2020

  • Lopez Silva, B., Sanzenbacher, B. Teaching AR and VR Development Skills in Middle School Classrooms (2020) Proceedings of FabLearn 2020, New York, USA
  • Zhang, J., Lopez Silva, B., Tangible VR: Traversing Space in XR to Grow a Virtual Butterfly, SUI ‘20: Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, 2020

2019

  • Moher, T., Slotta, J., Lopez Silva, B., Lui, M., Sanzenbacher, B. Designing Embedded Phenomena, (2019) Proceedings of the 13th Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2019), Lyon, France, Volume 2 p. 1038
  • Lui, M., Moher, T., Lopez Silva, B., (2019). Critters in Your Classroom Walls: Visualizations for Collective Investigations and Model Construction in Population Ecology. Presentation at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA, 2019) Toronto, Canada.
  • Lopez Silva B., Thompson, J. Lui, M., Moher, T. McBeath D., Sanzenbacher, B., (2019). Embedded Phenomena: Classrooms as Sites of Community Inquiry. Presentation at the  National Conference National Science Teachers Association, (NSTA 2019), St. Louis, USA. Lopez Silva, B., Staudt. C., Bruozas, M., Moher, T. (2019). Nurturing Computational Thinkers with a Technology-Rich Weather Curriculum (2019), Presentation at the  National Conference National Science Teachers Association, (NSTA 2019), St. Louis, USA.

2018

  • Sanz N, Lopez VB, Lopez Silva B. (2018). Rock AR(t): Preschoolers Experiencing Rock & Contemporary Paintings in AR. In Proceedings of the Transdisciplinary image Conference (T. Image 2018), Glasgow, UK.
  • Lui, M., Moher, T., Silva, B. L. (2018). Visualizations of Community Knowledge for Supporting Middle School Students to Model Phenomena in Scientific Inquiry. 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2018, Volume 3. London, UK: International Society of the Learning Sciences.

2014

  • Shelley,T., Lyons, L., Moher, T., Dasgupta, C., Lopez Silva, B., and Silva, A. (2014). Information-building applications: designing for data exploration and analysis by elementary school students. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2123-2132. DOI=10.1145/2556288.2557294 Moher, T., Gnoli, A., Perritano, A., Guerra, P., López Silva, B., et al. (2014). Action and Reflection in an Embodied Foraging Simulation. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014), Symposia. Colorado, USA Volume 2, 1276-1278.
  • Lyons, L., Jimenez Pazmino, P., López Silva, B., & Slattery, B. (2014). Exhibiting Performances for Data Literacy and Climate Change Education, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014), Symposia. Colorado, USA Volume 2, 1279-1282.
  • Slattery, B., Lyons, L., Jimenez Pazmino, P., López Silva, B., & Moher, T. (2014). How Interpreters Make Use of Technological Supports in an Interactive Zoo Exhibit, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2014), Colorado, USA, Volume 1, 198-205.
  • Lopez Silva, B., Betts, A., Oikonomou, P. (2014). LunAR Park: Augmented reality, retro-futurism & a ride to the moon. Proceedings of Virtual Reality (VR), iEEE, Minnesota, USA, pp. 143. doi: 10.1109/VR.2014.6802092
  • Silva, A., Dasgupta, C., Shelley, T., Lopez Silva, B., et al. Shaping the Construction of Learner Questions. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (Philadelphia, PA, April 3-7, 2014). AERA 2014.

2013 and earlier

  • Jimenez Pazmino, P., Lopez Silva, B., et al. (2013). Teachable mo[bil]ment: capitalizing on teachable moments with mobile technology in zoos. In CHI ‘13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ‘13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 643-648. DOI=10.1145/2468356.2468470

  • Lyons, L., López Silva, B., et al. (2013). Feel the burn: exploring design parameters for effortful interaction for educational games. Proceedings of the 12th international Conference on Interaction Design and Children. IDC 2013. ACM, New York, NY, 400-403.

  • Moher, T., & Lopez Silva, B. (2013). Coordinating Curricular, Phenomenal, and Activity Narratives in WallCology. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 27-May 1, 2013). AERA 2013.

  • Guerra, P., Lopez Silva, B., Gnoli, A., & Moher, T. (2013). Proximity and Engaged Participation in WallCology. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 27-May 1, 2013). AERA 2013.

  • Tsoupikova, D., Aguilera, J., Kotsis, H., Shah, t., & **Lopez Silva, B. **(2012). Media Arts in Support of Science Education. ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness: Special Media-N edition, Journal of the New Media Caucus, New Mexico, USA, November 2013, Volume 9, Number 03, 157-162.

  • Cober, R., Fong, C., Gnoli, A,. López Silva, B. Embedded Phenomena for Knowledge Communities: Supporting complex practices and interactions within a community of inquiry in the elementary science classroom. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2012) – Volume 2, Symposia. Sydney, Australia. Volume 2, 64-71

  • Smørdal, O., Slotta, J., Krange, I., Moher, T., Novellis, F., Gnoli, A., Lopez Silva, B., et al. (2012). Hybrid Spaces for Science Education. Proceedings International Conference of the Learning Sciences (Sydney, Australia, July 2-6, 2012), Volume 2, 9-16.

  • Malinverni, L., López Silva, B., Parés, N. (2012). Impact of embodied interaction on learning processes: design and analysis of an educational application based on physical activity. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ‘12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 60-69.

  • Lyons, L., Slattery, B., Jimenez, P., Lopez, B., and Moher, T. (2012). Don’t forget about the sweat: effortful embodied interaction in support of learning. Proceedings of the Sixth International Cswonference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI ‘12), Stephen N. Spencer (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 77-84.

  • Kilb, D., López Silva, B., Halter, T., Moher, T. (2011) RoomQuake!: Turn Your Classroom into a Seismic Fault Zone. In the Trenches – October 2011, Volume 1, Number 4.

  • Moher, T., Wiley, J., Jaeger, A., Lopez Silva, B., Novellis, F. Spatial and Temporal Embedding for Science Inquiry: An Empirical Study of Student Learning, Learning in the Disciplines. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2010) – Volume 1, Full Papers. International Society of the Learning Sciences: Chicago IL.

  • Moher, T., López Silva, B., at al. (2009). Response Characteristics of Middle School Learners’ Critiques of Nanoscale Representations. 2009 Annual Conference of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (Garden Grove, CA, April, 2009).

  • López Silva, B., et al. (2009). Introducing nanoscale phenomena to middle school learners using a DNA design activity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. (April 2009, San Diego, CA).

  • Jaeger, A., Moher, T., Wiley, J., Malcolm, P., López Silva, B., et al. (2009). WallCology: Using Embedded Phenomena to Motivate Learning About Dynamic Ecosystems. Symposium presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA, April, 2009).

  • Shipley, E., Silva, B. L., et al. (2008), “Using construct-centered design to revise instruction and assessment in a nanoscale self-assembly design activity: A case study.” In Members of the NCLT, “Using Construct-Centered Design to Align Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Development in Emerging Science,” Proceedings International Conference of the Learning Sciences. (June 2008, Utrecht, the Netherlands).

  • Stevens, S., Krajcik, J., Shin, N., Pellegrino, J., Geier, S., Swarat, S., Light, G., Park, J., Delgado, C., Drane, D., Song, M., Quintana, C., Shipley, E., Lopez Silva, B., et al. (2008). Using construct-centered design to align curriculum, instruction, and assessment development in emerging science. In Proceedings of the 8th international conference on International conference for the learning sciences – Volume 3 (ICLS’08), Vol. 3. International Society of the Learning Sciences 314-321.

  • Malcolm, P., Moher, T., Bhatt, D., Uphoff, B., and López-Silva, B. (2008). Embodying scientific concepts in the physical space of the classroom. Proceedings of the 7th international Conference on interaction Design and Children. IDC ‘08. (June 2008, Chicago, IL).

  • Moher,T., Uphoff, B., Bhatt, D., Lopez Silva, B., and Malcolm, P. (2008). WallCology: Designing Interaction Affordances for Learner Engagement in Authentic Science Inquiry. Proceedings ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), (April 2008, Florence, Italy), pp. 163-172.

  • Lopez Silva, B., et al. (2008). How to ‘Catch’ a Virus: Representational Affordances in a Middle-School Introduction to Nanoscale Self-Assembly. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (March 2008, New York, NY).

  • Shipley, E., Moher, T., and Lopez-Silva, B. (2008). Instructional Framing for Nanoscale Self-Assembly Design in Middle School: A Pilot Study. Paper presented at the annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association. (March 2008, New York, NY).

  • Uphoff, B., Bhatt, D., Lopez, B., et al. (2008). WallCology: Studying Ecology using a Distributed, Persistent Virtual Ecosystem in the Classroom. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (March 2008, New York, NY).

  • Lopez Silva, B., Renambot, L., (2007). CytoViz: an artistic mapping of network measurements as living organisms in a VR application. Proceedings SPIE 6490, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems XIV, 64901U (March 05, 2007); doi:10.1117/12.711637.

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