Dr Sara Price

  • Qualifications and position:
    • PhD Psychology, BA Psychology, HV Cert, SRN
    • Senior Lecturer (Technology Enhance Learning)
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Culture, Communications and Media
  • Centre:
    • London Knowledge Lab
  • Summary:
    • Sara is a Senior Lecturer based at the London Knowledge Lab in the Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy at the Institute of Education, London. She has a background in psychology, with extensive experience in HCI. Her research interests focus on the role of digital technologies for learning, approaching technologies as external tools that offer new opportunities for interaction and cognition. Much of her work involves the design, development and evaluation of emerging digital technologies (mobile, tangible, sensor, haptic), and exploration of ways in which they can enhance learning through mediating new forms of thinking and reasoning.
  • Teaching:
    • MA Technology and Simulation in Clinical Practice: Module leader for Teaching and Learning with Simulation (core module); tutor on Technology and Simulation: Perspectives and Issues

      MA ICT in Education: Module leader for Research Methods; tutor for LTT

      MA tutor on PAT (Pedagogy, Adaptivity and Technology) module
  • Research Projects:
    • 2011-2014 NCRM Node (ESRC) Jewitt, C. Bezemer, J. & Price, S.
      2011 GeoSciTeach (JISC) Price, S., Roussos, G., Jewitt, C. & Davies, P.
      2009 Early Career Exchange (EPSRC) Price, S. & Sheridan, J.
      2007-2010 Designing Tangibles for Learning (EPSRC) Price, S & Roussos, G.
      2006 Learning Skills for Science: An Evaluation (Gatsby Foundation) M., Reiss & Price, S.
      2005 London IDEAS Genetics Knowledge Park (Evaluation) Reiss, M., & Price, S.
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Tangible/ sensor/ mobile technologies for learning, and their relationship with external representation and reasoning; embodied interaction and cognition; and science learning.

      Taciana Pontual Falcão: 'The Role of Tangible Technologies in Special Education' Wedad Al-Gawhary: TBA
  • Professional Activities:
    • Co-edtor SAGE Handbook of Digital Technology Research (forthcoming)
      2010-2011 Mentor for ESRC Post-doc Fellowship (Andrew Manches)
      Programme Chair: International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. 2011 Ann Arbor, Michigan
      External Examiner PhD, Guillaume Zufferey (supervisor: Pierre Dillenbourg), EPFL, Switzerland, July 2010
      Guest Editor for Journal of Education, Technology and Society Special Issue (January 2007)
      Organiser for Technology and Change in Educational Practice Conference 2005, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education UK.
      Invited Panel Reviewer for National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Grant Proposals 2003
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Manches, A. and Price, S. (2011) Designing Learning Representations around Physical Manipulation: Hands and Objects. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children Ann Arbor, Michigan. ACM

      Price, S., Sheridan, J., Pontual Falcao, T. (2010) Action and representation in tangible systems: implications for design of learning interactions Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Cambridge, Mass.

      Price, S. and Pontual Falcão, T. (2009) Designing for physical-digital correspondence in tangible learning environments. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. Como, Italy p.194-197

      Hinske, S., Lampe, M., Price, S., Yuill, N. and Langheinrich, M. (2009) Kingdom of the Knights: Evaluation of a Digitally Augmented Toy Environment for Playful Learning. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. Como, Italy

      Price, S., Pontual-Falcão, T., Sheridan, J.G. and Roussos, G. (2009) The effect of representation location on interaction in a tangible learning environment. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, Cambridge, UK, pp. 85-92

      Stanton-Fraser, D., Smith, H., Tallyn, E., Kirk, D., Benford, S., Rowland, D., Paxton, M., Price, S., and Fitzpatrick, G. (2005) The SENSE project: a context-inclusive approach to studying environmental science within and across schools. International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning 2005. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

      Rogers, Y., Price, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Fleck, R., Harris, E., Smith, H., Randell, C.,O'Malley, C., Stanton, D., Thompson, M., Weal, M. (2004) Designing New Forms of Digital Augmentation for Learning Outdoors. Proceedings of Third International Conference for Interaction Design and Children 2004 ACM SIGCHI, 3-10

      Price, S., Rogers, Y., Stanton, D., and Smith, H. (2003) A New Conceptual Framework for CSCL: Supporting Diverse Forms of Reflection through Multiple Interactions. In (eds) B. Wasson, S. Ludvigsen, U. Hoppe, Designing for Change in Networked Learning Environments. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning 2003. p. 513-522

      Marshall, P., Price, S., & Rogers, Y. (2003). Conceptualising tangibles to support learning. Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, Preston, England, July 1-3, pp 101-110

      Jones, S. and Scaife, M (2000) Animated Diagrams: An investigation into the cognitive effects of using animation to illustrate dynamic processes. In M. Anderson & P. Cheng (eds) Theory & Applications of Diagrams. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, no. 1889, Berlin, Springer-Verlag. Pp. 231-244.
 

Contact details

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Culture, Communications and Media
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Level 2
    23-29 Emerald Street, WC1N 3QS

Publications

  • Marshall, P., Price, S., & Rogers, Y. (2003) 'Conceptualising tangibles to support learning.' Paper presented at Interaction Design and Children , Preston, England , July
  • Pontual Falcao, T. & Price, S. (2010) 'Interfering and resolving: How tabletop interaction facilitates co-construction of argumentative knowledge.', International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 23-29.
  • Manches, A. and Price, S. (2011) 'Designing Learning Representations around Physical Manipulation: Hands and Objects.' Paper presented at 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children , June
  • Price, S. & Pontual Falcao, T. (2011) 'Where the attention is: Discovery learning in novel tangible environments', Interacting with Computers 23, Issue 5, 499-512.
  • Price, S., Sheridan, J., Pontual Falcão, T. and Roussos, G. (2008) 'Towards a framework for investigating tangible environments for learning', International Journal of Arts and Technology: Special Issue on Tangible and Embedded Computing 1(3/4),
  • Rogers, Y. and Price, S. (in press) 'The Role of Mobile Devices in Facilitating Collaborative Inquiry in Situ', Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning. Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education
  • Rogers, Y., Price, S., Randell, C., Stanton-Fraser, D., Weal, M. and Fitzpatrick, G. (2005) 'Ubi-learning Integrates Indoor and Outdoor Experiences', Communications of the ACM 48(1), 55-59.
  • Price, S. and Rogers, Y. 'Let's get physical: the learning benefits of interacting in digitally augmented physical spaces', Computers and Education: Special Issue: 21st Century Learning 43, 137-151.
  • Price, S., Rogers, Y., Scaife, M., Stanton, D. and Neale, H. (2003) 'Using 'tangibles' to promote novel forms of playful learning', Interacting with Computers 15(2), 169-185.