Memory loss is a concern for many – especially as we age – and is all too real if we have elderly relatives who show signs of dementia. But, what if technology plays a greater role in the onset of memory loss in younger adults than
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We are creatures of habits and patterns. We celebrate life stages, mark significant events and have weekday and weekend schedules that we generally stick to. We make similar meals and go on relatively similar holidays. We wake up, eat and go to bed at a
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What was originally considered Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction only a decade or so ago has become a reality or at least a potential certainty. It has been suggested that designers in Silicon Valley use SciFi as an inspiration for the creation of new technology. Although
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3rd October 2023 (Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool) Blurring Work-Home Boundaries and the Burnout Epidemic – the up and down sides of a digital hybrid workplace There are many work-based causes of stress, anxiety and burnout. Only some of these we can personally control. Managing the digital
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Managing the digi-tech boundaries between your work and home life 9 June 2023 (Online) – updated 12 Sept 2023 A few months ago Carolyn talked through an online presentation to the Sparck team about managing work-home boundaries. The talk covered: how and why we blur
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If you were wanting to know more about CyberPsychology, this is a good place to start: The British Psychology Society – cyberpsychology section. The section team have been really active since they first launched the section in 2018 in adding articles, tools and resources to
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https://youtu.be/AkKC9SgPBQA 20 April 2023 (In-person UX Studio) – updated 7 July 2023 In this interview with Rich Burn from Solent Partners, at the CCIXR building at Portsmouth University, Carolyn talks about technology in the workplace, and the impact this tech use has on us as
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In a collaborative report involving Code First Girls and Tech Talent Charter (TCC – a government-supported group of over 775 leading UK businesses and organisations) aimed to gain insights into the UK’s diversity talent shortage – and provide recommendations to address the diversity crisis. It
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There is a common misconception, based on research done on split-brain patients in the 1960s, that creativity and analytical thinking activities are either right- or left-hemisphere brain functioning. We often talk about people being either creative or analytical, implying a dominance of either the right
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6 months ago, I was semi-obsessed. I often checked my phone on the sly – making sure others didn’t notice. My WhatsApp was popping through notifications telling me to ‘quickly check the latest message’. I was flicking from one social media app to another, to
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