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Activity theory

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Touch and Closeness in Naturally Organized Activities

Countless aspects of touch and closeness have been questioned in an unprecedented way during the recent Covid epidemic. Social practices as banal as greetings were both reflexively and practically challenged and sometimes deeply altered, resulting in painf ...

2024

Consistency of Inquiry Strategies Across Subsequent Activities in Different Domains

Jade Maï L Cock

Interactive simulations encourage students to practice skills essential to understanding and learning sciences. Alas, inquiry learning with interactive simulations is challenging. In this paper, we seek to identify inquiry patterns across topics and evalua ...

2023

Comment les nouvelles technologies peuvent-elles contribuer à la valorisation du patrimoine culturel dans les pays émergeants ?

Florence Graezer Bideau, Peter Bille Larsen

Cette conférence interrogera le patrimoine culturel et ses multiples significations selon les cultures. Elle mettra en lumière les principaux enjeux territoriaux, diplomatiques, culturels et économiques sous-jacents à la valorisation patrimoniale. A partir de cas d’études concrets, elle présentera l’apport des nouvelles technologiques dans divers domaines (reconstruction ; médiation ; éducation et développement durable) et insistera sur la nécessité de tenir compte du contexte socio-historique pour qu’une contribution fasse sens dans les communautés concernées.

2022

Efficacy of a ‘Misconceiving’ Robot to Improve Computational Thinking in a Collaborative Problem Solving Activity: A Pilot Study

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Utku Norman, Alexandra Lara Chin

Robot-mediated learning activities are often designed as collaborative exercises where children work together to achieve the activity objectives. Although miscommunications and misunderstandings occur frequently, humans, unlike robots, are very good at ove ...

2022

The aging brain as a model to understand motor skill acquisition in humans and its restoration using non-invasive brain stimulation

Pablo Maceira Elvira

Motor skill acquisition is essential to our survival, as it enables an efficient interaction with the changing world around us. The acquisition of novel sequential tasks, of particular relevance due to their pervasiveness in everyday life activities, can b ...

EPFL2022

Performing arts as a tool for university education during a pandemic: Moving from an in vivo to an in vitro modality

Simon Nessim Henein, Joëlle Valterio, Ramiro Tau

This paper analyses how a course on improvisation and collective creation in engineering addressed to master's students in Switzerland moved online. The course offers an experience in the field of performing arts, through embodied and situated activities, ...

PROGEDIT2021

Is There ‘ONE way’ of Learning? A Data-driven Approach

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are required to intervene in a learning activity while it is unfolding, to support the learner. To do so, they often rely on performance of a learner, as an approximation for engagement in the learning process. However, i ...

2020

Single locus of control in a tangible paper-based tabletop application: An Exploratory Study

Pierre Dillenbourg, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos, Daniela Caballero Díaz, Yun Wen

Multiple loci of control is one of the main affordances of tangible tabletop UIs due to their capability for simultaneous manipulation. However, there is a tension between the efficiency given by simultaneous manipulation and the need to coordinate and ref ...

ACM2014

Expanding Eye-Tracking Methods to Explain the Socio-Cognitive Effects of Shared Annotations

Andrea Mazzei

Social technologies are leading to transformations in education, by empowering the way learners connect to each other, by introducing new means for teaching and learning and by reshaping the way knowledge is delivered. Annotating texts is a learning strate ...

EPFL2013

Multi-camera Open Space Human Activity Discovery for Anomaly Detection

Jean-Marc Odobez, Rémi Emonet, Jagannadan Varadarajan

We address the discovery of typical activities in video stream contents and its exploitation for estimating the abnormality levels of these streams. Such estimates can be used to select the most interesting cameras to show to a human operator. Our contribu ...

2011

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