Helen Pain's Personal Page
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My research interests include supporting learning and communication in
children with special needs, through adaptive multi-media technology;
modelling social intelligence and communication in interactions with
pedagogical agents; affective and cognitive modelling of learners;
participatory and user-centred design and evaluation of interfaces,
and empirical methodology. The
central elements of my approach are that it is both tool-based and
empirically informed, theoretically motivated and involves
stakeholders in the design and evaluation process. A major goal of
this work is to develop interactive learning environments and
communication tools that engage and support learners in play and
exploration.
Current Research Projects
EChoeS: Exploring e-Learning and Communication Tools for Improving Children's Language Usage in Social Interactions
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Recent Research Projects
LeActiveMath Home page
Standup: Facilitating
language play in non-speaking children through computer
supported joke
construction. (Graeme Ritchie, Annalu Waller, Ruli Manurung and Rolf Black)
Teaching - not in 2013
Human Communication 1
Adaptive Learning Environments 1
Publications (to be updated)
Research Collaborators (Edinburgh)
Sue Fletcher-Watson, Sean Hammond, Alyssa Alcorn, Andrew Manches
Research Collaborators elsewhere
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Judith Good, Wendy Keay-Bright, Annalu Waller, Oliver Lemon, Karen Guldberg, Timothy J Smith, Thusha Rajendran (EChoeS: Exploring e-Learning and Communication Tools for Improving Children's Language Usage in Social Interactions)
PhD students
Alyssa Alcorn
Aurora Constantin
Rachel Menzies (Dundee)
Helen Pain
Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC)
Human Communication Research
Centre,
School of
Informatics, University of
Edinburgh
helen at inf.ed.ac.uk.
10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK
Phone: +44 (0131) 650 8485