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Research has shown that returning to email after a brief hiatus can be stressful. In a 2012 study, Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California at Irvine who studies how information-technology use affects people, prohibited some office workers from using email at all for one workweek, and let others maintain their usual use. She strapped heart-rate monitors on all of them. Mark found that the participants who were cut off from email experienced significant reductions in their stress levels, as indicated by changes in their resting heart rates. When people return to their regular routine, so does the stress, she says.

Read the full story at The Atlantic.

Katherine Lo, an online harassment researcher at the University of California Irvine, says it’s important to remember that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to threats and harassment — and that in many cases, this may not be the right one. “I worry that the message being projected here is that this is the ideal way to handle threats, or that no threat should be interpreted as genuine. In many cases that’s not a viable option,” says Lo.

Read the full story at The Verge.

AVIAA founders Dustin Dryden, CEO Gillian Hayes (UC Irvine Informatics Professor), and Jim Hall are bringing the crowd-sourcing powers of digital technology to the supply side of business aviation.

Read the full story at Aviation Week.

“You see valedictorians gaming cheek to jowl with kids who are doing poorly in basic coursework,” said Constance Steinkuehler, a professor of education and game-based learning at the University of California, Irvine.

Read the full article at Education Week.

“In general, there’s no hard data showing that people who are on Facebook are more or less productive. There is an argument to be made, however, that some Facebook use at work is associated with higher performance: in one study Gloria Mark of UC Irvine showed that Facebook use at work is associated with a more positive mood at the end of the workday.

Read the full story at Quartz.

The University of California Irvine (UCI) has begun planning their educational program to bring Korean coaches and players to the United States. Introduced by Constance, the professor broke down their intentions to bring Korean Esports representatives to Irvine to not only teach young Esports student enthusiasts at UCI but also help elongate their Esports careers. Let alone the action, the thought itself is revolutionary. No college nor educational program has yet to really push the fence on bringing Korean representatives to the U.S. to teach students.

Read the full story at Inven Global.

In the 21th century, you can no longer stay in a single role for your entire career. Gillian Hayes explains what it means to be a lifelong learner and to find one’s way around various environments.

Read the story at BOLD – Blog on Learning and Development.

Today’s technology landscape is stippled with countless innovations designed to increase productivity, both in and outside of the workplace. … A recent UC Irvine study found that it takes 23 minutes on average to return to a task after an interruption. Though it may sound counterintuitive, email is the biggest interruption in day-to-day corporate life.

Read the full article at Forbes.

“There’s huge incentives for [kids] and families to lie about age”—as in, confirming that kids are 13 or older when they’re not—“so even the data [about users that companies keep] gets corrupted,” Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Irvine, told me. Kids (and parents) want engaging, cheap, or free videos regardless of how old they are ….

Read the full story at The Atlantic.

Bonnie Nardi, a professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of California Irvine, told The Verge that nowadays most people don’t believe they could fall in love with their computer. “They do, however, wish that love could be so simple” she continued. “So programmable. So attainable. Computing machines beguile us because we have the dominion to program them” she said.

Read the full story at Medium.