Helen Pain
Personal Chair
engineering
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Biography
Helen Pain Position Personal Chair in Interactive Learning Environments Roles Associate Member of Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation
Research Interest
Supporting learning and communication in children with special needs, through adaptive multi-media technology and game like environments; supporting social communication and affect in interactions with virtual agents; participatory and user-centred design. The central elements of my approach are that it is both tool-based and empirically informed, theoretically motivated and involves stakeholders in the design and evaluation process. A major goal of this work is to develop interactive learning environments and communication tools that engage and support learners in play and exploration.
Publications
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Exploring e-learning and communication tools for improving children's language usage in social interactions: EChoeS
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Echoes 2: Improving Children's Social interaction through exploratory learning in multimodal environment
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Improving Children's Social Interaction through Exploratory Learning in Multimodal Environments
