Antony Harfield

I am currently working as a Post Doc researcher at the University of Joensuu in Finland with the EdTech Research Group. I recently completed my PhD at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick. I was supervised by Dr Meurig Beynon and worked with the Empirical Modelling Research Group and the Education Technology Research Group.

Publications

My PhD thesis, entitled Empirical Modelling as a new paradigm for educational technology, was submitted in October 2007 and was accepted without corrections by the examiners on 25th January 2008. The thesis is available online in PDF format.

In journals:

• Meurig Beynon and Antony Harfield. Lifelong Learning, Empirical Modelling and the Promises of Constructivism. Journal of Computers, Volume 2, Issue 3, 43-55.

In conference proceedings:

• Meurig Beynon, Antony Harfield and Mikko Vesisenaho. Contextualising information and communications technology in developing countries. In Proceedings of 7th Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education (Koli Calling 2007), 15th-18th November 2007.
• Russell Boyatt, Antony Harfield, Meurig Beynon. Learning about and through Empirical Modelling. In Proc 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2006) Kerkrade, The Netherlands, July 2006, 662-666.
• Meurig Beynon, Antony Harfield. Rethinking Life-long Learning: the Empirical Modelling Approach. In Proc 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2006) Kerkrade, The Netherlands, July 2006, 854-858.
• Meurig Beynon, Antony Harfield and Ilkka Jormanainen. Varieties of Concretisation: an illustrative case-study. In Proceedings of 5th Annual Finnish/Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education (Koli Calling 2005), December 2005, 153-6.
• Meurig Beynon and Antony Harfield. Empirical Modelling in Support of Constructionist Learning: a Case Study from Relational Database Theory. In Proc 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'05) Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 2005, 396-8.
• Meurig Beynon, Antony Harfield and Sunny Chang. Alternative model-building for the study of socially interactive robots. In Proc. AISB'05 Symposium on Robot Companions Hard Problems and Open Challenges in Human-Robot Interaction, University of Hertfordshire, UK, April 2005, 5-15.

Departmental research reports:

• Meurig Beynon and Antony Harfield. Empirical Modelling in support of constructionism: a case study. Research Report #412, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, June 2005.

Other:

• Antony Harfield. Learning about and learning through Empirical Modelling, Presentation at British Computer Society Coventry Branch Evening, University of Warwick, 19th April 2006.
• Antony Harfield. Exploratory language environments, PPIG 2004 Unroll Your Ideas Workshop.
• Antony Harfield. Agent-oriented Parsing, undergraduate third year project, 2003. Project website.

Feel free to contact me for more information about my current research activities.

Teaching

During the 2006/2007 academic year I tutored the following courses:

• CS405: An Introduction to Empirical Modelling
• CS118: Programming for Computer Scientists
• CS133: Professional Skills

I am no longer involved with teaching Thai, but you can find the old resources on my Thai page. For Thai lessons this year, please contact the Thai Society.

Personal

My blog only usually gets updated when I am away. You can view my compiled writings from Taiwan (2005) and Thailand (2006, 2005, 2004).

The Buddhist Society at Warwick is active in organising events around campus as well as at the Wood Cottage retreat centre.

Contact

When I am at Warwick, you can find me in room CS316 (third floor Computer Science) or:

• Email: ant at dcs.warwick.ac.uk
• Telephone: (+44) 24 7652 8043

Antony Harfield
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
UK