Katerina is a research fellow on the TAKTEEN and NEXT-TELL projects. The TAKTEEN project is developing learner-centred technology to support teenagers learn about their personal energy use and translate knowledge about energy from the classroom to their personal contexts. The NEXT-TELL project is supporting teachers in assessing student learning through evidence-based methods.

Her research is interdisciplinary, situated between Psychology, Education, Human Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence. She's primarily interested in the design and development of learning experiences to support understanding of socio-scientific issues, including the application of existing and design of new technological tools. Her research into the learning process has focused on the areas of epistemic cognition and metacognition, affect and motivation, and social communication.  She received her DPhil in Educational Technology in 2009 and MSc in Human Centred Computer Systems in 2004 from the University of Sussex. She completed a BSc in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Nottingham. She has previously worked at the Memory Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Human Centred Research Group at the University of Sussex. Previous projects include ECHOES II, which developed a technology enhanced learning environment for both typically developing children and children with Asperger Syndrome at Key Stage 1 (ages 5-7) to explore and improve social interaction and collaboration skills. 

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Avramides, K., Bernardini, S., Foster, M.E., Frauenberger, C., Kossyvaki, L., Mademtzi, M. (in press). State-of-the-art in TEL to support social communication skill development in children with autism: A mulit-disciplinary review. International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 4(5-6), 359-372.

Porayska-Pomsta, K., Frauenberger, C., Pain, H., Rajendran, T., 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., and Lemon, O. (2011). Developing Technology for Autism: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 1-11.

du Boulay, B., Avramides, K., Luckin, R., Martinez-Miron, E., Rebolledo Mendez, G., Harris, A. (2010). Towards Systems that Care: A Conceptual Framework based on Motivation, Metacognition and Affect. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 20(3), 197-229.

Peer Reviewed Conference Long Papers

Avramides, K., Craft, B., Luckin, R. & Read, J.C. (2012) Working with teenagers to design technology that supports learning about energy in informal contexts. Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Sydney, Australia.

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. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Auckland, New Zealand.

Rebolledo-Mendez, G., Avramides, K., de Freitas, S. & Memarzia, K. (2009) Societal impact of  a serious game on raising public awareness: the case of FloodSim. Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games, New Orleans, US.

Harris, A., Bonnett, V., Yuill, N, Luckin, R. & Avramides, K. (2009) Scaffolding effective help-seeking behaviour in mastery and performance oriented learners. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Brighton, UK.

Smith, H., Luckin, R., Fitzpatrick, G., Avramides, K. & Underwood, J. (2005) Technology at work to mediate scientific enquiry in the field. Proceedings of the 12^th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Peer Reviewed Workshop Papers

Avramides, K., Craft, B. & Luckin, R. (2012) From kinetic energy to climate change: Design of technology to link school science to personal energy consumption. Proceedings of the Workshop on Emerging Web Technologies, Facing the Future of Education in conjunction with www2012, Lyon, France.

Avramides, K. & Luckin, R. (2007) Towards the design of a representational tool to scaffold students’ epistemic understanding of psychology in higher education. Proceedings of the Workshop on Ill-Defined Domains at the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Los Angeles, US.

Avramides, K., Smith, H., Luckin, R. & Fitzpatrick, G. (2005) Representing talk and action in collaborative activities for video analysis. Proceedings of the 12^th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Peer Reviewed Conference Short Papers

Craft, B., Avramides, K., Luckin, R. & Reimann, P. (2012) Software supported teacher-led inquiry: Enhancing innovation through ‘backoffice’ ICT. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe, Coimbra, Portugal.

Carr, A., Luckin, R., Avramides, K. and Yuill, N. (2011). Scaffolding metacognitive processes in the Ecolab: Help-seeking and achievement goal orientation. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Auckland, New Zealand.

Scanlon, E., Weller, M. and Avramides, K. (2010). Exploring the links between digital scholarship and open educational communities. Presentation at the Conference on Open Educational Resources, Cambridge, UK.

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 the 4^th International Conference on Cognitive Systems, Zurich, Switzerland.

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, Florence, Italy.

Avramides, K. & du Boulay, B. (2009) Motivational diagnosis in ITS: Collaborative, reflective self-report. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Brighton, UK.

Avramides, K. & Luckin, R. (2007) A study of students’ understanding of justification: Theory and method. Proceedings of the 13th Biennial EARLI Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.