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Fostering Innovation with Generative AI: A Study on Human-AI Collaborative Ideation and User Anonymity

Collaborative ideation is a key aspect of many innovation processes. However, a lack of proper support can hinder the process and limit the ability of participants to generate innovative ideas. Thus, we introduce AI-deation, a digital environment for colla ...

2025

Exploring the Negative Impact of Smartphone Usage on Students’ Digital Wellbeing: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Rania Islambouli

Informa UK Limited2025

Boosting trauma resilience: The power of electronic mental health support - a randomized trial

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Juan Carlos Farah

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing traumatic events, such as death, serious injury, or threats to oneself or others. Affecting 5–10 % of the population, PTSD is often underreported due t ...

Elsevier BV2025

Supporting Brainstorming Activities with Bots in Software Engineering Education

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram

The recent rise in the performance and availability of large language models (LLMs) has fueled the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to support software engineering. Technologies such as Copilot and ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in softw ...

2025

Enhancing Student Engagement through Social Media-Based Gamification in a UI/UX Design Course

Denis Gillet

Nowadays, incorporating innovative teaching methods that enhance student engagement has become increasingly crucial. In our study, we examine a new pedagogical practice which relies on gamified formative peer assessment and social media to improve student ...

Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València (edUPV)2025

Implementation Framework and Strategies for AI-augmented Open Educational Resources (OER): A Comprehensive Approach Applied to Secondary and Higher Education

Denis Gillet

This paper aims to propose an implementation framework for the adoption and management of Open Educational Resources (OER), focusing on their lifecycle, as well as the integration of AI for supporting educators in their classification of the created conten ...

2024

Less Conservatism, Stronger Robustness: Iterative Robust Gain-Scheduled Path Following Control of Autonomous Bus With Unstructured and Changing Dynamics

Denis Gillet, Man Shi, Jianwei Li

Path-following control is a critical technology for autonomous vehicles. However, time-varying parameters, parametric uncertainties, external disturbances, and complicated environments significantly challenge autonomous driving. We propose an iterative rob ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Engineering a Sustainable Future: Inspiring next STEM generation by Innovation

Denis Gillet

The aim of the workshop is to foster a synergetic collaboration between engineers/industry professionals and educators, teachers and students, with goal to address STEM education gaps related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Engineers and scienc ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Generative AI-Enabled Conversational Interaction to Support Self-Directed Learning Experiences in Transversal Computational Thinking

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Adrian Christian Holzer, Abdessalam Ouaazki

As computational thinking (CT) becomes increasingly acknowledged as an important skill in education, self-directed learning (SDL) emerges as a key strategy for developing this capability. The advent of generative AI (GenAI) conversational agents has disrup ...

2024

Leveraging Collaborative Digital Platforms for Supervising Project-Based Learning Activities: A Case Study

Denis Gillet

In contemporary engineering education, project-based learning (PBL) has emerged as a prominent pedagogical approach to foster transversal skills like collaboration and communication. However, effective supervision and guidance of student groups in PBL pres ...

SEFI2024