http://localhost/ccta Latest news from IADT Center for Creative Technology and Application en-en http://localhost/ccta/images/logo2.gif http://localhost/ccta http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=63 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=63 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 Psychology presented her project Integrating Technology into Learning: The Effect on Primary School Students Motivation and Learning Performance and was awarded the undergraduate prize. As a result she will be invited to present at other conferences ... 27 March 2012 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=62 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=62 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 into children as agents in one parent families in February and Dr Maura Conway of DCU concluded this year’s talks in March with her talk on terrorism and the Internet. Thanks to all our speakers this year and to Dr Olivia Hurley for organising the se... 27 March 2012 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=61 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=61 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 to understanding the human in complex sociotechnical systems The lecture will be held on Thursday 15th March at 1pm in A021 ... 12 March 2012 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=60 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=60 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 association focused on eliminating the fraud, crime and identity theft that result from phishing and other online tactics. Their website is at www.antiphishing.org The sync-up included many interesting presentations regarding the legal and technological... 12 March 2012 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=59 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=59 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, cyberpsychology and forensic psychology, though it is also likely to be of significant interest to many who work in the field of information technology and other related disciplines. The Psychology of Cybercrime applies the theories of forensic psychology d... 06 February 2012 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=58 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=58 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 pscyhological point of view. He was very interesting about the cognitive load that lack of gravity adds to every day activities. Having to think where to put things or how to move at all times is demanding. IADT hosts a CAO Open Evening this coming Wednesda... 16 January 2012 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=57 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=57 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 9 and their experiences since September 2011 when it replaced Blackboard/WebCT CE8. This talk was chaired by the eLearning Project Officer. Dr Arlen Egan of Building2think.com gave a talk on Creative Thinking to the Springboard evening students ... 30 November 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=56 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=56 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 with his masters by research for his dissertation Evaluation of Cognitive Improvements using Technological and Text-based Skills Training Tools. Congratulations to all CCTA graduates. Thanks to the School of Creative Technologies for sponsoring th... 17 November 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=55 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=55 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 part of the Symposium in Teaching and Research in Psychology on 13 Novmber 2011. Cliona Flood presented on Peer assisted learning: Supporting first year psychology students at IADT at the symposium. Dr Olivia Hurley presented Use of mental preparation i... 14 November 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=54 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=54 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 Minister of Education and Skills Ruairi Quinn at a ceremony in the Clock Tower, Marlborough St, Dublin on 7 November. Marion was nominated by Andrew Power Head of School of Creative Technologies. Dr Annie Doona President IADT, Dr Marian O Sullivan IADT Reg... 12 November 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=53 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=53 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 recent and current research projects conducted by staff in the CCTA. Dr. John Greaney presented his important work which examined how individuals can be encouraged to create emergency contact details on mobile phones. This project recently won third... 30 October 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=52 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=52 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 STORY TELLING: this arises out of Harry’s ‘”experience several years ago in creating the pilot-season website for what became a very popular episodic television series here in the United States. It is also based upon the courses I taught at the Univ... 17 October 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=51 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=51 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 more information see http://www.drhea.ie/undergradresearch/events.php?page=56. ... 10 October 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=50 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=50 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 completing her masters in digital media research into communication in education and how a mobile app might be a useful solution. For further information see http://www.iia.ie/net-visionary/. ... 03 October 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=49 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=49 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 conference from 30 August to 2 September. His project was First Contact: Encouraging use of emergency contact details on mobile phones. The first and second prize winners were: First Prize BrailleTouch: Designing a Mobile Eyes-Free... 09 September 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=48 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=48 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 (IRSPM XV) - Value, Innovation and Partnership http://irspm2011.com/. Andrew Power presented a paper titled New Public Leadership on 11 April and Marion Palmer and Andrew Power presented a paper on The IDEA Project. Andrew Power and Marion Palmer... 18 April 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=47 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=47 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 Jessica Boyd Farrell for winning the prize for the best Windows 7 Phone application with their Explorawalk application. They got nice glass trophy and new Window 7 phones for their efforts. Two teams from IADT competed today at the Irish Imagine cup s... 14 April 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=46 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=46 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. We were very successful, with DL141 final year student Siobhan Kavanagh being awarded a commendation for her research project presentation. Congratulations to Dr. Nicola Porter who supervised her research. In addition, DL155 second year Mary... 04 April 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=45 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=45 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 Explorawalk 3 Music that Matters Congratulations to the students and to Marian McDonnell on this achievement. You can follow the Imagine Cup on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Imagine-Cup-Ireland/116062608417993. The 2 teams, each compris... 05 March 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=44 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=44 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 - remembering advertisements online compared to remembering print ads - do learners learn from YouTube - how interventions may help autustic people communicate online. Congratulations to all the students and their supervisors for a stimulating morning of ... 19 February 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=43 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=43 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 - develop the scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology Europlat held its first annual conference in 2010 jointly with PLAT2010 in Edinburgh. Dr Nicola Porter, Dr Olivia Hurley and Cliona Flood of CCTA presented papers at the conference... 10 February 2011 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=42 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=42 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 and Cyberpsychology, members of the Leinster Rugby squad visited IADT for a Q&A and signing session. The players in attendance included recently retired player Bernard Jackman, along with new young stars Jason Harris-Wright, Andrew Conway and Ia... 10 December 2010 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=41 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=41 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. Congratulations Mark. MSc in Cyberpsychology students graduated along with students from the School of Creative Technologies undergraduate programmes in audiovisual media technologies,multimedia and psychology applied to information technology. ... 15 November 2010 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=40 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=40 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 contains chapters by higher education professionals on the impact of technology on graduates. In their chapter Power and Kirwan consider online identities of learners. They argue that little is know about the use of online identities during elearning... 19 August 2010 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=39 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=39 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 student work. Showcase was opened by Liam Cronin – Compete Lead @ Microsoft Ireland. ... 11 May 2010 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=38 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=38 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 presentations were noted by the adjudicators, but particular success was enjoyed by Mark Siggins, second year student on the MSc in Cyberpsychology, who was highly commended (second prize) in the postgraduate category for his research on mobile phone separatio... 22 April 2010 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=37 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=37 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 graduate of the MSc in Cyberspsychology and did her research on the attitudes and behaviour of Irish bloggers and readers of Irish blogs. Sinead did her undergraduate studies on psychology applied to information technology at IADT. ... 12 April 2010 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=36 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=36 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 insights. Andrew Power HoS... 11 March 2010 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=35 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=35 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/authors/cfp-sdc.html. The title of their project is Explorawalk. The competition finals take place in Atlanta this April. The competition received close to 90 submissions, mainly from postgraduate students, from around the world. This is a great ... 02 March 2010 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=34 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=34 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 TCD. Lisa Gorry researched Employers Implicit Theories of Intelligence in the Recruitment of Individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome. Lisa was supervised by Dr Tim McNichols and Dr Grainne Kirwan. Congratulations to Lucie and Lisa and to their supe... 12 November 2009 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=33 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=33 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 well received and there were reports in both the Irish Times and the Irish Examiner – please see the links http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1106/1224258189165.html http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cyber-bullies-using-social-ne... 12 November 2009 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=32 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=32 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 Hugh Lane Gallery on 22 April. Other research projects are also ongoing- Lisa Gorry has submitted her dissertation “Implicit Theories of Intelligence in the Recruitment of Individuals with Asperger Syndrome” for assessment. Research projects includi... 08 July 2009 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=31 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=31 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 Psychology DL141 presented their projects. This year they were joined by graduating students from DL155 MSc in Cyberpsychology. There was a very interesting mix of posters, practical projects and software prototypes and applications for visitors to ... 16 May 2009 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=30 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=30 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. Since 1990, Harry has been an instructor in the UCLA (Ext) Writer s Program. He was granted the distinction of being a co-recipient of the Writers’ Program s Outstanding Instructor in Creative Writing Award for 2004. For several years, Harry was an in... 16 May 2009 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=29 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=29 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 on 22 April. Niamh is about to start a PhD on memory in older adults at DCU funded by and IRCSET scholarship. Niamh was supervised by Dr Nicola Porter and Dr John Greaney. ... 23 April 2009 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=28 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=28 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 Boston area. It is also the home of some of the great computing research universities. Students were asked to design an object, interface, system, or service intended to support the idea of utilising or consuming local resources rather than global ... 02 April 2009 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=27 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=27 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 from Institutes of Technolgies and universities from throughout Ireland. The team wrote the Java code using custom libraries to simulate a Robocode Tank called Jonney5. Jonney5 was one of the first tanks to make it to a third battle and provi... 24 March 2009 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=26 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=26 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 took part in the Irish Imagine cup software design final on the 30th-April-2009 at the Science Gallery TCD. The theme this year was: Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today. It is one of the most challenging an... 23 March 2009 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=25 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=25 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 hosted a public talk on Thursday, February 26th on the topic. Ilona is the author of Positive Psychology in a Nutshell (2006, PWBC). She founded the European Network of Positive Psychology (ENPP), and is currently the member of its steering committee.... 26 February 2009 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=24 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=24 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 Proposal Writing Exercises. Postgraduate student Lucie Corcoran is presenting Cyberbullying: A new dimension to an old problem. Lucie is supervised by Dr Irene Connolly and Professor Mona O Moore (TCD). Lisa Gorry is presenting her work on Employers ... 21 November 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=23 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=23 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 Kavanagh presented their work. Conor has used the Eye tracker to explore Ironic process of Attention. For example the instructions not to look at a red balloon make us look at it. Lauren has used it to explore reading patterns with Irish language. This wa... 21 November 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=22 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=22 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 13 and 14 November 2008. For more information about the conference see http://www.nairtl.ie/index.php?pageID=20&eventID=24. ... 21 November 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=21 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=21 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 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=20 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=20 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 discussion of contemporary art and meditation. (Venue Room A019). .Simon O Sullivan is Senior Lecturer in Art History/Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London where he is Course leader for the MA Contemporary Art Theory. He is t... 08 October 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=18 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=18 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 environments projected on four walls. The CAVE will also use a wireless motion tracking system to support research in: * cyber-psychology and cognitive studies * real-time visualisation and interaction * high-end interactive graphics Dr G... 10 September 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=17 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=17 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 psychology of creativity. His most recent book is How to Write A Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (2007, American Psychological Association). Paul received the 2006 Berlyne Award from APA (American Psychological Association) for his res... 10 September 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=16 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=16 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 backgrounds, including academic disciplines such as geography and psychology, as well as industry. This was a very intensive training course, including workshops on several software applications, theoretical lectures, project work, and demonstrat... 21 August 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=15 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=15 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 training tools" that was approved for funding this year. This innovative proposal will investigate if brain training exercises are better done by paper or using games consoles. The research studentship will be advertised over the summer with interview... 21 June 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=14 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=14 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 well attended by staff and students of IADT as well as guests. Professor Sean McGrath was welcomed by the Director of IADT Jim Devine. The evening concluded with a lively discussion. The public lecture was followed on Tuesday 27 May by a teaching ... 21 June 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=13 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=13 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 high - probably about 40 attendees, who engaged well with the talk and there were some spirited debates, particularly around the areas of cyborgs and virtual environments. There were several other talks which were very interesting to both IT special... 21 June 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=12 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=12 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 Greaney has been invited to be a member of the Programme Commmittee, evidence of his work in HCI. ... 12 May 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=10 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=10 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 technician, and he had risen to a more senior position within a few months. Digicom install and maintain highly complex audio-visual systems for blue-chip companies. Two visiting lecturers based at Futuresounds in Dublin city gave a very interest... 30 April 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=9 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=9 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. Congratulations to Colin and the students who presented their research. ... 14 April 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=8 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=8 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 Graduate School for Creative Arts and Media http://www.gradcam.ie on 11 April 2008. ... 12 April 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=7 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=7 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 phenomena that are associated with or impacted by emerging technology. Cyberpsychology studies human interactions with other emerging technologies, including the internet, mobile computing, mobile phones, PDAs, games consoles, virtual reality, digital me... 08 April 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=6 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=6 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 year. The Irish National Final of the Imagine Cup in Leopardstown takes place on Thursday April 10th. This year the theme is: Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment. It is one of the most challenging and inspirational them... 28 March 2008 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=5 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=5 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 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=4 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=4 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 graduates with an in-depth understanding of how humans interact with technology and in online environments. The programme is accredited by the Irish Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC). The development of this MSc required consider... 21 November 2007 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=3 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=3 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/) conference at the Institute of Education at the start of the academic year. This is part of doctoral work at the School of Education Queen’s University Belfast. Palmer, M. (2007). Teaching in Institutes of Technology. Paper presented at AISHE... 21 November 2007 http://localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=2 http://www.localhost/ccta/newsstory.php?newsid=2 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 the University of Lancaster on September 2007. Niamh is supervised by Dr Nicola Porter and Dr John Greaney. Niamhs paper is available at http://diuf.unifr.ch/people/lalanned/ MeMos07/files/caprani.pdf. Other papers at the workshop are availab... 21 November 2007