A longitudinal observational study of the effects of prosocial behaviour in an online gaming community
(2019)
This research addresses a longitudinal observational analysis of the affect an introduced prosocial action has on an online community by measuring linguistic markers. A data set was collected from an online community, ...
Boundary management. Are personality types and job satisfaction levels predictors to smartphone usage behaviours?
(2019)
Smartphones have become integrated into many parts of our daily lives. These devices have improved areas of our work life through enhanced collaboration, removing the need for a physical office locations, and improving ...
On the nature of disgust - An analysis of disgust and its factors in political conservatism and religion online
(2019)
Previous research has posited links between purity and conscientiousness as correlates for political conservatism; further, the links between disgust as motivator for right-wing beliefs. A mixed methods approach was ...
Connected by technology, empathetically disconnected: A correlational study into phubbing behaviour in Ireland
(2019)
Smartphones have transformed how we communicate (Leggett & Rossouw, 2014), however, our dependence on smartphones has become intrusive for many people (Ofcom, 2018). Phubbing (phone snubbing) has become a “normal” activity ...