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Dianna Vidas @diannavidas.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It's coming up so quickly, can't wait for the AMPS/APSCOM conference later this year at the Gold Coast! Abstracts are due later this month!!

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Dianna Vidas @diannavidas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Almost 5 years ago now, when we were little PhD students, a group of us had a paper idea. We huddled together in our cramped office meeting room to write an early version of this paper. MANY iterations later, we're all now postdocs, and the paper is now out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Exploring geographic and cultural differences in preferences for valence and arousal in music using regional music charts - Lewis Nitschinsk, Dianna Vidas, Hugh T McGovern, Nicholas MA Smith, 2026

Music can evoke and enable emotional expression. Yet few studies have investigated which aspects of music preference are universal, and which aspects vary geogr...

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Dianna Vidas @diannavidas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Great to see this paper out! Our team was awarded best paper last year at @ozchi-conf.bsky.social for this work, where we presented findings from focus group discussions with family caregivers of people living with dementia about AI-assisted music interventions: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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"I wouldn't like technology to give people a get out of jail free card": Caregiver Reflections on a Hypothetical AI-assisted Music Intervention for Dementia Care | Proceedings of the 36th Australasian...

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Dianna Vidas @diannavidas.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I'm honoured to have received the runner up award for the Australian Association of Gerontology Helen Barrie National Prize! Looking forward to presenting at the webinar with the other awardees. I'll be presenting on work I did as part of the amazing MATCH team at the University of Melbourne!

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Dianna Vidas @diannavidas.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This week I had the opportunity to present at @ozchi-conf.bsky.social, and I'm excited to share that our paper received the Best Paper award! Great way to wrap up the year with this paper out of my work at the University of Melbourne. Currently available here: outbox.eait.uq.edu.au/uqsville/OzC...

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Dianna Vidas @diannavidas.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I've finally made it over to bluesky!

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