Our paper The Virtual Human Resource Development (VHRD) approach: An integrative literature review (Rahimi, S., Khorasani, A., Rezaeizadeh, M. & Waterworth, J. A.) is now accepted for publication in the European Journal of Training and Development. Well done Somaye Rahimi!
Privacy in a lock-down?
Our submission entitled “Human sovereignty in a lock-down situation: is there room for privacy?” by Ingvar Tjostheim and John Waterworth has been accepted for presentation at SPT 2021: Technological Imaginaries in June this year
Enhancing Quality of Life in Ambient Spaces
We are editing a joint Special Issue of Frontiers in Computer Science and Frontiers in Psychology on this topic. The focus of this collection of papers will be on ways in which technology can be used to form ambient spaces that enhance the lives of the people living, working, travelling or in other ways experiencing those places.
Presentation at Presence 2020
John Waterworth and Ingvar Tjostheim presented the paper: “Integrating the world of presence theory: Illusion, pretence, attending, and pretending” at the 18th Conference of the International Society for Presence Research on Friday, October 23rd.
Primitive Interaction Design
Just out, this new book by Kei Hoshi and John Waterworth, in the Springer HCI Series!
Ambient interaction design in a primitive society
Session at DAPI 2020

We chaired an interesting session at the DAPI conference, which was held online, as well as co-authoring 3 of the 6 papers presented! Click on Publications for more details.
Paper on virtual tourism at (virtual) HCII 2020
Yesterday, Ingvar Tjostheim did a great job presenting our paper “Virtual Tourism in a Game Environment: Untangling Judged Affordances and Sense of Place” at the virtual version of HCII 2020 (which was to have been held in Copenhagen)!
Better Future for Healthy Ageing
This week we attended (remotely) the BFHA2020 conference in Zagreb, presenting a paper entitled: Not “the computer” but “the place”: designing and evaluating future ambient spaces for improved quality of life in the elderly.
New book chapter published by Academic Press!
