WHO I AM

I am an interdisciplinary researcher with an expertise in psychology, human-machine communication, consumer culture, and science and technology studies (STS). I am trained in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodological approaches. In addition to my academic research, I have experience in counseling and community-based projects.

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WHAT I DO

From social media through virtual worlds to chatbots, interactive technologies captivate people's imagination. I study how people make sense of the world with and through interactive technologies, and what this relationship means for their identities, relationships, and agency.

SELECTED WORK: HUMAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION

Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory (with Professor Gina Neff)

Talking to Bots: Symbiotic Agency and the Case of Tay (with Professor Gina Neff)

Time hacking: How technologies mediate time (with Joey Eschrich and Professor Ed Finn)

SELECTED WORK: PSYCHOLOGY

Who benefits from creative mindsets? (with Professor Eniko Bereczki)

Facing the pariah of science: the Frankenstein myth as a social and ethical reference for scientists (with Professor Ruth Wylie)

Increasing self-efficacy beliefs and curiosity through transmedia storytelling (with Professor Areej Mawasi et al.)

SELECTED WORK: CONSUMER CULTURE

Towards a conceptual model of virtual identity in virtual worlds (with Professor Bernadett Koles)

Digital Object Attachment (with Professor Bernadett Koles)

The impact of avatars and digital objects on adolescent gamers (with Professor Bernadett Koles)

SELECTED WORK: STS

Agency in the Digital Age: Using Symbiotic Agency to Explain Human–Technology Interaction (with Professor Gina Neff)

Exploring Responsible Research and Innovation in Museums (with Professor Rae Ostman et al.)

The Chimera, the Robot Artist, and the Cardboard Hand (with Professor Areej Mawasi et al.)

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