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Nirwan Sharma

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Bowers, L.J., Sharma, N., Hancock, J., Lakeman Fraser, P., Newman, J., Cheng, K., Manches, A., Colucci-Gray, L. and Siddharthan, A. (2026). Sensing Nature: A School-ground Haptic Map and Tactile Garden for Texture Exploration. In: Proceedings of the 25th Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC ’26), 22-25 Jun 2026, Brighton, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/110764/.

Colucci-Gyay, L., Hancock, J., Manches, A., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Newman, J., Islam, R., Sharma, N., Dodd, M., Ansine, J., Bowers, L., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A. (2025). To touch is to know’: haptic inquiry for primary school citizen science. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 15(3), pp. 360–376. https://oro.open.ac.uk/104267/.

Sharma, N., Colucci-Gray, L., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Robinson, A., Newman, J., Van der Wal, R., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A. (2024). Image Recognition as a ‘Dialogic AI Partner’ within Biodiversity Citizen Science - an empirical investigation. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 9(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/99851/.

Colucci-Gray, L., Hancock, J., Islam, R., Sharma, N., Manches, A., Bowers, L., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Mozier, S., Newman, J., Reuger, S. and Siddharthan, A. (2024). Seeing with hands and touching with eyes: recovering sensorial attention to nature in primary schools. In: First International Conference on Embodied Education, 15-17 May 2024, Danish School of Education (DPU), Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark. https://oro.open.ac.uk/97621/.

Hancock, J., Colucci-Gray, L., Siddharthan, A., Manches, A., Sharma, N., Islam, R., Bowers, L., Reuger, S., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Newman, J., Mozier, S. and Barry, R. (2023). “We felt the textures from nature and it gave us new ideas”: Investigating sustainability education through primary school children’s natural and digital haptic touch explorations. In: SERA Conference 2023, Wednesday 22 - Friday 24 Nov 2023, Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, United Kingdom. https://oro.open.ac.uk/97619/.

Mikroyannidis, A., Sharma, N., Ekuban, A. and Domingue, J. (2024). Using Generative AI and ChatGPT for improving the production of distance learning materials. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 01-04 Jul 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus. https://oro.open.ac.uk/97397/.

Lakeman Fraser, P., Colluci-Gray, L., Robinson, A., Sforzi, A., Staples-Rolf, R., Newman, J., Gill, R., Sharma, N., Rüger, S. and Siddharthan, A. (2023). X-Polli:Nation: Contributing towards sustainable development goals through school-based pollinator citizen science. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 8(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/86427/.

Sharma, N., Colucci-Gray, L., van der Wal, R. and Siddharthan, A. (2022). Consensus building in on-line citizen science. In: 25th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2022), 08-22 Nov 2022, Online. https://oro.open.ac.uk/83971/.

Anderson, H.B., Robinson, A., Siddharthan, A., Sharma, N., Bostock, H., Salisbury, A., Roberts, S. and van der Wal, R. (2020). Citizen science data reveals the need for keeping garden plant recommendations up-to-date to help pollinators. Scientific Reports, 10(1), https://oro.open.ac.uk/73795/.

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