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Less Conservatism, Stronger Robustness: Iterative Robust Gain-Scheduled Path Following Control of Autonomous Bus With Unstructured and Changing Dynamics

Denis Gillet

Path-following control is a critical technology for autonomous vehicles. However, time-varying parameters, parametric uncertainties, external disturbances, and complicated environments significantly challenge autonomous driving. We propose an iterative rob ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Contextual Learning Analytics Apps to Create Awareness in Blended Inquiry Learning

David Sandoz, Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Blended inquiry learning, where students for example use online labs to perform experiments, is considered a promising approach to increase the skills and interest of students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains. For teachers to pr ...

2015

Identifying Influential Scholars in Academic Social Media Platforms

Denis Gillet, Na Li

The emergence of social media has created new ways to publish scientific work, foster collaboration, and build professional connections in the research community. The rich data collected in social media platforms has provided new opportunities for assessin ...

2013

Towards a Principled Approach to Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology

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

The humanitarian sector is entering in the network age. The explosion in access to new information and communication technology (ICT) like mobile phones, the internet, and social media, is changing the way people communicate in emergency situations. Howeve ...

ACM2017

Combining Content Analytics and Activity Tracking to Identify User Interests and Enable Knowledge Discovery

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Andrii Vozniuk

Finding relevant content is one of the core activities of users interacting with a content repository, be it knowledge workers using an organizational knowledge management system at a workplace or self-regulated learners collaborating in a learning environ ...

2016

Data-Driven Convergence Prediction of Astrobots Swarms

Denis Gillet, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Matin Macktoobian

Astrobots are robotic artifacts whose swarms are used in astrophysical studies to generate the map of the observable universe. These swarms have to be coordinated with respect to various desired observations. Such coordination\footnote{\z{A coordination sa ...

2022

ADA for IBL: Lessons Learned in Aligning Learning Design and Analytics for Inquiry-Based Learning Orchestration

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Orchestrating technology-enhanced learning is a difficult task, especially in demanding pedagogical approaches like inquiry-based learning (IBL). To foster effective teacher adoption, both the complexity of designing IBL activities and the uncertainty abou ...

2021

Contextual Spaces with Functional Skins as OpenSocial Extension

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Evgeny Bogdanov

Portability, flexibility and extensibility are essential features of social media platforms. When such Web platforms are able to take user's context into account, they provide better user experience and enhance the effectiveness of users' actions. In this ...

2011

Web-Enabled Remote Scientific Environments

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

A new approach to developing Web-enabled environments for remote diagnostics, maintenance, and experimentation in engineering is based on a middleware layer that uses a Java-Internet-Labview server to provide communication between Java programs and Labview ...

2009

Laboratory as a Service (LaaS): a Model for Developing and Implementing Remote Laboratories as Modular Components

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

This contribution introduces a novel model, Laboratory as a Service (LaaS), for developing remote laboratories as independent component modules and implementing them as a set of loosely-coupled services to be consumed with a high level of abstraction and v ...

IEEE2014

Introducing Alternative Value Proposition Canvases for Collaborative and Blended Design Thinking Activities in Science and Engineering Education

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

The value proposition canvas introduced in 2015 by Pigneur et al. is broadly used by entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to create new services and products. We decided to apply it for collaborative and blended design thinking activities in a specialization in ...

IEEE2022

The 3A Personalized, Contextual and Relation-based Recommender System

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sandy Ingram

This paper discusses the 3A recommender system that targets CSCL (computer-supported collaborative learning) and CSCW (computer-supported collaborative work) environments. The proposed system models user interactions in a heterogeneous graph. Then, it appl ...

2010

The 3A Contextual Ranking System: Simultaneously Recommending Actors, Assets, and Group Activities

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sandy Ingram, Stéphane Sire

In this paper, we propose a personalized and contextual ranking algorithm implemented on top of the 3A interaction model. The latter is a generic model intended for designing and describing social and collaborative learning platforms integrating Actors, As ...

ACM2009

Is Your Time Well Spent Online?: Focusing on Quality Experiences Through a User-Centered Recommendation Algorithm and Simulation Model

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Rania Islambouli

Spending an uncontrolled quantity and quality of time on digital news and social media platforms can negatively influence mental health and decrease cognitive abilities. In this paper, we propose a sequential news recommendation system employing deep reinf ...

IEEE2022

Conveying the Perception of Humor Arising from Ambiguous Grammatical Constructs in Human-Chatbot Interaction

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram

Chatbots have long been advocated for computer-assisted language learning systems to support learners with conversational practice. A particular challenge in such systems is explaining mistakes stemming from ambiguous grammatical constructs. Misplaced modi ...

2021

Helping each other teach: design and realisation of a social tutoring platform

Denis Gillet, Sten Govaerts

Today a wide range of technologies exist that support learning and teaching, ranging from learning management systems (LMS) to general social media platforms, such as Facebook and blogs. However, teaching with such tools and platforms can create various ob ...

2014

Rule of Thumb – Effect of Social Button Icons on Interaction

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Samuel Bendahan

Social buttons are now widespread in social media apps. They are used to assign weight to user content and trigger user engagement. They come in different shapes (e.g., thumb in Facebook, arrows in Reddit or StackOverflow, plus one in Google+) but very lit ...

2016

Examining the effects of social media in co-located classrooms: A case study based on SpeakUp

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos

The broad availability of mobile computing devices has prompted the apparition of social media applications that support teaching and learning. However, so far, there is conflicting evidence as to whether the benefits such applications provide in terms of ...

Springer International Publishing2016

Privacy-Aware Digital Mediation Tools for Improving Adolescent Mental Well-being: Application to School Bullying

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia

In human-computer interaction, self-disclosure of sensitive information regarding distressing experiences requires the establishment of a trust channel between the user and the digital tool. As privacy and security have been identified as factors that cont ...

2020

An End-to-End Data Pipeline for Managing Learning Analytics

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Joana Catarina Soares Machado

Despite the importance of learning analytics in digital education, there is limited support for researchers in education to generate, access, and share experimental data while complying with ethical and privacy legislation. We propose a set of related tool ...

2021