The potential of policy, partnerships and combinatorial innovation
November 26, 2019
Why science and technology should be playing a larger role in helping us address our core societal challenge.
VR tackles adolescent depression, homelessness
July 19, 2019
The VR Personality Project allows kids to listen to virtual characters talk about how they cope with depression.
Wearable technology for mental health
June 6, 2019
Portable devices that can gather information, assess activity and other biomarkers, and even deliver interventions have tremendous potential, say the scientists who study them.
What do people attend to when searching for information on the weblogin required
May 30, 2018
A talk about the use of eye-tracking methods as a means to determine precisely which web page cues (i.e., author, introduction, short advance summary, social media information, pro & con arguments, peer comments, poll on the topic) people attend to as they form opinions about web site credibility.
On the (dis-)similarity of online and offline social rewardslogin required
May 30, 2018
Is experiencing social acceptance in form of positive feedback (likes, smiling faces) perceived as rewarding? There is an ongoing debate on whether these social rewards are as valuable as offline social rewards.
Managing privacy while managing painlogin required
May 30, 2018
Health disclosures are common online, yet there is limited understanding of how people manage privacy while sharing sensitive personal data about their health conditions publicly on social media.
Language of ADHD on Twitterlogin required
May 18, 2018
Social media can be used to better understand the naturalistic manifestations and consequences of ADHD and depression based on a cohort of Twitter and Facebook users.
Big data-driven insights into individual and community-level stresslogin required
May 18, 2018
The speaker demonstrates the linguistic patterns associated with stress. The data is used to build a model for predicting stress from social media language to measure stress levels in large populations.
Path tortuosity in VRlogin required
May 16, 2018
Child feeding is a complicated behavioral process, comprised of micro-level decisions and behaviors which are difficult to measure and meaningfully quantify. The speaker discusses the use of virtual reality in behavioral research to obtain data that enables the quantification of such processes.
Mapping well-being using Twitterlogin required
May 16, 2018
Using ‘small’ sets of thousands of people who answered questions about their satisfaction with life (SWL) and shared their Facebook posts, researchers built language models that can predict SWL for other social media users.