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Overview

Jenny Waycott is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a notable focus on subfields including demography, social psychology, human-computer interaction, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their work centers on several main topics, reflecting a strong emphasis on technology use by older adults and aging-related research. Key topical areas include technology use by older adults, aging and gerontology research, virtual reality applications and impacts, music therapy and health, dementia and cognitive impairment research, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction, and artificial intelligence in service interactions.

Jenny Waycott has contributed to a variety of publication venues. Frequent venues for their research include:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • JMIR Aging
  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
  • Australasian Journal on Ageing

They have collaborated extensively with other researchers, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Ryan Kelly
  • Steven Baker
  • Jeanette Tamplin
  • Tanara Vieira Sousa
  • Phoebe Stretton-Smith

Recent publications by Jenny Waycott reflect diverse interests within human-computer interaction and aging. Some notable papers include:

  • "The net generation are not big users of Web 2.0 technologies: preliminary findings," 2024, Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • "The harm in conflating aging with accessibility," 2021, Communications of the ACM
  • "Understanding Older Adults' Experiences With Technologies for Health Self-management: Interview Study," 2023, JMIR Aging
  • "Dignity, Autonomy, and Style of Company," 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "The Role of Staff in Facilitating Immersive Virtual Reality for Enrichment in Aged Care: An Ethic of Care Perspective," 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Jenny Waycott's research contributions focus heavily on analyzing how older adults engage with technology, especially in contexts related to health self-management, accessibility, and immersive virtual reality in aged care. Their work also touches on broader psychological and social dimensions of aging and technology, including dignity and autonomy.

Best Publications

  • Implementing Web 2.0 technologies in higher education: A collective case study

    Sue Bennett;Andrea Bishop;Barney Dalgarno;Jenny Waycott

  • Digital divides? Student and staff perceptions of information and communication technologies

    Jenny Waycott;Sue Bennett;Gregor Kennedy;Barney Dalgarno

  • WP 4 - GUIDELINES FOR LEARNING/TEACHING/TUTORING IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT

    Claire O'Malley;Giasemi Vavoula;Jp Glew;Josie Taylor

  • Beyond natives and immigrants: exploring types of net generation students

    Gregor E. Kennedy;Terry S. Judd;Barney Dalgarno;Jenny Waycott

  • The net generation are not big users of Web 2.0 technologies: Preliminary findings

    Gregor Kennedy;Barney Dalgarno;Kathleen Gray;Terry Judd

  • Towards a task model for mobile learning: a dialectical approach

    Josie Taylor;Mike Sharples;Claire O'Malley;Giasemi Vavoula

  • Educating the Net Generation – A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy

    Gregor Kennedy;Barney Dalgarno;Sue Bennett;Kathleen Gray

  • Students' experiences with PDAs for reading course materials

    J. Waycott;A. Kukulska-Hulme

  • Mobile technologies: prospects for their use in learning in informal science settings

    Eileen Scanlon;Ann C. Jones;Jenny Waycott

  • Older adults as digital content producers

    Jenny Waycott;Frank Vetere;Sonja Pedell;Lars Kulik

  • Old and afraid of new communication technologies? Reconceptualising and contesting the ‘age-based digital divide’:

    Barbara Barbosa Neves;Jenny Waycott;Sue Malta

  • Combatting social isolation and increasing social participation of older adults through the use of technology: A systematic review of existing evidence

    Steven Baker;Jeni Warburton;Jenny Waycott;Frances Batchelor

  • Guidelines for Ethical Visual Research Methods

    S Cox;S Drew;M Guillemin;C Howell

  • Evaluating the use of interactive virtual reality technology with older adults living in residential aged care

    Steven Baker;Jenny Waycott;Elena Robertson;Romina Carrasco

  • PDAs as lifelong learning tools: an activity theory based analysis

    Jenny Waycott;Ann Jones;Eileen Scanlon

  • Not For Me: Older Adults Choosing Not to Participate in a Social Isolation Intervention

    Jenny Waycott;Frank Vetere;Sonja Pedell;Amee Morgans

  • Interrogating Social Virtual Reality as a Communication Medium for Older Adults

    Steven Baker;Ryan M. Kelly;Jenny Waycott;Romina Carrasco

  • Making students' work visible on the social web: A blessing or a curse?

    Jenny Waycott;Judithe Sheard;Celia Thompson;Rosemary Clerehan

  • Avatar-Mediated Communication in Social VR: An In-depth Exploration of Older Adult Interaction in an Emerging Communication Platform

    Steven Baker;Jenny Waycott;Romina Carrasco;Ryan M. Kelly

  • Playing Blind: Revealing the World of Gamers with Visual Impairment

    Ronny Andrade;Melissa J. Rogerson;Jenny Waycott;Steven Baker

  • Making science real: photo-sharing in biology and chemistry

    Jenny Waycott;Barney Dalgarno;Gregor Kennedy;Andrea Bishop

  • The net generation are not big users of Web 2.0 technologies: Preliminary findings from a large cross-institutional study

    Gregor Kennedy;Barney Dalgarno;K Gray;T Judd

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Vetere
Frank Vetere University of Melbourne
Gregor Kennedy
Gregor Kennedy University of Melbourne
Lars Kulik
Lars Kulik University of Melbourne
Eileen Scanlon
Eileen Scanlon The Open University
Sue Bennett
Sue Bennett University of Wollongong
Mark Levene
Mark Levene Birkbeck, University of London
Steven Prawer
Steven Prawer University of Melbourne
John Vines
John Vines Northumbria University
Claire O'Malley
Claire O'Malley Teesside University
Felicity A. Baker
Felicity A. Baker University of Melbourne

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