Emily Theophilou, member of TIDE, defends her doctoral thesis today. The thesis is entitled "Computer-Supported Scripting Mechanisms to Support Adolescents’ Development of Social Media Self-Protection Skills". Supervisors: Davinia Hernández-Leo & Vicent Gomez

Examining Board:
President: Dr. Eleni A. Kyza (Cyprus University of Technology)
Secretary: Dr. Narcís Parés Burguès (UPF)
Member: Dr. Ruth Cobos Pérez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

This is the list of the main derived publications:

Theophilou, E., Sanchez-Reina, R., Hernandez-Leo, D., Odakura, V., Amarasinghe, I., and Lobo-Quintero, R. (2023). The effect of a group awareness tool in synchronous online discussions: studying participation, quality and balance. Behaviour & Information Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2023.2200543

Theophilou, E., Hernández-Leo, D., and Gómez, V. (2023). Gender-based learning and behavioral differences in an educational social media platform. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12927

Theophilou, E., Lobo-Quintero, R., Sanchez-Reina, R., Hernández-Leo, D., and Ognibene, D. (2024). Embedding educational narrative scripts in a social media environment (Submitted to journal, currently under review). -> Extension of 
Hernández-Leo, D., Theophilou, E., Lobo, R., Sánchez-Reina, R., & Ognibene, D. (2021). Narrative scripts embedded in social media towards empowering digital and self-protection skills. 16th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2021, Bolzano, Italy, September 20-24, 2021, Proceedings 16 (pp. 394-398). Springer International Publishing.

Theophilou, E., Amarasinghe, I., Hernández-Leo, D., Lobo, R., & Crespi, F. (2021). Towards socially shared regulation within CSCL scripts: Mirroring group participation in Pyramid App. In A. Hernández-García, D. Hernández-Leo, M. Caeiro-Rodríguez, & T. Sancho-Vinuesa (Eds.), Learning Analytics Summer Institute Spain 2021: Learning analytics in times of COVID-19: Opportunity from crisis (LASI-SPAIN 2021) (pp. 73-80). CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Lobo-Quintero, R., Theophilou, E., Sánchez-Reina, R., Hernández-Leo, D. (2022). Evaluating an Adaptive Intervention in Collaboration Scripts Deconstructing Body Image Narratives in a Social Media Educational Platform. In: Wong, LH., Hayashi, Y., Collazos, C.A., Alvarez, C., Zurita, G., Baloian, N. (eds) Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. CollabTech 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13632. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20218-6_14

Theophilou, E., Schwarze, V., Börsting, J., Sánchez-Reina, R., Scifo, L., Lomonaco, F., Aprin, F., Ognibene, D., Taibi, D., Hernández-Leo, D., & Eimler, S. (2023). Empirically investigating virtual learning companions to enhance social media literacy. In G. Fulantelli, D. Burgos, G. Casalino, M. Cimitile, G. Lo Bosco, & D. Taibi (Eds.), Higher education learning methodologies and technologies online: 4th International Conference, HELMeTO 2022, Palermo, Italy, September 21–23, 2022, revised selected papers (pp. 345-360). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29800-4_27

Theophilou, E., Lobo-Quintero, R., Sánchez-Reina, R., Hernández-Leo, D. (2023). Students’ Generated Text Quality in a Narrative-Centered Learning Environment: Effects of Pre-Collaboration, Individual, and Chat-Interface Submissions. In: Takada, H., Marutschke, D.M., Alvarez, C., Inoue, T., Hayashi, Y., Hernandez-Leo, D. (eds) Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. CollabTech 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14199. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42141-9_7

Theophilou, E., Lomonaco, F., Donabauer, G., Ognibene, D., Sánchez-Reina, R.J., Hernàndez-Leo, D. (2023). AI and Narrative Scripts to Educate Adolescents About Social Media Algorithms: Insights About AI Overdependence, Trust and Awareness. In: Viberg, O., Jivet, I., Muñoz-Merino, P., Perifanou, M., Papathoma, T. (eds) Responsive and Sustainable Educational Futures. EC-TEL 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42682-7_28

Koyuturk, C., Yavari, M., Theophilou, E., Bursic, S., Donabaur, G., Telari, A., Testa, A., Gabbiadini, A., Hernandez Leo, D., Ruskov, M., & Ognibene, D. (2023). Developing Effective Educational Chatbots with ChatGPT: Insights from Preliminary Tests in a Case Study on Social Media Literacy. ICCE 2023 (in press).

Theophilou, E., Koyutürk, C., Yavari, M., Bursic, S., Donabauer, G., Telari, A., Testa, A., Boiano, R., Hernandez-Leo, D., Ruskov, M., Taibi, D., Gabbiadini, A., & Ognibene, D. (2023). Learning to Prompt in the Classroom to Understand AI Limits: A Pilot Study. In R. Basili, D. Lembo, C. Limongelli, & A. Orlandini (Eds.), AIxIA 2023 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence. (Vol. 14318, pp. 481–496). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47546-7_33

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The research work has been mainly supported by the COURAGE – A Social Media Companion Safeguarding and Educating Students project (Volkswagen S.), the Maria de Maetzu program of the ICT department at UPF and the H2O Learn project.