Below you can find details and slides from the past presentations and workshops given by iRead project members.
2020
IDC 2020 Industry event, showcasing Navigo
Presenters:
- Seray Ibrahim (University College London)
- Emma Sumner (University College London)
- Laura Benton (University College London)
- Mina Vasalou (University College London)
- Drew Wilkins (Fish in a Bottle)
As part of the IDC 2020 conference, June 23 2020, online
Technology-mediated personalized learning for younger learners: concepts, methods and practice
Presenters:
- Stamatina Anastopoulou (University of Leicester)
- Wayne Holmes (Open University)
- Rani Van Schoors (KU Leuven)
- Laura Benton (University College London)
- Manolis Mavrikis (University College London)
- George Tsatiris (NTUA)
- Kostas Karpouzis (NTUA)
- Stefanie Vanbecelaere (KU Leuven)
- Judit Serra (University of Barcelona)
As part of the IDC 2020 conference, June 19 2020, online
iRead Webinar at University West, Sweden
Author:
- Leona Bunting (University of Gothenburg)
Webinar and blog post, June 17 2020, online
Presentation to DHBW University leadership team on benefits of learning with technology
Presenter:
- Kay Berkling (DHBW-Karlsruhe)
Karlsruhe, Germany
Presentation to Ministry of Education for Baden Württemberg
Presenter:
- Kay Berkling (DHBW-Karlsruhe)
June 16 2020, Baden Württembery, Germany
Ask the game designers
Hosts:
- Drew Wilkins (Fish in a Bottle)
- Tom Tsagkatos (Fish in a Bottle)
As part of the Navigo @ Home online series, June 11, 2020, online
Supporting personalized learning through the iRead project’s teacher professional development practices
Hosts:
- Seray Ibrahim (University College London)
- Mina Vasalou (University College London)
- Liz Herbert (University College London)
London Connected Learning Centre online seminar to Erasmus+ practitioners, June 11, 2020, online.
Reading games to support children with dyslexia 
Hosts:
- Liz Herbert (University College London)
- Emma Sumner (University College London)
- Nelly Joye (University College London)
As part of the Navigo @ Home online series, June 11, 2020, online
Choosing and using high quality reading apps 
Hosts:
- Mina Vasalou (University College London)
- Laura Benton (University College London)
- Seray Ibrahim (University College London)
As part of the Navigo @ Home online series, June 4, 2020, online
The effects of textual enhancement on development in L2 derivational morphology: A multi-site longitudinal study
Co-presenters:
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Andrea Revesz (University College London) -
Mina Vasalou (University College London)
Co-authors:
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Adrian Florea (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu) -
Roger Gilabert (University of Barcelona) -
Leona Johansson Bunting (University of Gothenburg) -
Ylva Hård af Segerstad (University of Gothenburg) -
Ioan P Mihu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu) -
Cliff Parry (British Council Greece) -
Laura Benton (University College London)
2020 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics – March 29, 2020, Denver, US
Inspiration cards workshops with teachers in early co-design stages of learning analytics
Co-authors:
- Yvonne Vezzoli (University College London)
- Manolis Mavrikis (University College London)
- Mina Vasalou (University College London)
The 10th International Learning Analytics and Technology Conference LAK 2020 – March 23 – 27, 2020, Frankfurt, Germany
Information sharing day at Samuel von Brukenthal National College, Sibiu, Romania
Co-presenters:
- Adrian Florea, (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu) (ULBS)
- Delilah Florea (National College Samuel von Brukenthal)
Practitioner seminar held at at Samuel von Brukenthal National College – 28 Feb 2020
2019
Dialogue Seminars at ‘Framtidens lärande väst’ – Future Learning Event
Presenter:
- Leona Bunting (University of Gothenburg)
Conference: Framtidens lärande (Future Learning)
Find out more about the seminars held on 14/11/19 here
Transfer of Educational Skills from Games to Classroom tasks – A Case Study using iRead to Improve Reading and Writing
Co-authors:
- Kay Berkling (DHBW)
- Roger Gilabert Guerrero (University of Barcelona)
Workshop paper presentation at GamiLearn 2019 conference held on 22/10/19
‘MadeinUCL’ Festival – Showcasing The iRead Project at UCL’s public engagement event
Presenter:
- Manolis Mavrikis (UCL Knowledge Lab)
Find out about ‘MadeinUCL’ held on 5/10/19 here and read more about the iRead project’s involvement in our newsletter
Researchers Night in Sibiu, Romania – Presenting the iRead Projects apps to children and families
Co-presenters:
- Ioan Mihu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)
- Deborah Florea (Local high school student)
Read more about the Sibiu researchers night , held on 27/09/19 in our blog
Researchers Night in Greece – Presenting the adaptive and personalised features of the Navigo game
Co-authors:
- Dionysis Panagiotopoulos (National and Technical University of Athens)
- Kostas Karpouzis (National and Technical University of Athens)
Find out more about the Researchers Night events held on 27/09/19 here. Also access more info about the event in our blog
iRead workshop at the Göteborg Book Fair
Co-presenters:
- Leona Bunting (University of Gothenburg)
- Ylva Hård af Segerstad (University of Gothenburg)
Read more about the Göteborg Book Fair iRead workshop, held on 26/09/19 and Götenburg Book Fair
iRead: Infrastructure and Integrated Tools for Personalized Learning of Reading Skill
Co-authors:
- Panagiotopoulos Dionysis (National and Technical University of Athens)
- Antonios Symvonis (National and Technical University of Athens)
Presenter: Symvonis Antonios (National and Technical University of Athens)
Presenting the iRead Project at the Effects 2019 Science Festival
Presenter:
- Kay Berkling (DHBW)
Find out more about the Effects 2019 Science festival, held on 20/07/19 here
Interactive and Personalized Activity eBooks for Learning to Read: The iRead Case
Co-authors:
- Nick Deligiannis (Patakis Publishers)
- Dionysis Panagiotopoulos (National and Technical University of Athens)
- Panagiotis Patsilinakos (National and Technical University of Athens)
- Chrysanthi Raftopoulou (National and Technical University of Athens)
- Antonios Symvonis (National and Technical University of Athens)
Conference: AIED 2019, The 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, June 25th – 29th 2019, Chicago, USA
Access the paper and presentation here
Online processing of voice morphology by children with reading difficulties and beginning readers
Co-authors:
- Michaela Nerantzini (University of Ioannina)
- Maria Mastropavlou (University of Ioannina)
- Theophany Christou (University of Ioannina)
- Marika Lekakou (University of Ioannina)
Presented at the Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference, Majorca, Spain on June 26, 2019
What’s Missing: The Role of Instructional Design in Children’s Games-Based Learning
Co-authors:
- Laura Benton (UCL Knowledge Lab)
- Mina Vasalou (UCL Knowledge Lab)
- Wolmet Barendregt (University of Gothenburg)
- Leona Bunting (University of Gothenburg)
- Andrea Révész (UCL Applied Linguistics)
2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, UK, 6th May 2019
Designing a comprehensive evaluation method for learning games – a general approach with specific application to iRead
Co-authors:
- Kay Berkling (DHBW)
- Roger Gilabert Guerrero (University of Barcelona)
GameFIN Conference 2019, Levi, Finland, April 8-10 2019
Towards personalised reading games for primary school children: the role of adaptivity and learning analytics
Presenters:
- Manolis Mavrikis (UCL Knowledge Lab)
- Yvonne Vezzoli (UCL Psychology and Human Development)
Birkbeck University of London Knowledge Lab Seminar Series, March 27 2019
2018
The iRead Apps: Personalised Reading Technologies for Children
Presenter:
- Laura Benton (UCL Knowledge Lab)
European Literacy Network 1st Literacy Summit, Porto (Portugal), 3 November 2018
Opening up the opportunity spaces for learning analytics design
Presenter: 
- Yvonne Vezzoli (UCL Psychology and Human Development)
University of Padova (Italy) Department of Psychology Seminar Series, 8th October 2018
The iRead Project: Designing an engaging, multi-lingual, personalized and adaptive reading game for children
Presenters:
- Mina Vasalou (UCL Knowledge Lab)
- Laura Benton (UCL Knowledge Lab)
University of Sussex Department of Informatics Seminar Series, 9th October 2018
Tablet-based Reading Games for Dyslexia in the Primary Classroom – a workshop for primary teachers
Facilitators:
- Laura Benton (UCL Knowledge Lab)
- Mina Vasalou (UCL Knowledge Lab)
- Emma Sumner (UCL Psychology and Human Development)
- Liz Herbert (UCL Psychology and Human Development)
- Manolis Mavrikis (UCL)
- Caroline Shott (Learnus)
Interactive Personalized eBooks for Education
Co-authors:
- Stavros Droutsas (National and Technical University of Athens)
- Panagiotis Patsilinakos (National and Technical University of Athens)
- Antonios Symvonis (National and Technical University of Athens)
Presenter: Panagiotopoulos Dionysis (National and Technical University of Athens)
Verktyg för individuellt lärande av engelska på läsplattan: testa iRead!
Presenters:
- Ylva Hård af Segerstad (University of Gothenburg)
- Leona Johansson Bunting (University of Gothenburg)
- Wolmet Barendregt (University of Gothenburg)
#PopUpDig – Conference on the Digitalisation of Schools, 19th June 2018
Designing an engaging, multi-lingual, personalised and adaptive reading game for children
Presenters:
- Laura Benton (UCL)
- Drew Wilkins (Fish in a Bottle)
UCL Knowledge Lab Seminar Series, London, UK, 12 June 2018
Watch the seminar recording here: https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/12716
The effect of syntactic complexity on sentence processing by children with reading difficulties and beginning readers
Presenters:
- Maria Mastropavlou (University of Ioannina)
- Michaela Nerantzini (University of Ioannina)
- Theophany Christou (University of Ioannina)
- Marika Lekakou (University of Ioannina)
Language Disorders in Greek 7, Athens, 2-3 June 2018
Spel för att lära sig engelska
Presenters:
- Wolmet Barendregt (University of Gothenburg)
- Ylva Hård af Segerstad (University of Gothenburg)
- Leona Bunting (University of Gothenburg)
The International Science Festival Gothenburg – School Program, 18th and 27th April 2018
A Critical Examination of Feedback in Early Reading Games
Co-Authors:
- Laura Benton (UCL)
- Mina Vasalou (UCL)
- Kay Berkling (DHBW)
- Wolmet Barendregt (University of Gothenburg)
- Manolis Mavrikis (UCL)
University of Lincoln Games Research Network, 23rd May 2018
2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada, 24th April 2018
2017
“Yay, you got it right” : Challenging the reliance on verification feedback on games-based learning
Presenters:
- Mina Vasalou (UCL)
- Laura Benton (UCL)
University of Birmingham HCI Seminar Series, 27 September 2017
University of Leeds School of Education Research Seminar, 15 November 2017
Gamification in the Classroom
Presenters:
- Mina Vasalou (UCL)
- Laura Benton (UCL)
UCL Centre for Inclusive Education Professional Learning Network in Specific Learning Difficulties, 4 July 2017
iRead: individualiserade och intelligenta teknologier för lästräning
Presenters:
- Wolmet Barendregt (University of Gothenburg)
- Ylva Hård af Segerstad (University of Gothenburg)
- Leona Bunting (University of Gothenburg)
PopUpDig 2017
Introduction to iRead
Presenter:
- Mina Vasalou (UCL)
H2020 Networking Event on Learning, Multilingualism and Accessibility, Luxembourg, 27th March 2017
COST Action Meeting for Literacy, Zagreb, Croatia, 30th March 2017
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