Jenny Waycott
Biographic Data
| ID | 143259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Waycott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Waycott |
| SIGNATURE | WAYCOTT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4634-0532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Asymmetric Encounters with AI: Professional Designers’ Perceptions and Integration of AI Tools
Older adults co-creating and experiencing VR garden tours: Developing a participatory VR storytelling framework
Older gardeners participated in co-creating, sharing, and viewing narrated VR garden tours. • VR garden tours fostered a sense of connection and community through shared passions. • The tours enabled gardeners to showcase creativity and be inspired by others. • Viewers experienced a strong sense of presence, feeling as if they were “in the garden.” • A participatory VR storytelling framework outlines key roles and elements in the process. Virtual…
When Technologies are Not Enough: The Challenges of Digital Interventions to Address Loneliness in Later Life
This article discusses sociotechnical challenges of technology-based interventions to address loneliness in later life. We bring together participatory and multidisciplinary research conducted in Canada and Australia to explore the limits of digital technologies to help tackle loneliness among frail older people (aged 65+). Drawing on three case studies, we focus on instances when technology-based interventions, such as communication apps, were l…
Could Social Robots Make Us Kinder or Crueller to Humans and Animals
Postdisaster Posttraumatic Growth: Positive Transformations Following the Black Saturday Bushfires
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is emerging in the published literature as an important aspect of postdisaster recovery. Despite these research insights into the positive transformations that people experience, PTG has not been formally operationalised in postdisaster psychosocial recovery efforts. This paper presents findings from a mixed methods study of people affected by the 2009 Victorian “Black Saturday” bushfires. Data from in-depth interviews …
Old and afraid of new communication technologies? Reconceptualising and contesting the 'age-based digital divide
Despite sociological attempts to critically address an age-based digital divide, older adults (65+) continue to be portrayed in the academic literature and public discourse as a homogeneous group characterised by technophobia, digital illiteracy, and technology non-use. Additionally, the role of socioeconomic factors and personal contexts in later life are often overlooked in studies on technology adoption and use. For example, older adults who a…
Ethics and Visual Research Methods: Theory, Methodology, and Practice
This collection presents stories from the field that were gathered from researchers using a breadth of visual methods. Visual methods refer to the use of still or moving images either as forms of data
What's special about aging
Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. --- Christopher A. Le Dantec, Editor
Ethics in Evaluating a Sociotechnical Intervention With Socially Isolated Older Adults
The purpose of this article is to consider how ethical principles can inform the effective design and implementation of technology-based interventions that aim to promote the well-being of socially isolated older adults. We evaluated a new iPad application with small groups of older adults. In this article, we reflect on the ethical issues encountered at each stage of the research process. Drawing on the ethical principles of beneficence, researc…
An empirical study of lecturers’ appropriation of social technologies for higher education
The use of Online Social Networking (OSN) educational activities has become commonplace in today’s higher education. OSN enables lecturers and students to generate and share content, interact, and collaborate in the knowledge construction process. The pedagogical benefits of social technologies have been widely discussed. However, less is known about the processes that lecturers follow when integrating social technologies into their teaching acti…
Exploring ethical frontiers of visual methods
Visual research is a fast-growing interdisciplinary field. The flexibility and diversity of visual research methods are seen as strengths by their adherents, yet adoption of such approaches often requires researchers to negotiate complex ethical terrain. The digital technological explosion has also provided visual researchers with access to an increasingly diverse array of visual methodologies and tools that, far from being ethically neutral, req…
Ability-performance relations during skill acquisition
Industry depends on effective training for employees so that organisations can be efficient and productive. A number of theories exist to explain the relationship between ability and performance. The present paper explores difficulties in testing theories of skill acquisition, with a focus on Ackerman's model of ability—performance relations, and summarises various research projects which have tested this theory. Suggestions are made for further …
Old and afraid of new communication technologies? Reconceptualising and contesting the 'age-based digital divide
Despite sociological attempts to critically address an age-based digital divide, older adults (65+) continue to be portrayed in the academic literature and public discourse as a homogeneous group characterised by technophobia, digital illiteracy, and technology non-use. Additionally, the role of socioeconomic factors and personal contexts in later life are often overlooked in studies on technology adoption and use. For example, older adults who a…
Ethics in Evaluating a Sociotechnical Intervention With Socially Isolated Older Adults
The purpose of this article is to consider how ethical principles can inform the effective design and implementation of technology-based interventions that aim to promote the well-being of socially isolated older adults. We evaluated a new iPad application with small groups of older adults. In this article, we reflect on the ethical issues encountered at each stage of the research process. Drawing on the ethical principles of beneficence, researc…
Postdisaster Posttraumatic Growth: Positive Transformations Following the Black Saturday Bushfires
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is emerging in the published literature as an important aspect of postdisaster recovery. Despite these research insights into the positive transformations that people experience, PTG has not been formally operationalised in postdisaster psychosocial recovery efforts. This paper presents findings from a mixed methods study of people affected by the 2009 Victorian “Black Saturday” bushfires. Data from in-depth interviews …
When Technologies are Not Enough: The Challenges of Digital Interventions to Address Loneliness in Later Life
This article discusses sociotechnical challenges of technology-based interventions to address loneliness in later life. We bring together participatory and multidisciplinary research conducted in Canada and Australia to explore the limits of digital technologies to help tackle loneliness among frail older people (aged 65+). Drawing on three case studies, we focus on instances when technology-based interventions, such as communication apps, were l…
Could Social Robots Make Us Kinder or Crueller to Humans and Animals
Ability-performance relations during skill acquisition
Industry depends on effective training for employees so that organisations can be efficient and productive. A number of theories exist to explain the relationship between ability and performance. The present paper explores difficulties in testing theories of skill acquisition, with a focus on Ackerman's model of ability—performance relations, and summarises various research projects which have tested this theory. Suggestions are made for further …
Exploring ethical frontiers of visual methods
Visual research is a fast-growing interdisciplinary field. The flexibility and diversity of visual research methods are seen as strengths by their adherents, yet adoption of such approaches often requires researchers to negotiate complex ethical terrain. The digital technological explosion has also provided visual researchers with access to an increasingly diverse array of visual methodologies and tools that, far from being ethically neutral, req…
Ability-performance relations during skill acquisition
Industry depends on effective training for employees so that organisations can be efficient and productive. A number of theories exist to explain the relationship between ability and performance. The present paper explores difficulties in testing theories of skill acquisition, with a focus on Ackerman's model of ability—performance relations, and summarises various research projects which have tested this theory. Suggestions are made for further …
An empirical study of lecturers’ appropriation of social technologies for higher education
The use of Online Social Networking (OSN) educational activities has become commonplace in today’s higher education. OSN enables lecturers and students to generate and share content, interact, and collaborate in the knowledge construction process. The pedagogical benefits of social technologies have been widely discussed. However, less is known about the processes that lecturers follow when integrating social technologies into their teaching acti…
Exploring ethical frontiers of visual methods
Visual research is a fast-growing interdisciplinary field. The flexibility and diversity of visual research methods are seen as strengths by their adherents, yet adoption of such approaches often requires researchers to negotiate complex ethical terrain. The digital technological explosion has also provided visual researchers with access to an increasingly diverse array of visual methodologies and tools that, far from being ethically neutral, req…
Ethics in Evaluating a Sociotechnical Intervention With Socially Isolated Older Adults
The purpose of this article is to consider how ethical principles can inform the effective design and implementation of technology-based interventions that aim to promote the well-being of socially isolated older adults. We evaluated a new iPad application with small groups of older adults. In this article, we reflect on the ethical issues encountered at each stage of the research process. Drawing on the ethical principles of beneficence, researc…
Ethics and Visual Research Methods: Theory, Methodology, and Practice
This collection presents stories from the field that were gathered from researchers using a breadth of visual methods. Visual methods refer to the use of still or moving images either as forms of data
What's special about aging
Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. --- Christopher A. Le Dantec, Editor
Postdisaster Posttraumatic Growth: Positive Transformations Following the Black Saturday Bushfires
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is emerging in the published literature as an important aspect of postdisaster recovery. Despite these research insights into the positive transformations that people experience, PTG has not been formally operationalised in postdisaster psychosocial recovery efforts. This paper presents findings from a mixed methods study of people affected by the 2009 Victorian “Black Saturday” bushfires. Data from in-depth interviews …
Old and afraid of new communication technologies? Reconceptualising and contesting the 'age-based digital divide
Despite sociological attempts to critically address an age-based digital divide, older adults (65+) continue to be portrayed in the academic literature and public discourse as a homogeneous group characterised by technophobia, digital illiteracy, and technology non-use. Additionally, the role of socioeconomic factors and personal contexts in later life are often overlooked in studies on technology adoption and use. For example, older adults who a…
Could Social Robots Make Us Kinder or Crueller to Humans and Animals
When Technologies are Not Enough: The Challenges of Digital Interventions to Address Loneliness in Later Life
This article discusses sociotechnical challenges of technology-based interventions to address loneliness in later life. We bring together participatory and multidisciplinary research conducted in Canada and Australia to explore the limits of digital technologies to help tackle loneliness among frail older people (aged 65+). Drawing on three case studies, we focus on instances when technology-based interventions, such as communication apps, were l…
Older adults co-creating and experiencing VR garden tours: Developing a participatory VR storytelling framework
Older gardeners participated in co-creating, sharing, and viewing narrated VR garden tours. • VR garden tours fostered a sense of connection and community through shared passions. • The tours enabled gardeners to showcase creativity and be inspired by others. • Viewers experienced a strong sense of presence, feeling as if they were “in the garden.” • A participatory VR storytelling framework outlines key roles and elements in the process. Virtual…
Asymmetric Encounters with AI: Professional Designers’ Perceptions and Integration of AI Tools
Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Knowledge management (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Engineering ethics (4 works) · Technology Use by Older Adults (4 works) · Perception (3 works) · Psychological intervention (3 works)