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Villes africaines et technologies numériques: entre risques et potentiels

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Saïda Naji, Frédéric David Meylan

Les villes africaines sont actuellement en pleine croissance, tout comme la quantité de données numériques qu’elles génèrent. Dans ce contexte, le Centre Excellence in Africa (EXAF) de l’EPFL, avec le soutien de l’Ambassade de Suisse au Sénégal et du Dépar ...

EPFL2023

Extending the Spectrum of Dysgraphia: A Data Driven Strategy to Estimate Handwriting Quality

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Mateo Chapatte

This paper proposes new ways to assess handwriting, a critical skill in any child’s school journey. Traditionally, a pen and paper test called the BHK test (Concise Evaluation Scale for Children’s Handwriting) is used to assess children’s handwriting in Fr ...

2020

A sociological contribution to understanding the use of robots in schools: the Thymio robot

Francesco Mondada, Fanny Riedo

The Thymio II robot was designed to be used by teachers in their classrooms for a wide range of activities and at all levels of the curriculum, from very young children to the end of high school. Although the educationally oriented design of this innovativ ...

Springer International Publishing2014

La sociologie urbaine en Suisse : histoire, développement, débats actuels

Vincent Kaufmann

La Suisse est située entre deux mondes académiques, le monde francophone et le monde germanophone et il en résulte que la scène nationale de la recherche en sciences sociales est morcelée. D’autre part, elle est un pays dont l’identité s’est largement cons ...

Association internationale des sociologues de langue française2012

Assessing sustainability: An assessment framework to evaluate Agenda 21 actions at the local level

Christophe Jemelin, Tourane Corbière

In Switzerland, communities are encouraged to define and to report on local Agenda 21. This paper presents an analysis framework to help local communities set sustainable development priorities and to follow through with appropriate actions. Four Swiss com ...

2003

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