I am a PhD student in Applied Psychology at UCC. My research interests are Human-Computer interaction. Qualitative research and Machine learning. I’m passionate about programming, 3d art and audio engineering. My research project focuses on the socio-technical elements of Deepfake technology.
Publications
2025
Ching, Didier, Linehan, Conor, Murphy, Gillian, Twomey, John.
2025.
Encountering Deepfakes: A Thematic Analysis of Comments on a Music Video featuring Deepfake Content.
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 9(7).
doi: 10.1145/3757406.
Linehan, Conor, Murphy, Gillian, O'Mahony, Cian, Twomey, John.
2025.
Do No Harm: Designing Interventions for Deepfake-Fueled Conspiracy Theories.
Interactions, 32(3), 30–33.
doi: 10.1145/3722236.
Ching, Didier, Linehan, Conor, Murphy, Gillian, O'Mahony, Cian, Twomey, John.
2025.
I Was Never in the AI.R.A: an Experimental Study on the Use of Manipulated Audio for the Censorship of Political Dissidents.
In: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery.
doi: 10.1145/3706599.3716238.
Ching, Didier, Linehan, Conor, Murphy, Gillian, Peter Aylett, Matthew, Quayle, Michael, Twomey, John.
2025.
What Is So Deep About Deepfakes? A Multi-Disciplinary Thematic Analysis of Academic Narratives About Deepfake Technology.
IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 6, 64-79.
doi: 10.1109/TTS.2024.3493465.
2023
Ching, Didier, Linehan, Conor, Murphy, Gillian, Twomey, John.
2023.
Face/Off: Changing the face of movies with deepfakes.
PLOS ONE, 18, 1-19.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287503.
Aylett, Matthew Peter, Ching, Didier, Linehan, Conor, Murphy, Gillian, Quayle, Michael, Twomey, John.
2023.
Do deepfake videos undermine our epistemic trust? A thematic analysis of tweets that discuss deepfakes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
PLOS ONE, 18, 1-22.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291668.
Contact Details
University College Cork