By Dionysis Panagiotopoulos & Kostas Karpouzis - National & Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece The Greek team participated in this year’s “Researchers’ Night” event hosted in six major Greek cities on the last Friday of September. The event was an opportunity to showcase to the public key research happening within universities and institutions. The NTUA … Continue reading iRead researchers from NTUA participate in Researcher’s Night Event
iRead workshop at the Göteborg Book Fair
By Leona Bunting, University of Gothenburg The Göteborg Book Fair is probably Scandinavia’s most important literary event where the trade meets the public. During four days, 26-29 September, about 90,000 publishers, authors, librarians, teachers and book lovers mix on the 11,000 square meters provided. iRead was invited to hold a workshop in a part of … Continue reading iRead workshop at the Göteborg Book Fair
iRead @ CHI 2019
By Laura Benton (UCL Knowledge Lab) This month the UCL iRead team returned to the CHI conference (2019 Conference of Human Factors in Computing Systems) to present some follow-up research focused on the instructional design within existing reading games for children and also to demonstrate the latest version of the Navigo game. These submissions were … Continue reading iRead @ CHI 2019
UCL Researchers give seminar on Adaptivity and Learning Analytics
By Manolis Mavrikis and Yvonne Vezzoli (UCL) Manolis Mavrikis and Yvonne Vezzoli (UCL) presented work on the iRead adaptivity and learning analytics components at the Birkbeck University of London Knowledge Lab seminar series. During the seminar, Manolis described the process used to invent, discuss and iterate with the help of experts a set of rules that … Continue reading UCL Researchers give seminar on Adaptivity and Learning Analytics
iRead Exhibits at EU Parliament “Tech for Good” Expo
By Eleni Mentheniti (DFKI) and Manolis Mavrikis (UCL) Last month iRead researchers Manolis Mavrikis (UCL) and Eleni Mentheniti (DFKI) attended the “Tech for Good” expo held in the European Parliament from Monday the 19th to Thursday the 22nd of November 2018. The expo brings together researchers from universities and institutions around the European Union and offers them … Continue reading iRead Exhibits at EU Parliament “Tech for Good” Expo
iRead Researcher Roger Gilbert interviewed on Spanish TV
By Roger Gilabert (University of Barcelona) Roger Gilabert was interviewed by the book show "Página Dos" in La 2 public TV channel. It appeared together with other technological projects promoting reading. You can watch the interview from 3:40. http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/pagina-dos/pagina-dos-nacho-carretero/4794244/ This will be followed by a longer interview that will take place in June/July after iRead … Continue reading iRead Researcher Roger Gilbert interviewed on Spanish TV
iRead @ European Literacy Network Meeting
By Nelly Joye and Elisabeth Herbert (UCL) From 1-3 November 2018, a joint iRead-CIE-LLNR&P attended the first European Literacy Network Summit in Porto. The summit marked the end of the European COST action 1401 “Strengthening Europeans’ Capabilities by Establishing the European Literacy Network (ELN)” and gathered a network of European researchers, practitioners and software developers … Continue reading iRead @ European Literacy Network Meeting
iRead @ CSCW 2018
This month iRead researchers Yvonne Vezzoli and Mina Vasalou (UCL) attended the 2018 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) in Jersey City to present a research paper on dyslexia and social network sites. CSCW is the premier venue for research exploring technical, material and theoretical challenges of designing and using technology supporting … Continue reading iRead @ CSCW 2018
FutureBook blog features iRead Project
The iRead Project has been featured as part of the FutureBook blog on The Bookseller website. The post details the background to the project, our ambitions, successes to date and advice for others in the industry. You can read the full post here: https://www.thebookseller.com/futurebook/iread-recruits-super-team-european-experts-resdesign-how-kids-read-742886
iRead and Digital Reading Content: Introducing Pickatale
We are fortunate to have a wide range of expertise and experience on the iRead project team. In a series of blog posts we will introduce each of our partners and find out what motivated them to get involved in the iRead project. Next up is Pickatale (introduced by Head of Content Development Team, Aneta … Continue reading iRead and Digital Reading Content: Introducing Pickatale
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