sample of publications

• articles 

  • Designing mobile technologies to encourage civic engagement: The role of situated motivational affordances.  IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.  1-12. 2023
  • Connecting citizens with urban environments through an augmented reality pervasive game.  MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS.  2022:1-17. 2022
  • Engaging educators in the ideation of scenarios for cross-reality game-based learning experiences.  MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS.  1-23. 2022
  • Comparing Visual Representations of Collaborative Map Interfaces for Immersive Virtual Environments.  IEEE Access.  10:55136-55150. 2022
  • Gamification-less: may gamification really foster civic participation? A controlled field experiment.  Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing.  1-15. 2021
  • Empowering teachers to create augmented reality experiences: the effects on the educational experience.  INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS.  31:1546-1563. 2020
  • An empirical comparison of interaction styles for map interfaces in immersive virtual environments.  MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS.  79:35717-35738. 2020
  • Combining Software Engineering and Design Thinking Practices in the Ideation Process of Augmented Digital Experiences.  INTERACTING WITH COMPUTERS.  32:279-295. 2020
  • Designing and implementing interactive and realistic augmented reality experiences.  Universal Access in the Information Society.  18:49-61. 2019
  • Using a Google Glass-Based Classroom Feedback System to Improve Students to Teacher Communication.  IEEE Access.  7:16837-16846. 2019
  • Augmented Experiences in Cultural Spaces through Social Participation.  ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage.  11. 2018
  • Using combinatorial creativity to support end-user design of digital games.  MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS.  76:9073-9098. 2017
  • ECCE Toolkit: Prototyping Sensor-Based Interaction.  SENSORS.  17. 2017
  • Coproduction as an Approach to Technology-Mediated Citizen Participation in Emergency Management.  Future Internet.  8. 2016
  • Designing Mobile Applications for Emergency Response: Citizens Acting as Human Sensors.  SENSORS.  16. 2016
  • Software Support for Multitouch Interaction: The End-User Programming Perspective.  IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTING.  15:78-86. 2016
  • Designing educational games through a conceptual model based on rules and scenarios.  MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS.  74:4535-4559. 2015
  • Modeling an ontology on accessible evacuation routes for emergencies.  EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS.  41:7124-7134. 2014
  • Augmented Presentations: Supporting the Communication in Presentations by Means of Augmented Reality.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION.  30:829-838. 2014
  • A model-driven development approach for learning design using the LPCEL Editor.  Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences.  26:17-27. 2014
  • Light on horizontal interactive surfaces: Input space for tabletop computing.  ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS.  46. 2014
  • Sharing your view: A distributed user interface approach for reviewing emergency plans.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES.  72:126-139. 2014
  • A Mixed Interaction Platform for Supporting Large-Scale Crisis Storytelling.  Interaction Design and Architecture(s).  54-67. 2013
  • Standardizing the narrative of use cases: A controlled vocabulary of web user tasks.  INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY.  55:1580-1589. 2013
  • An augmented lecture feedback system to support learner and teacher communication.  BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.  44:616-628. 2013
  • The ComBLA Method: The Application of Domain Analysis to the Development of e-Learning Systems.  JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.  44:331-345. 2013
  • Envisioning the Transformative Role of IT in Lectures.  Interaction Design and Architecture(s).  7-17. 2012
  • Personalized Alert Notifications and Evacuation Routes in Indoor Environments.  SENSORS.  12:7804-7827. 2012
  • Integrating Algorithm Visualization Video into a First-Year Algorithm and Data Structure Course.  EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY.  15:115-124. 2012
  • On two collateral effects of using algorithm visualizations.  BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.  42:145-147. 2011
  • Rethinking Education in an Changing World: toward a Curriculum for Digital Living.  Interactions (Interactions).  18:64-68. 2011
  • Interaction Design Principles for Emergency Management Information Systems.  International journal of information systems for crisis response and management.  3. 2011
  • eStorys: A visual storyboard system supporting back-channel communication for emergencies.  Journal of Visual Languages and Computing.  22:150-169. 2011
  • Comparison of Knowledge during the Assembly Process of Learning Objects.  JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS.  35:51-74. 2010
  • SEMA4A: An Ontology for Emergency Notification Systems Accessibility.  EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS.  37:3380-3391. 2010
  • Human-Display Interaction Technology: Emerging Remote Interfaces for Pervasive Display Environments.  IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTING.  9:72-76. 2010
  • End-User Oriented Strategies to facilitate Multi-Organizational Adoption of Emergency Management Information Systems.  INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT.  46:11-21. 2010
  • CAP-ONES: An Emergency Notification System for all.  International Journal of Emergency Management.  6:302-316. 2009
  • New Directions in Advanced Learning Technologies.  EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY.  12:1-2. 2009
  • A Meta-modeling based Approach for the Multi-Disciplinary Design of Web Educational Systems.  JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE.  15:1440-1454. 2009
  • An RBAC Model-Based Approach to Specify the Access Policies of Web-Based Emergency Information Systems.  International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems.  11:272-283. 2009
  • ELO-Tool: Taking Action in the Challenge of Assembling Learning Objects.  EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY.  11:102-117. 2008

• book chapters 

  • Integrating end users in early ideation and prototyping: lessons from an experience in augmenting physical objects. In: New perspectives in end-user development.  SPRINGER. 385-411. 2017
  • Modeling Games for Adaptive and Personalized Learning. In: The Future of Ubiquitous Learning.  Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. 217-239. 2015
  • A Design Patterns Catalog for Web-Based Emergency Management Systems. In: Management of the Interconnected World.  SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH. 387-394. 2010
  • The Anatomy of Web 2.0: The Web as a Platform to Promote Users' Participation and Collaboration. In: Quality and Communicability for Interactive Hypermedia Systems: Concepts and Practices for Design.  Information Science Reference. 36-63. 2010
  • A Virtual Environment for Learning Aiport Emergency Management Protocols. In: Universal Access in Human Computer Interaction: 5th Internaciontal Conference , UAHCI 2009, held as part of HCI International 2009 Part II, HCII 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24. Part II, Intelligent and Ubsiquitous Iteraction Enviroments.  SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH. 228-235. 2009
  • Exploiting Collaborative Tagging Systems to Unveil the User-Experience of Web Contents: An Operative Proposal. In: Handbook of Research on Social Software & Developing Community Ontologies.  Information Science Reference. 119-132. 2009
  • Interactive Accessible Notifications for Emergency Notification Systems. In: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: Applications and Services: 5th International Conference, UAHCI 2009, held as part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, Part III.  SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH. 388-397. 2009
  • Web Design Patterns: Investigating User Goals and Browsing Strategies. In: End-User Developmen: 2nd International Symposium, IS-EUD 2009, Siegen, Germany, March 2-4, 2009.  SPRINGER. 186-204. 2009

• conference contributions 

  • 'See with the app's eyes what your real eyes cannot see': design potentials for Mobile Augmented Reality at home.  1-5. 2022
  • Exploring a Multi-Device Immersive Learning Environment.  1-3. 2022
  • Exploring the Affordances of Immersive Visualization Spaces: A Use Case About COVID-19.  252-263. 2022
  • IWARN: A people-centered approach for early warning.  2451-2460. 2022
  • IXCI:The Immersive eXperimenter Control Interface.  1-3. 2022
  • A Tool for Monitoring and Controlling Standalone Immersive HCI Experiments.  20-22. 2021
  • Investigating Augmented Reality Educational Games for Head-Mounted Devices.  1-6. 2021
  • Virtual-Reality Based Crisis Management Training for Teachers: An Overview of the VRTEACHER Project.  1-4. 2021
  • Welicit: A Wizard of Oz Tool for VR Elicitation Studies.  82-91. 2021
  • "Magic flowerpot": An AR game for learning about plants 2019
  • A Toolkit for Creating Cross-Reality Serious Games.  297-307. 2019
  • Do low cost virtual reality devices support learning acquisition?: A comparative study of two different VR devices.  1-8. 2019
  • A Virtual Reality Map Interface for Geographical Information Systems 2018
  • A gamified platform for civic engagement in early warning 2018
  • Evaluating a pervasive game for urban awareness.  197-204. 2018
  • Exploring Interaction Mechanisms for Map Interfaces in Virtual Reality Environments 2018
  • Improving urban environment awareness through pervasive AR games 2018
  • Investigating augmented reality support for novice users in circuit prototyping 2018
  • The Immersive Bubble Chart: a Semantic and Virtual Reality Visualization for Big Data.  176-178. 2018
  • A Comparative Study of Menus in Virtual Reality Environments.  294-299. 2017
  • End-user prototyping of cross-reality environments.  173-182. 2017
  • Agree Or Perish: A Crowd Controlled Augmented Reality Pervasive Game 2016
  • Creating Interactive and Realistic Augmented Reality Experiences.  1-4. 2016
  • Emergency Management and Smart Cities: Civic Engagement Through Gamification.  3-14. 2016
  • Exploring the Benefits of Immersive End User Development for Virtual Reality.  450-462. 2016
  • Inmersive End User Development for Virtual Reality.  346-347. 2016
  • Virtual/Augmented/Mixed/ Reality project exhibitions and demos by national and international researchers 2016
  • A Platform for Supporting the Development of Mixed Reality Environments for Educational Games.  537-548. 2015
  • A See-Through Display for Interactive Museum Showcases.  301-306. 2015
  • Enabling social interaction in the museum through the Social Display Environment.  345-348. 2015
  • A scenario-based virtual environment for supporting emergency training.  597-601. 2014
  • Citizen Participation and Social Technologies: Exploring the Perspective of Emergency Organizations.  85-97. 2014
  • CoDICE: balancing software engineering and creativity in the co-design of digital encounters with cultural heritage.  253-256. 2014
  • Designing for Continuity: Assisting Emergency Planning Practice Through Computer-Supported Collaborative Technologies.  361-376. 2014
  • Digitally augmented narratives for physical artifacts.  229-232. 2014
  • ECCE Toolkit: Prototyping UbiComp Device Ecologies.  339-340. 2014
  • EmergenSYS: mobile technologies as support for emergency management.  37-45. 2014
  • Exploring Interaction Possibilities in Educational Games: A Working Proposal.  640-641. 2014
  • Prototyping device ecologies: physical to digital and viceversa.  373-376. 2014
  • TIPExtop: An Exploratory Design Tool for Emergency Planning.  454-462. 2014
  • Understanding citizen participation in crisis and disasters: the point of view of governmental agencies.  395-397. 2014
  • A Case of Use of Augmented Reality for Supporting Communication in Presentations.  102-110. 2013
  • A framework to integrate large-scale participation in Disaster and Emergency Management 2013
  • Situation Awareness-Oriented Alarm Visualizations: A next Step in HSC Environments.  483-488. 2013
  • Studying Social Technologies and Communities of Volunteers in Emergency Management.  140-148. 2013
  • Supporting Citizens 2.0 in Disasters Response 2013
  • Uses of Augmented Reality for Supporting Educational Presentations.  426-428. 2013
  • A Modular Approach to Support the Multidisciplinary Design of Educational Game Experiences.  560-567. 2012
  • Bridging the Communication Gap: A User Task Vocabulary for Multidisciplinary Web Development Team 2012
  • Combining Game Designs for Creating Adaptive and Personalized Educational Games.  559-568. 2012
  • Designing Educational Games by Combining Other Game Designs.  218-222. 2012
  • I Feel Lucky: An Automated Personal Assistant for Smartphones.  328-331. 2012
  • Opening Ceremony.  1-2. 2012
  • Safety Villages: An Educational Game for Raising Children's Awareness of Risks 2012
  • Applications of Social Media for Emergency Management in Spain 2011
  • Envisaging the Goal: The Design of Visualization Based on Cognitive Task Analysis 2011
  • Foreseeing the Transformative Role of IT in Lectures.  634-635. 2011
  • Information Technologies for Emergency Planning and Training 2011
  • MUTO: The Modular Unified Tagging Ontology.  95-104. 2011
  • Meta-design Blueprints: Principles and Guidelines for Co-Design in Virtual Environments.  276-281. 2011
  • Opening Ceremony.  1-1. 2011
  • REMERWeb: Toward a Collaborative Technological Platform for Early Warning Activity 2011
  • Seeking Reusability of Computer Games Designs for Informal Learning.  455-459. 2011
  • Seminars in Second Life: Teacher and Student Views 2011
  • Situation Awareness and Control Instruments: A Qualitative Study to Enhance Remote Command-and-Control Activities 2011
  • Taxonomy for Rich-User-Interface Components: Towards a Systematic Development of RIAs.  411-414. 2011
  • Towards a Systematic Development of RIAs: Taxonomy for Classifying Rich-User-Interface Components 2011
  • Using Recommendations to Help Novices to Reuse Design Knowledge.  331-336. 2011
  • A Grid-Based Architectural Framework for Composition and Execution of Complex Learning Processes 2008
  • A Model-Driven Approach for the Visual Specification of Role-Based Access Control Policies in Web Systems.  203-210. 2008
  • DEI-CHECK: Automating the Assessment Process to Improve the Informative Feedback.  18-23. 2008
  • Defining Access Policies for Web Information Systems: The Approach of the RBAC Paradigm 2008
  • Emergency Alerts for All: An Ontology Based Approach to Improve Accessibility in Emergency Alerting Systems.  197-207. 2008
  • Emergency Management Information Systems: Development and Research Aspects 2008
  • Evaluating the Runtime Adaptation of EML-Described Learning Processes.  413-417. 2008
  • HCI for Emergencies.  3945-3948. 2008
  • Instructional Domain Analysis: A methodological approach to Service-Oriented Learning 2008
  • Instructional Software Analysis: Lessons from Software Development Process Improvement 2008
  • Integrando Perspectivas de Diseño para el Desarrollo de Sistemas Web de Tele-Educación 2008
  • The Automatic Generation of Semantic Annotations for Didactic Materials and the Use of Models in the Material Development to Improve its Reusability.  855-859. 2008
  • The Evaluation Within the Development and Deployment of IMS LD-Based Didactic Materials: The MD2 + Runtime Adaptation Approach 2008
  • Una experiencia de uso de software educativo en asignaturas de programación de computadores 2008
  • Visual Representation of Web Design Patterns for end Users.  408-411. 2008
  • Visual Tag Authoring: picture extraction via localized, collaborative tagging.  351-354. 2008