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Activity theory

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Touch and Closeness in Naturally Organized Activities

Alain Bovet

Countless aspects of touch and closeness have been questioned in an unprecedented way during the recent Covid epidemic. Social practices as banal as greetings were both reflexively and practically challenged and sometimes deeply altered, resulting in painf ...

2024

Efficacy of a ‘Misconceiving’ Robot to Improve Computational Thinking in a Collaborative Problem Solving Activity: A Pilot Study

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Utku Norman

Robot-mediated learning activities are often designed as collaborative exercises where children work together to achieve the activity objectives. Although miscommunications and misunderstandings occur frequently, humans, unlike robots, are very good at ove ...

2022

Performing arts as a tool for university education during a pandemic: Moving from an in vivo to an in vitro modality

Simon Nessim Henein, Joëlle Valterio, Ramiro Tau

This paper analyses how a course on improvisation and collective creation in engineering addressed to master's students in Switzerland moved online. The course offers an experience in the field of performing arts, through embodied and situated activities, ...

2021

Is There ‘ONE way’ of Learning? A Data-driven Approach

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are required to intervene in a learning activity while it is unfolding, to support the learner. To do so, they often rely on performance of a learner, as an approximation for engagement in the learning process. However, i ...

2020

Single locus of control in a tangible paper-based tabletop application: An Exploratory Study

Pierre Dillenbourg, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos, Yun Wen

Multiple loci of control is one of the main affordances of tangible tabletop UIs due to their capability for simultaneous manipulation. However, there is a tension between the efficiency given by simultaneous manipulation and the need to coordinate and ref ...

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