Rhonda Mcewen
Biographic Data
| ID | 185749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhonda Mcewen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhonda |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcewen |
| SIGNATURE | MCEWEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9451-2909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nudging towards sustainability: A systematic review of digital strategies for achieving ESG goals in corporate real estate
The environmental impact of corporate activities is under increasing scrutiny from sustainability-focused investors, prompting organizations to prioritize Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) targets. Despite the critical role of corporate Real Estate Portfolios (REPs) in achieving these targets, limited research has explored how occupant behaviour influences the contribution of REPs to overall organizational ESG performance. This study ad…
GPT-4-Trinis: Assessing GPT-4’s communicative competence in the English-speaking majority world
Diagrammatic mental representation: A methodological bridge
While computer-mediated user studies tend to rely on surveys, observations, focus groups, and ethnography, participant-generated mental model diagrammatic representation can yield valuable data involving complex and abstract user practices and behaviour. Computer-mediated research has struggled with eliciting users’ beliefs of concrete representations in technology interactions. Using an investigation of authentication and user perceptions of sec…
Bridging the Open Web and APIs: Alternative Social Media Alongside the Corporate Web
Concentrations of power over the internet among a small number of corporate platforms have motivated attempts to build alternative social media. Using the contemporary internet routinely involves relying on a small number of dominant corporate platforms. In reaction against this centralization of power, there are many attempts to build alternative Web technologies that reconfigure the internet's power structures and enact their own values. Howeve…
Understanding each other when Communicating in Emerging Technology-Mediated Environments
Interlocutors and Interactions: Examining the Interactions Between Students With Complex Communication Needs, Teachers, and Eye-Gaze Technology
This study analyzes the role of the machine as a communicative partner for children with complex communication needs as they use eye-tracking technology to communicate. We ask: to what extent do eye-tracking devices serve as functional communications systems for children with complex communication needs? We followed 12 children with profound physical disabilities in a special education classroom over 3 months. An eye-tracking system was used to c…
Immersive virtual reality for supporting complex scientific knowledge: Augmenting our understanding with physiological monitoring
Educators are recognizing the potential power of immersive virtual reality (IVR) to allow learners to experience previously intangible firsthand phenomena, such as atoms and molecules. In this study, an IVR simulation of a complex gene regulation system was co‐designed with an undergraduate microbiology course instructor. The course, with 234 students, was taught using active learning strategies, including peer instruction and exposure to a two‐d…
Flash, Spirit, Plex, Stretch: A Trans-Disciplinary View of the Media Sensorium
Background This article takes a transdisciplinary view of the media sensorium by applying humanities, social science, and engineering perspectives to the relationships among sensory perception, cognition, and how people come to understand their worlds through the senses. Analysis The goal of this article is to engage with the provocation that the sensorium, a concept that Marshall McLuhan brought to media studies in the 1960s, provides the lens t…
Motives for sharing illness experiences on Twitter: Conversations of parents with children diagnosed with cancer
A patient- and family-centred approach in paediatric health care is important because parents are involved in making key decisions about their child’s health care and advocating for the best interest of the child. Parents and family members are increasingly turning to the internet to find and actively share information about their child’s health care. Twitter is one of many online platforms used by parents of children diagnosed with cancer to sha…
Aging with Technology: Seniors and Mobile Connections
This research tells a story of age, aging, and evolving with mobile technologies in a single Canadian community. Using data from 2005 and 2012, we critically analyze seniors’ use of mobile technologies by applying Taylor’s information use environment. The article seeks to understand the influence of context in studying user behaviour vis-à-vis a) device ownership, b) communication practices, and c) technology preferences. Findings suggest that wh…
Mediating sociality: The use of iPod TouchTM devices in the classrooms of students with autism in Canada
This study explores the roles that lower-cost, handheld touch technologies might play in the communication functions of children diagnosed on the autism spectrum. It reports on a case study of the use of Apple iPod Touch mobile digital devices in a public elementary school in downtown Toronto, Canada. Drawing from Vygotskian sociocultural theory researchers examined the consequences of handheld touch technologies on the communication and socialit…
Virtual Mourning and Memory Construction on Facebook: Here Are the Terms of Use
This article investigates the online information practices of persons grieving and mourning via Facebook. It examines how, or whether, these practices and Facebook’s terms of use policies have implications for the bereaved and/or the memory of the deceased. To explore these questions, we compared traditional publicly recorded asynchronous modes of grieving (i.e., obituaries) with Facebook’s asynchronous features (i.e., pages, photos, messages, pr…
Tools of the trade: Drugs, law and mobile phones in Canada
Observations of mobile phone use suggest that this medium facilitates existing social practices when used as a tool within, and at times outside, socially determined definitions of ‘normal’ or ‘deviant’ behavior. Written from a social construction of technology perspective, this article examines the mobile phone as a contemporary technology in the context of its use in illegal drug-dealing and the law enforcement of those practices in Canada. The…
Tools of the trade: Drugs, law and mobile phones in Canada
Observations of mobile phone use suggest that this medium facilitates existing social practices when used as a tool within, and at times outside, socially determined definitions of ‘normal’ or ‘deviant’ behavior. Written from a social construction of technology perspective, this article examines the mobile phone as a contemporary technology in the context of its use in illegal drug-dealing and the law enforcement of those practices in Canada. The…
Tools of the trade: Drugs, law and mobile phones in Canada
Observations of mobile phone use suggest that this medium facilitates existing social practices when used as a tool within, and at times outside, socially determined definitions of ‘normal’ or ‘deviant’ behavior. Written from a social construction of technology perspective, this article examines the mobile phone as a contemporary technology in the context of its use in illegal drug-dealing and the law enforcement of those practices in Canada. The…
Virtual Mourning and Memory Construction on Facebook: Here Are the Terms of Use
This article investigates the online information practices of persons grieving and mourning via Facebook. It examines how, or whether, these practices and Facebook’s terms of use policies have implications for the bereaved and/or the memory of the deceased. To explore these questions, we compared traditional publicly recorded asynchronous modes of grieving (i.e., obituaries) with Facebook’s asynchronous features (i.e., pages, photos, messages, pr…
Mediating sociality: The use of iPod TouchTM devices in the classrooms of students with autism in Canada
This study explores the roles that lower-cost, handheld touch technologies might play in the communication functions of children diagnosed on the autism spectrum. It reports on a case study of the use of Apple iPod Touch mobile digital devices in a public elementary school in downtown Toronto, Canada. Drawing from Vygotskian sociocultural theory researchers examined the consequences of handheld touch technologies on the communication and socialit…
Aging with Technology: Seniors and Mobile Connections
This research tells a story of age, aging, and evolving with mobile technologies in a single Canadian community. Using data from 2005 and 2012, we critically analyze seniors’ use of mobile technologies by applying Taylor’s information use environment. The article seeks to understand the influence of context in studying user behaviour vis-à-vis a) device ownership, b) communication practices, and c) technology preferences. Findings suggest that wh…
Motives for sharing illness experiences on Twitter: Conversations of parents with children diagnosed with cancer
A patient- and family-centred approach in paediatric health care is important because parents are involved in making key decisions about their child’s health care and advocating for the best interest of the child. Parents and family members are increasingly turning to the internet to find and actively share information about their child’s health care. Twitter is one of many online platforms used by parents of children diagnosed with cancer to sha…
Flash, Spirit, Plex, Stretch: A Trans-Disciplinary View of the Media Sensorium
Background This article takes a transdisciplinary view of the media sensorium by applying humanities, social science, and engineering perspectives to the relationships among sensory perception, cognition, and how people come to understand their worlds through the senses. Analysis The goal of this article is to engage with the provocation that the sensorium, a concept that Marshall McLuhan brought to media studies in the 1960s, provides the lens t…
Interlocutors and Interactions: Examining the Interactions Between Students With Complex Communication Needs, Teachers, and Eye-Gaze Technology
This study analyzes the role of the machine as a communicative partner for children with complex communication needs as they use eye-tracking technology to communicate. We ask: to what extent do eye-tracking devices serve as functional communications systems for children with complex communication needs? We followed 12 children with profound physical disabilities in a special education classroom over 3 months. An eye-tracking system was used to c…
Immersive virtual reality for supporting complex scientific knowledge: Augmenting our understanding with physiological monitoring
Educators are recognizing the potential power of immersive virtual reality (IVR) to allow learners to experience previously intangible firsthand phenomena, such as atoms and molecules. In this study, an IVR simulation of a complex gene regulation system was co‐designed with an undergraduate microbiology course instructor. The course, with 234 students, was taught using active learning strategies, including peer instruction and exposure to a two‐d…
Understanding each other when Communicating in Emerging Technology-Mediated Environments
Diagrammatic mental representation: A methodological bridge
While computer-mediated user studies tend to rely on surveys, observations, focus groups, and ethnography, participant-generated mental model diagrammatic representation can yield valuable data involving complex and abstract user practices and behaviour. Computer-mediated research has struggled with eliciting users’ beliefs of concrete representations in technology interactions. Using an investigation of authentication and user perceptions of sec…
Bridging the Open Web and APIs: Alternative Social Media Alongside the Corporate Web
Concentrations of power over the internet among a small number of corporate platforms have motivated attempts to build alternative social media. Using the contemporary internet routinely involves relying on a small number of dominant corporate platforms. In reaction against this centralization of power, there are many attempts to build alternative Web technologies that reconfigure the internet's power structures and enact their own values. Howeve…
GPT-4-Trinis: Assessing GPT-4’s communicative competence in the English-speaking majority world
Nudging towards sustainability: A systematic review of digital strategies for achieving ESG goals in corporate real estate
The environmental impact of corporate activities is under increasing scrutiny from sustainability-focused investors, prompting organizations to prioritize Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) targets. Despite the critical role of corporate Real Estate Portfolios (REPs) in achieving these targets, limited research has explored how occupant behaviour influences the contribution of REPs to overall organizational ESG performance. This study ad…
Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Internet privacy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Human–computer interaction (3 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (3 works)