Publications by Pierre Dillenbourg

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Collaborative learning appears in a joint intellectual efforts of individuals to understand an object of knowledge collectively. In their search for understanding the problems, meanings, and solutions, learners employ different multi-modal strategies. In t ...

Social robots are being used to create better educational scenarios, thereby fostering children's learning. In the work presented here, we describe an autonomous social robot that was designed to enhance children's handwriting skills. Exploiting the benefi ...

Please note that this dataset corresponds to the training data used in "Social robots as skilled ignorant peers for supporting learning "[7]. This (second) version of the dataset additionally includes labels (PE score and cluster labels for each datapoint) ...

Popularity of massive online open courses (MOOCs) allowed educational researchers to address problems which were not accessible few years ago. Although classical statistical techniques still apply, large datasets allow us to discover deeper patterns and to ...

This paper investigates the potential impact of deep generative models on the work of creative professionals. We argue that current generative modeling tools lack critical features that would make them useful creativity support tools, and introduce our own ...

This paper describes research aimed at supporting children's reading practices using a robot designed to interact with children as their reading companion. We use a learning by teaching scenario in which the robot has a similar or lower reading level compa ...

For successful rehabilitation of a patient after a stroke or traumatic brain injury, it is crucial that rehabilitation activities are motivating, provide feedback and have a high rate of repetitions. Advancements in recent technologies provide solutions to ...

We describe a tabletop environment used in vocational schools to teach theoretical concepts to apprentices in lo gistics through the use of a small-scale model of a ware house. It provides a Tangible User Interface in the form of wooden shelves, metallic p ...

The interaction with the various learners in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is often complex. Contemporary MOOC learning analytics relate with click-streams, keystrokes and other user-input variables. Such variables however, do not always capture lear ...

There is an ever growing number of mobile learning applications based on location-awareness, However, there is still a lack of information concerning how it might impact socio-cognitive processes involved in collaboration. This is what the following empiri ...

In this paper, we present a robotic approach to improve the teaching of handwriting using the tangible, haptic-enabled and classroom-friendly Cellulo robots. Our efforts presented here are in line with the philosophy of the Cellulo platform: we aim to crea ...

Despite many years of research in CSCL, computers are still scarcely used in classrooms today. One reason for this is that the constraints of the classroom environment are neglected by designers. In this contribution, we present a CSCL environment designed ...

In this study, we investigated the way users memorize, analyze, collaborate, and learn new concepts on a Tangible User Interface (TUI). Twenty-seven pairs of apprentices in logistics (N = 54) interacted with an interactive simulation of a warehouse. Their ...

While digital tools are more and more used in classrooms, teachers' common practice remains to use photocopied paper documents to share and collect learning exercises from their students. With the Tangible e-Ink Paper (TIP) system, we aim to explore the us ...

Humanoid robots, with a focus on personalised social behaviours, are increasingly being deployed in educational settings to support learning. However, crafting pedagogical HRI designs and robot interventions that have a real, positive impact on participant ...

In this article, we present a multi-level time scales framework for the analysis of human-robot interaction (HRI). Such a framework allows HRI scientists to model the inter-relation between measures and factors of an experiment. Our final goal with the int ...

One of the numerous approaches that increases the interaction quality between two people is having a proper understanding of the other person's perspective. In this doctoral thesis, we aim to understand children's perspective taking behavior, create a pers ...

In educational HRI, it is generally believed that a robots behavior has a direct effect on the engagement of a user with the robot, the task at hand and also their partner in case of a collaborative activity. Increasing this engagement is then held respons ...

We have developed a new tool that makes it possible for people with zero programming experience to intentionally and meaningfully explore the latent space of a GAN. This tool was developed to provide a means for designers to explore the "design space" of t ...

Tangible user interfaces (TUIs) have been the focus of much attention in the HCI and learning communities because of their many potential benefits for learning. However, there have recently been debates about whether TUIs can actually increase learning out ...

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AlloHaptic: Robot-Mediated Haptic Collaboration for Learning Linear Functions

Do Children Perceive Whether a Robotic Peer is Learning or Not?

PE-HRI-temporal: A Multimodal Temporal Dataset in a robot mediated Collaborative Educational Setting

A tutorial on machine learning in educational science

Fashioning Creative Expertise with Generative AI: Graphical Interfaces for GAN-Based Design Space Exploration Better Support Ideation Than Text Prompts for Diffusion Models

When deictic gestures in a robot can harm child-robot collaboration

Designing Configurable Arm Rehabilitation Games: How Do Different Game Elements Affect User Motion Trajectories?

A Tabletop Learning Environment for Logistics Assistants: Activating Teachers

Stimuli-based Gaze Analytics to Enhance Motivation and Learning in MOOCs

‘Location is not enough!’: an Empirical Study of Location-Awareness in Mobile Collaboration

Bringing letters to life: handwriting with haptic-enabled tangible robots

An integrated way of using a tangible user interface in a classroom

Using Mobile Eye-Trackers to Unpack the Perceptual Benefits of a Tangible User Interface for Collaborative Learning

TIP: Tangible e-Ink Paper Manipulatives for Classroom Orchestration

When Positive Perception of the Robot Has No Effect on Learning

Bridging Multilevel Time Scales in HRI

Changing Perspective as A Learning Mechanism

A Social Robot That Looks For Productive Engagement

Neural Design Space Exploration

Tangible vs. Virtual Representations: when Tangibles Benefit the Training of Spatial Skills