Larry Rosen on The Psychology of Technology: What Parents & Children Need to Know
Talk by Dr.
Larry Rosen at the
Hong Kong Convention &
Exhibition Center on Jan 28th
2012
Contents of Talk:
-How your magnificent brain functions under the influence of technology and how to ensure that it does not get, or stay, overloaded
-Understanding the more tech-savvy
Net Generation to help facilitate excellent communication & study performance
-Avoiding "iDisorder" and balancing the many positive uses of technology with the downsides of addiction and stress
Dr. Larry Rosen is
Professor and past chair of the psychology department at
California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is a research psychologist with specialties in multitasking, social networking, generational differences, parenting, child and adolescent development and educational psychology, and is recognized as an international expert in the "
Psychology of
Technology."
Over the past 25-plus years, Dr. Rosen and his colleagues have examined reactions to technology among more than 30,
000 people in the
United States and in 22 other countries. He has written five books including: (1) iDisorder:
Understanding Our
Obsession With Technology and Overcoming its
Hold on Us; (2)
Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn; (3) Me, MySpace and I:
Parenting the Net Generation; (4) TechnoStress: Coping with Technology @
Work @
Home @
Play and (5) The
Mental Health Technology
Bible and writes a technology column for the newspaper
The National Psychologist and a regular blog for the magazine
Psychology Today.
Dr. Rosen has been featured extensively in television, print and radio media and has been a commentator on
Good Morning America,
NPR and
CNN. He has been quoted in hundreds of magazines and newspapers including
USA Today, the
New York Times Newsweek,
Time, the
Chicago Tribune, and
Los Angeles Times. He maintains an extremely active research program and his most recent investigations include: (1) generational differences in technology use and multitasking, (2) integrating technology in education, (3) the impact of social networks on adolescents and parents, (4) online empathy, (5) the impact of task switching during studying and in the classroom and (5) the impact of texting language on
English literacy.
Dr. Rosen has four children including one in the iGeneration, one in the Net Generation and two in
Generation X and lives in
San Diego, California. For "fun" he makes an annual
Christmas gingerbread house extravaganza with his children, which is now in its
22nd year and creates works of art from a combination of old computer technology and early rock and roll music. In his free time (what free time?) he enjoys fiddling with the newest geek toy (currently his iPad3), body surfing, horse racing (watching and betting, not participating), going to independent movies, making his own wine and drinking coffee.