The Developmental Psychology in Action Lab is based in the Department of Psychology,  School of Social Sciences (SoSS) at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. We research, develop and evaluate digital technologies for people, especially children and people with developmental conditions.

We are members of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and the Safe and Secure AI for Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) themes at the The National Robotarium – and colloborate with partners in Digital Education and Robotics and other autonomous systems.

Our theoretical heart is psychological, notably developmental theories of both typical and atypical development. Our focus is across many disciplines from STE(A)M (science, technology, engineering [Arts] and maths) to Sport Science and Outdoor Education. We are advocates of transparency and reproducibility through, for example, the Open Science Framework.