Yesterday our IT-Senior group in Åsele had the opportunity to try out a basic VR implementation, during one of our regular bi-weekly meetings at Åsele Library. Although they found it…
What is Quality of Life?
Q-Life is dedicated to improving quality of life in relation to the use of information and communication technologies. Quality of life is not so easy to define - although most…
Who wants to travel digitally?
Our new chapter "Who Wants to Travel Digitally, and Why? – An Analysis of Personal Traits and Vicarious Sense of Place in a Virtual Environment" is now available for free…
The Displaced Self
The Displaced Self: Impacts of Digital Disembodiment on Quality of LifePalgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology, published October 2025 Provides in-depth discussion of the impacts of digital disembodiment on human behaviour and…
Paper for WorldCIST’25
Digital travel as an alternative to physicaltravel – an analysis of personal traits and vicarious sense of placeIngvar Tjostheim & John WaterworthAccepted for WordCIST'25 in Brazil
Sexting, age and digital vulnerabilities
Presented at IHIET 2024, in Venice, August 26-28, 2024. The paper is available for free downloading (Open Access) here.
New paper on inter-generational exchange programmes
Mary Webster, Kelly Norwood, John Waterworth & Gerard Leavey (2023)Effectiveness of Intergenerational Exchange Programs Between Adolescents and Older Adults: A Systematic Review, Journal of Intergenerational Relationships.DOI: 10.1080/15350770.2023.2267532
Guest editorial: Special Issue on Digital Travel.
John A. Waterworth and Ingvar Tjostheim.Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. online ahead of print
Human Sovereignty under Travel Restrictions?
Our paper "Human sovereignty when a disease is controlled through restrictions on persons: Citizens’ views on whether scientific evidence for restrictions is necessary" presented by Ingvar Tjostheim at IACAP 2023…
Dark patterns paper for Pisa!
Our paper "Uncovering Dark Patterns - Learning through Serious Gameplay about the Dangers of Sharing Data." (by Ingvar Tjostheim, Chris Wales and John Waterworth) has been accepted for publication at…
New paper on the personal characteristics of digital travellers
Tomorrow’s digital travellers – who are they? by Ingvar Tjostheim and John Waterworth Accepted for publication at ICOTTS'22 Conference in Santiago, Chile
New article on Enhancing Quality of Life in Ambient Spaces
Our editorial article for this special edition of Frontiers in Computer Science is now available on-line here.