Nicolaidou, Iolie (rp00131)
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Nicolaidou, Iolie
Νικολαίδου, Ιόλη
Dr. Iolie Nicolaidou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies at the Cyprus University of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Educational Technology from Concordia University in Canada. She has a Master’s degree in Educational Media and Technology from Boston University (2002), where she studied as a Fulbright scholar, and a BA in Primary Education from the University of Cyprus (2000) with a specialization in Natural Sciences.
As a researcher in Educational Technology, her work focused on the design, implementation, and evaluation of emerging technologies for learning in naturalistic contexts to solve specific problems. Over the past four years (2020-2024), she established an independent research program focused on Emerging Technologies for Learning and Health. Her current research lies at the intersection of educational technology, digital health, and serious games. Her work focuses on designing and evaluating interventions supported by emerging technologies, such as serious games, gamified applications, and Internet of Things (IoT), to enhance learning, improve mental health, and promote behavioral change. Her research addresses real-life societal problems and adopts an interdisciplinary, problem-focused, participatory design approach. Her key contribution is the development of evidence-informed interventions for learning using emerging technologies as well as the extraction of theory-informed design guidelines for developers of learning applications.
She has been involved as a Principal Investigator (PI), local coordinator, or senior researcher in 5 projects in the past four years (2000-2024) funded by the European Union (Horizon2020, EU4Health, Erasmus+) and Cyprus national grants (Cyprus University of Technology) (total of approximately 5 Million euros in research funds).
She has published more than 100 papers in international, highly-cited, peer-reviewed journals and in proceedings of international scientific conferences. She published her work in four of the top-8 journals of the Educational Technology field (based on Google Scholar, as of Jan 16th 2025), Computers & Education (1st), Education and Information Technologies (2nd), Interactive Learning Environments (4th) and International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)(8th), with the last three journal papers published between 2021 and 2025. She also published her work in journals such as Social Science Computer Review, Information Communication and Society, Digital Health, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research, which is the top journal of medical informatics.
As a researcher in Educational Technology, her work focused on the design, implementation, and evaluation of emerging technologies for learning in naturalistic contexts to solve specific problems. Over the past four years (2020-2024), she established an independent research program focused on Emerging Technologies for Learning and Health. Her current research lies at the intersection of educational technology, digital health, and serious games. Her work focuses on designing and evaluating interventions supported by emerging technologies, such as serious games, gamified applications, and Internet of Things (IoT), to enhance learning, improve mental health, and promote behavioral change. Her research addresses real-life societal problems and adopts an interdisciplinary, problem-focused, participatory design approach. Her key contribution is the development of evidence-informed interventions for learning using emerging technologies as well as the extraction of theory-informed design guidelines for developers of learning applications.
She has been involved as a Principal Investigator (PI), local coordinator, or senior researcher in 5 projects in the past four years (2000-2024) funded by the European Union (Horizon2020, EU4Health, Erasmus+) and Cyprus national grants (Cyprus University of Technology) (total of approximately 5 Million euros in research funds).
She has published more than 100 papers in international, highly-cited, peer-reviewed journals and in proceedings of international scientific conferences. She published her work in four of the top-8 journals of the Educational Technology field (based on Google Scholar, as of Jan 16th 2025), Computers & Education (1st), Education and Information Technologies (2nd), Interactive Learning Environments (4th) and International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)(8th), with the last three journal papers published between 2021 and 2025. She also published her work in journals such as Social Science Computer Review, Information Communication and Society, Digital Health, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research, which is the top journal of medical informatics.