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Sébastien Cuendet

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Designing Augmented Reality for the Classroom

Pierre Dillenbourg, Sébastien Cuendet, Quentin Bonnard

Augmented reality (AR) has recently received a lot of attention in education. Multiple AR systems for learning have been developed and tested through empirical studies often conducted in lab settings. While lab studies can be insightful, they leave out the ...

Elsevier2013

The Benefits and Limitations of Distributing a Tangible Interface in a Classroom

Pierre Dillenbourg, Sébastien Cuendet

We report the design and testing of TapaCarp, a CSCL environment for carpenter apprentices. From the start, we designed TapaCarp for a classroom usage. This led to an interface distributed over several components and modalities. A first user study conducte ...

2013

Designing ICT systems for rural users in the developing world is difficult for a variety of reasons ranging from problems with infrastructure to financial constraints. But beyond these difficulties, there are serious challenges associated with the potentia ...

2013

Tangible vs. Virtual Representations: when Tangibles Benefit the Training of Spatial Skills

Pierre Dillenbourg, Engin Walter Bumbacher, Sébastien Cuendet

Tangible user interfaces (TUIs) have been the focus of much attention in the HCI and learning communities because of their many potential benefits for learning. However, there have recently been debates about whether TUIs can actually increase learning out ...

2012

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Tangible user interfaces (TUIs) have been the focus of much attention recently in the HCI and learning communities. Although TUIs seem to intuitively offer potential to increase the learning experience, there have been questions about whether they actually ...

2012

Paper Interface Design for Classroom Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Sébastien Cuendet, Quentin Bonnard

Designing computer systems for educational purpose is a difficult task. While many of them have been developed in the past, their use in classrooms is still scarce. We make the hypothesis that this is because those systems take into account the needs of in ...

2011

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We analyze classroom orchestration as a question of usability in which the classroom is the user. Our experiments revealed design features that reduce the global orchestration load. According to our studies in vocational schools, paper-based interfaces hav ...

International Society of the Learning Sciences2011

A Study of Spatial Reasoning Skills in Carpenters’ Training

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Sébastien Cuendet

One difficulty with the Swiss dual system is the gap between the practical work in the company and the theoretical teaching at school. In this article, we examine the case of carpenters. We observe that the school-workplace gap exists and materializes thro ...

2011

Task Performance vs. Learning Outcomes: A Study of Tangible User Interface in Classroom Setting

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Guillaume Zufferey, Sébastien Cuendet

Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) offer the potential to facilitate collaborative learning in new ways. This paper presents an empirical study that investigated the effects of a TUE in a classroom setting on task performance and learning outcomes. In the tan ...

Springer2010

Model Adaptation for Sentence Unit Segmentation from Speech

Sébastien Cuendet

The sentence segmentation task is a classification task that aims at inserting sentence boundaries in a sequence of words. One of the applications of sentence segmentation is to detect the sentence boundaries in the sequence of words that is output by an a ...

IDIAP2006