learner centred redesign
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Keywords: design, learning, context, mobile, social, apps, language learning Bio: I am a researcher/designer/developer with more than 10 years experience in technology enhanced learning. I have worked on:
My Current Research miLexicon: designing support for self-directed vocabulary learning
This is my PhD work based
at LKL, IOE, University of London, where I am supervised by Prof. Rose Luckin and Niall Winters . I am currently writing this research up. This work is centred around the iterative design of Android software (miLexicon) using Prof. Rose Luckin's Ecology of Resources (EoR) design framework.
Method Cycle 1) Initial design of miLexicon was informed by 1) the EoR's learner-centred model of context, 2) analysis of existing research in Mobile Assisted Language Learning, 3)interviews with successful language learners and analysis of their narrative accounts of vocabulary learning. I am particularly interested in the resources employed and the distribution of vocabulary learning activity across episodes, settings and media.
Cycle 2) Through cycle 1 I developed hypotheses about how mobile phones and software might support vocabulary learning across episodes, settings and media. I implemented, tested and refined these ideas through autoethnographic research. In this cycle I used a mobile, existing software and my own prototype software to support my vocabulary learning. My reflections on this experience led to a prototype for use in cycle 3; miLexicon.Cycle 3) In a third cycle of participatory design six learners used miLexicon to support their vocabulary learning over periods ranging from 1 to 6 months. Participatory analysis of data from their use, their reflections on use and their suggestions for redesign will contribute to the next cycle of design and implementation.
See here for more about miLexicon Recent Activity - Underwood, J., Luckin, R., Winters. Managing resource ecologies for mobile, personal and collaborative self-directed language learning To be published in Proceedings of EuroCALL 2010 - Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences - miLexicon research mention by Ann Foreman at Strelka, Moscow 2011 - miLexicon mentioned in Mike Sharples' EuroCALL 2011 keynote presentation - Paper presentation at CSCL2011: Retelling Stories: Setting Learner Narratives in Resource Ecologies, In: Proceedings CSCL 2011 p.611-615 - Paper presentation at CAL 2011: Designing ubiquitous support for self-initiated foreign language inquiry learning: A mobile personal language learning environment - Review of AIED Research Themes & Trends for TLRP - Presentation at Stellar network Alpine Rendevouz 2011: Methods for next generation TEL - Paper Presentation at EuroCALL 2010: Managing Resource Ecologies for Mobile, Personal and Collaborative Self-directed Language Learning (slides)- Paper Presentation at ITEC 2010: miLexicon: Harnessing Resources for Personal and Collaborative Language Inquiry. Underwood, J., Luckin, R., Winters. (2011).In S. Wannemacker, G. Clarebout, P. De Causmaecker (Eds.): Interdisciplinary Approaches to Adaptive Learning: A Look at the Neighbours First International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research on Technology, Education and Communication, ITEC 2010, Kortrijk, Belgium, May 25-27, 2010, CCIS 126, pp. 87–98, 2011. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. - Paper Presentation at CSCL2009 doctoral consortium: Designing Technology Enhanced Learning Contexts, In: Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning, ISLS. (preprint) Publications Example publications are associated with project descriptions below. My publications on Microsoft Academic, Google Scholar, Research Projects I have been involved in technology enhanced learning research, design & development since 1999 in projects at lkl at IOE Univeristy of London and in the Human Centred Technology group at Sussex University.
Design and development of a decision support system for brain tumor diagnosis using NMR & MRS data. Tate AR, Underwood J, Acosta DM et al. (2006) Development of a decision support system for diagnosis and grading of brain tumours using in vivo magnetic resonance single voxel spectra. NMR Biomed 19:411–434
Using Tablet PCs with primary school children and their parents to connect learning at home and in schools. Luckin, R., Underwood, J., du Boulay, B., Holmberg, J., Kerawalla, L., O'Connor, J., Smith, H., and Tunley, H. (2006). Designing Educational Systems Fit for Use: A Case Study in the Application of Human Centred Design for AIED, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education,16, 353-380.
Public understanding of e-Science Designing ubiquitous technology-enhanced learning activities to explore and communicate future technology-enhanced collaborative science research. Underwood, J., Smith, H., Luckin, R. and Fitzpatrick, G. (2008) E-Science in the classroom - Towards viability. Computers and Education 50 (2), pages 535-546
Designing technology-enhanced participatory science learning activities that connect school science, research scientists and science in day to day life. Joshua Underwood, Rosemary Luckin, Hilary Smith et al., Reflections on Participatory Science for TELSci2.0, Proceedings of Science 2.0 workshop, ECTEL2009.
Investigating and designing appropriate ICT for rural Kenya. Kevin Walker , Joshua Underwood , Tim Waema et al., A resource kit for participatory socio-technical design in rural kenya, CHI '08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 05-10, 2008, Florence, Italy | 
Background I am currently at LKL, IOE, University of London I have a multi-disciplinary educational background (see qualifications below) I review for various journals and conferences (e.g. Computers & Education, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, ITID, ITS, CSCL, AIED). I give occasional EFL teacher training sessions and organise research and design workshops Qualifications MSc Human Centred Computing Systems (with distinction) @ University of Sussex MSc Cognition, Computing & Psychology @ Warwick University BSc Biochemistry @ University of Sussex Postgraduate diplomas in Teaching English as a Foreign Language & Spanish @ Brighton University Publications Google Scholar is probably more up-to-date but may be less complete than my publication list at LKL. I am putting some papers on Links |