Dr Sarah Matthews
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Child Health Research Centre
Journal Articles
Levido, Amanda, Matthews, Sarah, Amery, Philippa and Cross, Emma (2026). Parent perspectives of digital media for learning at home. Children and Society, 40 (2) chso.12979, 244-253. doi: 10.1111/chso.12979
Matthews, Sarah, Nicholas, Maria, Paatsch, Louise, Kervin, Lisa and Wyeth, Peta (2025). Social and curious: lessons in designing digital manipulatives for young children. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 44 100725, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100725
Matthews, Sarah, Nicholas, Maria, Kervin, Lisa, Paatsch, Louise and Wyeth, Peta (2025). Computational thinking tools for early years education: a design study. Education and Information Technologies, 30 (12), 17225-17262. doi: 10.1007/s10639-025-13468-x
Snow, Stephen, Matthews, Sarah, Chen, Yueer, Yang, Sicheng and Bayley, Mark (2025). Designing serious games to engage children with energy saving in the home: potential learning outcomes and design considerations. Journal of Computers in Education, 12 (1), 39-64. doi: 10.1007/s40692-023-00302-x
Matthews, Sarah, Kaiser, Kathrin, Lum, Randell, Moran, Gulwanyang, Richards, Mark, Bock, Sarah, Matthews, Ben and Wiles, Janet (2024). Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design. CoDesign, 21 (1), 1-33. doi: 10.1080/15710882.2024.2339500
Matthews, Sarah, Kaiser, Kathrin and Wiles, Janet (2022). Animettes: a design-oriented investigation into the properties of tangible toolkits that support children’s collaboration-in-making activities. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 33 100517, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2022.100517
Matthews, Ben, Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen, Schlosser, Paul, Salisbury, Isaac and Matthews, Sarah (2021). How to do things with notes: the embodied socio-material performativity of sticky notes. Design Studies, 76 101035, 101035. doi: 10.1016/j.destud.2021.101035
Matthews, Sarah and Matthews, Ben (2021). Reconceptualising feedback: designing educational tangible technologies to be a creative material. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 29 100278, 100278. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100278
Belsham, David, Lennon, Alexia, Bates, Lyndel and Matthews, Sarah (2019). Novice drivers’ experiences of parental encouragement with road rules in Queensland: Scope for a third party policing approach?. Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 30 (4), 50-59. doi: 10.33492/jacrs-d-18-00006
Conference Papers
Matthews, Sarah, Danby, Susan, Westwood, Sophie, Theobald, Maryanne and Wyeth, Peta (2025). Designing for transactional moments: features of tools for child-centred speech language teletherapy. 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, 26 April-1 May 2025. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3706598.3713394
Matthews, Sarah, Nicholas, Maria, Paatsch, Louise, Kervin, Lisa and Wyeth, Peta (2025). Embeddables: Designing Physical-Digital Manipulatives for Young Children. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3689050.3706008
Matthews, Sarah, Nicholas, Maria, Paatsch, Louise, Kervin, Lisa and Wyeth, Peta (2025). Wobblies: Designing Intentional Playthings with Young Children. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3689050.3705972
O'Neill, Ashleigh-Rae, Matthews, Sarah, Wiles, Janet and Matthews, Ben (2024). 'Socialifying' the design of language learning applications for classroom use. DIS '24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1-5 July 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3656156.3663735
Khan, Awais Hameed, Ejaz, Neelam, Matthews, Sarah, Snow, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2021). Speculative design for education: using participatory methods to map design challenges and opportunities in Pakistan. Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Virtual, 28 June - 2 July 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3461778.3462117
Matthews, Sarah, Khan, Awais Hameed, Boden, Marie and Viller, Stephen (2020). Preserving sequential context: developing participatory video analysis practice. DRS2020, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11-14 August, 2020. London, United Kingdom: Design Research Society. doi: 10.21606/drs.2020.296
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen, Heiner, Scott, Hardgrove, Robert, Matthews, Sarah and Matthews, Ben (2020). The politics of materiality: exploring participatory design methods, tools and practices. DRS2020, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11 - 14 August, 2020. London, United Kingdom: Design Research Society. doi: 10.21606/drs.2020.246
Matthews, Sarah, Viller, Stephen and Boden, Marie (2020). "...and we are the creators!" technologies as creative material. Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Sydney, NSW Australia, 9-12 February 2020. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3374920.3374980
Matthews, Sarah, Boden, Marie and Visnovska, Jana (2018). Engaging pre-service non-specialist teachers in teaching mathematics using embodied technology tools. Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Auckland, New Zealand, 1-5 July 2018. Auckland, New Zealand: MERGA.
Thesis
Matthews, Sarah (2022). Steps toward technology as a creative material. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/1cbb09f