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

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

Meeting the Challenges of Designing Multimodal Texts to Promote Multiliteracies Pedagogy Journal Article

In: Comunicação e Sociedade, vol. 43, pp. e023008, 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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Kay, Ipek; Sylla, Cristina Maria; Gil, Maitê Moraes; Ozkar, Mine; Caruso, Ana Paula; Aydin, Ufuk

M&amp$mathsemicolon$M - MONNOM meets MOBEYBOU Inproceedings

In: Interaction Design and Children, ACM, 2022.

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Valguarnera, Sveva; Sylla, Cristina Maria; Landoni, Monica

Magic and Reality: what children's drawings tell us about their perception of technology Inproceedings

In: Interaction Design and Children, ACM, 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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Catala, Alejandro; Sylla, Cristina Maria; Ozgur, Arzu Guneysu

Smart Toys++: Exploiting the Social Connectedness for Playing and Learning Inproceedings

In: Interaction Design and Children, pp. 678–681, ACM, New York, 2021.

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2020

Sylla, Cristina; Gil, Maitê

The Procedural Nature of Interactive Digital Narratives and Early Literacy Incollection

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 Inproceedings

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

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2019

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

MobeyBou - A digital manipulative for multicultural narrative creation Journal Article

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

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

Designing Manipulative Tools for Creative Multi and Cross-Cultural Storytelling Inproceedings

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

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Sylla, Cristina

Fiddling, Pointing, Hovering and Sliding: A Study of Embodied Actions with Three Evaluation Tools for Children, Conference

2019.

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Sylla, Cristina

Rethinking the Design of Hotspots in Children’s Digital Picturebooks: Insights from an Exploratory Study. Inproceedings

In: Sylla C., Iurgel I. (eds) Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education. TIE 2019., pp. 13–22, Sylla C., Iurgel I. (eds) Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education. TIE 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 307. Springer, Cham, Cham, 2019.

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2018

Sylla, C.; Brooks, E.; Tümmler, L.

Blocks as symbolic tools for children?s playful collaboration Journal Article

In: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST, vol. 229, pp. 413-423, 2018.

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Ribeiro, P.; Michel, A.; Iurgel, I.; Ressel, C.; Sylla, C.; Müller, W.

Designing a smart reading environment with and for children Journal Article

In: TEI 2018 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, vol. 2018-January, pp. 88-93, 2018.

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Ribeiro, P.; Michel, A.; Iurgel, I.; Ressel, C.; Sylla, C.; Müller, W.

Empowering children to author digital media effects for reader's theatre Journal Article

In: IDC 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, pp. 569-574, 2018.

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Catala, A.; Sylla, C.; Theune, M.; Brooks, E.; Read, J. C.

Rethinking children's co-creation processes beyond the design of TUIs Journal Article

In: IDC 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, pp. 733-740, 2018.

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2017

Catala, A.; Theune, M.; Sylla, C.; Ribeiro, P.

Bringing Together Interactive Digital Storytelling with Tangible Interaction: Challenges and Opportunities Book Chapter

In: vol. 10690 LNCS, Springer Lecture notes in Computer Science, 2017.

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Ribeiro, P.; Sylla, C.; Iurgel, I.; Müller, W.; Ressel, C.

STREEN - Designing smart environments for story reading with children Journal Article

In: Interaction Design and Architecture(s), vol. 2017, no. 32, pp. 84–103, 2017.

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Sylla, C. M.; Arif, A. S.; Segura, E. M.; Brooks, E. I.

Paper ladder: A rating scale to collect children's opinion in user studies Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2017, 2017.

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2016

Sylla, C.; Pereira, I. S. P.; Coutinho, C. P.; Branco, P.

Digital Manipulatives as Scaffolds for Preschoolers’ Language Development Journal Article

In: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 439–449, 2016.

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2015

Zagalo, Nelson; Branco, Pedro; Sylla, Cristina; Coutinho, Clara Pereira

Play platforms for children’s creativity Book Chapter

In: pp. 223–243, Springer London, 2015.

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2014

Chisik, Yoram; Antle, A.; Birtles, B.; Márquez, E.; Sylla, C.

The Kathmandu Kids Children Entertainment Workshops Book Chapter

In: Entertaining the Whole World, Springer, 2014.

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