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Social technologies to support older adult connection and wellness
Having recently experienced prolonged periods of lockdown, how people interact with social technologies and what they want from it has changed. This research aims to investigate older adults’ feelings towards communicating with an ambiguous entity (it is unclear if the entity is AI or a human) to understand the relationship between people, other people, virtual agents, and bots in a digital space.
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After Covid, Symptoms & Impacts to Everyday Activities and Driving
We know that Covid-19 is having longer term effects on some people who recover from the initial infection. We are hoping by finding out about these prolonged symptoms and this will deepen our understanding and knowledge base. Additionally, we seek to find out more about the impacts of prolonged symptoms to a person’s abilities to participate in life activities, such as driving. You do not need to have experienced long Covid to contribute, as everyone’s experience helps us know more.
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Effect of low dose atropine on ocular changes during accommodation in children with myopia
We are investigating whether a very dilute concentration of atropine eye drops will affect the changes that occur in the eye’s length and optical quality in children and young adults when they focus at near distances. This will improve our understanding of the effects of low dose atropine eye drops and how they may slow short-sightedness development in children.
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An integrative framework of occupational health and safety and health promotion in Australian workplaces
This research project is being undertaken as part of a PhD project of Yanming Lu. Literature suggests that workplace interventions integrating occupational health and safety (OHS) and worksite health promotion (WHP) elements can be more effective in protecting and promoting worker health and safety. As little is known about how to best plan, implement, and evaluate an integrated OHS-WHP approach, this part of the research aims to collect data about workers’ needs of integrated approaches, the extent to which workers receive integrated approaches, and how workers consider the examples of integrated approaches identified in the literature.
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The Effect of Media Commentary on Sport Spectator Identification of Injury and Attitudes
The Australian National Rugby League (NRL) televises over 200 games of rugby league every year, with entertaining commentary; but how does this commentary effect our attitudes as viewers? We are researching how commentary effects spectators’ injury identification and attitudes.
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Virtual and AI influencers
We are looking for individuals who are over 18 and follow at least one virtual (or AI) influencer.
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How virtual and artificial influencers shape their followers' emotions
We want to explore and discover the effects of following virtual and artificial social media influencers on your wellbeing.
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Characterising microbiome and immune system changes in Parkinson’s disease
This project aims to evaluate changes in immune and microbiome markers that are relevant to the onset and progression of Parkinson's disease with the goal of developing new treatments and diagnostic makers for use in the clinic. The pathological hallmark of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the presence and spread of synuclein containing misfolded protein aggregates in the form of Lewy bodies. Emerging evidence suggests that these protein aggregates which develop with age can persistently activate the immune system in the brain and gut. Our proposed studies will use highly sensitive analytical and multi-omic approaches (proteomic, metabolomic and metagenomics) to identify and define changes in innate immune system and gut bacterial microbiome mediators that occur over the course of Parkinson's disease. For these studies, we will obtain blood, urine, saliva and faecal samples from people with Parkinson’s and healthy over a period of 5 years. Samples will be snap-frozen and analysed for immune and microbiome changes using highly sensitive analytical techniques.
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Navigating and unravelling the concept of risk: Factors shaping risky decision making in emerging adulthood
We are researching how individual differences, such as reward-punishment sensitivity, influence risk taking and risk perceptions.
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Biomechanics of lying in middle adulthood
In the QUT Biomechanics and Spine Research Group (BSRG) we are currently conducting a study into the biomechanics of lying and how this might affect sleep quality. In Western society we spend more time lying down to sleep than any other single daily activity. However, the scientific literature describing the biomechanical evaluation of lying substrates, particularly commercial mattresses, is scarce.
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Director financial literacy and effective board governance
Given that all board directors are required to monitor the finances and financial monitoring failures are frequently reported, many directors have voiced concern that the bar has been raised too high. By investigating how director financial capability, motivation and boardroom dynamics influence financial monitoring, our research will provide evidence as to why boards experience monitoring failure and how directors, boards and regulators can strengthen financial monitoring, particularly in skills diverse boards.
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Digital connections: communication across home and non-compulsory early education settings
This study is interested in the many ways that parents, caregivers, and educators share information. A key focus of the study is to understand how relationships are built through digital and non-digital modes of communication.
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