The Digital Wellbeing Lab at QUT is dedicated to understanding and enhancing the relationship between technology and human well-being. Our research includes:
- supporting digital wellbeing for people and communities,
- fostering inclusion and collaboration in design,
- understanding interactions with emerging technologies, and
- creating prototypes and proof-of-concepts.
Supporting Digital Wellbeing for people and communities
Research focused on improving people’s lives through technology, addressing issues like thriving, self-care, physical well-being, and social connection.
Ploderer, Bernd, Rodgers, Shannon, Liang, Zilu (2023) What's keeping teens up at night? Reflecting on sleep and technology habits with teens. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 27 (2), pp.249-270. [eprints.qut.edu.au/227707/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Clark, Damien, Brown, Ross, Harman, Joel, Lazzarini, Peter, Van Netten, Jaap (2023) Self-Monitoring Diabetes-Related Foot Ulcers with the MyFootCare App: A Mixed Methods Study. Sensors, 23 (5), pp.Article number: 2547. [eprints.qut.edu.au/238240/]
Roomkham, Sirinthip, Ploderer, Bernd, Smith, Simon, Perrin, Dimitri (2022) Technologies for Quantifying Sleep: Improved Quality of Life or Overwhelming Gadgets?. In Wac, Katarzyna, Wulfovich, Sharon (Eds.), Quantifying Quality of Life: Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine, Health Informatics, pp.151-164. [eprints.qut.edu.au/230838/]
Formosa, Jessica, Johnson, Daniel, Turkay, Selen, Mandryk, Regan (2022) Need Satisfaction, Passion and Wellbeing Effects of Videogame Play prior to and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Computers in Human Behavior, 131, pp.Article number: 107232. [eprints.qut.edu.au/228092/]
Luxford, Ethan, Turkay, Selen, Frommel, Julian, Tobin, Stephanie J., Mandryk, Regan L., Formosa, Jessica, Johnson, Daniel (2022) Self-Regulation as a Mediator of the Associations Between Passion for Video Games and Well-Being. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 25 (5), pp.310-315. [eprints.qut.edu.au/231602/]
Johnson, Daniel, Formosa, Jessica, Perry, Ryan, Lalande, Daniel, Türkay, Selen, Obst, Patricia, Mandryk, Regan (2022) Unsatisfied needs as a predictor of obsessive passion for videogame play. Psychology of Popular Media, 11 (1), pp.47-55. [eprints.qut.edu.au/211964/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Muller, Jennifer, Busato, Matthew, Tariq, Amina, Clark, Kevin, Green, Theresa (2022) Co-Design with People Who Have Had a Stroke to Better Understand the Transition from Hospital to Home: A Narrative Account. In Sweetser, Penny, Lawrence Taylor, Jennyfer, Martin, Charles, Mckay, Dana, Rogerson, Melissa, Cumbo, Bronwyn, Wadley, Greg, Hespanhol, Luke, Tsimeris, Jess, Xi, Mingze, et al. (Eds.), OzCHI '22: Proceedings of the 34th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp.111-116. [eprints.qut.edu.au/238180/]
Ambe, Aloha May, Soro, Alessandro, Johnson, Daniel, Brereton, Margot (2022) From Collaborative Habituation to Everyday Togetherness: A Long-Term Study of Use of the Messaging Kettle. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 29 (1), pp.Article number: 3. [eprints.qut.edu.au/229746/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Rezaei Aghdam, Atae, Burns, Kara (2022) Patient-Generated Health Photos and Videos Across Health and Well-being Contexts: Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24 (4), pp.Article number: e28867 e28867. [eprints.qut.edu.au/229905/]
Johnson, Daniel, Gore-Jones, Victoria, Dark, Frances, Parker, Stephen D., Foley, Sharon, Mandryk, Regan L. (2021) Videogame Play and Wellbeing among a First Episode Psychosis Population. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5 (CHI PLAY), pp.Article number: 281. [eprints.qut.edu.au/226039/]
Liang, Zilu, Ploderer, Bernd (2020) How does Fitbit measure brainwaves: A qualitative study into the credibility of sleep-tracking technologies. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 4 (1), pp.Article number: 17. [eprints.qut.edu.au/202003/]
Green, Theresa, Ploderer, Bernd (2020) From collaboration to care: Using co-design principles and caring science to guide professional rehabilitation nursing practice. Journal of the Australasian Rehabilitation Nurses Association, 23 (1), pp.4-6. [eprints.qut.edu.au/203661/]
Mandryk, Regan L., Frommel, Julian, Armstrong, Ashley, Johnson, Daniel (2020) How Passion for Playing World of Warcraft Predicts In-Game Social Capital, Loneliness, and Wellbeing. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, pp.Article number: 2165. [eprints.qut.edu.au/211958/]
Van Netten, Jaap, Seng, Leonard Si Da, Lazzarini, Peter, Warnock, Jason, Ploderer, Bernd (2019) Reasons for (non-)adherence to self-care in people with a diabetic foot ulcer. Wound Repair and Regeneration, 27 (5), pp.530-539. [eprints.qut.edu.au/129811/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Brown, Ross, Seng, Leonard Si Da, Lazzarini, Peter, Van Netten, Jaap (2018) Promoting self-care of diabetic foot ulcers through a mobile phone app: User-centered design and evaluation. JMIR Diabetes, 3 (4), pp.Article number: e10105. [eprints.qut.edu.au/122232/]
van Netten, Jaap J., Brown, Ross A., Si da Seng, Leonard, Lazzarini, Peter A., Ploderer, Bernd (2018) Development of MyFootCare: A smartphone application to actively engage people in their diabetic foot ulcer self-care. Annual Dutch Diabetes Research Meeting, pp.21-22. [eprints.qut.edu.au/123232/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Alsahfi, Yaman Mazyed S, Trost, Stewart (2018) Technologies to engage young children in physical activity: an online study of parenting practices. In Choi, J H J, McKay, D, Kelly, R, Waycott, J, Lugmayr, A, Morrison, A, Buchanan, G, Stevenson, D, Billinghurst, M (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI 2018), pp.326-331. [eprints.qut.edu.au/124536/]
Liang, Zilu, Chapa Martell, Mario Alberto, Ploderer, Bernd (2017) Inter-individual differences in sleep quality: Insights from mining wearable sleep-tracking data [eprints.qut.edu.au/104727/]
Liang, Zilu, Liu, Wanyu, Ploderer, Bernd, Bailey, James, Kulik, Lars, Li, Yuxuan (2017) Designing intelligent sleep analysis systems for automated contextual exploration on personal sleep-tracking data. In Ota, Y, Otake, M, Satoh, K, Bekki, D, Kurahashi, S (Eds.), New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2015 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, AAA, HAT-MASH, TSDAA, ASD-HR, and SKL, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 10091), pp.367-379. [eprints.qut.edu.au/105843/]
Brown, Ross, Ploderer, Bernd, Seng, Leonard Si Da, Van Netten, Jaap, Lazzarini, Peter (2017) MyFootCare: a mobile self-tracking tool to promote self-care amongst people with diabetic foot ulcers. In Soro, A, Vyas, D, Waycott, J, Ploderer, B, Morrison, A, Brereton, M (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, pp.462-466. [eprints.qut.edu.au/114116/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Stuart, Jonathon, Tran, Vivian, Green, Theresa, Muller, Jennifer (2017) The transition of stroke survivors from hospital to home: understanding work and design opportunities. In Soro, A, Vyas, D, Waycott, J, Ploderer, B, Morrison, A, Brereton, M (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, pp.1-9. [eprints.qut.edu.au/110964/]
Liang, Zilu, Ploderer, Bernd, Chapa Martell, Mario Alberto, Nishimura, Takuichi (2016) A cloud-based intelligent computing system for contextual exploration on personal sleep-tracking data using association rule mining. In Uc-Cetina, V, Martin-Gonzalez, A (Eds.), Intelligent Computing Systems: First International Symposium, ISICS 2016, First International Symposium, ISICS 2016 [Communications in Computer and Information Science, Volume 597], pp.83-96. [eprints.qut.edu.au/94572/]
Liang, Zilu, Ploderer, Bernd, Liu, Wanyu, Nagata, Yukiko, Bailey, James, Kulik, Lars, Li, Yuxuan (2016) SleepExplorer: a visualization tool to make sense of correlations between personal sleep data and contextual factors. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20 (6), pp.985-1000. [eprints.qut.edu.au/222086/]
Rodgers, Shannon, Maloney, Brittany, Ploderer, Bernd, Brereton, Margot (2016) Managing stress, sleep and technologies: an exploratory study of Australian university students. In Parker, C (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2016), pp.526-530. [eprints.qut.edu.au/102395/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Fong, Justin, Klaic, Marlena, Nair, Siddharth, Vetere, Frank, Cofre Lizama, L. Eduardo, Galea, Mary (2016) How therapists use visualizations of upper limb movement information from stroke patients: A qualitative study with simulated information. JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, 3 (2), pp.Article number: e9. [eprints.qut.edu.au/221837/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Fong, Justin, Withana, Anusha, Klaic, Marlena, Nair, Siddharth, Crocher, Vincent, Vetere, Frank, Nanayakkara, Suranga (2016) ArmSleeve: A patient monitoring system to support occupational therapists in stroke rehabilitation. In Foth, M (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp.700-711. [eprints.qut.edu.au/95993/]
Liu, Wanyu, Ploderer, Bernd, Hoang, Thuong (2015) In bed with technology: Challenges and opportunities for sleep tracking. In Gibbs, M, Smith, W, Carter, M, Vetere, F, Ploderer, B (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2015), pp.142-151. [eprints.qut.edu.au/93515/]
Fostering Inclusion and Collaboration in Design
Research on designing technologies that are accessible and inclusive for diverse users, and that promote collaboration and community.
Sitbon, Laurianne, Brereton, Margot, Bircanin, Filip (2024) Reframing search and recommendation as opportunities for communication for people with intellectual disability. Human-Computer Interaction, 39 (3-4), pp.206-224. [eprints.qut.edu.au/243085/]
Rodgers, Shannon, Ploderer, Bernd, Vella, Kellie, Brereton, Margot (2024) Phenology Circles: A Method to Deepen Relations in More-Than-Human Design Processes. In Vallgarda, Anna, Jonsson, Li, Fritsch, Jonas, Alaoui, Sarah Fdili, le Dantec, Christopher A (Eds.), DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp.1059-1073. [eprints.qut.edu.au/249358/]
Sitbon, Laurianne, Berget, Gerd, Brereton, Margot (2023) Perspectives of Neurodiverse Participants in Interactive Information Retrieval. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 17 (2), pp.124-243. [eprints.qut.edu.au/243086/]
Kuruppu Arachchi, Theja, Sitbon, Laurianne, Zhang, Jinglan, Koplick, Stewart, Hoogstrate, Maria, Brereton, Margot (2023) Web search to access health information by adults with intellectual disability. Online Information Review, 47 (6), pp.1098-1115. [eprints.qut.edu.au/238026/]
Rodgers, Shannon (2023) Designing With Human-Nature Relations for Multispecies Sustainability in and from the Garden. In Byrne, Daragh, Martelaro, Nikolas, Boucher, Andy, Chatting, David, Alaoui, Sarah Fdili, Fox, Sarah, Nicenboim, Iohanna, MacArthur, Cayley (Eds.), DIS '23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2023 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp.12-16. [eprints.qut.edu.au/241761/]
Rodgers, Shannon, Vella, Kellie, Ploderer, Bernd, Brereton, Margot (2023) Nature Fictions: Designing for a Sustainable Future through Nature Relations. In Byrne, Daragh, Martelaro, Nikolas, Boucher, Andy, Chatting, David, Alaoui, Sarah Fdili, Fox, Sarah, Nicenboim, Iohanna, MacArthur, Cayley (Eds.), DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp.1566-1580. [eprints.qut.edu.au/241633/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Muller, Jennifer, Busato, Matthew, Tariq, Amina, Clark, Kevin, Green, Theresa (2022) Co-Design with People Who Have Had a Stroke to Better Understand the Transition from Hospital to Home: A Narrative Account. In Sweetser, Penny, Lawrence Taylor, Jennyfer, Martin, Charles, Mckay, Dana, Rogerson, Melissa, Cumbo, Bronwyn, Wadley, Greg, Hespanhol, Luke, Tsimeris, Jess, Xi, Mingze, et al. (Eds.), OzCHI '22: Proceedings of the 34th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp.111-116. [eprints.qut.edu.au/238180/]
Vella, Kellie, Esteban, Michael, Ploderer, Bernd, Brereton, Margot (2022) Networked Gardens: Remediating Local Nature Data Through the Internet of Things. In Mueller, Florian `Floyd', Greuter, Stefan, Khot, Rohit Ashok, Sweetser, Penny, Obrist, Marianna (Eds.), DIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing, pp.1597-1611. [eprints.qut.edu.au/232657/]
U'wais, Razan, Ploderer, Bernd, Vickery, Nicole (2021) Exploring the Usage of Digital Technology for Active Play During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Families with Young Children. In Buchanan, George, Davis, Hilary, Al Mahmud, Abdullah, Sarsenbayeva, Zhanna, Soro, Alessandro, Munoz, Diego, Potter, Leigh Ellen, Taylor, Jennyfer Lawrence, Tsimeris, Jess (Eds.), OzCHI '21: Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp.352-361. [eprints.qut.edu.au/232618/]
Vickery, Nicole, Wang, Yuehao, Tarlinton, Dannielle, Blackler, Alethea, Ploderer, Bernd, Wyeth, Peta, Knight, Linda (2021) Embodied Interaction Design for Active Play with Young Children: A Scoping Review. In Buchanan, George, Davis, Hilary, Al Mahmud, Abdullah, Sarsenbayeva, Zhanna, Soro, Alessandro, Munoz, Diego, Potter, Leigh Ellen, Taylor, Jennyfer Lawrence, Tsimeris, Jess (Eds.), OzCHI '21: Proceedings of the 33rd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp.293-306. [eprints.qut.edu.au/233743/]
Vella, Kellie, Ploderer, Bernd, Brereton, Margot (2021) Human-Nature Relations in Urban Gardens: Explorations with Camera Traps. CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp.1-13. [eprints.qut.edu.au/210436/]
Understanding Interactions with Emerging Technologies
Research exploring how people interact with new technologies and the implications for wellbeing.
Capel, Tara, Ploderer, Bernd, Bircanin, Filip, Hanmer, Simon, Yates, Jamie, Wang, Jiaxuan, Khor, Kai ling, Leong, Tuck wah, Wadley, Greg, Newcomb, Michelle (2024) Studying Self-Care with Generative AI Tools: Lessons for Design. DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp.1620-1637. [eprints.qut.edu.au/250415/]
Vella, Kellie, Rogers, Yvonne, Tulloch, Ayesha, Brereton, Margot (2024) Nature Networks: Designing for nature data collection and sharing from local to global. In Vallgarda, Anna, Jonsson, Li, Fritsch, Jonas, Fdili Alaoui, Sarah, Le Dantec, Christopher A. (Eds.), DIS'24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp.1439-1452. [eprints.qut.edu.au/248949/]
Vella, Kellie, Dobson, Madeleine, Rodgers, Shannon, Om, Chimi, Bircanin, Filip, Dema, Tshering, Pillai, Jonathan, Murcia, Karen, Brereton, Margot (2023) Wired, wild, wonderful: A scoping review of early childhood nature connections fostered by digital technologies. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 38, pp.Article number: 100619. [eprints.qut.edu.au/244254/]
Sitbon, Laurianne, Berget, Gerd, Brereton, Margot (2023) Perspectives of Neurodiverse Participants in Interactive Information Retrieval. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 17 (2), pp.124-243. [eprints.qut.edu.au/243086/]
Johnson, Daniel, Frommel, Julian, Louis, Winnifred, Lee, Matthew David, Tanjitpiyanond, Porntida, Mandryk, Regan L. (2023) Prospective Passion and Social Capital within DotA 2 Players. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7, pp.Article number: 391 464-483. [eprints.qut.edu.au/243677/]
Formosa, Jessica, O'Donnell, Nicholas, Horton, Ella M., Turkay, Selen, Mandryk, Regan L., Hawks, Michael, Johnson, Daniel (2022) Definitions of Esports: A Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6, pp.Article number: 227. [eprints.qut.edu.au/238265/]
Johnson, Daniel, Wiley, Katelyn, Passmore, Cale, Horton, Ella M., Altizer, Roger, Mandryk, Regan L. (2022) Shoulder-to-Shoulder: How Pinball Supports Men's Wellbeing. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6 (CHI PLAY), pp.Article number: 251. [eprints.qut.edu.au/241449/]
Creating Prototypes and Proof-of-concepts
Research focused on developing new technologies or systems to address digital wellbeing challenges.
Rodgers, Shannon, Ploderer, Bernd, Vella, Kellie, Brereton, Margot (2024) Phenology Circles: A Method to Deepen Relations in More-Than-Human Design Processes. In Vallgarda, Anna, Jonsson, Li, Fritsch, Jonas, Alaoui, Sarah Fdili, le Dantec, Christopher A (Eds.), DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp.1059-1073. [eprints.qut.edu.au/249358/]
Vella, Kellie, Rogers, Yvonne, Tulloch, Ayesha, Brereton, Margot (2024) Nature Networks: Designing for nature data collection and sharing from local to global. In Vallgarda, Anna, Jonsson, Li, Fritsch, Jonas, Fdili Alaoui, Sarah, Le Dantec, Christopher A. (Eds.), DIS'24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp.1439-1452. [eprints.qut.edu.au/248949/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Clark, Damien, Brown, Ross, Harman, Joel, Lazzarini, Peter, Van Netten, Jaap (2023) Self-Monitoring Diabetes-Related Foot Ulcers with the MyFootCare App: A Mixed Methods Study. Sensors, 23 (5), pp.Article number: 2547. [eprints.qut.edu.au/238240/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Muller, Jennifer, Busato, Matthew, Tariq, Amina, Clark, Kevin, Green, Theresa (2022) Co-Design with People Who Have Had a Stroke to Better Understand the Transition from Hospital to Home: A Narrative Account. In Sweetser, Penny, Lawrence Taylor, Jennyfer, Martin, Charles, Mckay, Dana, Rogerson, Melissa, Cumbo, Bronwyn, Wadley, Greg, Hespanhol, Luke, Tsimeris, Jess, Xi, Mingze, et al. (Eds.), OzCHI '22: Proceedings of the 34th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp.111-116. [eprints.qut.edu.au/238180/]
Rodgers, Shannon, Ploderer, Bernd, Vella, Kellie, Brereton, Margot (2022) Phenology Probes: Exploring Human-Nature Relations for Designing Sustainable Futures. In Sweetser, Penny, Lawrence Taylor, Jennyfer, Martin, Charles, Mckay, Dana, Rogerson, Melissa, Cumbo, Bronwyn, Wadley, Greg, Hespanhol, Luke, Tsimeris, Jess, Xi, Mingze, et al. (Eds.), OzCHI '22: Proceedings of the 34th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp.216-228. [eprints.qut.edu.au/238651/]
Vella, Kellie, Esteban, Michael, Ploderer, Bernd, Brereton, Margot (2022) Networked Gardens: Remediating Local Nature Data Through the Internet of Things. In Mueller, Florian `Floyd', Greuter, Stefan, Khot, Rohit Ashok, Sweetser, Penny, Obrist, Marianna (Eds.), DIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing, pp.1597-1611. [eprints.qut.edu.au/232657/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Brown, Ross, Seng, Leonard Si Da, Lazzarini, Peter, Van Netten, Jaap (2018) Promoting self-care of diabetic foot ulcers through a mobile phone app: User-centered design and evaluation. JMIR Diabetes, 3 (4), pp.Article number: e10105. [eprints.qut.edu.au/122232/]
van Netten, Jaap J., Brown, Ross A., Si da Seng, Leonard, Lazzarini, Peter A., Ploderer, Bernd (2018) Development of MyFootCare: A smartphone application to actively engage people in their diabetic foot ulcer self-care. Annual Dutch Diabetes Research Meeting, pp.21-22. [eprints.qut.edu.au/123232/]
Brown, Ross, Ploderer, Bernd, Seng, Leonard Si Da, Van Netten, Jaap, Lazzarini, Peter (2017) MyFootCare: a mobile self-tracking tool to promote self-care amongst people with diabetic foot ulcers. In Soro, A, Vyas, D, Waycott, J, Ploderer, B, Morrison, A, Brereton, M (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, pp.462-466. [eprints.qut.edu.au/114116/]
Ploderer, Bernd, Fong, Justin, Withana, Anusha, Klaic, Marlena, Nair, Siddharth, Crocher, Vincent, Vetere, Frank, Nanayakkara, Suranga (2016) ArmSleeve: A patient monitoring system to support occupational therapists in stroke rehabilitation. In Foth, M (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp.700-711. [eprints.qut.edu.au/95993/]