Monday, June 29th Pre-conference
Pre-conference workshop day. Pre-registration required for all workshops.
Click Here for the Official Updated Conference Program13:30 - 16:30
Workshop 1
Pre-registration required
Stéphane Bouchard & Ana Beato
13:30
Hands-on training on the application of VR in the treatment of anxiety and related disorders
Presenter: Stéphane Bouchard
16:30 - 19:30
MIT
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Cyber Erasmus
Special Event
MIT Hacking Med × CyPsy Mini Hackathon
A 4 hour hands on hackathon hosted at the intersection of MIT Hacking Medicine and the 29th Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy and Social Networking Conference (CYPSY29).
Participants form interdisciplinary teams to tackle real world challenges across three tracks: Behaviour & Human Factors, Well Being & CyberTherapy, and Ethical Tech, AI & Society 5.0. Guided by expert mentors, teams move from problem to pitch in a single afternoon, closing with a live competition judged by leading voices in digital health and psychological innovation.
No prior hackathon experience needed. All backgrounds welcome: clinicians, researchers, designers, engineers, ethicists, and anyone passionate about the future of human centred technology.
Register here
Participants form interdisciplinary teams to tackle real world challenges across three tracks: Behaviour & Human Factors, Well Being & CyberTherapy, and Ethical Tech, AI & Society 5.0. Guided by expert mentors, teams move from problem to pitch in a single afternoon, closing with a live competition judged by leading voices in digital health and psychological innovation.
No prior hackathon experience needed. All backgrounds welcome: clinicians, researchers, designers, engineers, ethicists, and anyone passionate about the future of human centred technology.
Tuesday, June 30th Day 1
Pre-conference workshops in the morning, followed by the official conference opening, keynote, oral talks, and the welcome reception.
Click Here for the Official Updated Conference Program09:00 - 12:00
Workshop 2
Pre-registration required
Stéphane Bouchard
09:00
Embracing the use of AI in cyberpsychology: an overview of clinical and ethical implications
Workshop 3
Pre-registration required
Alexandre Rodrigues, Carlos Leon & Bruna António
09:00
Conversational virtual humans in adaptive simulation environments
Presenter: Alexandre Rodrigues
10:20 - 10:30
Coffee break (workshop attendees only)
12:00 - 13:00
Pre-conference lunch break (on your own)
13:00 - 13:15
Welcome
Welcoming talks
13:15 - 15:15
Oral 1
Body image & eating disorders
13:15
Can we combine evidence-based practice and celebrity status to create digital interventions that are both effective and scalable? The development and evaluation of an evidence-informed podcast episode to improve body image and mood among millennial women.
Presenter: Kirsty Garbett
13:30
Emotion regulation in daily body-exposure contexts: a 2-week ecological momentary assessment study to inform mixed-reality ED prevention
Presenter: Juliana Rojas Rincón
13:45
Virtual embodiment and autonomic physiology: a scoping review of body perception and eating-related behaviors
Presenter: Diana-Ioneala Petrescu-Miron
14:00
Stress-related emotional eating in adolescents: insights from immersive virtual environments and wearable biomarkers
Presenter: Radeanu Mihaela-Alina
14:15
A virtual reality compassionate body scan with visible internal bodily signals for anorexia nervosa: a feasibility pilot study
Presenter: Elisa Rabarbari
14:30
Predictors of presence and technology acceptance in a virtual reality food exposure program: implications for ARFID
14:45
Assessing associations between emotion regulation and usability outcomes following a DBT-based collaborative mixed-reality session for eating disorder prevention (PrevED XR)
Presenter: Aikaterini Ampatzoglou
Oral 2
AI in mental healthcare
13:15
From commands to politeness: psychological determinants of relational orientation in generative AI communication
Presenter: Burçin Akın Sarı
13:30
Mapping overreliance on large language model research: a bibliometric analysis of explicit and implicit treatments
Presenter: Federico Longoni
13:45
Counselors' ethical perceptions of generative AI use in counseling
Presenter: Sunwoo Shin
14:00
Fluent, polite, and (maybe) wrong: conversational norms and user evaluation of AI agents in complex reasoning tasks
Presenter: Carlo Galimberti
14:15
How to choose with artificial intelligence: an experiment on lifestyle change decision-making with the help of AI-powered chatbots
Presenter: Lucrezia Savioni
14:30
Amâncio: a multi-agent AI system MVP for psychoeducation - clinical simulation and ethical evaluation framework
Oral 3 ★
CYBER student presentations
13:15
When ChatGPT has a face: are LLM-driven virtual humans treated as social partners?
Presenter: Alexandre Rodrigues
13:30
Multimodal behavioral observation during psychometric testing using IoT and AI
Presenter: Haeun Song
13:45
Designing sensor-informed triggers for ecological momentary assessment of nicotine cravings
Presenter: Manha Zamir
14:00
Predicting fall risk in Parkinson's disease: the role of cognitive and gait metrics
Presenter: Maria Kontou
14:15
SmartPause: reinforcement learning-powered just-in-time adaptive intervention for reducing screen time
Presenter: Gustavo Krüger
14:30
Span-level vs paragraph-level supervised transformer models for automated coding of mental state attribution from participants' film descriptions
Presenter: Alejandra Riscos
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:45
Poster Session 1
Interactive poster presentations
Pilot evaluation of a cybersecurity awareness training simulator
Presenter: Maria Costa
Help, but not just anybody: intergroup factors and bystander behavior in bias-based cyberbullying
Presenter: Raquel António
Standing up online: validation of an electronic helping behavior scale for cyberbullying bystanders
Presenter: Heyla Selim
Digital intimacy and value conflicts: a qualitative investigation into defensive intimacy and strategic risk management across life stages
Virtual reality designs for pediatric chronic pain: a scoping review
Presenter: Romane Michaux
Effects of a goal-directed task on children's sense of presence in immersive virtual reality during pediatric surgery
Presenter: Johanna S. Aberle
Virtual reality, cognitive distortions, and food choices in overweight individuals
Presenter: Anne-Marie Etienne
Psychological benefits and cybersecurity issues of practicing job interviews in virtual reality with AI-powered virtual humans: description of a research protocol
Presenter: Mara-Petra Iacob
From emotional substitution to metacognitive growth: applying the MERIT framework to address AI attachment illusion in generative AI use
What sticks, what fails: prior experience and recall of behavior change techniques in smoking cessation apps
Presenter: Gustavo Krüger
Developing 360-degree videos in virtual reality for the assessment of alcohol craving
Presenter: Renata Glavak Tkalić
Information flow and neural activity changes during early development: a cross-species study in mice and human infants
Presenter: Julia van Holstein
Virtual reality-based relaxation exercise: feasibility and applicability in a population of children with hearing impairment
Presenter: Céline Stassart
Confirmatory factor analysis of a French child-adapted questionnaire assessing sense of presence in virtual reality
Presenter: Nicolas Vinsous
Virtual reality-based cognitive training to enhance decision-making in football athletes
Presenter: Francesca Celestina Rosanna Gala
Preliminary effects of customized immersive virtual reality on state anxiety and responsive behaviors in older adults with dementia: findings from a feasibility study in long-term care (iEMBRACE)
Presenter: Susanna Pardini
The critical role of task difficulty calibration in virtual reality performance-based cognitive assessment: optimizing clinical utility for older adults
Expert and user-centered evaluation of DUAL-REHAB: a 360° media-based cognitive-motor training application for older adults
Presenter: Francesca Bruni
Mood effects of immersion, control, and interaction in virtual reality eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy
Personality under pressure: physiological responses in human-machine interaction
Presenter: Elisa Atman
AI chatbot system for delivering psychological first aid to climate disaster survivors via internet and offline mesh networking
Presenter: Till Brüggemann
Implementing e-Perinatal: a mixed-methods process evaluation of a preventive mHealth intervention in primary maternal healthcare services
Presenter: Paula de Juan Iglesias
From belief to feeling: player duality and the active creation of emotional meaning in video games
Presenter: Filipe Pinto
Cognitive age as a predictor of players' receptiveness to manipulation through deceptive patterns in game design
Presenter: Alper Kara
The influence of dark tetrad traits on cyberbullying bystander behaviors: the mediating roles of moral disengagement and empathy
Presenter: Minyi Chu
17:00 - 18:00
Keynote 1
Per Carlbring
18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, July 1st Day 2
Full conference day with four parallel oral tracks, a symposium, and lunch included.
Click Here for the Official Updated Conference Program08:45 - 10:30
Oral 4
Social media & online behavior
08:45
From creeping to cyberstalking: psychometric development of the social media surveillance scale
Presenter: Alice Thompson
09:00
Seeking connection, choosing isolation: the social motivators behind phubbing behavior
Presenter: Nikola Nedeljković
09:15
Neurocognitive markers of internet addiction: attentional bias and dissociative processing
Presenter: Loreta Cannito
09:30
Shame and social media addiction: the role of psychological flexibility and daily use in a moderated mediation model
Presenter: Cláudia P. Pires
09:45
Temperamental profiles as predictors of online adaptive and maladaptive behaviors: a preliminary analysis in Italian adolescents
Presenter: Ainzara Favini
10:00
Communicating consent online: current state and opportunities for improvement
Presenter: Elizabeth Clancy
Oral 5
XR rehabilitation & brain injury
08:45
Reh@City XR: an XR rehabilitation platform integrating accessibility aids and ecological validity for cognitive, motor, and social cognition training
Presenter: Andre Freitas
09:00
Technology-enhanced cognitive stimulation for healthy ageing: preliminary results from Sénior+Ativo, a community-based multidomain program
Presenter: Jorge Oliveira
09:15
Digital gaming and human-centred wellbeing: a developing cyberpsychology programme on social capital after acquired brain injury
Presenter: Emma van der Schyff
09:30
The impact of holographic 3D visualization on visual memory encoding and cognitive load in acquired brain injury: an ongoing study
Presenter: Raquel Vasconcelos
09:45
Hacking with healthcare professionals: co-creation of customized cognitive interventions through a gaming hackathon
Presenter: Mónica Spínola
10:00
Personal, injury, and psychosocial risk factors for cyberscams for people with and without acquired brain injury
Presenter: Kate Gould
Oral 6
Digital mental health applications
08:45
Usability study of a mobile application for prolonged grief disorder: real-time monitoring and support
Presenter: Soledad Quero
09:00
Ethical evaluation of AI-powered psychological support applications for athletes: development and preliminary validation of a sport-specific assessment framework
Presenter: Andrea Marcela Castaño Rodríguez
09:15
Understanding stakeholder perspectives on innovative technical features during development of a novel digital body image resource
Presenter: Louise Hanson
09:30
Digital prescriptions, human connections: co-designing a culturally embedded medication adherence app for elderly people in Vietnam
Presenter: Gordon Ingram
09:45
Logging kindness and self-care: a 30-day web app intervention to enhance mental health
Presenter: Hang-Shim Lee
10:00
Personalized digital microinterventions for borderline personality disorder: a mixed-methods pilot study on wellbeing and symptom change
Presenter: Rosa Baños
Oral 7
VR in healthcare & oncology
08:45
Evaluating usability, safety, and satisfaction of Canadian and Czech virtual reality applications in hospital-based palliative and end-of-life care
Presenter: Alexander Moreno
09:00
Human-centered digital psycho-oncology: a pilot investigation of technology acceptance and patient psychological clusters
Presenter: Milija Strika
09:15
A digital platform for psychological and cognitive assessment and support in cancer care: a mixed-method study within the ALTHEA project
Presenter: Veronica Coppini
09:30
Informational videos in GEP test consultations: patient understanding and decision-making outcomes for breast cancer patients
Presenter: Federico Borgogni
09:45
Social dancing in virtual reality: a qualitative comparison of entrainment and enjoyment in younger and older adults
Presenter: Yuanyangyang Yin
10:00
Virtual reality-enhanced behavioral activation for older adults with major depressive disorder: design of a feasibility pilot study
Presenter: Kim Bullock
Symposium 1
Sensorimotor, brain-computer interfaces & IoT
08:45
The brain plays poker: anatomy of sensorimotor betting
09:00
Stretchable and biodegradable neural electrodes for high-fidelity brain-computer interfaces
Presenter: Shaoqin Liu
09:15
Multi-scale oxygen kinetics decoupling in skeletal muscle: optimizing frequency-domain NIRS through probe design, system calibration, and physiological modeling
Presenter: Chunzhi Yi
09:30
A bioengineered exosome-mediated strategy for coupled neuroprotection and neuroregeneration in stroke
Presenter: Liangcan He
09:45
Presence and IoT: highlighting multimodality challenges in human behavior research
Presenter: Lise Haddouk
10:00
Emotion on the edge: when fear rewrites our movement signature
Presenter: Danping Wang
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:15
Oral 10
VR presence & embodiment
11:00
Immersion matters: heart rate responses to an overview-effect virtual reality experience
Presenter: Giulia Magni
11:15
Social presence and immersion in shared hyper-realistic VR: preliminary links to collaboration and learning
Presenter: Maria Eleonora Minissi
11:30
The emotional VR experience: how personality and presence influence affective responses in immersive environments
Presenter: Vanshika Sharma
11:45
Exploring embodiment in digital health narratives: preliminary findings from a pilot study
Presenter: Giulia Magni
Oral 8 ★
CYBER student presentations
11:00
When ChatGPT has a face: are LLM-driven virtual humans treated as social partners?
Presenter: Alexandre Rodrigues
11:15
AI companions for dementia care: to be immersed or not to be
Presenter: Kineta Tober
11:30
Exploring individual differences and mechanisms of action during virtual reality hypnosis: a randomized controlled study
Presenter: Moythry Manir Samia
11:45
Reducing LGBTQ+ bias through virtual embodiment: golden rule embodiment paradigm
Presenter: Jolie Haertter
Oral 9
VR for pain, sleep & addiction
11:00
Gambling disorder symptoms and self-reported physical and mental health in young adults in Portugal: the mediating role of social and familial consequences
Presenter: Gonçalo Oliveira
11:15
Targeting interoceptive representations with virtual reality to modulate pain: a randomized controlled study
Presenter: Anna Felnhofer
11:30
Investigating the effects of affective virtual reality exposure on sleep: preliminary findings from a mixed-design home-based study
Presenter: Fabiana Festucci
11:45
Alcohol craving assessment using 360-degree videos in virtual reality: a feasibility study
Presenter: Bruno Škovrlj
Symposium 2
3MDR for PTSD treatment
11:00
Making 3MDR more accessible and supplementing it with music and art therapists: the CARE4PTSD and MATE-3MDR studies
Presenter: Michael Roy
11:15
Development and iterative international experience with 3MDR
Presenter: Eric Vermetten
11:30
Integrating 3MDR in the treatment of occupational trauma and traumatic grief
Presenter: Eric Vermetten
11:45
Multimodal motion-assisted memory desensitization and reconsolidation (3MDR) therapy: a preliminary examination of the effect on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and experiential avoidance
Presenter: Jacob Vandehy
12:13 - 13:30
Lunch break (included)
13:30 - 15:00
Oral 11
VR for rehabilitation & precision medicine
13:30
Advancing precision medicine through immersive technologies
13:45
Virtual reality meets clinical reality: a dual stakeholder approach to novel eudaimonic VR well-being protocol design in spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation
Presenter: Natasha Cloran
14:00
A high-precision wireless wearable tDCS platform with remote feedback control for digital therapeutics of major depressive disorder
Presenter: Qingying Feng
14:15
Mapping sensory-motor boundaries in augmented reality: implications for vestibular rehabilitation
Presenter: Jacob Vandehy
14:30
Early detection of mild cognitive impairment: VR executive digital biomarkers integrated with psychosocial and health-related risk factors
Presenter: Eleonora Noselli
14:45
"No more shame": participant experiences of a novel cyberscam psychosocial recovery intervention
Presenter: Kate Gould
Oral 12
Gaming & wellbeing
13:30
The conceptualization and influence of video games on multidimensional wellbeing of players, within British and global contexts
Presenter: Szymon Olejarnik
13:45
Associations between gaming motivations, digital life balance, and well-being among Italian players: a cross-sectional study
Presenter: Carla Sousa
14:00
Proactive moderation of toxicity in online gaming: a narrative review
Presenter: Anna-Leena Macey
14:15
Digital serious games as preventive spaces: supporting non-high-risk youth through ethical play design
Presenter: Vinorra Shaker
14:30
The (positive) impact of violent video games: a mixed methods exploration of basic psychological needs and player perceptions
Presenter: Morgan Tidy
14:45
Development and effectiveness verification of a digital violence prevention education program for upper-grade elementary students
Presenter: Hyunji Paeng
Oral 13
AI attitudes, autism & sport recovery
13:30
The role of behavioral activation and inhibition systems in AI attitude and perceived literacy
Presenter: Caterina Sapone
13:45
Online self-compassion vs. ABCDE technique in post-injury sport recovery: a pilot study in male rugby players
Presenter: Francesca Celestina Rosanna Gala
14:00
Effectiveness of extended reality-based social skills interventions for improving social functioning in children and adolescents (0-18 years) with autism spectrum disorder level 1: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Presenter: Angelo Rega
14:15
Self-representation in addiction disorder: a pilot study on digital avatars created by patients with substance use disorder
Presenter: Donatella Ciarmoli
14:30
Reconnecting body and mind after injury: a pilot VR-based self-compassion intervention in athletes
Presenter: Luana Amadini
14:45
Social-evaluative stress induction in virtual reality: a scoping review of paradigms, outcome domains, and vulnerability moderators
Presenter: Mara-Sinziana Singeap
13:30 - 15:00
Symposium 3
Rethinking sense of presence: multimodal and contextual approaches
13:30
Rethinking sense of presence assessment: from group averages to individual styles through multimodal, contextual, longitudinal, and projective analysis
Presenter: Donovan Morel
13:45
Assessing presence in AR: the challenges of embodiment. Evaluation of an augmented reality presence scale
Presenter: Haddouk Lise
14:00
Presence, social presence, and enunciative co-presence. Is human-AI dialogue defining a new standard for the field?
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30
Poster Session 2
Interactive poster presentations
Perceptions towards bioplastics in online discourse: insights from a sentiment analysis on Reddit
Presenter: Bernardo Cruz
Are You Really There? Physiological Signatures of Human Connectivity and Intersubjectivity in Cyberpsychology
Presenter: Lorelai Wilson
Autonomic and ECG responses to VR-induced psychosocial stress: a virtual reality Trier paradigm in adolescents
Presenter: Veronica Mocanu
Facing fears from home. Protocol for the development, feasibility and optimization of an app for the self-exposure treatment of small animal phobia (PhobiApp)
Presenter: Soledad Quero
Participants' experiences of an AI-driven VR exposure intervention for OCD: a qualitative investigation
Presenter: Carolina Fialho
Positive technology as an integrated approach to wellbeing: theory, research, and future directions
Presenter: David Redmond
When feeling distracted does not mean being distracted: subjective digital distraction and objective attention
Presenter: Andrea Christodoulou
Student attention profiles in digital environments: findings from the first phase of a longitudinal study
Presenter: Andrea Christodoulou
From disembodied voices to human virtual agents: investigating embodied cues on social presence using self-report and eye-tracking in a human-agent interaction
Presenter: Giulia Colombini
Mapping personality traits to persuasion principles: a dataset for decoding AI recommendations
Presenter: José Medeiros
Embodied digital reading on tablets: how tactile interaction and reader preference shape narrative comprehension, spatial representation, and engagement
Presenter: Petros Roussos
Enhancing engagement in digital mental health interventions for migrant populations: integrating co-creation and artificial intelligence
Presenter: Rosa Baños
Beyond borders: a clinician-informed extended reality tool to support acculturation in host societies
Presenter: Iulia-Mara Scarlat
Data-driven optimization of minimal EEG electrodes enables efficient classification of major depressive disorder
Presenter: Yechan Cho
Webcam-based eye tracking for digital cognitive assessment in older adults
Presenter: Anna Enrica Tosti
Human-AI agreement in online emotional tone assessment: a validation study
Presenter: Ewa Antczak
Building trust through personalization and AI
The Cognitive Ease Light (CEL) Index as a metric of cognitive load and a tool for modulating somatic trust in Human 5.0 interfaces
Experiencing the past through augmented reality: the cognitive and emotional impact of presence in a deportation memorial
Presenter: Meri Meskhidze
Investing in trust: inspiring adversaries to support U.S. operations
Factors affecting willingness to challenge mental health misinformation on social media
Presenter: Cynthia Hoffner
Anxiety and depressive symptom time-series dynamics as modulators of personality and emotional intelligence change: a longitudinal investigation
Presenter: Andreea Barbuc
The impact of cognitive load on detecting AI-generated and human-generated phishing emails
Presenter: Zoe Hughes
The gut-brain axis as a predictor of stress-related decision-making in major depressive disorder
Presenter: John Barnhart
Doing the "bare minimum": therapy-speak and relationship norms on TikTok
16:45 - 17:45
Keynote 2
Mariano Alcañiz
18:55 - 23:30
🍷 Taylor's Wine Cellars
Pre-registration required
Gala Dinner - Special "Arraial" Evening
Wine tasting at Taylor's Wine Cellars (starts at 7 PM sharp). Note: the location is about a 10-minute drive from the conference venue. Arraial dinner will begin after wine tasting, in the World of Wine complex (5 minutes walk from the wine cellar).
Pre-registration required
Thursday, July 2nd Day 3
Final conference day with four parallel oral tracks, symposia, lunch included, and the closing ceremony with awards.
Click Here for the Official Updated Conference Program08:45 - 10:30
Oral 14
VR for anxiety, PTSD & clinical trials
08:45
A child-centred virtual reality experience for preparing children for MRI and their paediatric hospital journey
Presenter: Flaviano Santos
09:00
Developing immersive virtual exposures for OCD (DIVE-OCD): protocol and preliminary findings from a randomized, controlled feasibility trial
Presenter: André Abreu
09:15
Videoteleconference-delivered reconsolidation of traumatic memories vs prolonged exposure for PTSD: a randomized controlled trial
Presenter: Michael Roy
09:30
Remote delivery of virtual reality mindfulness for university student wellbeing: a randomized controlled trial and mixed-methods evaluation of modality, user experience, and implementation
09:45
A feasibility study of a home-based virtual reality therapy protocol for social anxiety disorder integrating exposure therapy, breathing regulation, and group therapy
Presenter: Iveta Fajnerová
Oral 15
Social media & youth wellbeing
08:45
How social is social media? Investigating the effects of distinct usage styles on psychosocial outcomes
Presenter: Evelyn Murray
09:00
Australia's ban on under 16s' use of social media: implications for social connectedness and wellbeing
Presenter: Emma van der Schyff
09:15
From sharing to surveillance: overparenting on social media and parental anxiety
Presenter: Sentha Govin-Vel
09:30
Privacy awareness without trust: TikTok use among predominantly Gen Z college students
09:45
Affordance profiles of active and passive social media use: implications for social withdrawal and social reintegration
Presenter: Jeff Gavin
10:00
Youth do good things online: development and validation of the online prosocial behavior scale (OPBS)
Oral 16
AI design, ethics & learning
08:45
Ethics in an engineering decision: how AI agent design shapes human behaviour
Presenter: Anantha Krishnan Raman Fesabas
09:00
Comparative review: AI agents and personality frameworks
Presenter: Anantha Krishnan Raman Fesabas
09:15
Toward AI-assisted pre-therapy screening: clinicians' priorities for first-session preparation
Presenter: Maria Eleonora Minissi
09:30
AI, emotion, and collaboration: a neurocognitive investigation of learning
Presenter: Eleonora Brivio
09:45
Comparing the effectiveness of chatbot-based and face-to-face role-play in counselor education
Presenter: Sujung Choi
10:00
Simulated empathy and emotional recognition in conversational AI: a qualitative study on adolescent distress
Presenter: Leonarda Anna Vinci
Symposium 4
VR for social anxiety disorder
09:00
Can individually tailored VR content combined with real-time anxiety tracking improve the effect of CBT for social anxiety disorder?
Presenter: Per Trads Ørskov
09:15
What are the advantages of combining exposure in VR and in vivo exposure in CBT for social anxiety disorder?
Presenter: Stephane Bouchard
09:30
Delivering bad news: using embodiment as tool of self evaluation for medical communication training
Presenter: Tara Collingwoode-Williams
09:45
Virtual reality applications in social anxiety, public speaking anxiety and selective mutism in youth: a scoping review
Presenter: Anne Larose
10:00
Virtual reality and selective mutism in youth: preliminary observations and a conceptual therapeutic model
Presenter: Ana Beato
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:15
Oral 17
Social media, hikikomori & cancel culture
11:00
Patterns of online activity and risk of social withdrawal (hikikomori) in emerging adults: the critical role of passive social media use
Presenter: Jeff Gavin
11:15
Cancelled or not, here I come: experimental data on cancel culture perceptions
Presenter: Tiago Aguiar
11:30
Bridging the trust gap: a mixed-methods analysis of social media usage, trust in official narratives, and extremism tendencies among Omani youth
Presenter: Maryam Aljabri
11:45
Emotional and informational support contagion through social media comments
Presenter: Stephanie Tobin
Oral 18
AI, work & human behaviour
11:00
Navigating the digital labor market: young people's insights into AI, digital skills, and psychological resources
Presenter: Anthony Abrome
11:15
Opinion and artificial intelligence - alignments between chatbot narratives and the strategic narratives of the USA, Russia, and China
Presenter: Pedro Rodrigues Costa
11:30
When humans adapt to machines: behavioral convergence, algorithmic socialization, and the reshaping of human agency in intelligent systems
11:45
Obedience to code: human judgment, moral agency, and behavioral adaptation in AI-assisted military decision environments
12:00
The effect of AI chatbot interaction for children via conversation analysis
Oral 19
VR for stigma, neural dynamics & psychiatry
11:00
Can an immersive VR game reduce mental illness stigma in healthcare students? An experimental study of efficacy and mechanisms
Presenter: Raul Szekely
11:15
Intracranial neural dynamics during experiences in virtual reality: a study on immersion
Presenter: Teodoro Ors
11:30
Anticipation and prevention of real risks of virtual environments in psychiatry
11:45
Developing and validating the VRInTAKE scale: measuring readiness for virtual reality-based mental health interventions
Presenter: Dale Rowland
12:00
Virtual reality in ethical pedagogy: the VREthics project and the future of professional training at OPP
Presenter: Teresa Souto
Oral 20
Technology habits, awe & prosocial behaviour
11:00
Technology habits and healthy lifestyles: preliminary results from the T.H.R.I.V.E. project
Presenter: Stefano Triberti
11:15
Validating "Passenger" as an awe-inducing interactive installation: from awe phenomenology to participant reports
Presenter: Assim Kalouaz
11:30
Promoting morality through awe-elicitation in virtual reality: a pilot experimental study on prosocial implicit attitudes
Presenter: Chiara Scuotto
11:45
Food craving patterns following VR-induced psychosocial stress: a virtual reality supermarket study in adolescents
Presenter: Cristiana Amalia Onita
12:00
Digital decision-making tools for health: how do people feel?
Presenter: Federico Borgogni
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch break (included)
13:30 - 15:30
Oral 21
Screen use, social behaviour & online goals
13:30
Changes in screen use during the COVID-19 pandemic and emotional-behavioral outcomes among socially vulnerable Brazilian children
13:45
Interpersonal goals and online behaviour: a revised measure of self-image and compassionate goals on social media
Presenter: Danielle Villoresi
14:00
The cost of "doing the right thing": a qualitative study on moral injury and student well-being among Malaysian university students facing online rage bait
Presenter: Vinorra Shaker
14:15
Exploring directions for digital content use in bullying prevention education: insights from expert interviews
Presenter: Jaeheon Kim
14:30
Digital hoarding and procrastination: anxiety, object attachment, and accumulation in young adults
Presenter: Defne Baycan
14:45
When does digital intergroup contact work? Cognitive empathy as a boundary condition for prejudice reduction in early adolescence
Presenter: Jerônimo Soro
Oral 22
AI, ethics & affective sensing
13:30
Is it helpful or harmful? Young people's conflicted thoughts, feelings and imaginaries of generative AI
Presenter: Jaimee Stuart
13:45
The role of emotional reactivity, moral foundations, and intellectual humility in shaping immigration acceptance
14:00
Axiological engineering and linguistic-somatic resonance using Family 5.0 sustainability modelling
14:15
Toward personalized and adaptive cyberspace: comparative assessment of low-burden affective sensing approaches
Presenter: Mieko Ohsuga
14:30
On the precipice: identifying the transition from scam engagement to financial loss
Presenter: Luke French
14:45
Determinants of e-health adoption and use in healthy working-age adults: a systematic review
Presenter: Bernardo Cruz
15:00
Maintaining human presence in self-guided digital intervention: the DBT skills online program
Presenter: Alena Spálenská
Oral 23
Online abuse, consent & forensic cyberpsychology
13:30
Not irrational fear, but systemic defense: the cultural immunology of moral panics about digital technology
13:45
Quantifying roles and interaction structure in a Telegram community involved in image-based sexual abuse: text mining, behavioral clustering, and social network analysis
Presenter: Marco De Vettor
14:00
Communicating consent online: current state and opportunities for improvement
Presenter: Elizabeth Clancy
14:15
A qualitative investigation into online abuse against transgender and gender non-conforming individuals
Presenter: Graham Scott
14:30
Experimental investigations into perceptions of online abuse against transgender and gender non-conforming individuals
Presenter: Graham Scott
14:45
Applied forensic cyberpsychology of AI companions: sexualized engagement loops, behavioral telemetry, and insider-risk exposure
15:00
Cognitive behavioral therapy protocol for girls victims of sexual violence in virtual environments: a feasibility study
Presenter: Fatima Rocha
Oral 24
AI-generated content, news & cognitive tools
13:30
Belief congruence in AI-tailored news: a preliminary investigation into pre-reflective acceptance and information processing
Presenter: Lorenzo Reina
13:45
Engagement and reliability: communication strategies and news evaluation outcomes in AI-generated content
Presenter: Stefania La Rocca
14:00
Feasibility and acceptability of home-based cognitive-motor dual-task training: a qualitative study of the DUAL-REHAB application
Presenter: Francesco Bigotto
14:15
Use of the Sound-Induced Flash Illusion task (SIFI) and computerized Stroop task as a potential predictor of cognitive deficit: a methodological study
Presenter: Alessandra Magrelli
14:30
Digital relaxation media and hypnotic voice tracks: the role of ASMR susceptibility
Presenter: Silvia Francesca Maria Pizzoli
14:45
The influence of background music on statements' perception in online short videos
Presenter: Mohammad Kazimoglu
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Oral 26
ADHD, attention & digital environments
16:00
Mapping ADHD in women: diagnostic recognition, support pathways, and gaps in the evidence
Presenter: Karla Pretorius
16:15
How do we pay attention online? Development of the Attention in the Digital Environment Scale
Presenter: José Bourbon-Teles
16:30
Can artificial intelligence support executive function rehabilitation in ADHD? Expert insights on ChatGPT-5 outputs
Presenter: Margherita Dahò
16:45
Aphantasia and mindfulness: evaluating virtual reality as an adaptive intervention modality
Oral 27
Cognitive interfaces, deepfakes & coercive control
16:00
The polygenic (BDNF:COMT) modulation of oculomotor predictive coding of facial expressions in the development of ethical interfaces
Presenter: Andrey Vlasov
16:15
Overcoming operational deadlocks through cognitive flexibility in critical systems
16:30
Weaponized belonging: coercive control and the 764 online ecosystem
16:45
DeepFake and identity: an experimental study on the emotional impact of viewing oneself
Presenter: Barbara Caci
Symposium 5
Social media, misinformation & political polarization
16:00
Trust is golden: the intersection of social media use, misinformation and political polarization in the United States
16:15
Plausibly deniable reality: introducing a cyberpsychological meme genealogy to counter misinformation-driven cognitive warfare
Presenter: Erick Miyares
16:30
Dual pathways of online political engagement: affective polarization, stress and resilience
Presenter: Stacy Thayer
17:00 - 17:30