On Friday, @abertayuni.bsky.social had a visit from @stephengethins.bsky.social MP - I presented my #RomanceFraud 💔 research conducted with one of my former MSc students Octavia, and my PhD student Marc www.linkedin.com/posts/aberta...

On Monday I did a bit of filming with BBC News Scotland at @abertayuni.bsky.social on the rise of deepfakes and AI-powered “nudification” applications. The piece is out today on TV, radio and the web. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yesterday was an excellent day trip to Utrecht 🇳🇱! I had a great time with the COPS team Politie Nederland, discussing my Abertay University research in cyber and games. Thanks for inviting me over 😊 #GamesTech #Cyber #Research

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Day trip for a wee talk on my research at Abertay University 😊 “Synthetic Seduction: Navigating Romance Scams in XR Environments”. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. Not prepared for the temperatures though (30c forecast in Manchester) #ImmersiveExperiences #ImmersiveTech #XR #Metaverse

🤖Another new publication! 🤖 My former MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence & UX student from Abertay Uni and I had a paper titled “Optimising Tab Management with Machine Learning to Improve User Experience” published at HCI International 2025. 😊 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

👀 New eye tracking paper published 👀 - Abertay University “A Cookbook for Eye Tracking in Software Engineering” has been published in the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Software Engineering Education (ECSEE '25) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Early start this morning! Just finished up an online talk for cognitive science students studying at @au.dk in Denmark 🇩🇰, covering some of the serious games and cyber security work we are doing at Abertay University 😊

Great day! Hailey Austin and I spent the day down at @rnibscotland.bsky.social in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 testing our accessible VR Abertay University project work with blind and visually impaired people. Huge thank you to @jameskyle.bsky.social for organising this! Very informative session!

Alexander Bilz, Graham Johnson, & I at Abertay University have had our paper titled 💔“Tainted Love: a Systematic Literature Review of Online Romance Scam Research”💔 published in Interacting with Computers 🙂 #RomanceFraud #CyberCrime #HumanComputerInteraction academic.oup.com/iwc/advance-...

👋 Hello, World! Time to introduce myself here. 👩‍💻I'm Dr Lynsay Shepherd, a Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity and Human-Computer Interaction at Abertay University. 👤I focus on applied research in the human aspects of cybersecurity, and investigate how people interact with emerging technologies.