Jill Dosso
Research Area
Education
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia and BC Children's Hospital, 2024
PhD Neuroscience, University of British Columbia, 2020
MA Psychological Science, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2013
BSc Biology, University of Lethbridge, 2011
About
Dr. Jill Dosso (she/her) is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia where she teaches courses on biological and cognitive aspects of psychology.
Teaching
Research
In her research, Dr. Dosso is interested in how people perceive emerging smart and social technologies such as social robots and health wearables. She prioritizes working in community with persons with lived experience who are impacted by research, such as children with anxiety and older adults experiencing dementia.
Publications
Full list of publications is available here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wtqxYy0AAAAJ
Dosso, J. A., Kailley, J. N., & Robillard, J. M. (2024). What does ChatGPT know about dementia? A comparative analysis of information quality. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. 97(2), 559-565. doi: 10.3233/JAD-230573
Dosso, J. A., Kailley, J. N., & Robillard, J. M. (2024). The League: A person-centered approach to the development of social robotics for pediatric anxiety. Health Expectations. 27, e13981. doi: 10.1111/hex.13981
Dosso, J. A., Kailley, J. N., Martin, S. E., Michaud, F. Robillard, J. M. (2023). “A safe space for sharing feelings”: Perspectives of children with lived experiences of anxiety on social robotics. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 7(12), 118. doi: 10.3390/mti7120118
Dosso, J. A., Riminchan, A. Robillard, J. M. (2023). Social robotics for children: An investigation of manufacturers’ claims. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10, 1080157. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2023.1080157
Dosso, J. A., Kailley, J. N., Guerra, G. K., Robillard, J. M. (2023). Older adult perspectives on emotion and stigma in social robots. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 1051750. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1051750
Dosso, J. A., Bandari, E., Malhotra, A., Guerra, G. K., Hoey, J., Michaud, F., Prescott, T., Robillard, J. M. (2022). User perspectives on emotionally aligned social robots for older adults and persons with dementia. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, 9, 1-15. doi: 10.1177/20556683221108364
Tam, M. T., Dosso, J. A., & Robillard, J. M. (2022). Community and provider evaluation of a Canadian dementia support services program. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 25(2), 162-170. doi: 10.5770/cgj.25.548
Tam, M. T., Dosso, J. A., & Robillard, J. M. (2021). The impact of a global pandemic on people living with dementia and their care partners: analysis of 417 lived experience reports. Journal of Alzheimer Disease, 80(2), 865-875. doi: 10.3233/jad-201114
Dosso, J. A., Anderson, N. C., Wahn, B., Choi, G. S. J., & Kingstone, A. (2021). Social modulation of on-screen looking behaviour. Vision Research, 182, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.12.009
Dosso, J. A., Huynh, M., & Kingstone, A. (2020). I spy without my eye: Covert attention in human social interactions. Cognition, 104388. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104388
Dosso, J. A., Chua, R., Weeks, D. J., Turk, D. J., & Kingstone, A. (2020). Attention and awareness: Representation of visuomotor space in split-brain patients. Cortex, 122, 253-262. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.029
Awards
- Pat Atherton Emerging Scholars Award for Patient Oriented Research (2022)
- Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of British Columbia (2020)
- Canadian Neuroscience Advocacy & Outreach Award – Neurohistory project team member (2018)
Graduate Supervision
Dr. Dosso is not available to supervise graduate students.