Doctor David Arness
Academic Program Advisor, Undergraduate (Years 1 to 3),
Psychological Science
Lecturer in Psychological Science,
Psychological Science
Biography
I have broad areas of interest in research and teaching, but with common themes of optimal human performance, and a special interest in mindfulness and attention. Currently working on a project investigating first-year academic experience, specifically in students with attentional dysregulation and problematic social media use.
In my teaching experience, I have had the opportunity to contribute to several innovative online teaching projects, including co-designing/developing the first fully online unit offered in Psychology (Behaviour and Environment), which was also offered as a MOOC through iTunesU.
This aligns with an ongoing interest in student learning experience, and in particular with asynchronous online learning.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Arness.
Qualifications
- PhD University of Western Sydney
Interests
- Meditation and Attention
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Mindfulness
- Social Media
- Teaching and Learning Methods
- User-experience design
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Psychological Science
- Psychological Science
Contact
| Email: | D.Arness@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9685 9098 |
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| Location: | EH.G.18 Parramatta |
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Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- 101182 Behaviour and Environment, 2017
- 101614 Psychology and Health, 2021
- 101689 Advanced Research Methods, 2014
- 102533 Brain and Behaviour (online), 2017
- 102534 Experimental Design and Analysis (online), 2016
Publications
Journal Articles
- Arness, D. and Ollis, T. (2022), '[In Press] A mixed-methods study of problematic social media use, attention dysregulation, and social media use motives', Current Psychology, .
- Nguyen, Q., Miller, N., Arness, D., Huang, W., Huang, M. and Simoff, S. (2020), 'Evaluation on interactive visualization data with scatterplots', Visual Informatics, vol 4, no 4 , pp 1 - 10.
- Nguyen, Q., Arness, D., Sanderson, C., Simoff, S. and Huang, M. (2018), 'Enabling effective tree exploration using visual cues', Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, vol 47 , pp 44 - 61.
Conference Papers
- Jones, C., Nicholson, R., Ashcroft-Smith, M., Sailba, L., Abraham, J., Mubin, O., Yevenes, K., Bidewell, J., Moussa, M., Arness, D., Berry, J., Hellany, A. and Darestani, M. (2022), 'Beyond the discipline : mapping and developing WIL across transdisciplinary curricula', The Australian Collaborative Education Network. Conference, Melbourne, Vic..
- Fletcher, C., Huang, W., Arness, D. and Nguyen, Q. (2019), 'The role of working memory capacity in graph reading performance', IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand.
Research Interests
- Student experience and engagement, with specific interests in self-regulated learning in the online context, teaching evaluation/QA, and methods of student assessment.
- Meditation, attention and performance, with specific interest in mental fatigue and executive control.
- User-experience in design.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Arness.