As Canada explores how technology can help streamline and improve the immigration process, migrant-centred design should be at the forefront of their planning.
Parental controls and surveillance have their place but internal safeguards like empathy, resilience and values serve children throughout their lives, whether online or offline.
SaskWell is a texting-based service that connects users with established and evidence-based digital mental health tools, and offers weekly wellness tips and resources.
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Research on how text messaging could provide mental health resources resulted in SaskWell, a texting service for people in Saskatchewan that provides 10 weeks of mental health and wellness prompts.
Research by Relationships Australia released in 2018 revealed one in six Australians experience emotional loneliness, which means they lack meaningful relationships in their lives.
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There is heavy social media use among both the most lonely and least lonely people. So what exactly is the relationship between social media use and loneliness?
Libraries are offering new and innovative things that belie their historic image as silent places to read.
With advancements in technology, libraries are offering much more than something to read. A library researcher offers a sampling of some unexpected items that library patrons can check out these days.
Message from the Unseen World, an installation of a Turing-inspired algorithm reciting a poem.
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Today’s communications platforms and the algorithms that power them have led to a radical change in how public discourse is conducted and public opinion formed.
The Black Mamba is a is a venomous snake endemic to parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Reptiles add socioeconomic value but when it comes to accessing detailed reference information about them, students and naturalists can face serious challenges.
Chatbots need a personality. But what type?
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A co-operative project that maps services in Dhaka shows how communities of citizens can be more than passive users of the digital platforms that increasingly shape our daily lives.
Do students get better scores on a pen and paper test or on a computer-based test? It all depends on the student’s mastery of the method.
Elaborated feedback is most effective. Professor Layton game provides complex tasks where students receive hints to adjust their strategies.
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Research Associate Professor and Associate Research Director for the Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, State University of New York