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How to support teachers to carry out educational robotics activities in school? The case of Roteco, the Swiss robotic teacher community
The development of 21st-century transversal competences such as communication, cooperation, and creativity as well as computational thinking and programming may be aided through educational robotics (ER). Different countries have inserted ER in their schoo ...
2022Demonstration of Roteco - the robotic teacher community: An informative, collaborative platform with a unique community ecosystem
Today the digital society in which we live requires the acquisition of new computer-related skills, such as computational thinking or coding skills, as well as cross-curricular skills, such as communication, collaboration and creativity. Preparing and insp ...
ACM2021A kernel‐based change detection method to map shifts in phytoplankton communities measured by flow cytometry
Automated, ship-board flow cytometers provide high-resolution maps of phytoplankton composition over large swaths of the world's oceans. They therefore pave the way for understanding how environmental conditions shape community structure. Identification o ...
2021Teachers’ Reasons to Join a Community About Educational Robotics and STEAM: A Swiss Experience
Today we live in a digital society that requires the acquisition of new skills related to computer science, such as computational thinking or coding skills, as well as cross-curricular skills, such as communication, collaboration and creativity. A possible ...
Springer, Cham2021Volunteer contributions to Wikipedia increased during COVID-19 mobility restrictions
Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia ever created, is a global initiative driven by volunteer contributions. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and mobility restrictions ensued across the globe, it was unclear whether contributions to Wikipedia would decr ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2021Quantitative modeling of human metabolism: A call for a community effort
Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Maria Masid Barcon
Metabolism is the process by which cells and organisms obtain nutrients and energy to perform their functions. In the last years, many human diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and cardiac diseases, have been associated with altered metabolism. Understan ...
2021Group testing for connected communities
Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi, Sundara Rajan Srinivasavaradhan
In this paper, we propose algorithms that leverage a known community structure to make group testing more efficient. We consider a population organized in disjoint communities: each individual participates in a community, and its infection probability depe ...
MICROTOME PUBLISHING2021Barriers to the implementation of international agreements on the ground: Climate change and resilience building in the Araucanía Region of Chile
Nicola Mary Banwell, Silvia Hostettler
Implementing disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation and mitigation (CCA/M), and sustainable development are key to increasing community resilience to pressing climate change risks. Barriers to grassroots implementation of national and int ...
2020Classification and Regression of Cognitive and Motivational Style from Text
In this paper, we describe the participation of the Idiap Research Institute at GermEval 2020 shared task on the Classification and Regression of Cognitive and Motivational style from Text, specifically on subtask 2, Classification of the Operant Motive Te ...
2020Idiap & UAM participation at GermEval 2020: Classification and Regression of Cognitive and Motivational Style from Text
In this paper, we describe the participation of the Idiap Research Institute at GermEval 2020 shared task on the Classification and Regression of Cognitive and Motivational style from Text, specifically on subtask 2, Classification of the Operant Motive Te ...
Hamburg University2020