Dr Heather Shaw

Lecturer in Psychology

Research Overview

My research is at the intersect of Psychology and Behavioural Analytics.

I have centered my research around 5 key themes:

  1. Psychological, behavioural, and situational profiling using ambulatory assessment and digital footprints.
  2. How situations impact peoples psychology and behaviours, and how we can develop context aware technologies.
  3. Technology adoption, drivers of continued technology use, and how technology impacts users.
  4. Theories of behaviour consistency and change, advocating the need to understand rates of change.
  5. Interpretable machine learning to model non-linear relations and interactions

SL: Building a minimal viable digital identity from digital footprints/traces
15/06/2023 → 15/12/2023
Research

Quantifying smartphone "Use" - How choice of measurement impacts relationships between "Usage" and health
Invited talk

Behavioral Consistency in the Digital Age. Presented as part of the Symposium “ Analyzing Digital Human Behavior: The Shape of Psychology to Come” at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention (SPSP), San Francisco, CA, USA
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Social Processes (Organisational unit)
Other Membership

Social Processes (Organisational unit)
Member of an organisation

Rebecca Gregson

Rebecca Gregson

PhD student

  • Security Lancaster
  • Security Lancaster (Behavioural Science)