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Designing for Intimate Wellbeing: Aidee, a Qualitative Approach To Urine Home Monitoring

Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Clare Groves, Margherita Motta

Despite the widespread use of self-tracking technologies for promoting personal wellbeing, there is limited research on the monitoring of intimate data, particularly urine. To shed light on the design possibilities within this unexplored domain we designed ...

2024

Promoting a city-river balance within neighborhoods in transition along the Rhone

Martine Laprise, Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

Relationships between cities and their waters have always been evolving. In a context of transition towards sustainability, finding a balance between the urban and river spaces may contribute to the development of new resilient neighborhoods. To that end, ...

2023

NOVEL TOD PLANNING APPROACHES

Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot

The handbook aims at raising awareness on the challenge of extending TOD to RUR, the social and environmental challenges, and offers planners, NGOs and interest groups hands-on methods and approaches to understand and analyse local land- scape values of st ...

2023

Compassion and Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning: The Emotional Experience of Engineering Ethics Cases

Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk

Background: There has been an increase in interest in emotion in engineering and science ethics education. There is also evidence that emotional content in case studies may improve students’ learning and enhance awareness, understanding, and motivation con ...

2023

Learning from Chernobyl: Reverse Colonialism and Feral Architectures

Aitor Frías Sanchez, Olena Orap, Joaquin Perailes Santiago

This article revolves around the concept of reverse colonialism and uses the fascinating example of Pripyat as a case study. Pripyat was deeply affected by the devastating Chornobyl nuclear accident in 1986. Following the disaster, the disappearance o ...

2023

What Role Do Tangibles Play in Fostering Design Thinking Skills? An Exploratory Study

Yousef Jalali, Natascia Petringa, Mary Jean Bürer

Despite the importance of using artifacts during the design thinking process, there is a limited understanding of the influence of tangibles with lower perceptual richness on design thinking skills within educational settings. It is speculated that tangibl ...

2023

The Digital Ethics Canvas: A Guide For Ethical Risk Assessment And Mitigation In The Digital Domain

Patrick Jermann, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran, Vladimir Macko, Adrian Christian Holzer

Ethical concerns in the digital domain are growing with the extremely fast evolution of technology and the increasing scale at which software is deployed, potentially affecting our societies globally. It is crucial that engineers evaluate more systematical ...

2023

Emotions in Engineering Education

Roland John Tormey

Contrary to common stereotypes, engineering education and practice are not purely rational activities. Emotions, just like cognition, play important roles in teaching, learning, and professional practice. Today, there is a nascent body of research explorin ...

Routledge2023

Impersonating Chatbots in a Code Review Exercise to Teach Software Engineering Best Practices

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Vandit Sharma

Over the past decade, the use of chatbots for educational purposes has gained considerable traction. A similar trend has been observed in social coding platforms, where automated agents support software developers with tasks such as performing code reviews ...

IEEE2022

A Speech-based Productive Engagement Metric for Real-time Human-Robot Interaction in Collaborative Educational Contexts

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir

One of the major challenges in educational contexts is to correctly interpret the student's learning process in real-time, which is a necessary pre-requisite for timely and appropriate interventions. In educational HRI, multiple solutions have been propose ...

2022

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