Pablo Romero - Research
Research
I am interested in exploring the support that collaboration and external representations can offer to students learning programming and the potential that programming and software design have for skill transfer into other areas of learning. Another area of interest has to do with exploring the potential that new forms of interaction (tangible interfaces, embodied interaction) have for learning in general and specifically i) as a way to approach engagement and motivation ii) as a way to foster collaboration, and iii) for specifying concrete and abstract behaviours (programming, scripting) and the impact that this has on learning.
- The STAGE project is exploring the potential of embodied interaction in educational applications, specifically in authoring environments that enable young people to build computer games.
- The PAL project is looking into the support that online tools can offer to collaborative learning in programming.
- The CRUSADE project investigated factors affecting the coordination of multiple external representations in program understanding and debugging.
