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The iReCheck project: using tablets and robots for personalised handwriting practice

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore, Chenyang Wang, David Cohen

Handwriting is an important skill in children development as well as in education that take years to be mastered. While keyboards and similar technological devices increasingly become more popular, new tools and engaging approaches are also required to kee ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

OSSCAR, an open platform for collaborative development of computational tools for education in science

Giovanni Pizzi, Sara Bonella, Dou Du

In this paper we present the Open Software Services for Classrooms and Research (OSSCAR) platform. OSSCAR provides an open collaborative environment to develop and access educational resources in the form of web applications, for which various deployment m ...

ELSEVIER2023

The TACS Model: Understanding Primary School Teachers’ Adoption of Computer Science Pedagogical Content

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Frédérique Michèle Chessel-Lazzarotto, Sunny Jonathan Jean-Jacques Laurent Avry

Context With the introduction of computer science (CS) into curricula worldwide, teachers’ adoption of CS-pedagogical content is essential to ensure the long-term success of reform initiatives. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programs play a key ...

2022

Generalisable Methods for Early Prediction in Interactive Simulations for Education

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Christian Giang, Jade Maï L Cock

Interactive simulations allow students to discover the underlying principles of a scientific phenomenon through their own exploration. Unfortunately, students often struggle to learn effectively in these environments. Classifying students’ interaction data ...

2022

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

Adaptive Laser Welding Control: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

Giulio Masinelli, Silvio Zanoli

Despite extensive research efforts in the field of laser welding, the imperfect repeatability of the weld quality still represents an open topic. Indeed, the inherent complexity of the underlying physical phenomena prevents the implementation of an effecti ...

2020

Learner-Computer Interaction

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kshitij Sharma

Learner-Computer Interaction (LCI) research addresses the design, development and use of interactive technologies to support and amplify human learning. LCI is based on the rationale that learning while interacting with technology is a complex, multi-layer ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Building Successful Long Child-Robot Interactions in a Learning Context

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexis David Jacq

The CoWriter activity involves a child in a rich and complex interaction where he has to teach handwriting to a robot. The robot must convince the child it needs his help and it actually learns from his lessons. To keep the child engaged, the robot must le ...

IEEE2016

Language Support for Distributed Functional Programming

Heather Christine Klug

Software development has taken a fundamental turn. Software today has gone from simple, closed programs running on a single machine, to massively open programs, patching together user experiences byway of responses received via hundreds of network requests ...

EPFL2015