All Stories

  1. OSMoSIS: A novel tool for assessing social motor synchrony in autistic children

    Article • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, October 2026, Elsevier

    Kate Howland

  2. Concreteness Fading for Primary School Computing

    Article • Digital Threats Research and Practice, April 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  3. Exploring the Design Space of Children Audio Players

    Article • June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  4. Supporting and understanding autistic children’s non-verbal interactions through OSMoSIS, a motion-based sonic system

    Article • International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, June 2025, Elsevier

    Kate Howland

  5. 1st Workshop on Child-Centered AI for Empowering Creative and Inclusive Learning Experiences

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland, Andrea Esposito

  6. From Pirate Islands to Routing Tables: Investigating Intermediate Representations in Concreteness Fading through AR Learning

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  7. Enhancing Assessment of Social Motor Synchrony Through Full-Body Interaction: A Novel Approach with OSMoSIS Tool

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland, Grazia Ragone

  8. The realities of evaluating educational technology in school settings

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  9. Investigating primary school children’s embodied expression of programming concepts

    Article • International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, February 2023, Elsevier

    Kate Howland

  10. Evaluating Interactional Synchrony in Full-Body Interaction with Autistic Children

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland, Emeline Brulé

  11. How Technology Applied to Music-Therapy and Sound-Based Activities Addresses Motor and Social Skills in Autistic Children

    Article • Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Kate Howland

  12. Investigating children's spontaneous gestures when programming using TUIs and GUIs

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  13. Disseminating marine weather forecasts and gathering feedback from artisanal fishers in south India

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland, Dr Maxmillan Martin

  14. Comparing TUIs and GUIs for Primary School Programming

    Article • February 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  15. Investigating Student Preferences on Gesture-Based Interactions in a Vocabulary Game

    Article • January 2020, Academic Conferences and Publishing International - ACPIL

    Kate Howland

  16. Editorial — Special Issue on Computational Thinking and Coding in Childhood

    Article • International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, March 2019, Elsevier

    Kate Howland

  17. The Meaning of Place in Supporting Sociality

    Article • June 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland, Ann Light

  18. Programming language, natural language? Supporting the diverse computational activities of novice programmers

    Article • Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, April 2017, Elsevier

    Kate Howland

  19. Natural language and programming: Designing effective environments for novices

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kate Howland

  20. Narrative support for young game designers' writing

    Article • June 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  21. Every child a coder?

    Article • June 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  22. "Nearer to Being Characters in a Book": How Older People Make Sense of Online Communities and Social Networking Sites

    Article • January 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kate Howland

  23. Learning to communicate computationally with Flip: A bi-modal programming language for game creation

    Article • Computers & Education, January 2015, Elsevier

    Kate Howland

  24. An Evaluation of DTW Approaches for Whole-of-Body Gesture Recognition

    Article • September 2014, BCS Learning and Development Limited

    Kate Howland

  25. Robust evaluation for a maturing field: The train the teacher method

    Article • International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, May 2013, Elsevier

    Kate Howland

  26. Narrative Threads: A Tool to Support Young People in Creating Their Own Narrative-Based Computer Games

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Howland

  27. Embedding technology in the classroom

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  28. Designing an interface for multimodal narrative creation

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  29. Young People's Descriptions of Computational Rules in Role-Playing Games: An Empirical Study

    Article • September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kate Howland

  30. Language-based support for computational thinking

    Article • September 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kate Howland

  31. Supporting the development of multimodal writing and computational thinking skills through computer game creation

    Article • September 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kate Howland

  32. Is Embodied Interaction Beneficial When Learning Programming?

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Howland

  33. Fostering engaged and directed learning by activity foregrounding and backgrounding

    Article • January 2009, IOS Press

    Kate Howland

  34. An embodied interface for teaching computational thinking

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  35. A Card Based Metaphor for Organising Pervasive Educational Experiences

    Article • March 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kate Howland

  36. A learner-centred design approach to developing a visual language for interactive storytelling

    Article • January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kate Howland

  37. Supporting Domain Experts in Creating Pervasive Experiences

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kate Howland

  38. Script Cards: A Visual Programming Language for Games Authoring by Young People

    Article • January 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kate Howland