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A Network Analysis Approach of the Venetian Incanto System

Yannick Rochat, Frédéric Kaplan, Andrea Mazzei, Mélanie Suzanne Charlotte Fournier

The objective of this paper was to perform new analyses about the structure and evolution of the Incanto system. The hypothesis was to go beyond the textual narrative or even cartographic representation thanks to network analysis, which could potentially o ...

2014

A Preparatory Analysis of Peer-Grading for a Digital Humanities MOOC

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan

Over the last two years, Massive Open Online Classes (MOOCs) have been unexpectedly successful in convincing large number of students to pursue online courses in a variety of domains. Contrary to the "learn anytime anywhere" moto, this new generation of co ...

2014

Are Google’s linguistic prosthesis biased towards commercially more interesting expressions? A preliminary study on the linguistic effects of autocompletion algorithms

Frédéric Kaplan, Anna Jobin

Google's linguistic prosthesis have become common mediators between our intended queries and their actual expressions. By correcting a mistyped word or extending a small string of letters into a statistically plausible continuation, Google offers a valuabl ...

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities2013

Living With a Vacuum Cleaning Robot - A 6-month Ethnographic Study

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

Little is known about the usage, adoption process and long-term effects of domestic service robots in people’s homes. We investigated the usage, acceptance and process of adoption of a vacuum cleaning robot in nine households by means of a six month ethnog ...

Springer Netherlands2013

Dyadic pulsations as a signature of sustainability in correspondence networks

Frédéric Kaplan

2013

Anthropomorphic Language in Online Forums about Roomba, AIBO and the iPad

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

What encourages people to refer to a robot as if it was a living being? Is it because of the robot’s humanoid or animal-like shape, its movements or rather the kind of inter- action it enables? We aim to investigate robots’ characteristics that lead people ...

IEEE2012

Paper Interfaces for Learning Geometry

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Quentin Bonnard, Himanshu Verma

Paper interfaces offer tremendous possibilities for geometry education in primary schools. Existing computer interfaces designed to learn geometry do not consider the integration of conventional school tools, which form the part of the curriculum. Moreover ...

2012

Can a Table Regulate Participation in Top Level Managers' Meetings?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Flaviu Roman

We present a longitudinal study on the participation regulation effects in the presence of a speech aware interactive table. This study focuses on training meetings of groups of top level managers, whose compositions do not change, in a corporate organizat ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2012

Interactive device and method for transmitting commands from a user

Frédéric Kaplan

According to the present invention, it is provided an interactive device comprising a display, a camera, an image analyzing means, said interactive device comprising means to acquire an image with the camera, the analyzing means detecting at least a human ...

2012

Tangible Paper Interfaces: Interpreting Pupils' Manipulations

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Frédéric Kaplan, Quentin Bonnard

Paper interfaces merge the advantages of the digital and physical world. They can be created using normal paper augmented by a camera+projector system. They are particularly promising for applications in education, because paper is already fully integrated ...

2012

Classroom orchestration : The third circle of usability

Guillaume Zufferey, Sébastien Cuendet, Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Frédéric Kaplan, Lenh Hung Son Do, Quentin Bonnard

We analyze classroom orchestration as a question of usability in which the classroom is the user. Our experiments revealed design features that reduce the global orchestration load. According to our studies in vocational schools, paper-based interfaces hav ...

International Society of the Learning Sciences2011

People's Perception of Domestic Service Robots: Same Household, Same Opinion?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

The study presented in this paper examined people’s perception of domestic service robots by means of an ethnographic study. We investigated initial reactions of nine households who lived with a Roomba vacuum cleaner robot over a two week period. To explor ...

Springer2011

An Interactive Table for Supporting Participation Balance in Face-to-Face Collaborative Learning

Pierre Dillenbourg, Khaled Bachour, Frédéric Kaplan

We describe an interactive table designed for supporting face-to-face collaborative learning. The table, Reflect, addresses the issue of unbalanced participation during group discussions. By displaying on its surface a shared visualization of member partic ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

Man-machine interface method executed by an interactive device

Jonathan Besuchet, Frédéric Kaplan

The aim of the present invention is to provide a cost effective solution for a man-machine interface without physical contact with the device to which a command should be given. This aim is achieved by a Man-machine interface method executed by an interact ...

2010

On the Importance of Spatial Configuration of Information

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Frédéric Kaplan

The spatial layout of information influences collaborative interactions. We compared two awareness tools which give information on the status of participants in a collaborative work, one displaying it on a single screen and the other distributing it in the ...

2009

Paper-based Concept Map: the Effects of Tabletop on an Expressive Collaborative Learning Task

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan

Augmented tabletops have recently attracted considerable attention in the literature. However, little has been known about the effects that these interfaces have on learning tasks. In this paper, we report on the results of an empirical study that explores ...

ACM2009

Multi-Finger Interactions with Papers on Augmented Tabletops

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan

Although many augmented tabletop systems have shown the potential and usability of finger-based interactions and paper-based interfaces, they have mainly dealt with each of them separately. In this paper, we introduce a novel method aimed to improve human ...

ACM Press2009

Integration, incorporation, interface: L'evolution des systèmes techniques

Frédéric Kaplan

2009

Distributed Awareness for Class Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Frédéric Kaplan

The orchestration process consists of managing classroom interactions at multiple levels: individual activities, teamwork and class-wide sessions. We study the process of orchestration in recitation sections, i.e. when students work on their assignments in ...

Springer2009

Computational models in the debate over language learnability

Frédéric Kaplan

Computational models have played a central role in the debate over language learnability. This article discusses how they have been used in different stances, from generative views to more recently introduced explanatory frameworks based on embodiment, cog ...

2008

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