RECOVER Injury Research Centre

Miss Jessica Formosa

BBehavSc(Psych) (Hons)
Senior Research Coordinator
RECOVER Injury Research Centre
RECOVER Injury Research Centre
The University of Queensland
Level 7, Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service
296 Herston Road
HERSTON QLD 4029

Researcher biography

Jessica is a senior research coordinator at RECOVER Research Injury Centre. After graduating from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2018 from a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Honours Psychology), she began pursuing her PhD in Computer Science at QUT, within the discipline of Human-Computer Interaction and has a particular interest in the intersection of wellbeing and technology. Her PhD is near completion.

Jessica joined the RECOVER team in 2025 to work on the RISE and StressModex for Inpatient Orthopaedics projects. 

Publications

Journal Articles (6)
Conference Papers (2)

Journal Articles

Formosa, Jessica, Frommel, Julian, Mandryk, Regan L., Tobin, Stephanie J., Turkay, Selen and Johnson, Daniel (2024). Emotion regulation, need satisfaction, passion and problematic video game play during difficult times. Behaviour and Information Technology, 1-26. doi: 10.1080/0144929x.2024.2440779
Formosa, Jessica, O'donnell, Nicholas, Horton, Ella M., Türkay, Selen, Mandryk, Regan L., Hawks, Michael and Johnson, Daniel (2022). Definitions of esports: a systematic review and thematic analysis. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6 (CHI PLAY) 227, 1-45. doi: 10.1145/3549490
Turkay, Selen, Lin, Allan, Johnson, Daniel and Formosa, Jessica (2022). Self-determination theory approach to understanding the impact of videogames on wellbeing during COVID-19 restrictions. Behaviour and Information Technology, 42 (11), 1720-1739. doi: 10.1080/0144929x.2022.2094832
Formosa, Jessica, Johnson, Daniel, Turkay, Selen and Mandryk, Regan L. (2022). Need satisfaction, passion and wellbeing effects of videogame play prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Computers in Human Behavior, 131 107232, 107232. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107232
Luxford, Ethan, Tuerkay, Selen, Frommel, Julian, Tobin, Stephanie J., Mandryk, Regan L., Formosa, Jessica and Johnson, Daniel (2022). Self-regulation as a mediator of the associations between passion for video games and well-being. CyberPsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 25 (5), 310-315. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2021.0321
Johnson, Daniel, Formosa, Jessica, Perry, Ryan, Lalande, Daniel, Turkay, Selen, Obst, Patricia and Mandryk, Regan (2022). Unsatisfied needs as a predictor of obsessive passion for videogame play. Psychology of Popular Media, 11 (1), 47-55. doi: 10.1037/ppm0000299

Conference Papers

Turkay, Selen, Formosa, Jessica, Cuthbert, Robert, Adinolf, Sonam and Brown, Ross Andrew (2021). Virtual reality esports - understanding competitive players' perceptions of location based VR esports. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Electr Network, 8-13 May 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3411764.3445073
Turkay, Selen, Formosa, Jessica, Adinolf, Sonam, Cuthbert, Robert and Altizer, Roger (2020). See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: how collegiate esports players define, experience and cope with toxicity. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Electr Network, 25-30 April 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376191