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University of Sussex: Brighton, GB

2023-10-01 to present | Professor of Interaction Design (Informatics)
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Kate Howland

University of Sussex: Brighton, Brighton and Hove, GB

2018-05-01 to present | Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design (Informatics)
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Kate Howland

University of Sussex: Brighton, Brighton and Hove, GB

2013-01-09 to 2018-04-30 | Lecturer in Interaction Design (Informatics)
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Kate Howland

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Sussex: Brighton, GB

2012 to 2013 | PG Cert HE (Education)
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Kate Howland

University of Sussex: Brighton, GB

2006 to 2012 | PhD Informatics (Informatics)
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Kate Howland

University of Sussex: Brighton, GB

2004 to 2005 | MSc Intelligent Systems (Informatics)
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Funding (3)

A novel programme: Agentive here-and-now interaction in persons with dementia

2022-08-31 to 2023-08-30 | Grant
UK Research and Innovation (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: ES/X006522/1
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Forecasting with fishers: co-producing knowledge for early warning of extreme weather events on the coast of South India

2019-11-14 to 2022-10-29 | Grant
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (London, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: ES/T003103/1
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CONVER-SE: Conversational Programming for Smart Environments

2018-03-01 to 2020-02-28 | Grant
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: EP/R013993/1
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Works (31)

Supporting and understanding autistic children’s non-verbal interactions through OSMoSIS, a motion-based sonic system

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
2025-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Grazia Ragone; Judith Good; Kate Howland
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Child-Centered AI for Empowering Creative and Inclusive Learning Experiences

2024-06-17 | Conference paper
Contributors: Grazia Ragone; Safinah Arshad Ali; Andrea Esposito; Judith Good; Kate Howland; Carmelo Presicce
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Enhancing Assessment of Social Motor Synchrony Through Full-Body Interaction: A Novel Approach with OSMoSIS Tool

2024-06-17 | Conference paper
Contributors: Grazia Ragone; Judith Good; Kate Howland; Ben Du Boulay
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From Pirate Islands to Routing Tables: Investigating Intermediate Representations in Concreteness Fading through AR Learning

2024-06-17 | Conference paper
Contributors: Anthony Trory; Kate Howland; Judith Good; Benedict du Boulay
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The realities of evaluating educational technology in school settings

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
2023-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1073-0516
Part of ISSN: 1557-7325
Contributors: Megan Venn-Wycherley; Ahmed Kharrufa; Susan Lechelt; Rebecca Nicholson; Kate Howland; Abrar Almjally; Anthony Trory; Vidya Sarangapani
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Investigating primary school children’s embodied expression of programming concepts

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
2023-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Abrar Almjally; Kate Howland; Judith Good; Benedict du Boulay
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How Technology Applied to Music-Therapy and Sound-Based Activities Addresses Motor and Social Skills in Autistic Children

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
2021-03 | Journal article | Author
Contributors: Dr Grazia Ragone; Judith Good; Kate Howland
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Investigating student preferences on gesture-based interactions in a vocabulary game

Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning
2020 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85096648191

Part of ISSN: 20490992
Contributors: Sarhan, N.; Good, J.; Howland, K.
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Editorial — Special Issue on Computational Thinking and Coding in Childhood

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85057408886

Part of ISSN: 22128689
Contributors: Howland, K.; Good, J.; Robertson, J.; Manches, A.
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Programming language, natural language? Supporting the diverse computational activities of novice programmers

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85006141985

Part of ISSN: 1045926X
Contributors: Good, J.; Howland, K.
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The Meaning of Place in Supporting Sociality

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
2017-06-10 | Conference paper
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Kate Howland

Every child a coder?

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children - IDC '15
2015 | Conference paper
Contributors: Kate Howland; Judith Good; Judy Robertson; Andrew Manches
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Learning to communicate computationally with Flip: A bi-modal programming language for game creation

Computers and Education
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84907888085

Contributors: Howland, K.; Good, J.
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Narrative support for young game designers' writing

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children - IDC '15
2015 | Conference paper
Contributors: Kate Howland; Judith Good; Benedict du Boulay
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Natural language and programming: Designing effective environments for novices

2015 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
2015-10 | Conference paper
Contributors: Judith Good; Kate Howland
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"Nearer to Being Characters in a Book": How Older People Make Sense of Online Communities and Social Networking Sites

2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
2015-01 | Conference paper
Contributors: Dave Harley; Kate Howland; Eric Harris; Cara Redlich
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"Online communities for older users: what can we learn from local community interactions to create social sites that work for older people"

2014-09-09 | Conference paper
Contributors: Dave Harley; Kate Howland; Eric Harris; Cara Redlich
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Narrative threads: A tool to support young people in creating their own narrative-based computer games

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2013 | Book
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2-s2.0-84893360307

Contributors: Howland, K.; Good, J.; Du Boulay, B.
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Kate Howland via Scopus - Elsevier

Robust evaluation for a maturing field: The train the teacher method

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84882796800

Contributors: Robertson, J.; Macvean, A.; Howland, K.
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Kate Howland via Scopus - Elsevier

Embedding technology in the classroom: The train the teacher model

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
2012 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84864296852

Contributors: Robertson, J.; Macvean, A.; Howland, K.
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Kate Howland via Scopus - Elsevier

Designing an interface for multimodal narrative creation

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
2011 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-79957928818

Contributors: Howland, K.
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Young people's descriptions of computational rules in role-playing games: An empirical study

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2010
2010 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-79952060508

Contributors: Good, J.; Howland, K.; Nicholson, K.
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Fostering engaged and directed learning by activity foregrounding and backgrounding

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
2009 | Book
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2-s2.0-73149083278

Contributors: Howland, K.; Du Boulay, B.; Good, J.
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Kate Howland via Scopus - Elsevier

Is embodied interaction beneficial when learning programming?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2009 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-76649120858

Contributors: Romero, P.; Du Boulay, B.; Robertson, J.; Good, J.; Howland, K.
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Kate Howland via Scopus - Elsevier

Language-based support for computational thinking

2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2009
2009 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-73449087956

Contributors: Howland, K.; Good, J.; Nicholson, K.
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Supporting the development of multimodal writing and computational thinking skills through computer game creation

2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2009
2009 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-73449147640

Contributors: Howland, K.
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An embodied interface for teaching computational thinking

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI
2008 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-57349087759

Contributors: Good, J.; Romero, P.; Boulay, B.D.; Reid, H.; Howland, K.; Robertson, J.
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Kate Howland via Scopus - Elsevier

A card based metaphor for organising pervasive educational experiences

Proceedings - Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2007
2007 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-34547652227

Contributors: Weal, M.J.; Cruickshank, D.; Michaelides, D.T.; Millard, D.E.; De Roure, D.C.; Howland, K.; Fitzpatrick, G.
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A learner-centred design approach to developing a visual language for interactive storytelling

Proceedings of the 6th international Conference on Interaction Design And Children, IDC 2007
2007 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-41149106484

Contributors: Howland, K.; Good, J.; Robertson, J.
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Supporting domain experts in creating pervasive experiences

Proceedings - Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2007
2007 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-34547629745

Contributors: Weal, M.J.; Cruickshank, D.; Michaelides, D.T.; Millard, D.E.; De Roure, D.C.; Howland, K.; Fitzpatrick, G.
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Script cards: A visual programming language for games authoring by young people

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2006
2006 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-77950596590

Contributors: Howland, K.; Good, J.; Robertson, J.
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Peer review (2 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Computers & education. (1)
Review activity for International journal of child-computer interaction. (1)