PhD Candidates
Marion Bartl |
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Justin Edwards (he/him) Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, interruptions, multitasking, speech interfaces, proactive agentsThesis Title: Understanding Spoken Interruptions to Inform Design of Proactive Speech Agents Email: justin.edwards@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor(s): Assoc Prof Benjamin Cowan (primary supervisor) and Prof. Julie Berndsen (second supervisor) |
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Orla Cooney (she/her) Research interests: Human Computer Interaction, Conversational User Interfaces, Digital Mental Health Thesis Title: Designing Speech Agents to Support Mood Logging Email: orla.cooney@ucdconnect.ie Supervisors: Assoc Prof Benjamin Cowan, Dr. Gavin Doherty (TCD) |
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David Carrie (they/them)
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Megan Fahy |
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Jean Itangayenda Research Interests: Peer-to-peer financial transactions in Rwanda |
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Christo Jacob Research Interests: Exploring Digital Colonialism and the Crisis of LGBTQ Political Representation in South India. Email: christo.jacob@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Páraic Kerrigan |
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Jason Kalathas Research Interests: How Emerging Technologies Are Conceived and Understood Across Society Email: Jason.kalathas@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Eugenia Siapera |
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Xinna Li (She/her)
Research Interests: Health Communication, Science Communication, Social Media
Thesis Title:
Social Media, Information Types and Sources, and the Public Perception and Response to COVID-19 in China
Email: xinna.li@ucdconnect.ie
Supervisor: Professor Eugenia Siapera |
Xiaoyi Liu Research Interests: Formulate Research Topic: Social Media and Misogyny: Online Hate Discourse Against Women in China Email: xiaoyi.liu@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Eugenia Siapera |
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Loise Macharia (She/Her) Research Interests: Journalism Practice; Media studies; Political Conflict; Democratic systems; Governance Thesis Title: Constructive News & Conflict: ”A study of Media Coverage and Terrorism in Kenya 2010-2022 Email: loise.macharia@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Marguerite Barry |
Naoise McNally Research Interests: Auditing Facebook Algorithms: A Longitudinal Study of the Algorithmic Rating of News Email: naoise.mcnally@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Susan Leavy and Dr Marco Bastos |
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Ana Moritz Research Interests: Repertoires of Resistance against Big Tech in Brazil Email: ana.moritz@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Kalpana Shankar |
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Marie O’Neill |
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Giulia Osti (she/her) Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence for GLAMs, Computer Vision, Digital Curation, Heritage Studies, Knowledge Organisation, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Mixed Research Methods, Data Science.
Email: giulia.osti@ucdconnect.ie
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Paola Peña (Peña) (she/her) Research interests: My research focuses on the communicative mechanisms that people and machines employ during speech interactions and how these can promote more natural conversations. Email: paola.pena@ucdconnect.ie |
Aoife Quinn Hegarty Research Interests: Modalities of Representation of Irish Feminist Movements in Irish Media 1960 – 2019: Media Activism, Production Culture and Feminist Organising Email: aoife.quinnhegarty@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Eugenia Siapera and Dr Páraic Kerrigan |
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Jacka Rhys Research Interests: Perspective Taking in Multiparty Human-Machine Dialogue Email: jacka.rhys@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Assoc Prof Benjamin Cowan |
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Marin Schmalzried Research Interests: Imagining and Designing the Metaverse Email: marin.schmalzried@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Professor Eugenia Siapera |
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Daniel Snow Research Interests: Data Aware Design: A framework for understanding human-data interaction in HCI and AI Email: daniel.snow@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr Marguerite Barry |
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Otavio Vinhas (he/him; they/them) Research Interests: Misinformation, Fact-checking, Social Media, Dewesternization Thesis Title: When Fact-checking is not WEIRD: Challenges in fact-checking beyond the Western World Email: otavio.vinhas@ucdconnect.ie Supervisor: Dr. Marco Bastos |
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Yunhan Wu |