Mrs Weam Alghabban

School of Computer Science
Research Student

Contact details

Email
wga814@cs.bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@star_sky_222
Address
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Weam Alghabban is a teaching assistant at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. In October 2018, she started her PhD at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Dr. Bob Hendley. Her area of interest is related to human-computer interaction (HCI) in the School of Computer Science.

Qualifications

  • Master degree in Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia
  • Bachelor degree in Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia

Teaching

  • Teaching assistant at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

Doctoral research

PhD title
An Investigation of Matching Learning Material to Dyslexia Needs
Supervisor
Mr Bob Hendley

Research

  • HCI
  • E-learning
  • Dyslexia
  • Adaptation
  • Usability
  • Satisfaction

Publications

  • Alghabban, W. G., Al-Dawsari H.M., Hendley, R. (2021). Understanding the Impact on Learners' Reading Performance and Behaviour of Matching E-Learning Material to Dyslexia Type and Reading Skill Level. In: Fang X. (eds) HCI in Games: Serious and Immersive Games. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 12790. Springer, Cham. pp. 135-154. - Alghabban, W. G., Hendley, R. (2021).
  • Student Perception of Usability: A Metric for Evaluating the Benefit When Adapting e-Learning to the Needs of Students with Dyslexia. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-502-9; ISSN 2184-5026, pp. 207-219. - Alghabban, W. G., Hendley, R. (2020).
  • The Impact of Adaptation Based on Students' Dyslexia Type: An Empirical Evaluation of Students' Satisfaction. In Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '20 Adjunct), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 41-46. - Alghabban, W. G., Hendley, R. (2020).
  • Adapting E-Learning to Dyslexia Type: An Experimental Study to Evaluate Learning Gain and Perceived Usability. In: Stephanidis C. et al. (eds) HCI International 2020 - Late Breaking Papers: Cognition, Learning and Games. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12425. Springer, Cham. pp. 519-537. - Alghabban, W. G., Salama, R. M., and Altalhi, A. H. (2017).
  • Mobile cloud computing: An effective multimodal interface tool for students with dyslexia.Computers in Human Behavior, 75:160 –166.