Organizers

Wolmet Barendregt (main contact person) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Her research focuses on user-centered and participatory design of (educational) technologies for children, such as games, reading technologies, and social robots.

Tilde Bekker is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on user-centered and participatory design of (educational) technologies for children.

Peter Börjesson is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. His research focuses on participatory design of collaborative technologies for children in special education.

Eva Eriksson is an Assistant Professor at the School of Communication and Culture, Department of Information Science at Aarhus University in Denmark, and a senior lecturer at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Her research focuses on computational thinking and user-centered and participatory design of technologies for children.

Olof Torgersson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. His research focuses on user-centered and participatory design of (mobile) technologies for children.

Mina Vasalou is an Associate Professor at the University College London, Knowledge Lab. She worked in the technology design industry for over ten years before entering academia. Her research sits between the social sciences and interaction design, and examines how digital technologies shape the learning and expression for young people and vulnerable populations. She is also currently a coordinator of the H2020 funded iRead project.