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Les "Big data" du passé

Frédéric Kaplan

Les sciences humaines sont sur le point de vivre un bouleversement comparable à celui qui a frappé la biologie dans les trente dernières années. Cette révolution consiste essentiellement en un changement d’échelle dans l’ambition et la taille des projets d ...

2013

How to build an information time machine

Frédéric Kaplan

The Venice Time Machine project aims at building a multidimensional model of Venice and its evolution covering a period of more than 1000 years. Kilometers of archives are currently being digitized, transcribed and indexed setting the base of the largest d ...

2013

Paper Interfaces for Learning Geometry

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Himanshu Verma, Quentin Bonnard

Paper interfaces offer tremendous possibilities for geometry education in primary schools. Existing computer interfaces designed to learn geometry do not consider the integration of conventional school tools, which form the part of the curriculum. Moreover ...

2012

Hands-on Symmetry with Augmented Reality on Paper

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Quentin Bonnard

Computers have been trying to make their way into education, because they can allow learners to manipulate abstract notions and explore problem spaces easily. However, even with the tremendous potential of computers in education, their integration into for ...

2012

Tangible Paper Interfaces: Interpreting Pupils' Manipulations

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Patrick Jermann, Quentin Bonnard

Paper interfaces merge the advantages of the digital and physical world. They can be created using normal paper augmented by a camera+projector system. They are particularly promising for applications in education, because paper is already fully integrated ...

2012

Anthropomorphic Language in Online Forums about Roomba, AIBO and the iPad

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

What encourages people to refer to a robot as if it was a living being? Is it because of the robot’s humanoid or animal-like shape, its movements or rather the kind of inter- action it enables? We aim to investigate robots’ characteristics that lead people ...

IEEE2012

How books will become machines

Frédéric Kaplan

This article is an attempt to reframe the evolution of books into a larger evolutionary theory. A central concept of this theory is the notion of regulated representation. A regulated representation is governed by a set of production and usage rules.ur cor ...

PPUR2012

Supporting opportunistic search in meetings with tangible tabletop

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Nan Li

Web searches are often needed in collocated meetings. Many research projects have been conducted for supporting collaborative search in information-seeking meetings, where searches are executed both intentionally and intensively. However, for most common m ...

ACM Press2012

Can a Table Regulate Participation in Top Level Managers' Meetings?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Flaviu Roman

We present a longitudinal study on the participation regulation effects in the presence of a speech aware interactive table. This study focuses on training meetings of groups of top level managers, whose compositions do not change, in a corporate organizat ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2012

La bibliothèque comme interface physique de découverte et lieu de curation collective

Frédéric Kaplan

Une bibliothèque est toujours un volume organisé en deux sous-espaces : une partie publique (front-end) avec laquelle les usages peuvent interagir, une partie cachée (back-end) utilisée pour la logistique et le stockage. À la Bibliothèque Nationale de Fran ...

2012