Publications related to Mass collaboration

Digital Intervention for Collaborative and Human-Centered Activities in Design-Based Learning Scenarios

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia

Training science and engineering students to become responsible citizens and professionals requires novel and creative pedagogical approaches, such as design thinking. This concept relies on processes and tools to develop creativity and problem-solving ski ...

IEEE2023

Meeting in the Middle: Towards Successful Multidisciplinary Bioimage Analysis Collaboration

With an increase in subject knowledge expertise required to solve specific biological questions, experts from different fields need to collaborate to address increasingly complex issues. To successfully collaborate, everyone involved in the collaboration m ...

Frontiers Media Sa2022

Dynamic Personalized Ranking

Jérémie Rappaz

Personalized ranking methods are at the core of many systems that learn to produce recommendations from user feedbacks. Their primary objective is to identify relevant items from very large vocabularies and to assist users in discovering new content. These ...

EPFL2022

Teachers’ Reasons to Join a Community About Educational Robotics and STEAM: A Swiss Experience

Sophia Reyes Mury

Today we live in a digital society that requires the acquisition of new skills related to computer science, such as computational thinking or coding skills, as well as cross-curricular skills, such as communication, collaboration and creativity. A possible ...

Springer, Cham2021

Increasing the relevance of science for practice and practice for science: Quantitative empirical insights

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Ralph Hansmann

We present results of a survey conducted with researchers and practitioners involved in a Swiss National Research Programme on steering energy consumption. We analyse what motivates practitioners and researchers to engage in a collaborative research projec ...

2020

Measuring causality between collaborative and individual gaze metrics for collaborative problem-solving with intelligent tutoring systems

Kshitij Sharma, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

When students are working collaboratively and communicating verbally in a technology-enhanced environment, the system cannot track what collaboration is happening outside of the technology, making it difficult to fully assess the collaboration of the stude ...

2021

An Alternate Statistical Lens to Look at Collaboration Data: Extreme Value Theory

Kshitij Sharma, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

To provide beneficial feedback to students during their collaboration, it is important to identify behaviors that are indicative of good collaboration. However, in a collaborative learning session, students engage in a range of behaviors and it can be diff ...

2019

Energy efficiency as an example of cross-discipline collaboration in chemical engineering

François Maréchal

This paper summarizes the round-table discussion that was held during the European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE) in Nice, France, in October 2015 on this topic. The panellists come from different fields of chemical engineering and have thus broug ...

2017

Curriculum co-design using participatory rapid prototyping tools

Roland John Tormey

Higher education is experienced by many academics as a highly individualized environment where they work in relative isolation and often do not see how their teaching fits together with other courses and into the wider curriculum. But, when the ultimate go ...

2017

Latent Social Information in Group Interactions with a Shared Workspace

Himanshu Verma

Shared artifacts, such as drawings and schemas on whiteboards, sticky-notes with ideas on walls, are often created and interacted with during meetings. These shared artifacts a) facilitate the expression of complex fleeting ideas, b) enable collaborators t ...

EPFL2015

The burden of facilitating collaboration: Towards estimation of teacher orchestration load using eye-tracking measures

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kshitij Sharma, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos, Yun Wen

Teacher facilitation of CSCL activities is widely recognized as one of the main factors affecting student learning outcomes in formal face-to-face settings. However, the orchestration load that such facilitation represents for the teacher, within the const ...

International Society of the Learning Sciences2015

A general model of the product development process correlated with the architecture of a semantic software support system

Paul Xirouchakis, Predrag Spasojevic

The product development process (PDP) in innovative companies is becoming more and more complex, encompassing many very diverse activities, and involving a fairly big number of actors, spread across different professions, teams and organizations. One of th ...

2013

g-Social: Enhancing Integrated e-Science Tools with Social Networking Functionality

Andriani Stylianou

During the last decade, the scientific community has witnessed an unprecedented deployment of large-scale, federated e-Infrastructures such as Grid Computing, primarily for supporting data-intensive scientific exploration and coordinated problem solving. H ...

Ieee2012

Widget-Based Approach for Remote Control Labs

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Evgeny Bogdanov

The paper presents a novel approach to conduct laboratory experiments in relation with the Control class taught at EPFL. The existing laboratory interface built as a Java applet, which allows students to access experimentation devices locally or remotely, ...

2012

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

The influences of location awareness on computer-supported collaboration

Nicolas Nova

"Where are you?". This recurring question when opening a mobile conversation attests the importance of spatialisation in social interactions. More and more applications support mutual location-awareness: they enable members of a group to locate their partn ...

EPFL2007

Getting Real with Ubiquitous Computing: the Impact of Discrepancies on Collaboration

Nicolas Nova

Ubiquitous computing is still a maturing field of investigation. The vision of the seamless integration of computers to people’s life has yet to happen, if it ever has to become a reality. Nowadays, most mobile, distributed systems and sensor technologies ...

2006