Outputs (30)

Kundalini yoga as mutual recovery: a feasibility study including children in care and their carers (2016)
Journal Article
Perez, E., Ball, M., Brown, P., Crepaz-Keay, D., Haslam-Jones, E., & Crawford, P. (2016). Kundalini yoga as mutual recovery: a feasibility study including children in care and their carers. Journal of Children's Services, 11(4), 261-282. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-11-2015-0034

This is a mixed-methods feasibility study to test whether incorporating a 20-week Kundalini yoga program into a children’s home community improves wellbeing outcomes. Feasibility was assessed through recruitment and retention rates as well as partici... Read More about Kundalini yoga as mutual recovery: a feasibility study including children in care and their carers.

Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections (2015)
Journal Article
Vallejos, E. P., Pothong, K., Coleman, S., Koene, A., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., …O'Malley, C. (2015). Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections. Computers and Society, 45(3), 84-90. https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874252

A quick journey through prevention science (e.g., substance misuse prevention) and a comparison between online and offline risks, harm, and vulnerability in children suggests that new approaches and interventions are needed to promote Internet safety... Read More about Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections.

Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Perez, E., Koene, A., Portillo, V., Dowthwaite, L., & Cano, M. (2017, June). Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness. Presented at ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci' 17), Troy, New York, USA

This paper explores the policy recommendations made by young people regarding algorithm fairness. It describes a piece of ongoing research developed to bring children and young people to the front line of the debate regarding children's digital right... Read More about Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness.

Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koene, A., Adolphs, S., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., O'Malley, C., Rodden, T., & McAuley, D. (2015, July). Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources. Presented at Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster, UK

With the rising popularity of public and semi-public communication channels such as Blogs (late 1990s), Wikipedia (launched in 2001), Facebook (launched in 2004), Reddit (from 2005) and Twitter (from 2006), the Internet has become an increasingly fer... Read More about Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources.

MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Price, D., Jacobs, R., Darzentas, D., Perez Vallejos, E., Chadborn, N., Martindale, S., & Urquhart, L. (2019, June). MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine. Presented at DIS '19: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019, San Diego CA USA

The Memory Machine is an ambitious project that aims to develop a device to capture people's memories to create a blend of personal and factual data that builds identities, and contextualizes personal recollections. The Memory Machine has been guided... Read More about MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine.

"It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Zhao, J., Patel, M., Perez Vallejos, E., Koene, A., & Jirotka, M. (2020, June). "It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies. Presented at IDC '20: Interaction Design and Children Conference, London, UK

Children and young people make extensive and varied use of digital and online technologies, yet issues about how their personal data may be collected and used by online platforms are rarely discussed. Additionally, despite calls to increase awareness... Read More about "It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies.

Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dowthwaite, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Patel, M., & Zhao, J. (2020, June). Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust. Presented at ETHICOMP 2020: 18th International Conference on the Ethical and Social Impacts of ICT, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

This paper describes the first stage of the ongoing development of two scales to measure online wellbeing and trust, based on the results of a series of workshops with younger and older adults. The first, the Online Wellbeing Scale includes subscales... Read More about Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust.

An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dowthwaite, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Patel, M., Zhao, J., & Creswick, H. (2023, July). An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing. Presented at ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Edinburgh, UK

Internet users often report feelings of stress, anxiety, and a lack of control, often related to uncertainty about the use of algorithms and autonomous systems (AS) behind what they encounter. This may lead to a loss of trust in the services, content... Read More about An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing.

“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, R., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H. G., Price, D. J., Martindale, S., Chadborn, N. H., Ito-Jaeger, S., Darzentas, D. P., Webb, H., Jacobs, R., Atabey, A., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., Winklhofer, H., Urquhart, L. D., & Perez Vallejos, E. (2023, July). “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories. Presented at DIS '23: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Pittsburgh, USA

We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and digital possessions throughout our lives, making it difficult to distingui... Read More about “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories.

Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milligan, G., Harvey, J., Dowthwaite, L., Vallejos, E. P., Nica-Avram, G., & Goulding, J. (2023, December). Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data. Presented at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Sorrento, Italy

Life satisfaction significantly contributes to wellbe-ing and is linked to positive outcomes for individual people and society more broadly. However, previous research demonstrates that many factors contribute to the life satisfaction of an individua... Read More about Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data.