John Waterworth

John Alexander Waterworth is a researcher, writer and reviewer, focusing on psychological aspects of IT application design and use. Contact at: jwworth@informatik.umu.se

Contact

john.waterworth@umu.se

Works at

Affiliated as professor emeritus at Department of Informatics

MIT-huset, Campustorget 5 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

I have researched the psychological impact of human-computer interaction and its design for more than 30 years, while living and working in the UK, Singapore, and Sweden. With almost 200 publications to my name I am perhaps best known for work on topics such as information exploration, IT and ageing, the sense of presence and creativity in mediated environments. I have a PhD in Experimental Psychology and am a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society.

I am interested in new ways in which information technologies can be designed and applied to enhance health and life quality for a wide range of individuals: in everyday life, in clinical settings and in other specific circumstances. In addition to my own research, I review project proposals and progress, and provide consultancy services to a range of organizations.

For more details, see the Q-Life website. Contact me: jwworth@informatik.umu.se

Uncovering dark patterns: Learning through serious gameplay about the dangers of sharing data

Information Systems and Technologies: WorldCIST 2023, Volume 2, Springer Nature 2024 : 471-480

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Wales, Chris; Waterworth, John

Sexting, age and digital vulnerabilities

Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET 2024): Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Interaction & Desig Technologies

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Wales, Chris; Waterworth, John

Is there a market for digital travel?: Travellers' views on digital travel and willingness to pay

Marketing and smart technologies: proceedings of ICMarkTech 2022, volume 1, Springer 2024 : 635-645

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Waterworth, John

Exploring susceptibility to phishing: the cognitive reflection test and other possible predictors

Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Computer Society 2024 : 4754-4763

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Waterworth, John

Effectiveness of intergenerational exchange programs between adolescents and older adults: a systematic review

Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, Routledge 2024, Vol. 22, (4) : 603-644

Webster, Mary; Norwood, Kelly; Waterworth, John; et al.

Tomorrow’s digital travellers – who are they?

Advances in tourism, technology and systems: selected papers from ICOTTS 2022, volume 1 : 381-391

Ingvar, Tjostheim; Waterworth, John

Human sovereignty when a disease is controlled through restrictions on persons: Citizens’ views on whether scientific evidence for restrictions is necessary

IACAP 2023, Prague, Czech Republic, The International Association of Computing and Philosophy Conference, 3-5 July 2023

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Waterworth, John

Digital travel: a study of travellers' views of a digital visit to Mexico

Information technology and systems: ICITS 2023, volume 1, London: Springer Nature 2023 : 185-194

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Waterworth, John A.

Guest editorial: special issue on digital travel

CyberPsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, Mary Ann Liebert 2023, Vol. 26, (9) : 670-671

Waterworth, John; Tjostheim, Ingvar

The virtual human resource development (VHRD) approach: an integrative literature review

European Journal of Training and Development, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2022, Vol. 46, (5/6) : 484-503

Rahimi, Somaye; Khorasani, Abasalt; Rezaeizadeh, Morteza; et al.

The psychosocial reality of digital travel: being in virtual places

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2022

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Waterworth, John

Digital travel trends and future possibilities

Waterworth, John

Editorial: Enhancing Quality of Life in Ambient Spaces

Frontiers in Computer Science, Vol. 4

Waterworth, John; Chignell, Mark; Wiberg, Mikael

Digital travel - defying distance and reality?

Psychologist (Leicester), British Psychological Society 2022, Vol. 35, (10) : 46-50

Waterworth, John; Tjostheim, Ingvar

Human sovereignty in a lock-down situation: is there room for privacy?

SPT 2021 - Technological Imaginaries, The Society for Philosophy and Technology Conference, Virtual, June 28-30, 2021

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Waterworth, John

Primitive interaction design

Springer Human Computer Interaction Series

Hoshi, Kei; Waterworth, John

Ambient Interaction Design in a Primitive Society

Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions: 8th International Conference, DAPI 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Cham: Springer 2020 : 58-68

Hoshi, Kei; Waterworth, John

Nature and Nurturance across the ages: modest means for modern times

Interactivity, game creation, design, learning, and innovation: 8th EAI international conference, ArtsIT 2019, and 4th EAI international conference, DLI 2019, Aalborg, Denmark, November 6–8, 2019, proceedings, Cham: Springer 2020 : 539-558

Moller, Henry J.; Saynor, Lee; Chignell, Mark; et al.

Returning to Nature: VR Mediated States of Enhanced Wellness

Moller, Henry; Waterworth, John; Chignell, Mark

Inverting the panopticon to safeguard privacy in ambient environments: an exploratory study

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Waterworth, John

Predicting personal susceptibility to phishing

Information technology and systems: proceedings of ICITS 2020, Cham: Springer 2020 : 564-575

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Waterworth, John

Virtual Tourism in a Game Environment: Untangling Judged Affordances and Sense of Place

HCI in Games: Second International Conference, HCI-Games 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Cham: Springer 2020 : 202-217

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Waterworth, John A.

Virtual Tourism in a Game Environment: Untangling Judged Affordances and Sense of Place

Tjøstheim, Ingvar; Waterworth, John

Not "the computer" but "the place": designing and evaluating future ambient spaces for improved quality of life in the elderly

Lijecnicki Vjesnik

Waterworth, John

Dextrous VR in Professional Settings: The Importance of Stereoscopic Display and Hand-Image Collocation

Virtual Environments 2000: Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 1–2, 2000, Springer 2020 : 75-84

Waterworth, John

Age-sensitive well-being support: design of interactive technologies that modulate internal-external attentional focus for improved cognitive balance and behavioral effectiveness

Technology and health : promoting attitude and behavior change, Academic Press 2020 : 67-88

Waterworth, John A.; Chignell, Mark; Moller, Henry

Integrating the world of presence theory: Illusion, pretence, attending, and pretending

Proceedings of Presence 2020: 18th conference of the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR)

Waterworth, John; Tjostheim, Ingvar

Designing Usable Bioinformatics Tools for Specialized Users

Information Technology and Systems: Proceedings of ICITS 2019, Cham: Springer 2019 : 649-670

Mannapperuma, Chanaka; Street, Nathaniel; Waterworth, John

Telepresence and the role of the senses

On the Cognitive, Ethical and Scientific Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence: Themes from IACAP 2016, Springer 2019 : 169-187

Tjostheim, Ingvar; Leister, Wolfgang; Waterworth, John A.

The Primacy of Presence: supporting psychological wellbeing with interactive technology

Proceedings of DTGS 2019

Waterworth, John

Using the Senses to Make sense: From Aesthetics to Ethics

Presence 2018: Panels

Moller, Henry; Chignell, Mark; Kandylis, Demi; et al.

Presence and human development: age-specific variations in presence and their implications for the design of life-enhancing interactive applications

PRESENCE 2018 Proceedings

Waterworth, John; Chignell, Mark; Moller, Henry; et al.

Digital technology in healthcare and elderly care

ECCE 2017: proceedings of the European conference on cognitive ergonomics 2017, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2017 : 188-190

Danielsson, Karin; Lindgren, Helena; Mulvenna, Maurice; et al.

The effects of ICT based training on cognition and well-being among healthy older people

23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology (NKG), Tampere, Finland, June 19-22, 2016

Waterworth, John

Human-experiential design of presence in everyday blended reality: living in the here and now

Human-Computer Interaction

Waterworth, John; Hoshi, Kei

What do elderly users want and need from fitness technologies?: Findings from the ELF@Home project

Integrating technology in positive psychology practice, Hershey, USA: IGI Global 2016 : 104-126

Waterworth, John; Waterworth, Eva; Álvarez, Paula; et al.

A randomized controlled trial of brain training with non-action video games in older adults: results of the 3-month follow-up

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Vol. 7

Ballesteros, Soledad; Mayas, Julia; Prieto, Antonio; et al.

Intention, action, self and other: an evolutionary model of presence

Immersed in media: telepresence theory, measurement & technology, New York: Springer 2015 : 73-99

Riva, Giuseppe; Mantovani, Fabiizia; Lindh Waterworth, Eva; et al.

Presence: form, content and consciousness

Immersed in media: telepresence theory, measurement & technology, Springer-Verlag New York 2015 : 35-58

Waterworth, John; Lindh Waterworth, Eva; Riva, Giuseppe; et al.

Brain training with non-action video games enhances aspects of cognition in older adults: a randomized controlled trial

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Frontiers Media S.A. 2014, Vol. 6

Ballesteros, Soledad; Prieto, Antonio; Mayes, Julia; et al.

An ICT-mediated social network in support of successful ageing

Gerontechnology, Vol. 13, (1) : 37-46

Ballesteros, Soledad; Toril, Pilar; Mayas, Julia; et al.

The ELF@Home project: elderly sELF-care based on sELF-check of health conditions and sELF-fitness at home

Proceedings of pHealth 2014: 11th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health (pHealth), Vienna: IOS Press 2014 : 164-166

Carús, Juan Luis; García, Sonia; García, Rodrigo; et al.

Introduction: editor's introduction to interacting with presence

Interacting with presence: HCI and the sense of presence in computer-mediated environments, Warsaw: Walter de Gruyter 2014 : 1-8

Riva, Giuseppe; Waterworth, John; Murray, Dianne

Interacting with Presence: HCI and the sense of presence in computer-mediated environments

Warsaw: Walter de Gruyter 2014

Riva, Giuseppe; Waterworth, John; Murray, Dianne

Introduction: Editors' introduction to interacting with presence

Interacting with presence: HCI and the sense of presence in computer-mediated environments, De Gruyter Open 2014 : 1-8

Riva, Giuseppe; Waterworth, John; Murray, Dianne

Feeling present in the physical world and in computer-mediated environments

Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology

Waterworth, John; Riva, Giuseppe

Distributed embodiment: real presence in virtual bodies

The Oxford handbook of virtuality, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014 : 589-601

Waterworth, John; Waterworth, Eva

Altered, expanded and distributed embodiment: the three stages of interactive presence

Interacting with Presence: HCI and the Sense of Presence in Computer Mediated Environments, Walter de Gruyter 2014 : 32-45

Waterworth, John; Waterworth, Eva

AGNES: connecting people in a multimodal way

Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg 2013, Vol. 7, (3) : 229-245

Peter, Christian; Kreiner, Andreas; Schröter, Martin; et al.

Being Present in a Virtual World

The Oxford handbook of virtuality, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013 : 205-221

Riva, Giuseppe; Waterworth, John

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Research projects

1 September 2017 until 31 August 2020

PLACE-EE: Platforms for Ageing Community Engagement – Exchange and Enterprise