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EPFL2024

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The importance of psychological safety in teams has been demonstrated in different settings. Team performance improves when team climate allows team members to be their authentic selves, to ask questions and raise concerns comfortably. However, it is less ...

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Understanding and Enhancing Digital Wellbeing Dimensions: Empirical Studies on Smartphone Usage Patterns and Recommendations of Micro-Informative Content

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Digital technology has become an integral part of our lives, offering various benefits from communication and entertainment to education and productivity. However, its pervasive use has also raised concerns about its potential negative impact on users' wel ...

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Referencing in YouTube Knowledge Communication Videos

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SoDaCam: Software-defined Cameras via Single-Photon Imaging

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Reinterpretable cameras are defined by their post-processing capabilities that exceed traditional imaging. We present "SoDaCam" that provides reinterpretable cameras at the granularity of photons, from photon-cubes acquired by single-photon devices. Photon ...

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AI-based telepresence for broadcast applications

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In this paper, we introduce a new solution and underlying architecture that allows remote participants to interact with hosts in a broadcast scenario. To achieve this, background extraction is first applied to video received from remote participants to ext ...

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A Game-Based Approach to Develop Engineering Students’ Awareness About Artificial Intelligence Ethical Challenges

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The past few decades have seen important efforts to introduce more ethics into engineering education programs around the world, while adapting to the evolution of ethical concerns, notably in relation to digital technology and artificial intelligence. Even ...

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Asynchrony Increases Efficiency: Time Encoding of Videos and Low-Rank Signals

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In event-based sensing, many sensors independently and asynchronously emit events when there is a change in their input. Event-based sensing can present significant improvements in power efficiency when compared to traditional sampling, because (1) the out ...

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Meta Transfer Learning for Early Success Prediction in MOOCs

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Mirko Marras, Vinitra Swamy

Despite the increasing popularity of massive open online courses (MOOCs), many suffer from high dropout and low success rates. Early prediction of student success for targeted intervention is therefore essential to ensure no student is left behind in a cou ...

ACM2022

Equality of Learning Opportunity via Individual Fairness in Personalized Recommendations

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Online education platforms play an increasingly important role in mediating the success of individuals' careers. Therefore, while building overlying content recommendation services, it becomes essential to guarantee that learners are provided with equal re ...

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How Asynchronous Events Encode Video

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As event-based sensing gains in popularity, theoretical understanding is needed to harness this technology’s potential. Instead of recording video by capturing frames, event-based cameras have sensors that emit events when their inputs change, thus encodin ...

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Learning Analytics for Adaptive and Self-Improving Learning Environments for Inductive Teaching

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The emergence of digital technology is changing education in many ways. A particularly interesting aspect of this transformation is the development of learning environments that can automatically adapt to individual students and can collect data in order t ...

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Simon Nessim Henein, Ramiro Tau

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L2D 2021: First International Workshop on Enabling Data-Driven Decisions from Learning on the Web

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By offering courses and resources, learning platforms on the Web have been attracting lots of participants, and the interactions with these systems have generated a vast amount of learning-related data. Their collection, processing and analysis have promot ...

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Transferring interactive activities in large lectures from face-to-face to online settings

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Louis Pierre Faucon

Purpose Within higher education, there was an abrupt shift from face-to-face to online lecturing with the introduction of social distancing measures in light of a global pandemic. The purpose of this study is to enrich the connection between students and i ...

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD2020

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A Bayesian Model of Individual Differences and Flexibility in Inductive Reasoning for Categorization of Examples

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Louis Pierre Faucon

Inductive reasoning is an important educational practice but can be difficult for teachers to support in the classroom due to the high level of preparation and classroom time needed to choose the teaching materials that challenge students' current views. I ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

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

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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 ...

IEEE2019

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Paolo Prandoni, Eric Bezzam, Adrien Guillaume Olivier Hoffet

In this paper we describe our approach to teaching applied digital signal processing (DSP) using freely-available software and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware components. The pedagogical framework is built around simple real-time audio processing algori ...

IEEE2019