Publications by Pierre Dillenbourg

Quantitative analysis of the correlation between body posture quality assessment scores and handwriting quality measures

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Various technological applications for body posture correction have been proposed in order to improve handwriting or facilitate its learning for children, under the assumption that a better posture promotes better handwriting. However, very little research ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

The Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention to Promote Correct Handwriting Posture for Children

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Persuasive social robots have the ability to influence human behaviour through social interaction, which makes them a valuable technological solution for all applications aiming to support a person's behaviour change. The recently proposed Child-Robot Rela ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

"Jupyter-Notebook-as-Script": Investigating the Nature and Impact of Implicit Collaboration Scripts in Computational Notebooks

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Richard Lee Davis

There are a variety of CSCL scripts that offer different levels of flexibility, ranging from high-structured guidance towards low-rigidity support. This study is grounded in the view that scripts should be designed with a certain degree of structuredness, ...

2025

Rapid in-class assessment of handwriting using a digital tablet: Multidimensional analysis of gender and socioeconomic status

Pierre Dillenbourg

2025

Learning by Teaching: Designing Teachable Agents to Support Children's Pronunciation Skill Learning

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang

Pronunciation is a critical yet challenging aspect of language acquisition, especially for children. In this work, we propose a new teachable agent system designed to support children's pronunciation learning through a Learning-by-Teaching paradigm to addr ...

Association for Computing Machinery2025

Jupyter Analytics: A Toolkit for Collecting, Analyzing, and Visualizing Distributed Student Activity in Jupyter Notebooks

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Richard Lee Davis

Jupyter is a web-based, interactive computing environment that supports many commonly-used programming languages. It has been widely adopted in the CS education community and is now rapidly expanding to other STEM disciplines due to the growing integration ...

ACM2025

Fashioning Creative Expertise with Generative AI: Graphical Interfaces for GAN-Based Design Space Exploration Beter Support Ideation Than Text Prompts for Difusion Models

Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Thiemo Wambsganss, Wei Jiang

This paper investigates the potential impact of deep generative models on the work of creative professionals. We argue that current generative modeling tools lack critical features that would make them useful creativity support tools, and introduce our own ...

Association for Computing Machinery2024

PE-HRI-temporal: A Multimodal Temporal Dataset in a robot mediated Collaborative Educational Setting

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir

Please note that this dataset corresponds to the training data used in "Social robots as skilled ignorant peers for supporting learning "[7]. This (second) version of the dataset additionally includes labels (PE score and cluster labels for each datapoint) ...

Zenodo2024

Exploring and Evaluating the Impacts of Rhythm Training on Reading through Interaction Design

Pierre Dillenbourg, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Reading is an essential skill that plays a crucial role in education, and it involves mastering various sub-skills, such as decoding tokens and acquiring phonological awareness. Research indicates that practising music in an educational setting can enhance ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2024

Co-designing a Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention to Regulate Children's Handwriting Posture

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Persuasive social robots employ their social influence to modulate children's behaviours in child-robot interaction. In this work, we introduce the Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention (CRNI) model, leveraging the passive role of social robots and chil ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2024