Carolina Islas Sedano
PhD.
carolina.islassedano@utu.fi Työhuone: 450 D For a face to face or virtual meeting please contact me. ORCID-tunniste: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0497-1205 |
Areas of research:
- User centered design methods including co-design and participatory design
- Informal learning, from a social constructive perspective.
- Context analysis: from the environmental, socio-cultural and personal viewpoint.
- Playful knowledge, include: game design, engagement, motivation, context.
- Design thinking.
- Industry collaboration
- Creativity and innovation with and through technology in context.
- Multimedia integration.
- Sustainability
Carolina Islas Sedano is currently a University Teacher at the University of Turku. She holds a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico city, M.Sc. in Communication and Media Engineering from Hochschule Offenburg in Germany and a PhD from the Educational Technologies Research Group at University of Eastern Finland.
Carolina has worked in industry (SIEMENS, INFINEON, USA-RTAC Mexico) and academia. She was the project manager of the UNESCO Chair in ICT Summer School with the topic Co-creating on-the-road ICT solutions to promote Sustainable Tourism in World Heritage Sites. She coordinated the design and development of the hybrid game PASS in the H2020 project BODEGA, through her spinoff Ubium. Her startup Ubium was the finalist from My Galileo App competition with Umaze.
Islas Sedano has published over 30 international peer-reviewed research articles and offered lectures in different countries (e.g., Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Germany, Tanzania, South Africa).
My main interest is in creating meaningful digital tools through a collaborative process of knowledge exchange across different stakeholders. Tools that support and engage its audience to discover and learn in context. Hence the topics I am passionate about include informal learning, playful knowledge, design thinking and technology innovation. Special emphasis of her research is in the conceptualization, development, implementation of applications in context and their sustainability.
Currently my main teaching responsability is to facilitate the coruse of Industrial Seminar in Future Technologies, and my contribution to other courses (e.g. UX) when it is meaningful and possible.
In this list I sahre the courses I have taught:
- Game design* (+10 times).
- Game programing
- Multimedia integration (workshops - 6 times)
- Introduction to mobile learning
- Technology Phenomena in Context
- Industrial Seminar in Future Technologies (since September 2019, this is a constant rolling course). Website of the course: https://blogit.utu.fi/industryseminars/
Contribution on the following courses:
- UX. My contribute with the following topics of : introduction to co-design, Ideating, brainstorming, storyboarding, Cultural differences
- Advanced course on software engineering. I contribute with the topic of co-design.
*Some of these courses were hybrid. The whole group had +70 participants, and part of the group was located in one campus while the other remained in another campus. Special emphasis was put on keeping all participants engaged in the course.
** The course was designed for distance education
All courses have been created by myself. The courses have been taught in different educational institutions.
- Aligning Academic Efforts with Key Industries: A Case of Computing at the University of Namibia (2023)
- Conference proceedings : Frontiers in Education Conference
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4)) - Evaluating Competences on First Year Course in Three Years: External Effects on Creative Tension (2023)
- Conference proceedings : Frontiers in Education Conference
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4)) - Co-creating on-the-road ICT solutions to promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites (2022) Handbook on Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Digital Media Islas Sedano Carolina, De Ascaniis Silvia, Sutinen Erkki, Cantoni Lorenzo
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3)) - Digitalization and Emerging Technologies for Resilience and Recovery (2022) IIAS-EUROMENA 2022: Joint Conference on Next Generation Governance and Young Global Public Administration Asensio Maria, Islas Sedano Carolina
(Muu (O2)) - Content analysis of the Faculty of Technology's curriculum - addressing the dimensions of multidisciplinarity, industry collaboration and sustainability (2021)
- Conference proceedings : Frontiers in Education Conference
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4)) - Encourage students to apply their knowledge and think “out of the box” while collaborating with local industry - Case Study Industrial Seminar (2021)
- Conference proceedings : Frontiers in Education Conference
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4)) - Lessons learned from FITech Turku, a 18 million euros university collaboration project to complement the regional demand for Master degree engineers (2021)
- Conference proceedings : Frontiers in Education Conference
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4)) - Virtually Escaping Lock down - Co-designing a mixed reality escape room narrative with Namibian learners- (2021) AfriCHI 2021: 3rd African Human-Computer Interaction Conference: Inclusiveness and Empowerment Itenge Helvi, Sedano Carolina Islas, Winschiers-Theophilus Heike
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4)) - Online communication strategies of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe (2020) “Preceedings” of the Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality International Conference – HTHIC2020: “Living Heritage and Sustainable Tourism” Silvia De Ascaniis, Elide Garbani-Nerini, Carolina Islas-Sedano, Lorenzo Cantoni
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4)) - Filling an engineering specialist void: FITech University Network - a cooperative education initiative to support the growth of Southwestern Finland (2019)
- Conference proceedings : Frontiers in Education Conference
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4)) - Triggering interest in outdoor gallery exhibitions through touch, sound and games (2018) AfriCHI '18 : Proceedings of the Second African Conference for Human Computer Interaction: Thriving Communities Islas Sedano Carolina, Schweikert Christian, Vinni Mikko, Harfield Antony
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4)) - Game Co-design with and for Refugees: An Intercultural Approach (2017) Kultur und Informatik: Mixed Reality Güven Çatak, Jesse Himmelstein, Carolina Islas Sedano, Daniel K. Schneider, Nicolas Szilas, Jouni Smed, Erkki Sutinen
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))