Antigoni Parmaxi, BA, MA, PhD

http://antigoniparmaxi.weebly.com/

Education
Sep 2010 Jun 2015

Cyprus University of Technology

Doctor of Philosophy, Technology-Enhance Learning; Human-Computer
Interaction; Social Computing; Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Limassol, Cyprus

Sep 2007 Jun 2009

University of Cyprus
Master of Arts, MA in Pedagogical Sciences (specialisations: intercultural
education; educational administration and evaluation)
Nicosia, Cyprus

Sep 2004 Jun 2007

University of Cyprus
Bachelor of Arts, BA in Classical Studies and Philosophy
Nicosia, Cyprus

Professional Experience
08/2009 present

Special Scientist (Greek Language and MA in CALL Instructor)

Language Centre, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

06/2015 present

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Cyprus Interaction Lab, Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts,
Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

09/2016-05/2016

Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Nicosia

Nicosia, Cyprus

09/2012-05/2015

Teaching Assistant
Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of
Technology

07/2014-05/2015

Principal Investigator of Womenpower project, funded by UNDP-ACT

12/2011-11/2014

Research Associate on LUCIDE (Languages in Urban Communities Integration and Diversity for Europe) project, funded by the European
Commission (KA2)

04/2009 06/2009

Greek Language Teacher

The Junior School, Nicosia, Cyprus

10/2007 04/2008

Research Assistant, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies,

University of Cyprus

10/2007 05/2008

Students Assistant
Department of Education, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

Awards & Grants

Aug 2014

Scholarship: Travel scholarship from Association for Computing Machinery

Committee on Women for participation at the 3rd International Constructionism
Conference 2014 in Vienna, Austria.

May 2014

Award: Member of Womenpower, winning team of Mahallae Challenge "Women

and Dialogue"

Apr 2013

Award: Member of the national winning entry for the annual European
Charlemagne Youth Competition with Lets Research e-magazine

May 2012

Scholarship: Full scholarship from European Association of TechnologyEnhanced Learning (-L) for participation at the 8th Joint European
Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning 2012, Estoril, Portugal.

Jun 2011

Scholarship: Full scholarship from the STELLAR network of excellence

(Sustaining Technology Enhanced Learning at a LARge scale) for participation at
the 7th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning 2011,
Chania, Greece.

Skills & Activities

Skills

Technology Enhanced Learning, E-Learning, Computer Assisted Language

Learning, Social Constructionism, Human-Computer Interaction, Academic
Writing, Education Research, Teaching Materials, Constructivism, Teaching and
Learning, Pedagogy and Education, Learning, Language Learning, Pedagogy,
Collaborative Learning, CSCL, Language, Instructional Technology, Learning
Environments, Pedagogics, Blended Learning, Cooperative Learning, ICT in
Education, Computers in Education, ICT, Computer Literacy, Computer
Supported Collaborative Learning, Social Learning, Digital Literacy, Social
Media in Education

Languages

Greek
English
Italian

Scientific Memberships

European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning (EATEL)

Cyprus Pedagogical Association
Scientific Association of Doctoral Candidates Cyprus
International Association of Intercultural Education (IAIE)
Hellenic Association for Intercultural Education (HAIE)
The Cyprus Linguistics Society (CyLing)
Association for Computing and Machinery (ACM)
Association for Computing and Machinery on Women (ACMW)

Publication Highlights
A) Refereed Journal Papers
1.

Parmaxi, A., Zaphiris, P., & Ioannou, A. (2016). Enacting artifact-based activities for social
technologies in language learning using a design-based research approach. Computers in Human
Behavior, 63, 556-567. DOI:10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.072

2.

Parmaxi, A., & Zaphiris, P. (2016). Web 2.0 in Computer-Assisted Language Learning: a research
synthesis and implications for instructional design and educational practice. Interactive Learning
Environments. DOI:10.1080/10494820.2016.1172243

3.

Zaphiris, P., Ioannou, A., Parmaxi, A., & Vasiliou, C. (2016). Cyprus interaction lab. Interactions,
23(3), 16-19.

4.

Nicolaou, A., Parmaxi, A., Papadima-Sophocleous, S., & Boglou, D. (accepted). Language
education in a multilingual city: the case of Limassol. London Review of Education.

5.

Ioannou, A., Loizides, F., Vasiliou, C., Zaphiris, P., & Parmaxi, A. (2015). Tabletop support for
collaborative design: an initial evaluation of IdeaSpace. Educational Media International, 52(4), 296307, DOI:10.1080/09523987.2015.1101222

6.

Parmaxi, A., Vasiliou, C., Kouta, C., & Ioannou, A. (under review). Empowerment of women
through an innovative e-mentoring community platform: implications and lessons learned. The
Journal of Community Informatics.

7.

Parmaxi, A., & Zaphiris, P. (2015). Computer Mediated Communication in Computer-Assisted

Language Learning: Implications for Culture-Centered Design. Universal Access in the Information
Society Journal. DOI: 10.1007/s10209-015-0405-4

8.

Parmaxi, A., & Zaphiris, P. (2015). Developing a framework for social technologies in learning via
design-based research. Educational Media International, 52(1), 33-46,
DOI:10.1080/09523987.2015.1005424

9.

Parmaxi, A., & Zaphiris, P. (2015). Specifying the dynamics of social technologies as social
microworlds. Behaviour & Information Technology, 34(4), 413-424,
DOI:10.1080/0144929X.2015.1004650.

10. Michailidou, E., Parmaxi, A., & Zaphiris, P. (2014). Culture effects in online social support for
older people: Perceptions and experience. Universal Access in the Information Society Journal, 14(2),
281-293. DOI: 10.1007/s10209-014-0346-3
11. Parmaxi, A., Zaphiris, P., Papadima-Sophocleous, S. & Ioannou, A. (2013). Mapping the landscape
of Computer Assisted Language Learning: an inventory of research. Interactive Technology and
Smart Education Journal, 10(4), 252-269. doi: 10.1108/ITSE-02-2013-0004
B) Refereed Conference Publications
1.

Parmaxi, A., Nicolaou, A., Papadima-Sophocleous, S., & Boglou, D. (2016). Exploring the
Multilingual Efficiency of Urban Online Spaces: Implications for Culture-Centered Design. In
Cross-Cultural Design. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

2.

Parmaxi, A., & Zaphiris, P. (2016). Aspirations and contributions from design-based research
implementation in CALL context: a researchers methodological account. EuroCALL conference.

3.

Antoniou, K., Mbah, E., & Parmaxi, A. (2016). Teaching Turkish in low tech contexts: opportunities
and challenges. EuroCALL conference.

4.

Xerou, E., Papadima-Sophocleous, S., & Parmaxi, A. (2016). A social constructionist approach to
teaching and learning vocabulary for Italian for Academic Purposes. EuroCALL conference.

5.

Nisiforou, E., & Parmaxi, A. (2016). Mingling Students Cognitive Abilities and Learning Strategies
to Transform CALL. EuroCALL conference.

6.

Nicolaou, A., Parmaxi, A., Papadima-Sophocleous, S., & Boglou, D. (2016). Lanscaping
multilingualism in the urban community of Limassol: policies, practices and visions. Proceedings
of INTED2016 conference (659-669). Valencia, Spain: IATED.

7.

Papadima-Sophocleous, S., & Parmaxi, A. (2016). Cyprus Language Centres: profiles and survival
strategies in an era of diminishing resources. Proceedings of INTED2016 conference (pp. 707-717).
Valencia, Spain: IATED.

8.

Athanasiou, A., & Parmaxi, A. (2015). Understanding the perspective of identity in an

intercultural context. Proceedings of ICERI2015 conference (pp. 4108-4113). Seville, Spain: IATED.

9.

Parmaxi, A., & Zaphiris, P. (2015). Technology disrupting learners and teachers practices in
Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Proceedings of INTED2015 conference (pp. 2828-2837).
Madrid, Spain: IATED.

10. Parmaxi, A., & Vasiliou, C. (2015). Communities of interest for enhancing social creativity: the
case of Womenpower platform. Proceedings of INTED2015 conference (pp. 2838-2847) . Madrid,
Spain: IATED.
11. Parmaxi, A., & Zaphiris, P. (2014). Affordances of social technologies as social microworlds. In
CHI'14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2113-2118). New York,
USA: ACM Press. Available from: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2559206.2581267
12. Parmaxi, A., & Zaphiris, P. (2014). The evolvement of constructionism: an overview of the
literature. In Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing and Developing Novel
Learning Experiences (pp. 452-461). Springer International Publishing.
13. Parmaxi, A. (2014). Framing the use of social technologies towards social constructionism. In 1st
ACM-W Europe womENcourage Conference, Manchester, UK [peer reviewed; presented as
poster]. Available from:
http://womencourage.acm.org/archive/2014/PostersPDFs/083_ParmaxiAntigoni.pdf
14. Parmaxi, A., Zaphiris, P., Michailidou, E., Papadima-Sophocleous, S., & Ioannou, A. (2013).
Introducing new perspectives in the use of social technologies in learning: Social constructionism.
In P. Kotz et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of INTERACT 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 8118,
pp. 554-570). Springer.
15. Parmaxi, A. (2013). Using social technologies in Computer-Assisted Language Learning:
development of a theoretical and methodological framework. Doctoral Consortium of the 8th
European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL). Paphos, Cyprus.
16. Parmaxi, A., Kyriacou, S., Stylianou, C., Zaphiris, P. & Papadima-Sophocleous, S. (2013). Using
phenomenography to compare the variations of language teachers and learners attitudes
towards Computer Assisted Language Learning. 4th WorldCALL Conference. Glasgow, UK.
17. Parmaxi, A., Zaphiris, P., Papadima-Sophocleous, S., & Ioannou, A. (2013). Charting recent
development in Computer Assisted Language Learning. 4th WorldCALL Conference. Glasgow, UK.

18. Kawase, R., & Parmaxi, A. (2013). Online student engagement as formative assessment. Workshop
on Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA) 2013, 8th European Conference on Technology
Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL). Paphos, Cyprus.
19. Kyriacou, S., Parmaxi, A., Stylianou, K. & Zaphiris, P. (2012). Using phenomenography to capture
the variation of students attitudes towards Computer Assisted Language Learning. 15th
International Conference on Applied Linguistics. Thessaloniki, Greece.
C) Book Chapters
1.

Papadima-Sophocleous, S., & Parmaxi, A. (2012). The use of wiki in teaching and learning Greek
as a second language for Specific Academic Purposes: challenges and future perspectives. In J.
Burston, D. Tsagari & F. Doa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Foreign Language Instruction
and Technology: Theory & Practice (pp. 128-139). Nicosia: University of Nicosia Press.

D) Technical Report
Papadima-Sophocleous, S., Nicolaou, A., Boglou, D., & Parmaxi, A. (2015). Multilingualism in Limassol:
LUCIDE city report. ISBN: 978-1-909890-15-2