Niall Winters Profile Page
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| Name: | Dr Niall Winters |
| About: | Dr. Niall Winters is a Senior Lecturer in Learning Technologies for Development at the†London Knowledge Lab,†Institute of Education,†University of London. He works primarily in the field of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), where his main research interest is in the participatory design of mobile applications and activties for education in developing regions. The current focus of this work is the development of mobile social media for supporting the training of healthcare professionals. He was previously a†RCUK Academic Fellow†at the LKL. Niall holds a PhD in†Computer Science†(2002) from the University of Dublin,†Trinity College†and a BSc (D.Hons) in Computer Science and Experimental Physics (1997) from the†National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His†PhD†addressed how to store and search large datasets of images. The primary application was vision-based mobile robot navigation. †He† has held visiting research positions with the Everyday Learning Group at†Media Lab Europe†in Dublin, and the†Computer Vision Lab†at†Instituto Superior Tecnico†in Lisbon.
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Publications
| Publications: | In press † †"A motivationally oriented approach to understanding game appropriation" Herodotou, C., Winters, N. & Kambouri, M.†International Journal of Human Computer Interaction. † †"Human Computer Interaction for Development: Changing HCI to Change the World" Dray, S., Light, A., Evers, V., Dearden, A., Densmore, M.,†Kam, M.,†Marsden, G., Ramachandran, D., Sambasivan, N., Smyth, T., van Greunen, D. and Winters, N. In J. Jacko, (Ed)†The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications, Third Editiion† † †"miLexicon: Harnessing Resources for Personal and Collaborative Language Inquiry"† Underwood, J., Luckin, †R. and†Winters, N.†In Wannemacker, G. Clarebout, P. De Causmaecker (Eds.): Interdisciplinary Approaches to Adaptive Learning: A Look at the Neighbours First International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research on Technology, Education and Communication, ITEC 2010, Kortrijk, Belgium, May 25-27, 2010, CCIS 126, pp. 87ñ98, 2011. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. † 2011 † †"The role of trait emotional intelligence in gamersí preferences for play and frequency of gaming" Herodotou, C. Kambouri, M. and Winters, N.†Computers in Human Behavior,†27(5), 1815-1819.†Available here†(paywall) † † † †"Retelling Stories: Setting Learner Narratives in Resource Ecologies" Underwood, J., Luckin, †R. and†Winters, N.† In†Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2011), Hong Kong: International Society of the Learning Sciences.†Available here†(17.2MB Vol II Proceedings) †† † †"The role of mobile learning in applied distance education",† Winters, N. In†Proceedings of eLearning Africa 2011, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania† † †"Designing ubiquitous support for self-initiated foreign language inquiry learning: A mobile personal language learning environment" Underwood, J. Luckin, R. and Winters N. In†Proceddings of CAL'11, Manchester, UK † †"Narrative Methods in Design & Evaluation of Next Gen TEL" Underwood, J. Luckin, R. and Winters N.†Position paper for the ARV Workshop on Methods for Next Generation TEL Available at†http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=17118 2010 † † "Innovations in mobile phone applicatons for health and education in East Africa",† Winters, N., Short, N., Aanensen, D. and Hagner, A. Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh Annual Conference 2010: ICT: Africa's Revolutionary Tools for the 21st Century?'† † † "The distributed developmental network ñ d2n: a social configuration to support design pattern generation",† Winters, N. Mor, Y. and Pratt D. In P. Goodyear & S. Retalis (Eds).Technology enhanced learning: Design Patterns and Pattern Languages. Rotterdam:†Sense Publishers. † † "Mobile learning for development: Supporting veterinary training of distance learners in Tanzania",† Winters, N.†Centre for Distance Education Conference, London, UK † † "Veterinary training with mobile phones: a case study from Zanzibar",† Winters, N. In†Proceedings of eLearning Africa 2010, Lusaka, Zambia† 2009 † † "A framework for designing mobile learning experiences",† Winters, N. In†Proceedings of Online Educa Berlin, Berlin, Germany†† †† † †"Are they doing what they think they're doing? Tracking and trianguating students' learning activities and self reports",† Wali, E., Winters, N. & Oliver, M. In†Vavoula, G., Pachler, N., & Kukulska-Hulme, A.†(Eds.). Researching mobile learning: frameworks, tools and research designs. Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing. † † "Dealing with abstraction: case study generalisation as a method for eliciting design patterns",† Winters, N. & Mor, Y.†Computers in Human Behavior, 25(5), 1079-1088. † † "Designing a mobile learning experience for veterinary students",† Winters, N., Mor, Y. and Lackovic, N. In†Proceedings of CAL09, Brighton, UK†† 2008 † † "IDR: a participatory methodology for interdisciplinary design in technology enhanced learning", Winters, N. and Mor, Y.†Computers & Education, 50(2), 579-600. [PDF Preprint]. ††† † † "Maintaining, Changing and Crossing Contexts: an Activity Theoretic Reinterpretation of Mobile Learning", Wali, E., Winters, N. and Oliver, M.†Journal of the Assocation for Learning Technology, 16(1), 41-57. † † "Participatory design in open education: a workshop model for developing a pattern language",† Mor, Y. and Winters, N.†Journal of Interactive Media in Education. [Preprint] †† † "A pattern approach to connecting the design and deployment of mathematical games and simulations", Pratt, D., Winters, N., Cerulli, M. and Leemkuil, H. In N. Balacheff, S. Ludvigsen, T. de Jong, A. Lazonder, S. Barnes and L. Montandon (Eds).†Technology-Enhanced Learning ñ Principles and Products. Berlin: Springer. † † "Mobile Learning across contexts: Methodological considerations", Wali, E., Winters, N. and Oliver, M. In†Proceedings of Mobile Learning 2008, p. 98-105, Algarve, Portugal. 2007 †† "Design approaches in technology enhanced learning", Mor Y. and†Winters, N.,†Journal of Interactive Learning Environments, 15(1), 61-75. [PDF Preprint]. † †"Designing for Development: Understanding the One Laptop Per Child in its Historical Context",† Ananny, M. & Winters, N.†In†Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Bangalore, India. † ††"Participatory design in open education: a workshop model for developing a pattern language",† Winters, N. and Mor, Y.,†In†Proceedings of†OpenLearn2007,†Milton Keynes, UK, October 2007††† † † "Fluid technology design for development" Winters, N. and Underwood, J. In†HCT4D†- Designing human centred technologies for the developing world Workshop at HCI2007, September 2007. † † "Toward Robot Perception through Omnidirectional Vision" Gaspar, J., Winters, N., Grossmann, E and Santos-Victor, J.,†Studies in Computational Intelligence†(SCI) 70, 223ñ270. Berlin: Springer. † † "Towards participatory design for m2o" Mor, Y and Winters, N. In†HCT4D†- Designing human centred technologies for the developing world Workshop at HCI2007, September 2007. † † †"periLearn: Contextualised mobile learning in the era of Web 2.0" Winters, N., In†Proceedings of Mobile Learning 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2007 † ††"Tools for developing design patterns for mathematical computer games" Mor, Y., Winters, N., Pratt, D. and Bjork, S., In†Proceedings of Games-in-Action, Gotenburg, Sweden, June 2007. † † "Designing activities to support context-based learning through mobile search" Darcy, D. and Winters, N., In†Proceedings of the 8th Annual Irish Educational Technology Users Conference, Dublin, Ireland, May 2007. † † †"Development ideologies of the OLPC programme" Winters, N. and Ananny, M., In†Proceedings of eLearning Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, May 2007 ††† "Developing design patterns for game-based learning environments", Niall Winters and Yishay Mor, In†CAL'07, Dublin, Ireland, March 2007. ††† "Designing for learning: a pattern approach", Yishay Mor and Niall Winters, In†Proceedings of Chais Conference on Instructional Technologies Research†Ra'anana, Israel, February 2007. ††† "What do we mean by mobile learning?", Niall Winters, WLE M-Learning Symposium, London, UK, February 2007. Invited Talk. ††† "Design patterns for mobile learning", Niall Winters, In I. Arnedillo-Sanchez, M. Sharples and G. Vavoula (Eds)†Proceedings of the Beyond Mobile Learning Workshop, Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press. [Abstract] 2006 ††† "What is mobile learning?", Niall Winters, In M. Sharples (Ed.)†Big Issues in Mobile Learning: Report of a workshop by the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence Mobile Learning Initiative.†Nottingham: University of Nottingham. [Full report] † † "Repositioning mobile learning", Niall Winters,†CDE Fellows Conference.†London, UK, June 2006. Invited Talk. [Handout] 2005 ††† "Mobile HCI and the learning context: an exploration", Niall Winters and Sara Price, In†Context in Mobile HCI Workshop at†MobileHCI05", Salzburg, Austria, September 2005. [PDF] ††† "Facilitating Learning in an Intelligent Environment", Niall Winters, Kevin Walker and George Roussos, In†IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, Colchester, UK, June 2005. IEE Press. ††† "Developing wearable devices for social networking", Niall Winters and Marije Kanis, In†'Less is more†- Simple Computing in an Age of Complexity' International Forum, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 2005 (Poster).† ††† "Learning with 'non-interactive' technology", Kevin Walker and Niall Winters, In†Technology and Learning Symposium 2005, New York University, NY, USA, April 2005. [PDF]† ††† "The Ubiquitous Learning Space", Niall Winters, Marije Kanis, Stefan Agamanolis and Richard Noss, In†CAL 2005, Bristol, UK, April 2005. Check out the others invovled in this†Symposium. [PDF]† ††† "Toward Wearable Social Networking with iBand", Marije Kanis, Niall Winters, Stefan Agamanolis, Cian Cullinan and Anna Gavin, In†CHI 2005 Extended Abstracts, Portland, Oregon, USA, April 2005. [PDF] 2004† ††† "iBand: a wearable device for handshake-augmented interpersonal information exchange",† Marije Kanis, Niall Winters, Stefan Agamanolis, Cian Cullinan and Anna Gavin, In†Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Nottingham, England, 7 - 10 September 2004. [PDF]† ††† "Personal Privacy and Popular Ubiquitous Technology", Niall Winters, In†Proceedings of Ubiconf 2004, Gresham College, London, April 2004. [PDF]† 2003 ††† "A Prototype Design for Learning about Multivariate Systems", Niall Winters, Mauro Cherubini and Carol Strohecker,†Position Paper for the Designing for Learning Workshop, CHI 2003, Florida, USA, April 2003. [More]† 2002 ††† "Information Sampling for Vision-based Robot Navigation", Niall Winters and JosÈ Santos-Victor, In†Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 41(2-3), pages 145-159, November 2002. Download the†pdf†file (0.7MB). †† "A Holistic Approach to Mobile Robot Navigation using Omnidirectional Vision", Niall Winters,†Ph.D. Dissertation,†University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland, January 2002. †Availablehere. 2001 † "Visual Attention-based Robot Navigation using Information Sampling", Niall Winters and JosÈ Santos-Victor,†Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'01), Hawaii, USA, October 2001. Download the†pdf†file (0.7MB)†† † "Vision Algorithms for Omniviews Cameras", Niall Winters, JosÈ Gaspar, Alexandre Bernardino and JosÈ Santos-Victor,†EU IST Project: Omniviews Deliverable DI-3, September 2001.† †"Omniviews Mirror Design and Software Tools", Claudia Decco, JosÈ Gaspar, Niall Winters and JosÈ Santos-Victor,†EU IST Project: Omniviews Deliverable DI-2, September 2001 † "Information Sampling for Appearance based 3D Object Recognition and Pose Estimation", Niall Winters and JosÈ Santos-Victor, Proceedings of the 2001 Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, September 2001. Download the†pdf†file (0.4MB)†† † "Experiments in Visual-based Navigation with an Omnidirectional Camera", Niall Winters, JosÈ Gaspar, Etienne Grossmann and JosÈ Santos-Victor,†Proceedings of the IEEE ICAR 2001 Workshop: Omnidirectional Vision Applied to Robotic Orientation and Nondestructive Testing, Budapest, Hungary, August 2001. Invited Talk. Download the†pdf†file (1.1MB).† † † "Information Sampling for Optimal Image Data Selection", Niall Winters and JosÈ Santos-Victor,†Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (SIRS'01), Toulouse, France, July 2001. Download the†pdf†file (0.4MB)
2000 ††† "Omni-directional Vision for Robot Navigation", Niall Winters, JosÈ Gaspar, Gerard Lacey, and JosÈ Santos-Victor,†Proceedings of the 1st International IEEE Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision at CVPR 2000, Hilton Head Island, USA, June 2000. Download the†PDF†file (6.1MB).
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LKL News
| Niall Winters is featured in the following news items: | |
| Date | Title |
| Monday, 04 March 2013 | UNESCO Report on the Future of Mobile Learning |
| Wednesday, 05 December 2012 | HEIF Major Initiative bids |
| Thursday, 20 January 2011 | New Research Project: Multimodal Methodologies for Researching Digital Data and Environments |
| Tuesday, 16 March 2010 | LKL Makes the News in Nigeria |
| Sunday, 14 June 2009 | Call for Contributions |
| Tuesday, 01 July 2008 | Open Evening 2008 |
| Friday, 20 July 2007 | LKL publications available from TeLearn |
| Tuesday, 13 March 2007 | TLRP Research Award |
| Tuesday, 20 February 2007 | CoMo |
| Monday, 05 June 2006 | What is mobile learning? |
| Tuesday, 09 May 2006 | Fun 'n Games 2006 Workshop |
| Wednesday, 08 March 2006 | Designing for learning |
| Tuesday, 07 March 2006 | Jobs at the LKL |
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LKL Events
| List of events at the London Knowledge Lab with Niall Winters: | |
| Date | Title |
| Thursday, 14 March 2013 | Introduction to researching embodiment in digital environments |
| Friday, 25 January 2013 | iPads in the Classroom |
| Tuesday, 20 November 2012 | Mobile Learning for Health Care Training in the Majority World |
| Thursday, 13 October 2011 | Call for Participation Investigative workshop. "The Art and Science of Learning Design" |
| Saturday, 13 February 2010 | CrisisCamp Haiti (4) |
| Saturday, 30 January 2010 | CrisisCamp Haiti (2) |
| Tuesday, 17 March 2009 | Design Patterns for civic empowerment |
| Tuesday, 11 December 2007 | Designing technologies for developing world contexts |
| Thursday, 19 October 2006 | A pattern language for mathematical games |
| Wednesday, 13 September 2006 | mGBL Workshop |
| Wednesday, 01 March 2006 | What do we talk about when we talk about 'mobile learning'? |
| Friday, 02 December 2005 | Games Research Group Meeting |
Full LKL event listing | |
