Great @spriteplus.bsky.social AIM Day in London 🇬🇧 yesterday - valuable discussions bringing industry and academia together around challenges in XR and immersive environments. A wee nod to @abertayuni.bsky.social and Dundee on the walk back to Thameslink - the DC Thomson building on Fleet Street 😊.

My Honours student Snow at @abertayuni.bsky.social is doing important work as part of her BSc in Ethical Hacking, focusing on improving the #accessibility of authentication systems for people living with Multiple Sclerosis. Her work has been featured by @ms-uk.bsky.social: ms-uk.org/blog/my-univ...

Great time at the Game Accessibility Symposium at @ucl.ac.uk this week! @robinjss.bsky.social & I joined from @abertayuni.bsky.social to share our work on accessible game & cultural experiences for blind & partially sighted people. I presented our @rnib.bsky.social accessible XR toolkits.

Great to be part of the TIPSS in #XR community-building event hosted by @spriteplus.bsky.social this week. Really valuable conversations and appreciated connecting with others in the space ❤️

Heading down to the @spriteplus.bsky.social TIPSS in eXtended Reality (#XR) community-building event this week. My work with Octavia Lea at @abertayuni.bsky.social on #RomanceScams ties closely into some of the challenges & opportunities being explored in XR spaces www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi2M...

Looking forward to presenting at the @ucl.ac.uk Video Game Accessibility Symposium in April! There’s still time to grab a free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/video-game... I’ll be sharing our #XR accessibility toolkits developed in collaboration between @rnib.bsky.social and @abertayuni.bsky.social

👩‍💻I was interviewed by BBC Scotland's News at Seven today to discuss the strengthening of legislation surrounding non-consensual explicit deepfakes, which links in with my research at @abertayuni.bsky.social The rise of "nudification" tools is a significant threat to digital safety.

The launch of our @abertayuni.bsky.social and @rnib.bsky.social XR toolkits was featured on That's TV Tayside in the last 24 hours 🙂 #XR #GLAM #Gaming www.facebook.com/watch/?v=160...

More good news: I was awarded Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy @advancehe.bsky.social today🙂

Just launched two new accessible XR toolkits created in collaboration with the @rnib.bsky.social & my team at @abertayuni.bsky.social. We researched, prototyped, & tested with blind & partially sighted users to ensure #InclusiveDesign in #Gaming & #GLAM experiences. www.abertay.ac.uk/news/2025/ga...

Another awesome trip to the Netherlands 🇳🇱 as part of #ACOP Cyber Offender Prevention: Academia. Great opportunity to catch-up with folks and discuss the challenges in this space. Lots more research to be done at the intersection of #games and #cyber.

Over the last year, my colleagues and I at @abertayuni.bsky.social have been collaborating with the @rnib.bsky.social on creating accessible eXtended Reality experiences. We recently presented a demo of our work at the Zip-Scene Conference in Prague 👏 🇨🇿 rke.abertay.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

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.