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PSI Annual Student Congress QUB 24 March 2012
IADT student wins annual psychology student congress. Psychology students from all over Ireland gathered in Belfast on Saturday to present their research. Louise Cooper 4th Year BSc (Hons) in Applied ...
27 March 2012
This has been a busy term at the CCTA. The Department of Learning Sciences seminars have concluded. This term there were three talks. Bernard Jackman spoke on how to create a winning mindset in January, Dr Elizabeth Nixon from TCD spoke her research ...
27 March 2012
IADT staff and students are invited to a guest lecture by Dr. Michael Cooke, Research Fellow at the Aerospace Psychology Research Group, Trinity College Dublin. This lecture is entitled:
Humans, operations and organisations: A holistic approach t...
12 March 2012
CCTA staff Andrew Power and Grainne Kirwan attended and presented at the APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) eCrime Researchers sync-up in University College Dublin on March 7th and 8th.
The Anti-Phishing Working Group is a non-profit global associ...
12 March 2012
CCTA is delighted to announce the publication of The Psychology of Cybercrime by Dr Grainne Kirwan and Andrew Power.
The Psychology of Cybercrime is designed as a source for researchers and practitioners in the disciplines of criminology, cyberps...
06 February 2012
CCTA has a busy start to the year. It hosted with IADT a visit from Dan Tani a NASA astronaut last Thursday 12 January. Astronaut Tani talked about the psychology of space and how being in the International Space Station is managed from a pscyhologic...
16 January 2012
A lot of activity this week at the CCTA.
There was a teaching and learning seminar on Academic Integrity by Dr Sharon Flynn of CELT NUI Galway on Monday 28 November.
On 30 November two IADT colleagues presented a Brown Bag lunch on Blackboard...
30 November 2011
Graduates from the Multimedia, Audiovisual Media Technology, Psychology and Cyberpsychology programmes were presented with their parchments by Dr Annie Doona IADT President at the annual ceremony at the RDS on 16 November. Kevin Power was presented w...
17 November 2011
CCTA researchers Dr Nicola Porter, Dr. Olivia Hurley and Cliona Flood presented papers at the Psychological Society of Ireland 2011 Annual Conference. Dr Porter presented The Brain Game: a novel learning and assessment tool for neuropsychology as par...
14 November 2011
CCTA is delighted that Dr Marion Palmer Head of Department of Learning Sciences has been awarded a 2011 National Academy for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning Award of Teaching Excellence. Marion was presented with the award by Minist...
12 November 2011
As part of Innovation Dublin 2011, the CCTA is hosting two cyberpsychology related seminars which are open to the general public.
The first event - Innovative Research in Cyberpsychology - which was held on 26th October, 2011 showcased some of the...
30 October 2011
Mark McNally (Head of Usability, Frontend)
will talk about his work role and what it is like to work in usability
Friday 28th Oct, 4pm (A021)
Harry Youtt (formerly UCLA)
Friday 2nd December, 3pm (A021)
MULTI-MEDIA PRODUCTION AND NON-LINEAR...
17 October 2011
Liam Challenor is about to start his masters research at the CCTA. Liam completed the BSc (Hons) in Applied Psychology this year and presented his undergraduate research project at the DRHEA Undergraduate Research Conference at DCU on 12 October. For...
10 October 2011
April Meyer, won the award for Best Mobile App Developer at the DotIE Net Visionary awards, hosted by the Irish Internet Association on Friday 30 September. April was nominated for her work on the Apptivate product from Furious Tribe. April is comple...
03 October 2011
08-09-2011
IADT researcher receives Design Competition award at Mobile HCI 2011 conference in Stockholm
Dr John Greaney of the Department of Learning Sciences was awarded third prize in the Mobile HCI Design Competition at the 2011 Mobile HCI c...
09 September 2011
CCTA was delighted to have researchers present and chair sessions at various education conferences this April.
Andrew Power and Marion Palmer presented at the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management ...
18 April 2011
IADT Students win the prize for the best Windows 7 Phone application with their Explorawalk application at the Microsoft Irish Imagine Cup software design final today.
We congratulate Emmanuelle Cerovic-Bunn, Louise Macaulay, Sean Bolger and Jessi...
14 April 2011
Congratulations to CCTA students successful at the 2011 Psychological Society of Ireland Student Congress held in UCC. Eight of our final year psychology students presented their work, along with three of the students from the MSc in Cyberpsychology....
04 April 2011
CCTA is delighted to announce that three of the 12 shortlisted projects for the Irish final of the Imagine Cup Software Design Competition are from the School of Creative Technologies at IADT.
The three projects are:
1 Agritext
2 Exploraw...
05 March 2011
The MSc in Cyberpsychology students presented their research projects today. There was a wide range of projects including:
- exploring gender stereotyping in science career websites
- how use of the social web can improve online education
- rememb...
19 February 2011
CCTA is delighted to announce that IADT is an Associate Member of Europlat the European Network for Psychology Learning and Teaching http://www.europlat.org.
Europlat exists to:
- enhance the quality of teaching and student learning in psychology...
10 February 2011
Special Purpose Award Certificates in Sport Psychology and Cyberpsychology Graduation
On Wednesday evening, 8th December 2010, at 7pm in A019, in order to celebrate students receiving their Special Purpose Award Certificates in Sport Psychology an...
10 December 2010
CCTA is delighted that students of the MSc in Cyberpsychology graduated at the IADT Graduation ceremonies on 10 November in the RDS. This is the second cohort to be awarded the degree and Mark Siggins was awarded the Best Student of the Year. Congrat...
15 November 2010
Andrew Power and Grainne Kirwan have just published a chapter on Online Identities in Virtual Worlds in Critical Design and Effective Tools for E-Learning in Higher Education: Theory into Practice. The book is edited by colleagues in the DIT and cont...
19 August 2010
The annual School of Creative Technologies Showcase took place on Wednesday 12 May at 8.30 am. On display was project work from the School; from the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and research students. We all enjoyed this celebration of s...
11 May 2010
Two students from the MSc in Cyberpsychology and one from the BSc in Psychology Applied to IT presented their research projects at the PSI Student Congress at the University of Ulster, Coleraine on Saturday 17th April. The quality of their presentati...
22 April 2010
Sinead Cochrane was a joint winner at the 2010 Irish Blog Awards for the best Technology Blog/Blogger. Sinead considers her blog http://www.sineadcochrane.com/ a technology and psychology sandwich, with an order of life on the side. Sinead is a gradu...
12 April 2010
The School of Creative Technologies is delighted to welcome the international panel of experts to the institute for the Schools five yearly programmatic review.
We look forward to showing off the best of what we do and learning from the panels ins...
11 March 2010
CCTA is delighted to announce that one of the papers by the DL141 3rd year students – Louise Macauley, Siobhan Kavanagh and Emmanuelle Cerovic-Bunn – has been accepted to the finals of the CHI Student Design Competition 2010 http://www.chi2010.org/a...
02 March 2010
Two CCTA research students graduated with MSc by Research at IADT Graduation ceremonies yesterday.
Lucie Corcoran researched Cyberbullying: A New Dimension to an Old Problem. Lucie was supervised by Dr Irene Connolly and Professor Mona O Moore of...
12 November 2009
CCTA attended PSI 39th Annual Conference in Wexford from 5th to 8th November. Dr Irene Connolly presented her research on cyberpbullying -
Prevalence Rates of Cyberbullying: National versus International. This presentation on cyberbullying was very...
12 November 2009
In November, the CCTA was delighted to announce the first MSc by research graduation. Niamh Caprani was awarded an MSc by research for her dissertation The Design of a Prospective Memory Aid for Older Adults, Multiminder at the IADT graduation in the...
08 July 2009
Showcase 2009 - the annual presentation of student project work in the School of Creative Technologies took place on Wednesday 13 May 2009.
As usual the graduating students from:
Multimedia DL131/DL142/DL143, Digital Media Technology DL132 and ...
16 May 2009
Harry Youtt gave a public lecture on advances in brain research that have mapped creative processes, together with his own practical work writing for multimedia, hypertext (nonlinear) fiction writing, and information design off-line and online.
S...
16 May 2009
CCTA is delighted to announce the first MSc by research graduation. Niamh Caprani was awarded an MSc by research for her dissertation The Design of a Prospective Memory Aid for Older Adults, Multiminder at the IADT graduation in the Hugh Lane Gallery...
23 April 2009
The annual CHI conference is the leading international forum for the exchange of ideas and information about human-computer interaction (HCI). CHI 2009 will be held in Boston, MA, USA. Many of the pioneering computer companies had their home in the B...
02 April 2009
Congratulations to the IADT team of Alan Clifford, Trevor Ledwidge and Nicholas Cunningham who came sixth out of twelve teams in the Robocode competition hosted by Tipperary Institute in Thurles last Thursday, 12th March. The twelve teams were drawn...
24 March 2009
Healthtext - the health awareness system prototype designed by Dara Parkes, Oluwaseuin Adams. Keelan Carberry and Claire Coleman were awarded an Innovator Accelerator Award at the Imagine Cup final on 30 April 2009 in TCD.
Two teams from IADT too...
23 March 2009
Positive psychology in a nutshell: the latest discoveries of the science of well-being.
By Dr. Ilona Boniwell, University of East London
The School of Creative Technologies in IADT ( Institute of Art, Design and Technology) in Dun Laoghaire hoste...
26 February 2009
CCTA is attending the PSI Annual Conference 2008 in Tullow Co. Carlow.
Dr Grainne Kirwan is making a presentation entitled Juror behaviour in black-hat hacker trials. Dr Olivia Hurley is presenting on Teaching Ethics and Research Methods Using P...
21 November 2008
In November we were visited by Brendan Rooney and his colleagues from UCD. Brendan presented his work using eye tracking technology to explore attention to aversive stimuli and how it relates to emotional sensitivity. Conor O Malley and Lauren Kavana...
21 November 2008
CCTA attended The National Academy for Integration of Research and Teaching and Learning 2nd Annual Conference. The conference titled Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Challenging Assumptions took place in Waterford Institute of Technology on...
21 November 2008
CCTA presented on behalf of IADT at the HEAnet National Networking Conference 2008 in Kilkenny on 13 November. For further information see http://www.heanet.ie/conferences/2008/programme.php. ...
21 November 2008
Simon O Sullivan is visiting IADT on Monday 13th October
There will be a Lecture on Monday 13th October at 630 pm entitled
THE PRODUCTION OF THE NEW AND THE CARE OF THE SELF
This will be based on Simons work on Deleuze and will end with a d...
08 October 2008
IADT has received R&D infrastructure funding of €560k from Enterprise Ireland to develop an immersive virtual reality system.The system, CAVE (Automatic Virtual Environment), will immerse users in ambionic sounds and high-end 3D graphic environme...
10 September 2008
Paul Silvia Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro visited CCTA and IADT this week. His research concerns emotional aspects of art and aesthetics, particularly the emotion of interest, as well as the psychol...
10 September 2008
Dr. Gráinne Kirwan attended a five day seminar in using virtual environments for research from 14th-18th July 2008 in the University of Santa Barbara. There were a total of 12 attendees on the seminar, from Europe and America, and from a variety of b...
21 August 2008
CCTA was awarded a 2008 Science and Technology Technological Sector Research Strand 1 project. Dr Grainne Kirwan and Marion Palmer submitted a proposal "Evaluation of Cognitive Skills Improvements using Technological and text-based skills traini...
21 June 2008
On Monday 26 May 2008, Professor Sean McGrath of Memorial University Newfoundland gave a public lecture entitled
"Toward a Technology that Allows the Beautiful to Occur"
This was a most interesting and stimulating lecture that was w...
21 June 2008
The 3D barcamp in the University of Limerick was an informal conference held on 24th May 2008. I spoke on Cyberpsychology - current developments in the field, possible areas of future focus, and the MSc in Cyberpsychology. Attendance at the talk was ...
21 June 2008
iHCI2008 the Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference takes place at UCC on September 19 and 20 on the theme of Cultures of Interaction. The call for papers is open until June 13. For more information please see http://ihci.ucc.ie/.
Dr John Gr...
12 May 2008
April was a busy month for careers talks to DMT and AVMT students.
The Sandyford based company Digicom gave a presentation with a view to recruiting a prospective DMT graduate. Their last recruit from DMT in May 07, joined as a Junior Audio-Visual...
30 April 2008
Colin Gallagher was awarded highly commended at the Annual PSI Student Congress held at Mary Immaculate College Limerick on 5 April 2008. Postgraduate and final year undergraduate students presented their research projects at the Congress. Congratula...
14 April 2008
CCTA researchers Dr John Greaney, Dr Grainne Kirwan. Dr Christine Horn and Marion Palmer attended the PhD supervisor comsultation workshop lead by Dr. Gina Wisker of the Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Brighton at Gradcam the Gr...
12 April 2008
Applications are currently being accepted for September 2008 entry to the MSc in Cyberpsychology.
Cyberpsychology is the study of the human mind and behaviour in the context of human-technology interaction. It encompasses all psychological phenome...
08 April 2008
There are two teams in the Irish final of the Imagine Cup 2008 representing IADT and the School of Creative Technologies. This is the premier software design challenge competition and Irish students were in the top teams in the final in Korea last ye...
28 March 2008
CCTA now has qualitative software MAXqda http://www.maxqda.com/ for use by staff and research students. Ann Lewins of QDAS http://qdaservices.googlepages.com/home spent a day this March upskilling staff on its use. ...
28 March 2008
The School of Creative Technologies, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology recently developed an MSc in Cyberpsychology, which enrolled its first cohort in September 2007. This is a 2-year, part-time programme which aims to provide gr...
21 November 2007
Marion Palmer presented papers on her research on teaching in higher education at the AISHE (All Ireland Society for Higher Education www.aishe.org) conference at NUI Maynooth and at the British Educational Research Association (http://www.bera.ac.uk...
21 November 2007
Niamh Caprani a masters student at CCTA presented a paper Methods Used to Predict Older Adult Use of Technology Mediated Memory Aids at the Supporting Human Memory with Interactive Systems Workshop at the 2007 British HCI International Conference at ...
21 November 2007