Understanding the Cognitive Impact of Circadian Disruption: Designing for Shift Workers in a Healthcare Setting
Introduction In the fast-paced and high-stakes world of healthcare, every decision can have life-altering consequences. Healthcare professionals, often working irregular hours, are particularly vulnerable to disruptions in their circadian rhythms—the natural, internal process that regulates the sleep-wake cycle. Even with adequate sleep, misalignment of these rhythms can significantly impair cognitive function, decision-making abilities, and error … Continue reading
ASTRA – AI Solutions for Time-Restricted Academics
Are you an academic who is using LLMs in your work? We’d love to hear from you. Complete this survey and we’ll send you a token of our appreciation or find out more about this project here. This project delves into the challenges faced by academics, particularly women and non-binary individuals, who bear the burden … Continue reading
Promoting Inclusive Research Practices
This project aims to make dementia research more inclusive that addresses the challenges experienced by researchers and ethnically-minoritized communities using co-production methods. We urgently need greater participation of ethnically-minoritized groups in dementia research to understand the reasons for differences in vulnerability and survival, and to provide better interventions. We need to know what barriers ethnically-minoritized … Continue reading
Gendered Mental Load and Smart Technology in the family home
There is a long history of labour saving technologies in the home to reduce the amount of effort exerted on household chores. However research shows that much of the labour performed in the home is cognitive and emotional and is often hidden from society and also from the design of technologies. This type of work … Continue reading
Designing the in-app teaching experience for spreadsheets
The modern workplace often places demands on workers to quickly learn and apply new practices in their workflow to maintain productivity. One of the easiest ways to learn about best practices and solutions to common problems at work is via colleagues, particularly when using complex software such as spreadsheets, where expertise is essential to reduce … Continue reading
Digital technology for neurodiverse students
Exploring Accessibility and digital system support for neurodivergent students Blended learning has become a mainstream learning experience for many universities, including UCL, during the COVID-19 pandemic. While blended learning has received much attention over the years, particularly in the area of education, we still know little about how people with disabilities engage in blended learning … Continue reading
Research Compliance Buddy: AI for Navigating Data Protection and Ethics procedures
Be the first to test out a new PALS chatbot designed to help with your data protection and/or ethics approval application for an hour and earn £9! Are you a UCL PALS researcher in one of the following situations?1) you are about to embark on a data and/or ethics application and require support.2) you have a … Continue reading
Using digital games to recover from daily work strain
Digital games have been demonstrated to promote recovery from daily work strain. However, prior research has not examined the role that player experience (PX) plays in post-work recovery despite the fact that theories in this area rely implicitly on PX concepts. Hence, this research seeks to understand how the experience of immersion shapes the recovery … Continue reading
BreakBOT: A Digital Emotion Regulation Chatbot
Students frequently use social media (SM) as a digital break from studying. Concerns have been raised that these breaks harm academic performance and wellbeing by acting as a form of procrastination. Counter evidence suggests they can also act as a form of recovery that positively supports performance and well-being. It is currently unclear how SM … Continue reading
Leveraging AI to Overcome the Academic Peer Review Crisis
In this project we focus on alleviating the peer review crisis in academia. With an increasing number of submissions and a limited number of reviewers, reviewers are becoming overburdened, leading to delays in the review process due to a shortage of reviewers. This research explores using AI tools, such as ChatGPT, to support reviewers by … Continue reading
Improving Time Management in Academia through Better Time Estimation Support
This project investigates time management challenges in academia focusing on the extensive time spent on planning tasks and highlighting the need for effective time estimation tools. The project’s objective is to identify and investigate the effectiveness of planning support tools that can help academics manage their time better. Initial studies involved diaries and interviews with … Continue reading
