Publications

Here you’ll find a list of my main Journal Articles and Book Chapters, Peer Reviewed Conference Papers, Workshop Position Papers. If you are interested in one of these for your research, just ask  ; )

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Mazzone, E. Designing with Children: Reflections on Effective Involvement of Children in the Interaction Design Process, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, UK (2012)

Mazzone, E., Tikkanen, R., Read, J.C., Iivari, N., and Beale, R. “Integrating Children’s Contributions in the Interaction Design Process”. International Journal of art and Technology, Vol. 5, Nos. 2/3/4, pp.319–346 (2012)

Santos, O.C., Mazzone, E., Aguilar, M.J., Martin, L., and Boticario, J.G. “Designing a user interface to managing recommendations in virtual learning communities”. International Journal of Web Based Communities, Special Issue on Recommender Systems to support the dynamics of Virtual Learning Communities (2011).

Santos, O.C., Mazzone, E., Aguilar, M.J., and Boticario, J.G. “Information Architecture for the Design of a User Interface to Manage Educational Oriented Recommendations“. In User Interface Design for Virtual Environments. IGI Global, USA, 2012.

Santos, O.C., Mazzone, E., Aguilar, M.J., Martin, L., Boticario, J.G. “Challenges in designing the user interface for educators managing recommendations in an e-learning context,”in Learning Design: User Interface Design for Virtual Environments: Challenges and Advances. Khan, B.H. (Ed.), Information Science Reference, IGI Global (in Press)

Santos, O.C, Barrera, C., Mazzone, E., Boticario, J.G. “Catering for personal autonomy with e-mentoring supported by recommendations” in Pereira, J (Ed) Learning Design: Handbook of Research on Personal Autonomy Technologies and Disability Informatics, Information Science Reference, IGI Global (in press)

Fredrikson, M., Welch, G., Porras, J., Paananen, P., Read, J., Stadler Elmer, S., Heikkinen, K., Myllykoski, M., Hedberg, H., Iivari, N. & Mazzone, E. (2009): Music as an Enabler for Social Inclusion and Provision – The UMSIC approach. In P. L. Emiliani, L. Burzagli, A. Como, F. Gabbani & A-L. Salminen (Eds.) Assistive Technology from Adapted Equipment to Inclusive Environments, IOS Press, Amsterdam. Pp. 622-627.

Read, J.C., Mazzone, E. (2008) “MESS – Mad Evaluation Session with Schoolchildren”, in Interfaces magazine of the British HCI Group, n. 74

 Peer Reviewed Conference Papers

Horton, M., Read, J.C., Mazzone, E., Sim, G., and Fitton, D. “School friendly participatory research activities with children”. Proceedings of CHI Extended Abstracts, ACM (2012), 2099–2104

Mazzone, E., Read, J.C, Beale, R 2011, “Towards a Framework of Co-Design Sessions with Children” in Proc. of Interact 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Lisbon, Portugal (2011)

Rodriguez-Ascaso, A., Boticario, J., Finat, C., DelCampo, E., Sarneiro, M., Alcocer, E., Gutiérrez y Restrepo, E., Mazzone, E. “Inclusive Scenarios to Evaluate an Open and Standards-based Framework that Supports Accessibility and Personalization at Higher Education”. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Orlando, LNCS (2011)

Mazzone, E., Restrepo, E., Barrera, C., et al. “Involving users in the design of ICT aimed to improve education, work, and leisure for users with intellectual disabilities”. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, LNCS (2010)

Mazzone, E., Iivari, N., Tikkanen, R., Read, J.C., and Beale, R. “Considering context, content, management, and engagement in design activities with children”. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, (2010), 108-117.

Blanco, J.M., Landry, P., C., Mealla. Sebástian, Mazzone, E., and Parés, N. “PIPLEX: tangible experience in an augmented reality video game”, in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children – IDC ’10, (2010), 274.

Read, J.C., Fitton, D., and Mazzone, E. “Using obstructed theatre with child designers to convey requirements”. Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems – CHI Extended Abstract ’10, (2010), 4063

Marco, J., Cerezo, E., Baldassarri, S., Mazzone, E., Read, J. “Bringing Tabletop Technologies to Kindergarten Children”. In Proceedings of British HCI’09, Cambridge, UK, 2009

Marco, J., Cerezo, E., Baldassarri, S., Mazzone, E., Read, J. “User-Oriented Design and Tangible Interaction for Kindergarten Children”. In Proceedings of IDC’09, Como, Italy, 2009

Mazzone, E., Read, J.C., Beale, R. (2008) “Design with and for Difficult Teenagers” in Proceedings of the NordiCHI Conference 2008, Lund, Sweden, ACM Press

Mazzone, E., Read, J.C., Beale, R. (2008) “Understanding Children’s Contribution during Informant Design” in Proceedings of the British HCI Conference 2008, Liverpool, UK, ACM Press

Qualter, P., Read, J.C., Gater, C.J., Zioui, L., Horton, M., Mazzone, E., Xu, D., Whiteley, H.E. (2007) “U-Think: a computer package to teach Emotional Intelligence skills to high school pupils”, presented at the BPS Psychology of Education Conference 2007, Staffordshire, UK

Mazzone, E., Xu, D., Read, J. (2007) “Design in Evaluation: Reflections on Designing for Children’s Technology” in Proceedings of the British HCI Conference 2007, Lancaster, UK. ACM Press

Xu, D., Read, J.C., Mazzone, E., MacFarlane, S., Brown, M. (2007) “Evaluation of Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) for and with Children – Methods and Challenges” in Proceedings of International HCI Conference 2007, Beijing, China. LNCS, Springer

Xu, D., Mazzone, E., Read, J.C. (2007) “Designing and Testing a Tangible Interface Prototype for use in the Evaluation Study with Children” in Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children 2007, Denmark. ACM Press

Kelly, R., Mazzone, E., Horton, P., Read, J. (2006) “Bluebells: A Design Method for Child-Centred Product Development”. in Proceedings of NordiCHI 2006, Oslo, Norway. ACM Press

Read, J., Kelly, R., Mazzone, E., Horton, M. (2006) “Bluebells: Designing and Fun”, in Proceedings of the Fun and Games 2006 Conference, Preston, UK

Xu, D., Mazzone, E., MacFarlane, S. (2006) “In search for evaluation methods for Children’s tangible technology”, in Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children 2006 Conference, Tampere, Finland. ACM Press

Read, J., MacFarlane, S., Kelly, R., Mazzone, E., Horton, M. “HCI Overviews: The ChiCI Group”, in CHI ’06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’06, ACM Press (2006)

Read, J., Mazzone, E., Horton, M. (2005) “Recognition Errors and Recognizing Errors – Children Writing on the Tablet PC” in Proceedings of the 10th Tenth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Rome, Italy

Mazzone, E., Read, J. (2005) “Not just bits of paper – the outcomes of participatory design sessions with children” in Proceedings ofUCLAN Department of Computing Conference, Preston, UK

Read, J., Horton, M., Mazzone, E., (2005) “The Design of Digital Tools for the Primary Writing Classroom” in Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Montreal, Canada

Read, J., Mazzone, E., Höysniemi, J. (2005) “Wizard of Oz Evaluations with Children – Deception and Discovery” in Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children 2005 Conference, Colorado

Mazzone, E., Horton, M. & Read, J. (2004) “Requirements for a Multimedia Museum Environment” in Proceedings of the Nordichi 2004 Conference, Tampere, Finland, ACM Press

 Workshop Position Papers

Mazzone, E., Read, J.C., and Beale, R. “Organising Co-Design Sessions with Schoolchildren“. Proceedings of Workshop on “Opportunities and Challenges when Designing and Developing with Kids @ School” held at IDC 2011 Conference, (2011)

Santos, O. C., Martin, L., del Campo, E., Saneiro, M., Mazzone, E., Boticario, J.G. and Petrie, H. “User-Centered Design Methods for Validating a Recommendations Model to Enrich Learning Management Systems with Adaptive Navigation Support” in Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on User-Centred Design and Evaluation of Adaptive Systems, held in conjunction with the International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP2009)

Santos, O.C., Martin, L., Mazzone, E., Boticario, J.G. “Management of Recommendations for Accessible eLearning Platforms: Is it a Need for Learning Management System Users?” in Proceedings of the Third Workshop Towards User Modeling and Adaptive Systems for All (TUMAS-A 2009): Modeling and Evaluation of Accessible Intelligent Learning Systems

Mazzone, E., Gutiérrez, E., Barrera, C., Boticario, J.G. “E-Training to Enable the Inclusion of Young People with Intellectual Disabilities in Working Environments”, Workshop on Marginalized Youth and Digital Technologies, at IDC’09 Conference, Como, Italy, 2009

Read, JC, Horton, M, Mazzone, E, Cassidy, B, McKnight, L.  “Designing for Mr Hippo – Introducing Concepts of Marginalisation to Children Designers”. In Workshop on Marginalized Youth and Digital Technologies, at IDC’09 Conference, Como, Italy

Mazzone, E., Read, J., Qualter, P., Zioui, L., Gater, C. (2008) “A Computer Game on Emotions for Teenagers Excluded form School”, in Proceedings of the workshop on Marginalised Young People at the Interaction Design and Children Conference 2008, Chicago, USA

Mazzone, E. (2008) “Creative Thinking: Making connections”, presented at the Teaching Interaction Design Workshop, Chalmers and IT University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Read, J., Mazzone, E., Qualter, P., Horton, M., Zioui, L., Gator, C. (2007) “The CooL Project: Learners designing their own e-learning” in Proceedings of the workshop Design, Use and Experience of E-Learning Systems in British HCI conference 2007, Lancaster, UK

Mazzone, E., Kelly, R., Xu, D., (2005) “Studying children’s interactions with tangible devices: How will the video help?” in Proceedings of the workshop on Child Computer Interaction: Methodological Research at INTERACT 2005 Conference, Rome, Italy

Xu, D., Mazzone, E., MacFarlane, S. (2005) “Informant Design with Children – Designing Children’s Tangible Technology” in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop “Re-Thinking Technology in Museums”, Limerick, Ireland

Fano, F., Mazzone, E., Toccafondi, G., Torsi, S. (2005) “Tasting the Wine Culture: the Design of an Experience” in Proceedings of1st International Workshop “Re-Thinking Technology in Museums”, Limerick, Ireland

Danino, N. & Mazzone, E. (2004) “The Challenges of Mobile Computing in Education: a survey of the primary issues” in Proceedings of the 7th HCI Educators Workshop, Preston, 36-40