Greg Wadley

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Greg Wadley

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne.

I study the use of technology for health, psychological wellbeing, and social interaction.

I hold degrees in Human-Computer Interaction (PhD), Cognitive Science (MSc), and Computer Science (BSc).

I am a member of ACM SIGCHI and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia.

You can contact me via:

  • email: greg.wadley at unimelb.edu.au
  • twitter: @GregWadley
  • phone: +613 8344 1586
  • office: room 3.03, Doug McDonell building

Research Projects

    current

  • ARC Discovery project Conceptualising and measuring Digital Emotion Regulation
  • ARC Indigenous Discovery project #thismymob: Establishing Digital Land Rights and Reconnecting Indigenous Communities through Emerging Technologies
  • Situated Learning for Collaboration across Language Barriers
  • Living Archive of Aboriginal Art
  • Virtual Reality Therapy for Youth Mental Health
  • Moderated Online Social Therapy
  • Driving for Change
  • IVY - InVestigating an online communitY for emotional health in pregnancy: a Beischer Foundation project based at the Judith Lumley Centre

    • completed

  • WeHELP project, with Western Health and the Melbourne Medical School, to build pregnancy support technology
  • investigator on MSSI project 'Communicating Climate Effectiveness: improving local development and climate change project effectiveness using mobile phones in the Nadi Basin, Fiji' (completed)
  • research fellow on ARC Linkage project Social Networking Sites for Ambivalent Socialisers: The Case of Smoking Cessation (completed)
  • research fellow on IBES project 'Getting Well and Being Present: Using ambient technology to create a presence at home and at school for hospitalised children' (completed)
  • PhD on communication and collaboration in virtual worlds

Teaching

current

  • ISYS 90077 Designing eHealth Applications (coordinator)
  • INFO 90002 Database Systems and Information Modelling (coordinator)

previous

see Teaching page

Recent Publications (2018 - )

  • Lederman, Gleeson, Wadley, D'Alfonso, Rice, Santesteban-Echarri, Alvarez-Jimenez. (accepted). Support for carers of young people with mental illness: design and trial of an ICT-based therapy. Accepted for publication in ACM ToCHI.
  • Wadley, Calvo, Torous, Czerwinksi (2018). 3rd Symposium on Computing and Mental Health: Understanding, Engaging, and Delighting Users. in Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
  • Fletcher S, Davidson S, Wade D, Wadley G, Reavley N, Gunn J. Unmet mental health needs in a male-dominated immigrant workforce: Is mobile technology the answer? 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Academic Primary Care; London: 11-12 July 2018.
  • Webb, Wadley, Sanci (2018). Experiences of General Practitioners and Practice Support Staff Using a Health and Lifestyle Screening App in Primary Health Care: Implementation Case Study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth.
  • Rice S, Gleeson J, Leicester S, Bendall S, D'Alfonso S, Gilbertson T, Killackey E, Parker A, Lederman R, Wadley G, Santesteban-Echarri O, Pryor I, Mawren D, Ratheesh A, Alvarez-Jimenez M. (2018) Implementation of the Enhanced Moderated Online Social Therapy (MOST+) Model Within a National Youth E-Mental Health Service (eheadspace): Protocol for a Single Group Pilot Study for Help-Seeking Young People. JMIR Res Protoc 2018;7(2):e48. DOI: 10.2196/resprot.8813
  • Davidson, S., Wadley, G., Reavley, N., Gunn, J., Fletcher, S. (2018). Psychological distress and unmet mental health needs among urban taxi drivers: a cross-sectional survey. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 52:5.
  • (full list of publications)

Engagement

    media

  • article in The Conversation on "Why comparing technology to drugs isn’t simply a question of addiction"
  • spoke with Computer Weekly UK, The Australian Financial Review, The Age, ABC News, Medical Republic and 3CR Breakfast about virtual reality for mental health
  • spoke with The New Daily about social media addiction, and with JJJ Hack and 2SER about videogames and mental health
  • stories in Pursuit about research on taxi driver health and youth mental health
  • article on practical uses for VR for the Australian Academy of Science's Nova website

    presentations

  • seminar on Digital Emotion Regulation at the University of Melbourne
  • seminar on #ThisMyMob project to co-design technology with Indigenous Australians, at the University of Melbourne
  • presented at the Austin Hospital's 3D Med Symposium 2017
  • presented This is your Brain on Virtual Reality during Science Week
  • presented at Monash University sensilab forum, April 2017
  • presented on The Virtual And Reality – Perception, Participation, Potential, at Experimenta Social, April 2017
  • presented at Can Digital Technology Really Improve the Health and Wellbeing of the Population?, April 2017
  • presented at Virtual Reality in Neuro-Rehabilitation: What Does The Future Look Like? at the Melbourne Brain Centre, April 2017
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