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About | Mary Aiken | CyberPsychologist. I am a CyberPsychologist and Research Fellow at the Institute of Leadership, RCSI, and Director of the RCSI CyberPsychology Research Centre. I am a Sensemaking Fellow at the US IBM Network Science Research Center, a collaboration among scholars from IBM, MIT, Harvard, Brown and Columbia Universities, providing access regarding information technology (e.g. Watson, Sensemaking, Advanced Analytics, Streams Computing, Cloud, etc.). CyberPsychology is an emerging field within applied psychology, focusing on Internet psychology; virtual environments, artificial intelligence, gaming, digital convergence, mobile communications and networking devices. My current work focuses on behavioural escalation online, undertaken in conjunction with INTERPOL and a number of International police forces. Professor Wesley Rhodes and Dr Steve Chan present Mary with the IBM Network Science Research Center Sensemaking Fellowship.

PublicationsAiken, M. Reports & invited lecturesAiken M. Audiovisual MediaAiken, M. The Top Ten Weirdest Apps. Truly brilliant, game-changing inventions often inspire innovation and improvement. They can also inspire some bizarre modifications. Take the motor engine. For every classic sports car in the car park, there is a one wheeled motor scooter propped up beside it. For every wireless remote control, there is a remote control headband. And for every GoogleMaps app, there is a Snookify Me. It’s no surprise that, amongst the hundreds of thousands of apps on the market and the high levels of technical innovation and creativity on display, you will uncover some peculiar creations.

To give you a flavour of what's on offer, we’ve scanned the app store shelves to retrieve some of the weirdest apps around. Some are clearly meant to be a bit of fun, some are surprisingly useful, but a few are just extremely strange. How to use a semicolon. The Five Worst Places to Dump Someone | Blabsta. So, you met a girl / boy, you fell for each other and had some high times together, but you’re starting to feel like the relationship is drawing to an end. You want to make a clean break, you want to be kind, but you’re not sure how or where to break the news. Our advice: Pick a time, plan ahead what to say, choose a quiet, neutral place and, most of all, avoid any of these five disasterous break up locations… A Motorway Service Station – If you’re in a motorway service station with your intended dumpee, this implies you are on your way somewhere together and you will therefore need to get back into a car together and continue the rest of your journey in deafening silence -unless you are planning to leave them stranded there a la Don Draper.

We wouldn’t recommend this out of a basic sense of humanity, however, this does lead us neatly on to our next location… Photo by Paul Mullett. Poetry Projects | Hollie McNish. Poetry in Schools: Cottenham Village College 26 Nov In November 2012 I ran a poetry project with artist Inja in Cottenham Village College Sixth Form Centre, organised by Start Arts – The aim of the workshops was for the students to feel more ownership of their new school building, to respect it and each other. We ran a days poetry workshop with the students, after which we took snapshots of their work and exhibited these in various hidden and humorous locations around the school as part of the Rheebridge Art Exhibition. Here are some of the snapshops now permanently displayed in the school: Larger images below: Poem in the entrance area to the sixth form A poem about relationship issues placed in the ‘cosy corner’ area of the school on the ceiling above the sofa A very heartfelt phrase from a student placed in the light beam of the stairs What do you think?

Student’s work placed in the main space cafe area New Poetry Set: Preview at Bush Theatre, London 19 Oct.

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