Publications

The following is a list of select publications in peer-reviewed international conferences and journals. 

Christou, E., Parmaxi, A., Farrugia Caruana, L., Busuttil, L., Żammit, J., Rodríguez-Cano, S., Delgado-Benito, V., Alonso-Martínez, L., & Ioannou, A. (2026). Augmented reality for story-related activities in primary and secondary education: A systematic review. Universal Access in the Information Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-025-01290-8 

Castillo, D., & Farrugia Caruana, L. (2025). Unveiling Customer Expectations of Chatbot Interactions: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2025.2588815

Farrugia, F., Borg, J. C., Farrugia Caruana, L., Bohemia, E., Buck, L., & Grierson, H. (2025). Fostering human-centred products and services in design (OUTPACE). 27th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. The Design Society. Institution of Engineering Designers. 

Pulé, S., Attard, M. & Farrugia Caruana, L. Opportunities for learning design and technology skills and values in the Maltese curriculum. Int  J Technol Des Educ (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-025-10006-1  

Farrugia Caruana, L., Busuttil, L., Żammit, J., Parmaxi, A., Christou, E., Ioannou, A., Timotheou, S., Rodríguez Cano, S., Delgado Benito, V., Ramos Monsivais, C. L., & Alonso Martínez, L. (2025). Children as Creators of Augmented Reality Stories: A Constructionist Approach to Language Learning. Constructionism Conference Proceedings, 8, 451–458. https://doi.org/10.21240/constr/2025/18.X

Camilleri, C., Farrugia Caruana, L., Pule’, S., Efren Mora, C., & Camilleri, L. (2025). Investigating the Factors Influencing Augmented Reality Adoption in Blended Learning Environments for Mechanical Engineering Degree Students at the University of Malta. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 15(5), 912–921. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijiet.2025.15.5.2297

Farrugia Caruana, L. (2025). An Explanatory Framework for Modelling Student Emotions in Design and Technology Education. 2025 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference. EDUCON 2025, London, United Kingdom.

Barbara, M., Pule, S., & Farrugia Caruana, L. (2024). Using Makerspaces to enrich Design and Technology education. Techne Series - Research in Sloyd Education and Craft Science A, 31(3), 33–50. https://doi.org/10.7577/TechneA.5835

Farrugia Caruana, L. , & Żammit, J. (2024). Exploring beliefs, motivations and emotions: Insights from learning Maltese as a second language. Language Teaching Research, 0(0). https://doi-org.ejournals.um.edu.mt/10.1177/13621688241289724

Castillo, D., & Farrugia Caruana, L. (2024). Unveiling Customer Expectations of Chatbot Interactions: A Systematic Literature Review. AIRSI 2024, 24–36. 

Camilleri, C., Farrugia Caruana, L., Pule’, S., & Efren Mora Luis, C. (2024). A Holistic Conceptual Framework to Assess the Impact of Augmented Reality on the Learners’ Emotion and Cognitive Learning. IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Greece.

Farrugia, R., Farrugia Caruana, L., & Pule’, S. (2023). Fostering Creativity through Design and Technology Education. In the 40th International Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology Conference Proceedings 2023, 31 October - 3 November, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK,  https://doi.org/10.24377/PATT40.2023

Farrugia, L., & Pule’, S. (2021). Pupils’ Emotional Experience in Human-Technology Interactions. Research in Sloyd Education and Craft Science, 28(2), 82–90.

Borg, J. C., & Farrugia, L. (2014). Life-Cycle Interactions for Modelling Human Emotions. In 9th International Conference on Design and Emotion - D&E 2014 (pp. 184–193). Bogota, Colombia.

Farrugia, L., & Borg, J. C. (2014). Towards Handling Worker Emotions for Improved Product Development. In 10th International IDE Workshop (pp. 49-59). Gommern, Germany.

Farrugia, L., & Borg, J. C. (2015). Why Product Design Support for Improved Worker Contentedness. In 20th International Conference on Engineering Design - ICED 15. Milan, Italy.

Farrugia, L., & Borg, J. C. (2015).An Approach Exploiting the Interplay between Elicited Emotions and Product Design to Improve Business Competitiveness. In 2015, International Association of Societies of Design Research - IASDR 15. Brisbane, Australia.

Farrugia, L., & Borg J.C. (2016) 'Design for X' Based on Foreseeing Emotional Impact of Meetings with Evolving Products. Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, 20(2), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.3233/jid-2016-0017 

Farrugia, L. and Francalanza, E. (2016). A Review of Augmented Reality Applications. In proceedings of the Augmented Reality for Technical Entrepreneurs 2016 Conference, 1st April 2016, Bucharest, Romania (pp 20 - 31).

Francalanza, E., Borg, J.C., Farrugia, P., Farrugia, L. (2016).  Augmented Reality in the Digital Factory. Proceedings of the Augmented Reality for Technical Entrepreneurs 2016 Conference, 1st April 2016, Bucharest, Romania (pp 47- 50).

Farrugia, L., Roa Castro, L., Ben Beldi, N., Wunsch, A., Hagman, J. and Dragar, Z. (2014) ‘Cleaning Genie: An International Case Study in Integrated Product Development’. In 10th International Workshop on Integrated Design Engineering. Gommern, Germany, pp. 133–142.

Farrugia, L., & Borg, J. (2013). A Module Interface Concept Evaluation Approach Promoting the Consilience of Design Science, Practice and Emotion. In Consilience and Innovation in Design - 5th IASDR 20135th IASDR 2013 (pp. 105–115). Tokyo, Japan.

Farrugia, L., & Borg, J. C. (2012). Towards Life-Oriented Evaluation Support of “Interface Concepts.” In NordDesign Conference (pp. 1–8). Aalborg, Denmark.