School of Philosophy and Education

Research interests

• Tangible Programming
• Educational Robotics
• Game Based Learning
• Educational Technology

Selected publications

1. Palioura, M., & Sapounidis, T. (2024). Storytelling and Educational Robotics: A scoping review (2004-2024). Computers & Education, 105186.
2. Sapounidis, T., Rapti, S., & Vaiopoulou, J. (2024). Effects of Educational Robotics on Kindergarteners’ Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, and Creativity: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 1-15..
3. Sapounidis, T., Tselegkaridis, S., & Stamovlasis, D. (2024). Educational robotics and STEM in primary education: a review and a meta-analysis. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 56 (4), 462-476.
4. Tselegkaridis, S., Sapounidis, T., & Stamovlasis, D. (2024). Teaching electric circuits using tangible and graphical user interfaces: A meta-analysis. Education and Information Technologies, 29 (7), 8647-8671.
5. Rapti, S., Sapounidis, T., & Tselegkaridis, S. (2024). Investigating Educators’ and Students’ Perspectives on Virtual Reality Enhanced Teaching in Preschool. Early Childhood Education Journal, 1-12
6. Rapti, S., & Sapounidis, T. (2023). “Critical thinking, Communication, Collaboration, Creativity in kindergarten with Educational Robotics”: A scoping review (2012–2023). Computers & Education, 104968.
7. Sapounidis, T., Mantziaris, P., Kedros, I., (2023), “DuckyCode: A Hybrid Platform with Graphical and Tangible User Interfaces to Program Educational Robots”, In Novel & Intelligent Digital Systems Conferences (pp. 101-109). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland (NiDS 2023)
8. Sapounidis, T., Alimisis, D. (2021). Educational Robotics Curricula: Current Trends and Shortcomings. In: Malvezzi, M., Alimisis, D., Moro, M. (eds) Education in & with Robotics to Foster 21st-Century Skills. EDUROBOTICS 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 982. Springer, Cham.
9. Sapounidis Τ., Stamovlasis D., Demetriadis S. (2019) “Latent Class Modeling of Children’s Preferences Profiles on Tangible and Graphical Robot Programming”. IEEE Transactions on Education. doi: 10.1109/TE.2018.2876363
10. Sapounidis Τ., Demetriadis S., Papadopoulos P., Stamovlasis D. (2018) “Tangible and Graphical Programming with Experienced Children: A Mixed Methods Analysis”. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2018.12.001
11. Sapounidis Τ., Demetriadis S., Stamelos I. (2015). “Evaluating children performance with graphical and tangible robot programming tools”. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 19 (1): 225-237.
12. Sapounidis Τ., Demetriadis S. (2013). “Tangible versus graphical user interfaces for robot programming: exploring cross-age children’s preferences”. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 17 (8): 1775-1786.