Stamatina Anastopoulou
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Biography
Stamatina received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Management at University of Piraeus, Greece, in 1995. She worked for Hellenic Operational Research Society and the University of the Aegean, Dept. of Information and Communication Systems as a researcher until 1999.
She obtained
a Masters degree in Cognitive Science, a
joined degree from Schools of Psychology
and Computer
Science at the University of Birmingham in 2000. Her MSc thesis
was about "SALL: Specifying a system to Support Academics’
Lifelong Learning" (abstract).
She gained a teaching assistantship in the University of the Aegean, Dept.
of Product and Systems Design in Syros island during the fall semester
of 2000.
She completed her PhD at the University
of Birmingham in the School
of Electronic and Electrical Engineering in November 2004.
Teaching
Interested
in Web design?
See the notes of the Workshop in 'How
to design a web page' for
the Electrical Engineering postgraduate students of the University of Birmingham.
There is a tutorial on HTML Basics and
another one on Web Design guidelines
Research interests
- design of multimodal technologies for learning,
- multimodal learning,
- physical manipulation of symbols and objects,
- engagement and reflection
The research project
Her PhD research focused on multimodal interactions for the design of a learning environment. The process of designing such systems involves studying the benefits of multimodal interactions in learning. Therefore, it analysed the structure of the interactive space between the learner and the content to be learnt, and introduced and tested a framework to structure it. It proposed that multimodal interactions can encourage rhythmic cycles of engagement and reflection that enhance learners' meaning construction in science concepts, such as 'forces and motion'.The framework was the outcome of an iterative process of analysis and synthesis between existing theories and three studies with learners of different ages. Through these theory-informed studies, the significance of physical manipulation of objects and symbols through the employment of multiple modalities was emphasised as a way to facilitate learners' meaning construction, engagement and reflection.
Publications
S. Anastopoulou, M. Sharples, C. Baber (2003). Using gestures to learn about graphs: the contribution of multimodal technology. To appear in the proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, July 9-11, 2003, Athens, Greece.
S. Anastopoulou, M. Sharples, C. Baber (2003). Multimodality and learning: linking science to everyday activities. To appear in the proceedings of HCI International 2003, 22-27 June, Crete, Greece. Preprint version available in PDF (42KB).
S. Anastopoulou, M. Sharples, G. Vavoula (2002). Editors of the Proceedings of the European Workshop on Mobile and Contextual Learning -MLearn 2002, University of Birmingham, 20th and 21st of June, 2002 ETRP 14* ISSN 1463-9408.
S. Anastopoulou, C. Baber, M. Sharples (2002). Object Manipulation In Educational Multimodal Systems for Contextual Learning. Proceedings of the European Workshop on Mobile and Contextual Learning -MLearn 2002, University of Birmingham, 20th and 21st of June, 2002 (PDF -12KB)
S. Anastopoulou, C. Baber, M. Sharples (2001). Multimedia and multimodal systems: commonalities and differences. Proceedings of the 5th Human Centred Technology Postgraduate Workshop, University of Sussex, 26-27 September 2001. (PDF -17KB)
Anastopoulou,
S., Sharples, M. (2001). SALL: Designing a system to Support Academics'
Lifelong Learning. Proceedings of CAL 2001 conference, University of
Warwick, 2-4 April 2001.
Preprint version available in PDF
(9KB).
Anastopoulou, S., Sharples, M.
(2000). A system prototype to support academics' lifelong learning:
selecting a design concept and the role of the design process. 13th
National Conference of Hellenic Operational Research Society, Piraeus, 30
November - 2 December 2000.
Preprint version available in PDF
(66KB)
