DIGYMATEX researchers, Arnd Florack, of the University of Vienna and Pablo Gracia of Trinity College Dublin, presented policy recommendations to protect children from manipulative content or algorithms used online.
DIGYMATEX focus groups of kids and teens point the project in new directions
DIGYMATEX Project recently carried out five focus group sessions in order to shape the design of digital maturity questionnaires that will be a key tool in the next phase of the project.
Constant engagement with devices can impact a child’s brain structure and behavior
DIGYMATEX special webinar hosted three world-renowned specialists in child and adolescent development, to discuss the impact of digital devices on maturity in children and adolescents.
Reformulating children psychosocial maturity to cater a digitalised society
Together with the partners from the DIGYMATEX consortium researchers from the University of Vienna, provide a psychological view on the use of digital technology by kids.
DIGYMATEX researchers link smartphone use and impulsive behaviour
Researchers with the DIGYMATEX project at the Freie Universität Berlin, Tim Schulz van Endert and Peter N. C. Mohr, found a positive relationship between hours of smartphone use and impulsive decision making, through an experiment focusing on delayed gratification.
DIGYMATEX Project appoints four leading researchers to its Ethics Advisory Board
DIGYMATEX has named four highly esteemed researchers to its Ethics Advisory Board: Anja Achtziger of Zeppelin University, Lapo Mola of the Université Côte Azure, Sakari Lemola of Bielefeld University, and Terhi-Anna Wilska of the University of Jyväskylä.
DIGYMATEX study links rise in kids’ mental health problems to digital device use
DIGYMATEX researchers Melissa Bohnert and Dr Pablo Gracia, both of Trinity College Dublin’s Department of Sociology, recently published a study in Child Indicators Research Journal.
DIGYMATEX presented in CO:RE webinar on digital technologies in children’s lives
The EU-funded DIGYMATEX project was presented and discussed together with two other sister projects in a webinar focusing on Digital Technologies in the Lives of Children and Young People.
DIGYMATEX to develop new tools to determine long-term effects of using mobile devices on child behaviour
The international DIGYMATEX consortium plans to provide evidence-based tools to assist in understanding and determining children’s digital maturity.