Members

Left image, project members from Chalmers University of Technology: Lorna Bartram, Snezina Racheva, Maisaa Abughalioun, Lisanu Tebikew, Linda Bradley and Khaled Al-Sabbagh. Right image, de original project members from Chalmers and University of Gothenburg:  Mihail Anton, Lorna Bartram, Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi, Linda Bradley, Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström and Khaled Al-Sabbagh.
Left image, project members from Chalmers University of Technology: Lorna Bartram, Snezina Racheva, Maisaa Abughalioun, Lisanu Tebikew, Linda Bradley and Khaled Al-Sabbagh. Right image, de original project members from Chalmers and University of Gothenburg: Mihail Anton, Lorna Bartram, Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi, Linda Bradley, Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström and Khaled Al-Sabbagh.



Linda Bradley
linda.bradley[at]gu.se
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The project leader, with a PhD in Pedagogy and Applied IT. She works at the Department of Educational Development and Interactive Learning (PIL) at University of Gothenburg. In her research, Linda has been involved in several projects related to student interaction in both digital and mobile learning environments.

Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström
nataliya.berbyuk.lindstrom[at]ait.gu.se
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A PhD in general linguistics and lecturer in communication with a focus on intercultural communication at University of Gothenburg Department of Applied Information Technology, Department of Communication and Cognition. Her research focuses on intercultural communication in healthcare (foreign doctors in Sweden), multimodal communication, rhetoric and e-learning. She is also the program director of the International master programme Master in Communication.

Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi
sylvana.sofkova.hashemi[at]gu.se
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A PhD in Language Technology and Associate Professor of educational science with a focus on learning and IT, works at the Department for Education and Teaching Profession, at the University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on digital media and learning with the aim to advance understanding for digital practices, text formats, learning designs and interaction and impact on education. Recent research concerns studies in technology-enriched instruction and analysis of classroom practices in regard to situational choices and interpretation of semiotic resources in digital, multimodal meaning-making practices.

Khaled Al-Sabbagh
khaals[at]chalmers.se
project assistant, developer, currently a PhD student in Empirical Software Engineering and Machine Learning at University of Gothenburg, with two Master degrees. One in Software Engineering and Technology from University of Gothenburg, and the other in Management and Finance from Birmingham City University in the UK.

Lorna Bartram
project assistant, with a Master’s degree in Arabic, Languages, and Intercultural Communication from University of Gothenburg. Lorna has developed the mobile application PicTalk, in Arabic and Swedish, a tool to overcome language barriers in situations where persons do not share a common language.

Mihail Anton
project assistant, Master’s degree within bioinformatics (Computer Science) at Chalmers University of Technology.

Maisaa Abughalioun
project assistant, Arabic speaking, with a Master in Communication at University of Gothenburg. Maisaa is Arabic speaking and has been conducting interviews with newly arrived Arabic speaking persons in the project as well as transcriptions from Arabic.

Lisanu Tebikew Yallew
project assistant, developer. Lisanu studies Computer Systems and Networks Master’s programme at Chalmers.

Snezina Racheva
project assistant, developer and designer. Snezina is Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. Is contributing to the development of the mobile application.