QUT - Academic profiles - Dr Sarah Matthews

Personal details

Positions

Research Fellow
Faculty of Science,
School of Computer Science

Keywords

Industrial Design, Interaction Design, Child Computer Interaction, Participatory Design, Computational Thinking, Creativity, Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Field Studies, Educational Technologies

s24.matthews@qut.edu.au

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Research field

Design, Human-centred computing, Specialist studies in education

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)

Publications

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2025

Snow, S., Matthews, S., Chen, Y., Yang, S. & Bayley, M. (2025). Designing serious games to engage children with energy saving in the home: potential learning outcomes and design considerations. Journal of Computers in Education, 12(1), 39–64. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/246423
Matthews, S., Kaiser, K., Lum, R., Moran, G., Richards, M., Bock, S., Matthews, B. & Wiles, J. (2025). Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design. CoDesign, 21(1), 1–33. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256294
Matthews, S., Nicholas, M., Paatsch, L., Kervin, L. & Wyeth, P. (2025). Social and curious: Lessons in designing digital manipulatives for young children. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, Article 100725, 44. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256295
Matthews, S., Nicholas, M., Kervin, L., Paatsch, L. & Wyeth, P. (2025). Computational thinking tools for early years education: a design study. Education and Information Technologies. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256421
Matthews, S., Nicholas, M., Paatsch, L., Kervin, L. & Wyeth, P. (2025). Embeddables: Designing Physical-Digital Manipulatives for Young Children. TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256422
Matthews, S., Nicholas, M., Paatsch, L., Kervin, L. & Wyeth, P. (2025). Wobblies: Designing Intentional Playthings with Young Children. TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256423

2024

O'Neill, A. R., Matthews, S., Wiles, J. & Matthews, B. (2024). 'Socialifying' the design of language learning applications for classroom use. DIS '24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 279–283. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256416

2022

Matthews, S., Kaiser, K. & Wiles, J. (2022). Animettes: A design-oriented investigation into the properties of tangible toolkits that support children's collaboration-in-making activities. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, Article 100517, 33. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256413

2021

Khan, A. H., Ejaz, N., Matthews, S., Snow, S. & Matthews, B. (2021). Speculative Design for Education: Using Participatory Methods to Map Design Challenges and Opportunities in Pakistan. DIS '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 1748–1764. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256383
Matthews, S. & Matthews, B. (2021). Reconceptualising feedback: Designing educational tangible technologies to be a creative material. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, Article 100278, 29. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256417
Matthews, B., Khan, A. H., Snow, S., Schlosser, P., Salisbury, I. & Matthews, S. (2021). How to do things with notes: The embodied socio-material performativity of sticky notes. Design Studies, Article 101035, 76. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256419

2020

Matthews, S., Viller, S. & Boden, M. (2020). '...and we are the creators!' Technologies as creative material. TEI '20: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 511–518. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256415

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Dr Sarah Matthews