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).
Related Projects
Publications
2018
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.
2017
Bringing Together Interactive Digital Storytelling with Tangible Interaction: Challenges and Opportunities Book Chapter
In: vol. 10690 LNCS, Springer Lecture notes in Computer Science, 2017.
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.
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.
2016
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.
2015
Play platforms for children’s creativity Book Chapter
In: pp. 223–243, Springer London, 2015.
2014
The Kathmandu Kids Children Entertainment Workshops Book Chapter
In: Entertaining the Whole World, Springer, 2014.