Academic Background: Human Centred Computing, Cognition Computing & Psychology, Language Teaching & Linguistics, Biochemistry

Current Interests: Understanding context and supporting learning across contexts (e.g. in school, at home, in rural Kenya, etc...).  Design of appropriate  technology to support collaboration & learning around scientific data and processes

Keywords: Context, e-Science, Methods for participatory learning design, Mobile Learning

Current projects: VeSel (Design of educational technology for rural Kenya) and e-Science Usability (e-Science for teaching and learning)

Past projects:Homework (Linking Home and School Primary Numeracy), Public Understanding of e-Science (e-Science for teaching and learning), INTERPRET (Designing Decision Support for Brain Tumor Diagnosis).    

Current Position: Research Officer at LKL, IOE, London.  Previously Research Fellow at IDEAs lab & Interact lab, HCT Group, University of Sussex

Recent:

Publication: e-Science in the Classroom: Towards Viability

Workshop Organised: hct4d at HCI 2007

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