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The 3A Interaction Model and Relation-Based Recommender System : Adopting Social Media Paradigms in Designing Personal Learning Environments

We live in a rapidly changing digital world marked by technological advances, and fraught with online information constantly growing thanks to the Internet revolution and the online social applications in particular. Formal learning acquired in traditional ...

EPFL2010

An Exploratory Study of Reactions to Bot Comments on GitHub

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram

The widespread use of bots to support software development makes social coding platforms such as GitHub a particularly rich source of data for the study of human-bot interaction. Software development bots are used to automate repetitive tasks, interacting ...

ACM2022

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

Impersonating Chatbots in a Code Review Exercise to Teach Software Engineering Best Practices

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Basile Maurice Pierre Spaenlehauer

Over the past decade, the use of chatbots for educational purposes has gained considerable traction. A similar trend has been observed in social coding platforms, where automated agents support software developers with tasks such as performing code reviews ...

IEEE2022

Supporting Developers in Creating Web Apps for Education via an App Development Framework

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram

As more educational activities are conducted online, the need for interactive applications (apps) that can effectively support educators in their practice is increasing. These apps are often created by web developers or by researchers, educators, and even ...

Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València2022

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

Social Software Modeling and Mashup based on Actors, Activities and Assets

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sandy Ingram, Evgeny Bogdanov

Despite the extreme diversity of Web applications, one can find similarities among them. This paper proposes an answer to the question of knowing whether it is possible to conceptually represent different Web applications in a common manner such that they ...

2008

Science 2.0: Supporting a Doctoral Community of Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning using Social Software

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram

The STELLAR European network of Excellence (NoE) (http://www.stellarnet.eu) represents the effort of leading European institutions and projects in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) to unify their diverse and sometimes fragmented community. The Network is ...

2009

Toward Code Review Notebooks

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Basile Maurice Pierre Spaenlehauer

Peer code review has proven to be a valuable tool in software engineering. However, integrating code reviews into educational contexts is particularly challenging due to the complexity of both the process and popular code review tools. We propose to addres ...

IEEE2022

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

Practical Lessons Learned while Developing Web 2.0 Collaboration Services for Communities of Practice

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram

Although a plethora of Web 2.0 applications exist today, there is little literature reporting on experiences, concrete recommendations or best practices when developing such applications. The scarcity of such records makes it difficult for developers to de ...

2010

A Blueprint for Integrating Task-Oriented Conversational Agents in Education

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the use of chatbots for educational purposes. Nevertheless, the chatbot technologies and architectures that are often applied to educational contexts are not necessarily designed for such contexts. Whi ...

2022

Harnessing Rule-Based Chatbots to Support Teaching Python Programming Best Practices

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Basile Maurice Pierre Spaenlehauer

In recent years, the use of chatbots in education has been driven by advances in natural language processing and the increasing availability of digital education platforms. Although the added value of educational chatbots appears promising, researchers hav ...

Springer2023

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

Feed-oriented awareness services for e-logbook mobile users

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sandy Ingram

The e-logbook is a collaborative web-based environment deployed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). It consists of an activity-oriented space where a community of educators, teaching assistants and students can form groups, con ...

2008

An Integrated Approach to Learning Analytics

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram

Despite the rise in services generating learning analytics, there is a lack of standard models and guidelines for data integration and aggregation to inform the design choices of applications supporting learning analytics. We propose a bottom-up, user-driv ...

2021

Prompting Large Language Models to Power Educational Chatbots

Fanny Kim-Lan Lasne, Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Basile Maurice Pierre Spaenlehauer

The recent rise in both popularity and performance of large language models has garnered considerable interest regarding their applicability to education. Technologies like ChatGPT, which can engage in human-like dialog, have already disrupted educational ...

Springer2023

Using Social Software for Teamwork and Collaborative Project Management in Higher Education

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Na Li

This paper discusses the potential role of social software in supporting teamwork and collaborative project management in higher education. Based on the fact that social software has been widely spread among young students nowadays, using it for collaborat ...

Springer2010

Learning Finance with Games: An Empirical Study

Sandy Ingram, Rania Islambouli

This paper presents an empirical case study on applying game-based learning in an undergraduate finance course. The paper describes the experimental study context, protocol, and results. Using multivariate regression analysis, a significant game effect on ...

IEEE2021