edTechΔ  Research  Group

h"p://www.uef.fi/edtech School  of  Computing University  of  Eastern  Finland

Numbers – edTechΔ

5 Senior researchers

> 20 PhD students

Extensive international collaboration ���network

Over 8 M€ of external funding (since 2001)

In average 23 peer-reviewed publications per year (since 2001)

Research @ edTechΔ Open  &  Distance  Learning

HIV/AIDS  Educatio

Computer  Science  Education

Educational  Games

Leadership

Story  Telling  &  Text  

Mining

Semi-­‐‑automatic  assessment  of  

essays

SURA  YA  UKMWI  –  The  Faces  of  AIDS

Jeliot Mobile  games  in  museums,  UFractions

1)  Minining  opinions  of  

customers  via  Social  

environments 2)  Automatic  analysis  of  customer  feedback

Smart  Design

Participatory,  Strength-­‐‑based  

design  methods,  

Intercontextual  design

NETAIDS  in  Uganda

Contextualised  IT  Education,  Social  tools  in  collaborative  work/distance  

learning

Hypercontextualised  game  

design

Sentimental  analysis  -­‐‑  Detecting  emotions  in  

texts

SURA  YA  UKMWI  –  The  Faces  of  AIDS

h"p://www.surayaukimwi.com/

Jeliot

Mobile game example 1: Bagomoyo Caravan

Mobile game example 1: UFractions

Tools for special education children – The CASCATE project

Symbol recognition Story telling

Modelling

Physical gaming

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