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 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

I work on the design and evaluation of technologies for health and psychological wellbeing.

  • online interventions for youth mental health
  • perinatal mental health
  • VR-based therapies

I'm helping to design technology with Indigenous Australians:

  • #thismymob project (based at UTS)
  • collaboration across language barriers (based at CDU)
  • Living Archive of Aboriginal Art
  • technology for people experiencing family violence

I'm part of a team studying how emotions influence technology use:

  • conceptualising and measuring 'Digital Emotion Regulation'

completed projects

  • WeHELP pregnancy support, with Western Health and the Melbourne Medical School
  • investigator on MSSI project 'Communicating Climate Effectiveness: improving local development and climate change project effectiveness using mobile phones in the Nadi Basin, Fiji'
  • research fellow on ARC Linkage project Social Networking Sites for Ambivalent Socialisers: The Case of Smoking Cessation
  • 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'
  • PhD on communication and collaboration in virtual worlds

(funding received)

Teaching

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

(previous)

Current Events

  • seeking Masters students to work on projects on virtual reality and emotion
  • co-organized the 4th Symposium on Computing and Mental Health at CHI 2019, with accompanying special issue of JMIR Mental Health
  • co-editing special issue of JMIR Mental Health on Video Games for Mental Health
  • A/C for CHI 2020 Health subcommittee

New Publications

  • Baptista, S., Trawley, S., Pouwer, F., Oldenburg, B., Wadley, G., Speight, J. (2019) What do adults with type 2 diabetes want from the 'perfect' app? Results from the second Diabetes MILES—Australia (MILES2) study. Accepted for publication in Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics.
  • Birk, M., Wadley, G., Vanden Abeele, V., Mandryk, R., Torous, J. (2019) Video Games for Mental Health. Accepted for publication in ACM Interactions.
  • Lederman, Gleeson, Wadley, D'Alfonso, Rice, Santesteban-Echarri, Alvarez-Jimenez (2019) Support for carers of young people with mental illness: design and trial of an ICT-based therapy. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 26(1)
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