SHARE-IT: School-Home Autism Research Environment through Intelligent Technologies, EPSRC funded, February 2013- August 2014, Principal Investigator (£301K). SHARE-IT project blog

Shape: Shaping the future of technology use in the classroom, ESRC Follow-on knowledge exchange funding, June 2012-May 2013, co-Investigator (£46K). SHAPE project

TARDIS:Training young Adult's Regulation of emotions and Development of social Interaction Skills, EU-FP7-2011, November 2011-October 2014, co-Investigator (€2.14M). TARDIS project

ECHOES 2: Improving chidlren's social interaction through exploratory learning in a multimodal environment, ESRC/EPSRC, TLRP-TEL funded, November 2008-May 2012, Principal Investigator (£1.2M). ECHOES 2;   ECHOES 2 leaflet

ECHOES: Exploring e-learning and communication tools for improving children's language usage in social interactions ESRC/EPSRC, TLRP-TEL funded, October 2006-April 2007, Principal Investigator (£64K). ECHOES project

LeActiveMath: Language Enhanced, User Adaptive, Interactive eLearning for Mathematics, EU-FP6-ICT 2004 funded, January 2004 - December 2006, co-author and Research Fellow,  http://www.leactivemath.org/overview.html, 

Press Releases:

Deutsche Welle Radio programme on ECHOES 2 and associated web story.

http://www.educationbusinessuk.net/features/95/3292-can-technology-enhance-social-communication

http://opensen.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/shape-project-the-future-landscape-of-technologies-assisting-young-people-with-autistic-spectrum-condition/

http://www.educationbusinessuk.net/features/95/3292-can-technology-enhance-social-communication

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/press-releases/24287/technology-use-in-the-classroom-helps-autistic-children-communicate.aspx

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011/10/22/Autistic-children-develop-social-skills/UPI-24051319256019/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111021074534.htm

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-11/esr-tui112912.php

http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/0/9E67FA2BECC05B8C80257AC7002789D3?OpenDocument

http://www.politics.co.uk/opinion-formers/economic-social-research-council-esrc/article/esrc-technology-use-in-the-classroom-helps-autistic-children

Video Releases

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZQ8WQp7Wmk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku2dIif7hWA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPSHjgwxBU

Applying for a PhD

If you are interested in studying for a PhD under my supervision in the areas of Technology-Enhanced Learning, Artificial Intelligence in Education or Human-Computer Interaction, you are welcome to contact me directly: K.Porayska-Pomsta@ioe.ac.uk

Journal Publications:

• Porayska-Pomsta, K., Mavrikis, M., D'Mello, S., Conati, C., Baker, R. (accepted). Knowledge Elicitation Methods for Affect Modelling in Education, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K. and Mellish, C.S (2013). Modelling human tutor's feedback to inform natural language interfaces for learning. International Journal of Human - Computer Studies 71, pp. 703-724 DOI information: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.02.002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.02.002

• Porayska-Pomsta, K., Frauenberger, C., Pain, H., Rajendran, G., Smith, T., Menzies, R., Foster, M. E., Alcorn, A., Wass, S., Bernadini, S., Avramides, K., Keay-Bright, W., Chen, J., Waller, A., Guldberg, K., Good, J., Lemon, O. (2012). Developing Technology for Autism: an interdisciplinary approach.  Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer Verlag.
  

• Wass, S., Porayska-Pomsta, K. and Johnson, M. (2011). Training Attentional Control in Infants. Current Biology 21 (18), 1543‐1547.

• Guldberg, K., Porayska-Pomsta, K., Good, J. and Keay-Bright, W. (2010). ECHOES II: the creation of a technology enhanced learning environment for typically developing children and children on the autism spectrum. Journal of Assistive Technologies, Special Issue on Autism and Technology.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K., Mavrikis, M., Pain, H. (2008), Diagnosing and acting on student affect: the tutor’s perspective, Special Issue on “Affective Modeling and Adaptation”, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The International Journal of Personalization Research, Carberry, S., and de Rosis, F. (eds.), Springer Verlag.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K., Mellish, C., Pain, H. (2000). Aspects of Speech Act Categorisation: Towards Generating Teachers' Language. Special Issue on Analysing Educational Dialogue Interaction. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.

Conference Publications:

• Guldberg, K., Kossyvaki, L., Keay-Bright, W. Mademtzi, M., Parsons, S., Porayska-Pomsta, K. (2013). "The future Use of Technologies in the Classroom: Participatory Research and E-inclusion as Tools to Promote Creativity at Schools", The European Conference on Educational Research 2013, Istanbul.

• Bernardini, S. and Porayska-Pomsta, K. (2013) "Planning-based Social Partners for Children with Autism". 23rd International Conference on Automatic Planning and Scheduling, Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013.

• Rajendran, T., Porayska-Pomsta, K. Smith, T., Lemon O and the ECHOES consortium (2013). "The ECHOES Technology Enhanced Environment: Faciliating Social Communication Skills in Children with Autism".  IMFAR 2013.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K., Anderson, K., Damian, I., Baur, T., Andre, E., Bernardini, S., Rizzo, P. (2013) "Modelling Users' Affect in Job Interviews: Technological Demo". The 21st Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013. S.Carberry et al. (Eds.), LNCS 7899, pp.353-355. Springer.

• Bernardini, S., Porayska-Pomsta, K., Smith, T. and Avramides, K. (2012) “Building autonomous agents for children with ASD”, 12^th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Santa Cruz.

• Rajendran, G., Smith, T., Lemon, O., Porayska-Pomsta, K. (2012) The ECHOES technology-enhanced learning environment: Facilitating social communication skills in children with autism, British Psychological Society Developmental Section Annual Conference, 5^th-7^th September, 2012

• Wass, S.V., Porayska-Pomsta, K. & Johnson, M.H. (2012a) Training attentional control in infancy. Development of Executive Functions Workshop, Utrecht.

• Wass, S.V., Porayska-Pomsta, K. & Johnson, M.H. (2012b) Training attentional control in infancy. J-Eunythidis, Barcelona.

• Wass, S.V., Porayska-Pomsta, K. & Johnson, M.H. (2012c) Training attentional control in infancy. International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis.

• Wass, S.V., de Klerk, C., Porayska-Pomsta, K. & Johnson, M.H. (2011a) Far transfer of training effects following executive function training in 11-month-old infants. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal.

• Wass, S.V., Porayska-Pomsta, K. & Johnson, M.H. (2011b) Training attentional control in infancy. Boosting the Brain Symposium, Stockholm.

• Rajendran, G., Acorn, A., Pain, H., Lemon, O., Porayska-Pomsta, K., Foster, M.E., Frauenberger, C. (2011) Exploring Responses of Children with ASD to a Virtual Character in the ECHOES Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment. International Meeting for Autism Research May 2011.

• Wass, S.V., de Klerk, C., Porayska-Pomsta, K. & Johnson, M.H. (2011) Eye-gaze contingent computer games for babies: training attention and working memory in 11-month-olds. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal.

• Alcorn, A., Pain H., Rajendran, G., Smith, T., Lemon, O., Porayska-Pomsta, K., Foster, M.E., Avramides, K., Frauenberger, C., Bernardini, S. (2011)Social Communication between Virtual Characters and Children with Autism. 15^th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

• Wass, S., de Klerk, C., Porayska-Pomsta, K. and Johnson, M. (2010) Using eye-gaze contingent software to train executive attention and working memory skills in 11-month-old babies. British Psychological Society Developmental Conference.

• Wass, S.V., de Klerk, C., Porayska-Pomsta, K. & Johnson, M.H. (2010) Between-domain transfer of training effects following executive function training in infants. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, London.

• Foster, M E, Avramides K, Bernardini S, Chen J, Frauenberger C, Lemon O, Porayska-Pomsta K.  (2010).  Supporting Children's Social Communication Skills through Interactive Narratives with Virtual Characters. Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference.

• Avramides, K, Bernardini S, Chen J, Frauenberger C, Foster M E, Lemon O, Porayska-Pomsta K.  (2010).  ECHOES: Technology-Enhanced Learning for Exploring and Improving Social Interaction Skills. Proceedings of CogSys.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K., Bernardini, S., Rajendran, G. (2009) Embodiment as means of Scaffolding Young Children's Social Skill Acquisition. 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children.

• Pain, H. and Porayska-Pomsta, K. (2006) Affect in One-to-One Tutoring. Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 8^th International Conference, ITS 2006, Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26-30 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series.

• Morales, R. and Porayska-Pomsta, K. (2006) Diagnosis and Modelling of Learner Motivation for Adaptive E-Learning in Mathematics, Proceedings of the 6^th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Kerkrade, The Netherlands.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K. and Pain, H. (2004) Exploring Methodologies for Building Socially and Emotionally Intelligent Learning Environments, Proceedings of the Workshop on Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments (SEILE), ITS 2004, Maceio, Brazil.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K and Pain, H. (2004) Providing Cognitive and Affective Scaffolding through Teaching Strategies, Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series

• Porayska-Pomsta, K. and Mellish, C. (2004) Modelling Politeness in Natural Language Generation, Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Natural Language Generation.

• Moore, J. D., Porayska-Pomsta, K., Zinn, C. and Varges, S. (2004) Generating Tutorial Feedback with Affect, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium Conference (FLAIRS), AAAI Press, 2004.

• Moore, J D., Core, M G., Lemon O., Porayska-Pomsta, K., Varges, S. and Zinn, C. (2003) Extending and Evaluating a Computational Model of Flexible, Robust, Mixed-Initiative Tutorial Dialogue. Office of Naval Research Cognitive and Neural Sciences Division.

• Zinn C., Moore, J D., Core, M G., Varges S., Porayska-Pomsta, K. (2003) The BE&E Tutorial Learning Environment (BEETLE). Diabruck 2003, 7th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL), Saarland University.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K., Mellish, C., Pain, H. (2000b) Pragmatic Analysis of Teachers' Language. Towards an Empirically Based Approach. Proceedings of AAAI Fall Symposium on Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, November 2000.

Book Chapters and Reports

• Porayska-Pomsta, K., and Bernardini, S. “Learner Modelled Environments” Handbook of Digital Technology Research (2013) Jewitt and Price (eds.), SAGE publishers.

• Porayska-Pomsta, K., Mavrikis, M., D’Mello, S., Conati, C., Baker, R.  (2012) “Contemporary Methods for Learner Affect Modelling”, In “In the Mood for Learning” Sussex University, Department of Informatics, Cogsci Research Paper number: 603, du Boulay, B., Luckin, R., Porayska-Pomsta, K., and Arroyo, I. (eds.), http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cogs/research/researchpapers

• Porayska-Pomsta, K. (2011) “The role of Artificial Intelligence in the design of digital technologies for young children”, Early Childhoods and Technology Report – (with Lydia Plowman and Andrew Manches)

• Mavrikis, M., D’Mello, S., Porayska-Pomsta, K., Cocea, M., and Graesser, A. (2010) “Modeling Affect by Mining Students’ Interactions within Learning Environments”, Handbook of Educational Data Mining, Romero C., Ventura, S., Pechenizkiy, M., Baker R. (eds.), Routlege.

2008

PhD

Mr Sam Wass, PhD in psychology and AI in education: Bloomsbury Colleges PhD studentship with Birckbeck Psychology, thesis title: "Using technology to detect and improve social deficits in children with Autism"

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2007

MSc Students at School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Ms Bianca Grizhar, thesis title: Investigating the Perception of Expressive Body Behaviour in Animated Agents

Ms Susanne Ball, thesis title: Investigating the relation between eye tracking, inferring emotional expressions, and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) using animated agents

2006

Undergraduate Student,visiting student, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Mr John-Paul Cunliffe