Publications & Presentations

Expectation Shock, Hothousing and Affective, Meta and Collaborative Learning are described in three recent papers:

Houghton, T., Lavicza, Z., Weinhandl, R., Rahmadi, I., Békési, B., and Kreis, Y. (2024) ‘Expectation shock in education: utilising industry SERVQUAL to enhance student perception of STEAM and STEAM careers’ Journal of Technology Enhanced Education - forthcoming DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2023.10054287

https://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/forthcoming.php?jcode=ijtel

Houghton, T., Lavicza, Z., Diego-Mantecón, J.M., Fenyvesi, K. and Weirnhandl, R.I.F. (2022)  ‘Hothousing: utilising industry collaborative problem-solving practices for STEAM in  schools’, Journal of Technology and Science Education, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp.274–289. 

https://www.jotse.org/index.php/jotse/article/view/1324

The above achieve a synergy of affective, meta and collaborative learning. Houghton, T., Lavicza, Z. ., & Weinhandl, R. .  Rahmadi, I., Békési, B., and Kreis, Y. (2024). Affective, meta and collaborative STEAM learning. International Journal of Educational Technology and Learning, 16(2), 8–16. 

https://doi.org/10.55217/101.v16i2.802

First and second/third author publications can be seen on Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=6T4pZKEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Previous related work includes:

Houghton T. et al KIKS Creativity and Technology for All DeGruyter STEM Education with a Better Understanding special issue: December 2019:

Houghton T. Kids Inspiring Kids in STEAM JKU-Linz STEAM Education Conference 2018

Houghton T. and Oldknow A. PISA & STEM Framework. GeoMatech National Conference. Budapest. January 2014 

Houghton T. and Oldknow A. PISA Collaborative Problem Solving STEM Technology Framework. GeoMatech National Conference. Budapest. January 2014 

Houghton T. PISA STEM and Math/Technophobia - how do we take the fear out? GEOMATECH Hungarian National Maths Project Workshops in Hungary Kaposvár, Nyíregyháza and Sopron. December 2014

Prehistoric:-)

Houghton T. The Development of User Hostility towards Computer Systems. 8th Congress International Ergonomics Association. Tokyo 1982 in Ergonomics vol 25 no 6.

Houghton T. Ergonomics Training for Computer Users. 20th International Congress of Applied Psychology. Edinburgh 1982.

Houghton T et al. ESCFE: Expert System for Customer Facing Environments.  IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Journal on Selected Areas in Communication Vol 9, No 4 May 1991 also American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference, Anaheim 1991

Houghton T et al. Expert Systems at the Customer Interface. Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management (US) Volume 1, Issue 4, December 1992

Houghton T. Expectation Shock!! The underlying research. London Communications Symposium London 2002

Houghton T. Eng D Predicting Customer Behaviour in Physical/Internet/3G Communities.  National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Bejing 2002

Houghton T. Ubiquitous Services and Applications. EURESCOM Summit. Heidelberg April 2005. (Best Paper)