Eoin Whelan

Eoin Whelan is a Professor in Business Analytics & Society at the University of Galway. He is also a visiting professor at the Institute d'’Economie Scientifique et de Gestion (IESEG), France, and a Fulbright scholar at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research explores the psychology underlying engagement with interactive digital media such as smartphones, social networking sites, fitness tracking apps, and online gambling and gaming sites. In other words, how do different attributes of digital media interact with the person's motivations, personality, beliefs, cognition, and situation, to influence the processes and outcomes such as wellbeing, conflict, and performance.