Inmaculada Fajardo

Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology Bravo
University of Valencia
Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 21
46010 Valencia, Spain
Tlf. 0034 963983093

infabra[at]uv.es

Current Position
2008- , Associate Professor, Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Valencia

Qualifications:
2007-8, Postdoc researcher, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
2006-7, Postdoc researcher, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada
2005, PhD., Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada
2002, PhD student, Laboratory of Human-Computer Interaction for Special Needs, University of the Basque Country.

1999-2001. Master's Degree student at the Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain)
1999, BS in Psychology, University of Granada

Selected publications and conference presentations:

Tavares, G., Fajardo, I., y Ávila, V. (2011). The resolution of ambiguous pronoun anaphors in Spanish: Evidence from eye-movement analyses. Poster accepted at the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse. July 11-13. Poitiers, France.

Fajardo. I., Ávila, V., Tavares, G., Ferrer, A.(2010). Easy to read text for students with intellectual disability. Biennial Meeting of EARLI SIG 15: Special Educational Needs. September 6.-7. Frankfurt a. M. (Germany).pdf

Fajardo. I., Ávila, V., Tavares, G., Ferrer, A.(2010). More than the sum of the parts: the combined effect of connectives and word frequency on poor readers’ text comprehension. 8th Spanish Experimental Psychological Society (SEPEX). April, 15 – 1. Granada (Spain)

Fajardo, I., Parra, E. & Cañas, J. J. (2010). Do sign language videos improve web navigation for deaf signers? Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 15, 242-262.pdf

Fajardo, I., Cañas, J.J., Salmerón, L. and Abascal, J. (2009) Information structure and practice as facilitators of deaf users’ navigation in textual websites, Behaviour and information technology,28 (1): 87-97 . pdf

Fajardo, I., Vigo, M. & Salmerón, L. (2009). Technology for supporting Web information search and learning in Sign Language. Interacting with Computers, 21, 243-256.pdf

Salmerón, L., Baccino, T., Cañas, J.J., Madrid, R. I., & Fajardo, I. (2009). Do graphical overviews facilitate or hinder comprehension in hypertext? Computers & Education, 53, 1308-1319.pdf

Fajardo. I., Abascal, J. and Cañas, J.J. (2008). Bridging the Digital Divide for deaf signer users, communication presented in the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Madeira, 16-19 September, 2008.

Fajardo, I., Arfé, B, Benedetti, P. and Altoé, G.M. (2008). Hyperlink Format, Categorization Abilities and Memory Span as Contributors to Deaf Users Hypertext Access, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 13 (2): 241-256. pdf

Arrue, M., Fajardo, I., López, J. M., Vigo, M. (2007). Interdependence between technical web accessibility and usability: its influence on web quality models. International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology. Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 307-328. Inderscience.

López J. M., Cearreta I., Fajardo I., Garay N. (2007) Validating a Multilingual and Multimodal Affective Database. In N. Aykin (Ed.): Usability and Internationalization, Part II, HCII 2007, LNCS 4560, Pp. 422–431. Springer.     

Fajardo, I., Cañas, J.J., Salmerón, L. & Abascal, J. (2006). Improving deaf users’ accessibility in hypertext information retrieval: Are graphical interfaces useful for them? Behaviour & Information Technology, 25(6): 455 – 467. pdf

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