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Dr Lynsay Shepherd
@lynsayshepherd.bsky.social
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Reader in Cybersecurity and Human-Computer Interaction. Research interests: XR, immersive experiences, romance scams, eye tracking, applied games, accessibility. Views are my own. She/her. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · 20d
It’s all very depressing 😔 Always one for a book recommendation, check out “The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny” by Laura Bates
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · 20d
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...
Friend stole my face for deepfake nudes – now I want tougher laws
The victim of one of the first deepfake prosecutions in Scotland says the law needs to change to protect victims.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 1
Just up the road from my village - I can highly recommend Aunty Betty's ice cream place at the waterfront 🙂
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Aug 8
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
In the left-hand pane of the image, there is a cylindrical building with a motorbike in the foreground (it's a Police building). In the top-right, there is a picture of a blue and white KLM plane. In the bottom right, there is a knitted toy of the rabbit Miffy.
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Jul 29
It seems I cannot access my DMs on BlueSky as it is asking for age verification.
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Jul 9
Fellow web dev module lead here. I might have a partial solution to help!
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Jun 26
I hope you are on the mend! Admittedly, I too think of Innes any time there's some forbidden smoothie that's been left in the fridge for too long. @innes.bsky.social, what have you started 😆?
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Jun 20
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
Title slide for my talk “Synthetic Seduction: Navigating Romance Scams in XR Environments”. It contains my name, email address (lynsay.shepherd@abertay.ac.uk) and mentions I am talking at an XR event. In the background is a pink, futuristic, mechanical heart. Loganair turboprop plane waiting at the gate.
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Jun 3
🤖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...
Optimising Tab Management with Machine Learning to Improve User Experience
Tabbed browsing can often become a counter-intuitive experience. After opening dozens of tabs, the user interface becomes cluttered, which can lead to a decrease in productivity, unnecessary cognitive...
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Jun 2
👀 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/...
A Cookbook for Eye Tracking in Software Engineering | Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Software Engineering Education
dl.acm.org
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Apr 30
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 😊
Slide with pink and blue cyberpunk themed computers in the background. Slide features my name and university, along with the talk title of “Cognitive Load-ing…: Serious Games for Cyber Awareness”
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Apr 24
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!
Person wearing a black RNIB jumper, sitting on an office chair in front of a laptop. They are wearing a VR headset.
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Dec 6
The memories! I concentrated on that boulder field so much when climbing (worried about falling and smashing the hip) that I could still see it while I closed my eyes to sleep that evening
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Nov 18
I've had similar comments because I did my BSc, MSc and PhD at the same institution (and now work there). Healthcare differences between regions and family means moving around is not an option. Also, I like where I am 🙂
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Oct 31
Collaboration between researchers, online platform providers and law enforcement is needed to address the issue of romance scams in the future.
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Oct 31
Studies exploring the socio-demographic and psychological factors associated with scammers and victims were limited. Few empirical studies focused on the interaction between scammers and victims on messaging platforms.
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Oct 31
As part of the review, 279 papers were screened. 107 papers were assessed for eligibility, and 53 were included in the final analysis. #RomanceFraud #CyberCrime #HumanComputerInteraction
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Oct 31
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-...
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Oct 23
Interested in collaborating on cybersecurity and human-computer interaction research?

Research interests:
👩‍💻 Human aspects of cybersecurity
🎮 Serious games
💻 Eye-tracking, web technologies, VR/XR, romance fraud detection using ML/AI

✉️ Contact me: [email protected]
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Oct 23
🎓My research interests encompass the use of eye-tracking techniques, serious games, web technologies, romance fraud prevention techniques, and interactions within the Metaverse and extended reality (XR).
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Dr Lynsay Shepherd @lynsayshepherd.bsky.social · Oct 23
👋 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.
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