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Email

dalfonso@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Senior Lecturer in Digital Health
School of Computing and Information Systems
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0001-7407-8730

Dr Simon D'Alfonso

Senior Lecturer in Digital Health
School of Computing and Information Systems

95 Scholarly works
13 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2022

    Research Grant

    Mitigating Cyberbullying Experiences of Younger Users on Instagram
  • 2021

    Research Grant

    Using Smartphone Sensor Data to Monitor and Predict Mental Health Conditions
  • 2021

    Research Grant

    Orygen Virtual World Project: Bringing to Life a New Age of Digitally Enhanced Youth Mental Health Services
  • 2016

    Journal article

    Belief merging with the aim of truthlikeness
    DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0825-y
  • 2015

    Journal article

    Weathering the infostorm
    DOI: 10.1007/s11016-015-9997-9
  • 2014

    Journal article

    The logic of knowledge and the flow of information
    DOI: 10.1007/s11023-013-9310-x
  • 2011

    Journal article

    On quantifying semantic information
    DOI: 10.3390/info2010061
Simon D'Alfonso

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    From prediction to explanation: Using screen text to understand smartphone use and user behaviour
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2026.103878
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Real-World Meditation App Engagement: Longitudinal Study of the Medito Meditation App
    DOI: 10.2196/79366
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    Illuminating Memory: Using Ambient Light to Enrich Generative Representations of Daily Life
    DOI: 10.1145/3772363.3798359
  • 2026

    Journal article

    NarrativeSense: Predicting Affective States in University Students through Smartphone Sensing and Contextual Narratives
    DOI: 10.1145/3788688
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Engagement With Meditation Apps: Cross-Sectional Survey of Use and Associations
    DOI: 10.2196/71960
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Behavioral Indicators of Loneliness: Predicting University Students' Loneliness Scores from Smartphone Sensing Data
    DOI: 10.1145/3714394.3756345
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Can a digital intervention ‘Momentum’ improve social functioning and transdiagnostic symptoms for Australian youth at ultrahigh risk for psychosis? Protocol for a superiority randomised controlled trial comparing treatment as usual with and without Momentum
    DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-102132
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Feasibility and acceptability of Orygen Virtual Worlds: a virtual world platform for delivering youth mental health treatment (Preprint)
    DOI: 10.2196/89183

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