Publications de Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

How Florist Apprentices Explore Bouquet Designs: Supporting Design Space Exploration for Vocational Students

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Context: Exploring the design space is an important process in a design task. In this study, we considered design space exploration for the learners in vocational education and training (VET). The goal of the study was to investigate how they explore the d ...

2021

Engagement in Human-Agent Interaction: An Overview

Jauwairia Nasir, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Engagement is a concept of the utmost importance in human-computer interaction, not only for informing the design and implementation of interfaces, but also for enabling more sophisticated interfaces capable of adapting to users. While the notion of engage ...

2020

Using immersive virtual reality to support designing skills in vocational education

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach, Martin Dobricki

Immersive virtual reality (IVR) offers possibilities of creating a learner‐centric environment that can provide more presence and engagement for students leading to an enhanced learning experience compared to conventional classroom practices. However, the ...

2020

BloomGraph: Graph-Based Exploration of Bouquet Designs for Florist Apprentices

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Exploring design space is an important process in finding solutions to a design task. In this paper, we present BloomGraph, an online application developed for florist apprentices to explore the space of bouquet designs. BloomGraph provides a graph-based i ...

Springer, Cham2019

On the Use of Gaze as a Measure for Performance in a Visual Exploration Task

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Visual exploration skill acquisition is important for many vocational professions, yet many apprentices struggle to acquire these skills, impacting both their grades and practical work. Traditionally, the learning of visual skills is facilitated through ex ...

Springer2019

BloomGraph: Graph-Based Exploration of Bouquet Designs for Florist Apprentices

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Exploring design space is an important process in finding solutions to a design task. In this paper, we present BloomGraph, an online application developed for florist apprentices to explore the space of bouquet designs. BloomGraph provides a graph-based i ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Responsive Joint Attention in Human-Robot Interaction

Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Joint attention has been shown to be not only crucial for human-human interaction but also human-robot interaction. Joint attention can help to make cooperation more efficient, support disambiguation in instances of uncertainty and make interactions appear ...

IEEE2019

Predicting Group Performance in Task-Based Interaction

Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

We address the problem of automatically predicting group performance on a task, using multimodal features derived from the group conversation. These include acoustic features extracted from the speech signal, and linguistic features derived from the conver ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology

Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Over the last decade, the study of group behavior for multimodal interaction technologies has increased. However, we believe that despite its potential benefits on society, there could be more activity in this area. The aim of this workshop is create a for ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Towards building an attentive artificial listener: on the perception of attentiveness in audio-visual feedback tokens

Jean-Marc Odobez, Kenneth Alberto Funes Mora, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach, Yu Yu

Current dialogue systems typically lack a variation of audio-visual feedback tokens. Either they do not encompass feedback tokens at all, or only support a limited set of stereotypical functions. However, this does not mirror the subtleties of spontaneous ...

ACM2016