Education

• Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing (December 2021)
  University of FLorida, fl, usa.
  Graduated on december, 2021.

• M.Sc. in Computer Science
  Clemson University, Clemson, SC USA.
  Graduated on May, 2015.

• M.Ed. in Early Childhood Development
  Manchester University, Manchester, Great Britain.
  Graduated on December, 2014.

• Diploma in Engineering of Information Processing and Management
  Moscow States University of Printing Arts, Moscow, Russia.
  Graduated on June, 2008.

Research Interests

• Educational Technologies

• Social and Human-Centered Computing

• Virtual Reality

• Early Childhood Development 

• Empathy Developing in Young Children

Projects

• VR Empathy Fame for Children
• Mobile Game for Prosocial Behavior promotion in Children 

Grants and Scholarships

• Outstanding International Student Award. Universtity of Florida, 2017
• Invited Participant of the Doctoral Consortium at Human Computer Interaction Play (CHI Play) Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2017
• Invited Participant of the Doctoral Consortium at the Interaction and Design for Children (IDC), Stanford University, USA, 2017
• Finalist at the Game Based Learning Conference’s Game Competition, Graz, Austria, 2017
• Invited Participant of the Grad Cohort, Computing Research Association for Women (CRA-W), 2016
• Fulbright Scholarship for M.Sc. at Clemson University, SC, USA. Scholar of the 2013 – 2015th cohort, Russia.
• 1st prize Award for Poster Presentation at the “Fulbright Simposium“, Clemson University, 2014
• Russian Government Grant for M.Ed. at Manchester University, UK. Scholar of the 2012 – 2014th cohort.
• Red Diploma Distinction (TOP 5% student), Moscow State University of Printing Arts, 2008
• Scholarship for excellence in academic achievements, Moscow State University of Printing Arts, 2004 – 2008
• Moscow Mayor’s scholarship for academic achievements, Moscow State University of Printing Arts, 2004 – 2008

Publications

Conference Papers

•  Muravevskaia, E., Tavassoli, F., & Gardner-McCune, C. (2016, June). Developing children’s cultural awareness and empathy through games and fairy tales. In Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 701-706). ACM.  Link to ACM library: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2935998

• Muravevskaia, E. (2017, October). Empathy Development in Young Children Using Interactive VR Games. In Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (pp. 715-718). ACM.  Link to ACM library: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3133229

Posters and Abstracts

• Muravevskaia, C. Gardner-McCune (2017). Educational Virtual Reality Game for Promoting Empathy in Young Children. Proceedings of the 11th European Conference of Games Based Learning. Graz, Austria.

• Muravevskaia (2017). Interactive Games for Promoting Empathy in Young Children. 16th Interactive Design and Children (IDC) Conference (abstract)

• Muravevskaia, C. Gardner-McCune (2016). Storytelling through Social Constructivism lenses: Fairytale as a tool for teaching culture-related topics in art classroom. 33rd Psychology and Art conference. Reims, France (abstract)

• Muravevskaia (2014). Using Computer-Based Instruction (CBI) to Teach Art Concepts to Young Learners. Thesis. Manchester University, UK (not published)