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A musculoskeletal shoulder model based on pseudo-inverse and null-space optimization

Dominique Pioletti, Denis Gillet, Alexandre Terrier, Alain Farron, Philippe Müllhaupt

The goal of the present work was assess the feasibility of using a pseudo-inverse and null-space optimization approach in the modeling of the shoulder biomechanics. The method was applied to a simplified musculoskeletal shoulder model. The mechanical syste ...

Elsevier2010

Teacher-Mediated and Student-Led Interaction with a Physics Simulation: Effects on the Learning Experience

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Jérémy Alain La Scala-Jayet

Computer simulations are often used as support material for science education, as they can engage students through inquiry-based learning, promote their active interaction in the experimentation phase, and help them visualize abstract concepts. For instanc ...

2024

Introducing qualitative dimensions to analyze the usefulness of Web 2.0 platforms as PLEs

Denis Gillet, Stéphane Sire, Evgeny Bogdanov

The trends in web development of educational applications and of Web 2.0 or social applications are converging. Platforms are designed to host a variety of software components (called widgets or plugins), which can be organised or combined (mashed-up) at u ...

2011

Assessing ChatGPT's Influence on Critical Thinking in Sustainability Oriented Activities

Denis Gillet, Claudia Alarcon Lopez

Critical thinking is vital in every education system. Digital tools like Large Language Models (LLMs), exemplified by ChatGPT, are part of a new scheme of education; studying its influence on critical thinking (CT) is a rising research field with a need fo ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Interactive Lab Experimentation and Simulation Tools for Remote Laboratories

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Yves Henri Philippe Piguet

New extensions and features to the remote laboratories currently used for undergraduate courses in automatic control laboratory at the School of Engineering of University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland are presented. This paper shows how ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Using Educational Data From Teaching And Learning To Inform Teachers’ Reflective Educational Design In Inquiry-Based STEM Education

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education is recognized as a top priority for school education worldwide and Inquiry-based teaching and learning is identified as one of the most dominant approaches. To effectively engage individual ...

2019

Digital Intervention for Collaborative and Human-Centered Activities in Design-Based Learning Scenarios

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Jérémy Alain La Scala-Jayet

Training science and engineering students to become responsible citizens and professionals requires novel and creative pedagogical approaches, such as design thinking. This concept relies on processes and tools to develop creativity and problem-solving ski ...

IEEE2023

User Perception Model for Wearable Supervision Systems

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Damien Perritaz

Wearable supervision systems ease the deployment of advanced mobile solutions for the control of industrial plants. These systems are used to provide operators with the adequate information to perform the required manual operations on industrial plants. Th ...

ACM: The Singapore Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery2007

Collecting Experience Data from Remotely Hosted Learning Applications

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

The ability to integrate multiple learning applications from different organizations allows sharing resources and reducing costs in the deployment of learning systems. In this sense, Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is the main current leading technol ...

SPRINGER2018

A Hamilton-Jacobi Formulation for Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems

Denis Gillet

Coordination of autonomous non-point agents is studied in this work. Interactions between vehicles together with their internal dynamics have been modeled as a continuous, unconstrained differential game. In particular, collision prediction is shown to be ...

2009

Cloud Ecosystem for Supporting Inquiry Learning with Online Labs: Creation, Personalization, and Exploitation

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

To effectively and efficiently implement blended science and technology education, teachers should be able to find educational resources that suit their need, fit with their curricula, and that can be easily exploited in their classroom. The European Union ...

Ieee2017

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Technology-Enhanced Learning in Europe

Denis Gillet

Technology enhanced learning (TEL) research connects Learning Sciences, Educational Psychology, and Computer Science, in order to investigate interventions based on digital technologies in education and training settings. In this paper, we argue that docto ...

2020

Merging into Single-Lane Roundabouts in the Presence of Uncertainty

Denis Gillet, Ezequiel González Debada

Merging efficiently into roundabouts represents a challenge for autonomous vehicles due to the speed difference between merging traffic flows and the lack of certainty regarding drivers' intent, specially when the road is shared with human drivers and/or i ...

2019

SUPPORTING THE FULL LIFE CYCLE OF RICH OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES WITH A LEARNING EXPERIENCE PLATFORM

Denis Gillet, Jérémy Alain La Scala-Jayet, Basile Maurice Pierre Spaenlehauer

Digital solutions play a key role for enabling blended learning in higher engineering education, where the acquisition and the appropriation of core competences and transversal skills require interactive resources offering a high-level and quasi-profession ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

ICT Adoption in Executive Training for Development Blending Digital and Physical Communication and Awareness Channels

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia

Digital capacity building is a key policy for states to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper(1) presents one of the actions carried out by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in collaboration with the Swiss Federal ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Vision-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection and Tracking for Sense and Avoid Systems

Krishna Raj Sapkota, Pascal Fua, Denis Gillet, Alcherio Martinoli, Vincent Lepetit, Steven Adriaan Roelofsen, Artem Rozantsev

We propose an approach for on-line detection of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and estimation of their relative positions and velocities in the 3D environment from a single moving camera in the context of sense and avoid systems. This problem is cha ...

Ieee2016

Optimal target assignment for massive spectroscopic surveys

Denis Gillet, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Matin Macktoobian

Robotics have recently contributed to cosmological spectroscopy to automatically obtain the map of the observable universe using robotic fiber positioners. For this purpose, an assignment algorithm is required to assign each robotic fiber positioner to a t ...

2020

Perceiving learning at a glance: A systematic literature review of learning dashboard research

Pierre Dillenbourg, Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Andrii Vozniuk, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni, Beat Adrian Schwendimann

This paper presents a systematic literature review of the state-of-the-art of research on learning dashboards in the fields of Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining. Research on learning dashboards aims to identify what data is meaningful to diffe ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

An Extensible Architecture for the Integration of Remote and Virtual Laboratories in Public Learning Tools

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sten Govaerts

Remote laboratories are software and hardware tools that allow students to remotely access real equipment located in universities. The integration of remote laboratories in learning tools (learning management systems, content man- agement systems, or perso ...

2015

The Mach-Zehnder Interferometer: A smart remote experiment based on a software template

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Wissam Halimi

Hands-on laboratory sessions are one of the pillars of science and engineering education. It is reputed that institu- tions find it difficult to provide enough laboratory setups that cover all taught scientific topics due to logistical and budgetary limita ...

IEEE2016