Cristina Sylla

Biography

Cristina Sylla has a PhD in Educational Technology and a Master Degree in Technology and Digital Art and a Master Degree in Literary Studies. She is a principal researcher at the Research Centre in Child Studies, University of Minho, and a collaborator of ITI/LARSyS She is the principal investigator of two funded projects: Mobeybou: Moving Beyond Boundaries – Designing Narrative Learning in the Digital Era (http://mobeybou. com) and the project Once Upon a Time: A Kit of Tools for Fostering Children’s Development of Multiliteracies, Collaboration Skills, and Intercultural Sensitivity (http://mobeybou. com). Her research interests are the conceptualization, design, and evaluation of technologically innovative tools that foster playful learning and innovative teaching approaches targeting children’s develop- ment of essential 21st-century learning and innovation skills. She has over 50 international publications in peer-reviewed international scientific indexing conferences and journals. She has chaired the International Conference on Child Computer interaction 2022 (https://idc.acm.org/2022/), is part of several international networks, and integrates the scientific committee of several high ranked conferences. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Child Computer Interaction (cite score 3.8).

Publications

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2023

Perkis, Andrew; Bellini, Mattia; Nisi, Valentina; Reyes, María Cecilia; Sylla, Cristina; Santa, Mijalche; Zaluczkowska, Anna; Irshad, Shafaq; Bakk, Ágnes Karolina; Barnabé, Fanny; Barnard, Daniel; Boukhelifa, Nadia; Klungre, Øyvind Sørdal; Koenitz, Hartmut; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Eladhari, Mirjam Palosaari; Prandi, Catia; Rettberg, Scott; Serbanescu, Anca; Sousa, Sonia; Stefaneas, Petros; Uzunov, Dimitar; Vosmeer, Mirjam; Wardaszko, Marcin

INDCOR white paper on the Design of Complexity IDNs Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2305.01925, 2023.

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Gil, Maitê Moraes; Pereira, Iris Susana Pires; Sylla, Cristina

La construcción del posicionamiento lector en una narrativa digital interactiva. Una discusión a la luz de la teoría de las multiliteracidades Journal Article

In: Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, vol. 30, pp. 79–106, 2023.

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2022

Sylla, Cristina; Heljakka, Katriina; Catala, Alejandro; Ozgur, Arzu Guneysu

Smart Toys, Smart Tangibles, Robots and other Smart Things for Children Editorial Journal Article

In: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, vol. 33, no. September, 2022.

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Gil, Maitê; Sylla, Cristina

A close look into the storytelling process: The procedural nature of interactive digital narratives as learning opportunity Journal Article

In: Entertainment Computing, vol. 41, pp. 100466, 2022.

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Sylla, Cristina; Gil, Maitê; Pereira, Íris Susana Pires

Untangling the complexity of designing tools to support tangible and digital intercultural story telling in troubled times: a case in point Journal Article

In: Literacy, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 3–17, 2022.

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2021

Sylla, Cristina; Gil, Maitê; Pereira, Íris Susana Pires

Narrating by Doing: A Bridging Concept for Understanding and Informing the Design of Tangible Interfaces for Storytelling Journal Article

In: Interacting with Computers, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 627–640, 2021.

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2020

Sylla, Cristina; Gil, Maitê

The Procedural Nature of Interactive Digital Narratives and Early Literacy Book Section

In: Interactive Storytelling, pp. 258–270, Springer International Publishing, 2020.

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Catala, Alejandro; Sylla, Cristina; Ozgur, Arzu Guneysu; Ihamäki, Pirita; Heljakka, Katriina

Smart toys, smart tangibles, robots and other smart things for children Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Extended Abstracts, ACM, 2020.

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2019

Sylla, Cristina; Pereira, Íris Susana Pires; Sá, Gabriela

Designing Manipulative Tools for Creative Multi and Cross-Cultural Storytelling Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 2019 on Creativity and Cognition, ACM, 2019.

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Sylla, C.; Sá, G.; Amaro, B.; Sylla, F.; Martins, V.; Caruso, A. P.; Menegazzi, D.

Designing narrative learning in the digital era Journal Article

In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, 2019.

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