Publications related to Situated cognition

Touch and Closeness in Naturally Organized Activities

Countless aspects of touch and closeness have been questioned in an unprecedented way during the recent Covid epidemic. Social practices as banal as greetings were both reflexively and practically challenged and sometimes deeply altered, resulting in painf ...

2024

SORI: A softness-rendering interface to unravel the nature of softness perception

Jamie Paik, Mustafa Mete, Hwayeong Jeong

Tactile perception of softness serves a critical role in the survival, well-being, and social interaction among various species, including humans. This perception informs activities from food selection in animals to medical palpation for disease detection ...

National Academy of Sciences2024

Supporting Teachers' Orchestration in Robot-mediated Classrooms

Sina Shahmoradi

To bring educational robots to classrooms, we need to consider teachers' self-efficacy and challenges in managing a robot-mediated classroom, and how to support them in overcoming these challenges. Orchestration tools are designed to support teachers by pr ...

EPFL2023

Co-encoding embodied knowledge in Southern Chinese martial arts: a collaboration between computists, experts, and digital models

Yumeng Hou

This research, within the framework of computational archives, inspects a novel approach to representing intangible knowledge in traditional martial arts. The methodology presents a unity of ontological modeling, semantic annotation, and feature-based mach ...

Zenodo2023

The Dimension of the Body in Higher Education: Matrix of Meanings in Students’ Diaries

Simon Nessim Henein, Ramiro Tau

In this paper, we attempt to show some consequences of bringing the body back into higher education, through the use of performing arts in the curricular context of scientific programs. We start by arguing that dominant traditions in higher education repro ...

2022

Performing arts as a tool for university education during a pandemic: Moving from an in vivo to an in vitro modality

Simon Nessim Henein, Joëlle Valterio, Ramiro Tau

This paper analyses how a course on improvisation and collective creation in engineering addressed to master's students in Switzerland moved online. The course offers an experience in the field of performing arts, through embodied and situated activities, ...

2021

Movement-Related Cortical Potentials in Embodied Virtual Mirror Visual Feedback

Gangadhar Garipelli, Tamara Rossy

Background: Mirror therapy is thought to drive interhemispheric communication, resulting in a balanced activation. We hypothesized that embodied virtual mirror visual feedback (VR-MVF) presented on a computer screen may produce a similar activation. In thi ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Radical Intangibles: Materializing the Ephemeral

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Lillian Hibberd, Jeffrey Shaw

New materialism considers that the world and its histories are produced by a range of material forces that extend from the physical and the biological to the psychological, social and cultural. In recognizing that heritage is not held in objects alone, new ...

2021

A Performative Threshold Between Teaching Research and Practice. Atlas Poliphilo as Scaffold

Dieter Dietz, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Aurélie Dupuis, Darío Negueruela Del Castillo

Hunches allow us to navigate in a trans-scalar world. Without them, teachers, researchers and practitioners would be left aimless. Hunches relate to the embodied and synthetic nature of the knowledge we produce, but also to its unfolding. Instead of denyin ...

2020

An experiential learning approach to educational development: Responses to teaching architecture through the lenses of reflective practice

Dieter Dietz, Patricia Guaita, Ingrid Le Duc

This paper tells the story of a decade-long relationship between a teaching team (TT) and an educational developer (EDP). They have been using an experiential learning approach to monitor improvements to teaching Architecture to first year students. We exp ...

ETH2020

Harnessing prefrontal cognitive signals for brain-machine interfaces

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) enable humans to interact with devices by modulating their brain signals. Despite impressive technological advancements, several obstacles remain. The most commonly used BMI control signals are derived from the brain areas i ...

Elsevier2017

Building Successful Long Child-Robot Interactions in a Learning Context

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexis David Jacq, Fernando Garcia, Ana Paiva

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

Single locus of control in a tangible paper-based tabletop application: An Exploratory Study

Pierre Dillenbourg, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos, Daniela Caballero Díaz, Yun Wen

Multiple loci of control is one of the main affordances of tangible tabletop UIs due to their capability for simultaneous manipulation. However, there is a tension between the efficiency given by simultaneous manipulation and the need to coordinate and ref ...

ACM2014

A Situated and Embodied Approach to Service-oriented Modeling

Anshuman Bahadur Saxena

[Context] As opposed to the traditional approach to problem solving, which limits the scope of the solution to the stated problem, the mandate for services is to go deeper and focus on the value that the proposed solution creates for the entities affected ...

EPFL2014

Reactivation of Klingnau reservoir sidearm: Numerical simulation of sediment release downstream

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Azin Amini, Philippe Heller

The Klingnau reservoir, situated in north Switzerland, suffers from sedimentation in its left enlargement. The dam is placed in the Aare River about 1 km upstream of its confluence with the Rhine. Due to natural conservation and flood protection reasons, i ...

CRC Press/Balkema2014

A Situated Approach to Systems Based Modeling of Services

Anshuman Bahadur Saxena

Situatedness refers to the imagery that conceptualization invokes. The image, as a whole, provides the context for interpreting the relevance of the categories revealed in the image. At a basic level of conceptualization, the causal relevance of an observe ...

2013

A Situated Approach to Systems Based Modeling of Services

Alain Wegmann, Anshuman Bahadur Saxena

Situatedness refers to the imagery that a conceptualization invokes. The image, as a whole, provides the context for interpreting the relevance of the categories revealed in the image. At a basic level of conceptualization, the conceptual relevance of an o ...

Ieee2013

A Cognitive Reference Based Model for Learning Compositional Hierarchies with Whole-Composite Tags

Alain Wegmann, Anshuman Bahadur Saxena, Ashish Kishore Bindal

A compositional hierarchy is the default organization of knowledge acquired for the purpose of specifying the design requirements of a service. Existing methods for learning compositional hierarchies from natural language text, interpret composition as an ...

2013

Recovery of the default mode network after demanding neurofeedback training occurs in spatio-temporally segregated subnetworks

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Rotem Roza Kopel

The default mode (DM) network is a major large-scale cerebral network that can be identified with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during resting state. Most studies consider functional connectivity networks as stationary phenomena. Consequentl ...

Elsevier2012

Facilitating peer knowledge modeling: Effects of a knowledge awareness tool on collaborative learning outcomes and processes

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mirweis Sangin, Marc-Antoine Nüssli

We report an empirical study where we investigated the effects, on the collaborative outcomes and processes, of a cognition-related awareness tool providing learners with cues about their peer’s level of prior knowledge. Sixty-four university students part ...

Elsevier2011