2024

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  • AI
  • HCI
Humans protect AI bots from playtime exclusion

Our research featured in the media
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  • VR
  • Anxiety
Virtual Reality transforming health

At the 2024 Great Exhibition Road Festival (15th of June), we had a successful demonstration of our research on VR for health.

2023

Student receiving poster award
  • VR
  • OCD
Congratulations to Anna for winning LISS-DTP poster award at KCL

Anna presented a poster of her research at the Winter Gathering of the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Programme.

Student celebrating successful PhD thesis
  • VR
  • Anxiety
Huge congrats to Ian Chard for successfully defending his PhD on June 15 2023!

Ian has successfully defended his thesis "Virtual reality exposure therapy for reducing social anxiety in people who stutter"

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  • Media
  • Digital
Nature Meets Future Discussion at Imperial Tech Foresight 2042

Dr Nejra Van Zalk participated in a discussion on commons and the future of digital media

2022

  • Wearables
  • Digital
Dr Nejra Van Zalk provided evidence for Report on Wearable Technologies

Dr Van Zalk contributed to a briefing paper by the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering on the future of wearable technologies.
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  • Engineering
  • Future
Participation in EPSRC’s ‘Tomorrow’s Engineering Challenges’

Dr Nejra Van Zalk took part in a 3-day workshop on tomorrow's engineering challenges, organised by the EPSRC

2021

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  • Research
Our Study is Advertised via the British Stammering Association

You are invited to take part in a remote trial of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy aimed at reducing social anxiety in people who stammer.
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  • Research
Dr van Zalk Discussing Online Lives on Tech Shock Podcast

How much are we making our own decisions when we're online? Why are we cavalier about giving away our data online?
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  • Research
We Are Now Recruiting!

We are looking for volunteers to trial Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy that is designed to reduce social anxiety linked with stammering.
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  • News
Sign up for VR for stammering

Sign up to the mailing list if you stammer and are interested in contributing to research on Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
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  • Event
Stammercast Podcast Series 1 Episode 2

Ian Chard talks about his research on Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for people who stammer
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  • News
Academic and policy leaders debate future of wearable technologies

Briefing Paper by Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
Briefing Paper launch
  • Event
IMSE Briefing Paper Launch: The future of wearable technology

Launch event by Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering

  • Event
The Future of Digital Privacy: Legislating to Preserve Human Autonomy

Project Bijou online talk
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  • News
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy Focus Group

Ian Chard has teamed up with STAMMA, the British Stammering Association, for his VR study
  • Event
The future of dating

How we can build, shape and sustain meaningful relationships in an increasingly online world? Join our panel of experts to discuss the futur
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  • Event
Never Lick the Spoon: Episode 16

An Apple (Watch) a Day (Part 2)

2020

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  • News
What friendships really look like these days

Nejra Van Zalk and Claire P. Monks preview their book Online Peer Engagement in Adolescence (Routledge)
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  • Event
Are Driverless Cars A Good Idea?

Debate for Future Commuter event, Imperial Lates
  • News
Next-generation privacy: Why we need to do more to avoid mass datafication

Article in Imperial Magazine
  • Event
Robot-Assisted Training for Primary Care

Robot-Assisted Training for Primary Care: How Can Robots Help Train Doctors in Medical Examinations?

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  • News
It's time to take on Big Tech over Online Harms

Blog post for The Forum
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  • Event
Imperial academics inform policymakers on preventing online harms

The Forum’s first ever online panel event

2019

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  • Event
Invited talk at the Imperial Tech Foresight 2039

  • News
How the technology of 2039 could reshape human needs

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  • News
Launch of HuBEx

Launch of the Human Behaviour and Experience Research Network of Excellence
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  • News
Imperial academics inform policymakers on preventing online harms

Interview about online event
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  • Event
Never Lick the Spoon Podcast: Episode 1 – Smart tattoos and internet blues

Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
  • Event
BBC: Do machines make the rights choices for children?

Invited panel member for the BBC Media, Tech and Society: Who is Responsible in the Age of Intelligent Machines Conference
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  • Event
Imperial Business Partners Webinar

Invited webinar for Imperial Business Partners Webinar Series

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Imperial College London
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