Conceptualising and Measuring Digital Emotion Regulation

Grant number: DP190102627 | Funding period: 2019 - 2022

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Abstract

This project aims to develop the theory and supporting research tools to investigate how, where, and why people engage in digital emotion regulation. Individuals often use digital technologies to shape their emotions, yet social norms often cast such technology use as disrespectful or distracting. The discrepancy between the practice and perception of digital emotion regulation may be due to the lack of a systematic understanding of this behaviour. The project will inform the debate about technology use and its impact on work, education and interpersonal relationships. Additionally, the created knowledge will inform policy-makers, designers, and end-users about how technology use is perceive..

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Digital Emotion Regulation

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<jats:p> People routinely regulate their emotions in order to function more effectively at work, to behave more appropriately in s..

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Does Smartphone Use Drive our Emotions or vice versa? A Causal Analysis

Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Gabriele Marini, Niels van Berkel, Chu Luo, Weiwei JIANG, Kangning YANG, Greg Wadley, Tilman Dingler, Jorge Goncalves, Vassilis Kostakos

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In this paper, we demonstrate the existence of a bidirectional causal relationship between smartphone application use and user emo..

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Accurate Measurement of Handwash Quality Using Sensor Armbands: Instrument Validation Study

Chaofan Wang, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Xiuge Chen, Tilman Dingler, Jorge Goncalves, Vassilis Kostakos

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A Survey of Context Simulation for Testing Mobile Context-Aware Applications

Chu Luo, Jorge Goncalves, Eduardo Velloso, Vassilis Kostakos

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Probing Sucrose Contents in Everyday Drinks Using Miniaturized Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Scanners

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Towards context-free semantic localisation

Gabriele Marini, Jorge Gonçalves, Eduardo Velloso, Raja Jurdak, Vassilis Kostakos

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We propose a context-free semantic localisation approach to visualise and analyse indoor movements. We focus on settings where ind..

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Effect of Ambient Light on Mobile Interaction

Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Niels van Berkel, Weiwei Jiang, Danula Hettiachchi, Vassilis Kostakos, Jorge Goncalves

2019-08-25

In this work we investigate the effect of ambient light on performance during mobile interaction. We evaluate three conditions of ..

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Fueling AI with public displays?: A feasibility study of collecting biometrically tagged consensual data on a university campus

S Hosio, A Alorwu, N Van Berkel, MB López, M Seetharaman, J Oppenlaender, J Goncalves

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Interactive public displays have matured into highly capable two-way interfaces. They can be used for efficiently delivering infor..