Keynote and Guest Talks

  • Feijóo-García P. G. Designing Culturally Relevant AI Agents: From User-Agent Similarity to the Designer as a Product Cue. Presented at the Congreso IISE – Región XVI – Edición XXI. Bogotá D.C., Colombia. September 2024.
  • Feijóo-García P. G. Scaling Classrooms: Active Learning and Instruction @ Scale. Presented at the Workshop “Scaling Classrooms: A Forum for Practitioners Seeking, Developing, and Adapting their Own Tools” at the 17th ACM Learning @ Scale Conference. Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. July 2024. 
  • Feijóo-García P. G. Characterizing Virtual Humans for Mental Wellness Support: Gender and Spoken Accent as Demographic Factors. Presented to the Program of Systems Engineering at the Program's Academic Fair 2021-2, Bogotá D.C., Colombia. November 2021.
  • Feijóo-García P. G. Diseño de Ambientes Interactivos de Programación para Cursos en Estructuras de Datos y Algoritmos. Presented to the Department of Systems Engineering and Informatics at Universidad Norbert Wiener, Lima, Perú, May 2021.
  • Feijóo-García P. G. Visual Languages for Computer Science Education: Design and evaluation of educational technologies for courses on data structures. Presented at the HCC Series of Talks - Federal Univesity of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Brazil, November 2020.
  • Feijóo-García P. G. Lenguajes Visuales en educación para ciencias de computación: Diseño y evaluación de tecnologías educativas para cursos de estructuras de datos. Presented at the Human-Centered Computing International Summit Universidad El Bosque 2019, Bogotá D.C., Colombia. November 2019.​​
  • Feijóo-García P. G. Blocks for CS Undergrads? Design and Evaluation of Block-based Environments for Data Structures Courses. Presented at the Blockly User Summit 2019. Google Talks, Mountain View, CA, USA. (video)

Conference Talks

  • Feijóo-García, P. G., Kapoor, A., Gardner-McCune, C., & Ragan, E. (2022, September). Effects of a Block-based Scaffolded Tool on Students’ Introduction to Hierarchical Data Structures. Journal-First presentation in 2022 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC).  IEEE Computer Society. Presented at the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Rome, Italy, September 2022. 
  • Feijóo-García, P. G., Zalake, M., Yao, H., de Siqueira, A. G.,  & Lok, B. (2022, September). Effects of Virtual Humans' Gender and Spoken Accent on Users' Perceptions of Expertise in Mental Wellness Conversations. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Presented at the 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2022). Faro, Portugal, September 2022. 
  • Feijóo-García, P. G., Zalake, M., de Siqueira, A. G., Lok, B., & Hamza-Lup, F. (2021, September). Effects of Virtual Humans' Gender and Spoken Accent on Users' Perceptions of Expertise in Mental Wellness Conversations. Presented at the  21th ACM International Conference on Intelligent
    Virtual Agents (IVA 2021), Online format, Japan, September 2021. 
  • Feijóo-García, P., & Gardner-Mccune, C. Using Student-created Instructional Videos in CS Upper-level Courses: A Successful Strategy in a Functional Programming Course. Presented at the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2020), Online format, Portugal, May 2020. 
  • Feijóo-García, P.G., Wang, S., Cai, J., Polavarapu, N., Gardner-McCune, C., & Ragan, E. Design and evaluation of a scaffolded block-based learning environment for hierarchical data structures. Presented at the 2019 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Memphis TN, U.S.A., October 2019.​​
  • Feijóo-García, P.G., & De la Rosa-Rosero, M.F. Instructional Application for Programming and  Algorithmic Self-learning: A Didactic Approach with Mobile Robotics as Pedagogical Context. Presented at the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2018), Funchal-Madeira, Portugal. March 2018.
  • Feijóo García, P. G., & López-Cruz, O. Applied Mathematics: An Innovative Course in Applied Mathematics and Science for an Undergraduate Curriculum in Computing Disciplines. Presented at the 7th Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REES 2017), Bogotá D.C., Colombia. July 2017.​​

Lightning Talks

  • Feijóo-García, P. G., & Roy, N. (2024, April). Active Learning at Large-Scale: Using Video Tutorials to Learn by Teaching. Presented at the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ​Portland, OR, USA.
  • Feijóo-García P. G. Blockly used to teach Binary Search Trees at a College Level. Presented at the Blockly User Summit 2021. Google Talks, Mountain View, CA, USA. ​
  • Feijóo-García P. G., McNamara, Jr. K., & Stuart, J. Work in Progress: Native Language Consistency Effect on Learners’ Introduction to Block-Based Instructional Technologies. Presented at the 20th Annual ACM Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE’19). Tacoma WA, U.S.A., October 2019.