Dr Sarah Matthews
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Child Health Research Centre
Journal Articles
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
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. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3706598.3713394
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