Dr. Conor Linehan is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology at University College Cork, Ireland, where he is a member of the People and Technology research group. His research expertise lies in Human Computer Interaction, focusing on the design and evaluation of technology to support education and health behaviours, and he has a strong interest in how games and gamification can be useful in these contexts. He has worked on diverse research projects, investigating the design of educational games, vision therapy interventions, dietary interventions, wearable sleep monitors, and online mental health interventions, among others. Conor has published over 120 peer reviewed papers (i.e., an average of 10 per year since PhD), accruing 2,200+ citations according to Google Scholar metrics. He has been PI or CI on research grants worth upwards of €2.8m. He is the co-director of UCCs BA in Psychology and Computing.
A complete list of his publications can be found via his Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KXZj4J0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao) or ORCID (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7654-6697) profile
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.
2024
Linehan, Conor, Ryan, Christian, Walsh, Orla.
2024.
Is there evidence that playing games promotes social skills training for autistic children and youth.
Autism.
doi: 10.1177/13623613241277309.
Linehan, Conor, Murphy, Gillian, O'Mahony, Cian.
2024.
True discernment or blind scepticism? Comparing the effectiveness of four conspiracy belief interventions.
advances.in/psychology, 2.
doi: 10.56296/aip00030.
Belluci, Chiarra, Byrne, Michael, Davoren, Martin, Dick, Samantha, Dockray, Samantha, Linehan, Conor, Meany, Laoise, Vasiliou, Vasilis.
2024.
Capturing the context of drug use for college students: A Contextual Behavioural Science informed qualitative Analysis of Harm reduction practices using network feedback loops simulation modelling.
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 34, 100844.
doi: 10.1016/j.jcbs.2024.100844.
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.
Gamble, E, Heavin, C, Linehan, C.
2023.
Establishing requirements for technology to support clinical trial retention: a systematic scoping review and analysis using Self-Determination Theory.
Journal of Medical Internet Research.
doi: 10.2196/38159.
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.
2020
Ganea, Liana, Ganea, Oana, John McCarthy, Linehan, Conor, Maye, Laura, Pantidi, Nadia, Robinson, Sarah.
2020.
Considerations for Implementing Technology to Support Community Radio in Rural Communities.
In: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery.
doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376580.
Contact Details
University College Cork