The conference programme is now live, and includes games designer Tassos Stevens (Papa Sangre), Steve Benford from the Mixed Reality Lab, Judith Good and Hugo Critchley from University of Sussex, Alessandro Vinciarelli in Social Signal Processing, Tony Churnside from BBC Research & Development, funding consultants from AHRC and EPSRC, and many more. We are looking … Continue reading
REGISTRATION IS OPEN for Inputs-Outputs conference on engagement on causality and quantification of engagement, immersion, and presence in performance and human-computer interaction, on 26 June 2013, at the University of Sussex. Registration is £25 for students, £40 for faculty staff and professionals. The full list of speakers includes international experts of the neuroscience of engagement, … Continue reading
Research Professional have recently launched their new look funding databaseNavigating around the new database has changed considerably (now more intuitive) and has new features which will make searching for suitable funding quicker and more precise. Therefore, we have organised a training day on the new Research Professional database.Date: 15th February, 2013 Time: Session 1: 2pm … Continue reading
Three exciting events NOVELLA is pleased to be hosting in March 2013. On 20 March 13.00- 16.30 we will be hosting a workshop entitled ‘Observation: Looking at family Lives’ at the Mass Observation archive at the University of Sussex. Places are extremely limited and early booking is recommended. Observation: Looking at family Lives The Mass Observation … Continue reading
Heard of pay it forward? Donate 5 minutes of your time to this quick global study – the resulting data will be made freely available to researchers! Gert Storms and Simon De Deyne (University of Leuven) are running a worldwide word association test in English. They already have >1.25 million responses, but they need more. … Continue reading
If you would like to participate, please access the questionnaire here: https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/sussex/lifeadjustment/ Today’s post is a request from junior researchers in the School of Psychology, who are recruiting volunteers to complete a questionnaire online… We are currently looking for participants to take part in our research study for our third year dissertation project. The study investigates … Continue reading
Radio Free Brighton produces the “My Research Records” show, where Brighton-based researchers discuss their research and why it is important. Discussion is interspersed with their favourite music, which may (or may not) be relevant to the research. You can listen to the broadcasts via Facebook (Radio Free Brighton) or from the webpage http://radiofreebrighton.org.uk/shows/my-research-records/ Get involved: My … Continue reading
NVivo is qualitative data analysis software, designed to assist you in your research. Unfortunately, it won’t find the answers for you, but it does a cracking job of organising your data and helping you to interrogate it. You can link your data internally and externally, use demographic variables, and explore relationships between participants and ideas. … Continue reading
In this first of an occasional series, Dr. John Drury, senior lecturer in Psychology at Sussex, presents his ongoing research into the behaviour of crowds in different situations. The final paragraph perfectly illustrates the application of the group’s research, and demonstrates the social impact of the results. Name: Dr. John Drury Email: j.drury@sussex.ac.uk Website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/affiliates/panic/ … Continue reading
