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Fostering Innovation with Generative AI: A Study on Human-AI Collaborative Ideation and User Anonymity

Collaborative ideation is a key aspect of many innovation processes. However, a lack of proper support can hinder the process and limit the ability of participants to generate innovative ideas. Thus, we introduce AI-deation, a digital environment for colla ...

2025

Exploring the Negative Impact of Smartphone Usage on Students’ Digital Wellbeing: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Rania Islambouli

Informa UK Limited2025

Boosting trauma resilience: The power of electronic mental health support - a randomized trial

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Juan Carlos Farah

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing traumatic events, such as death, serious injury, or threats to oneself or others. Affecting 5–10 % of the population, PTSD is often underreported due t ...

Elsevier BV2025

Supporting Brainstorming Activities with Bots in Software Engineering Education

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah

The recent rise in the performance and availability of large language models (LLMs) has fueled the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to support software engineering. Technologies such as Copilot and ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in softw ...

2025

Enhancing Student Engagement through Social Media-Based Gamification in a UI/UX Design Course

Denis Gillet

Nowadays, incorporating innovative teaching methods that enhance student engagement has become increasingly crucial. In our study, we examine a new pedagogical practice which relies on gamified formative peer assessment and social media to improve student ...

Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València (edUPV)2025

Implementation Framework and Strategies for AI-augmented Open Educational Resources (OER): A Comprehensive Approach Applied to Secondary and Higher Education

Denis Gillet

This paper aims to propose an implementation framework for the adoption and management of Open Educational Resources (OER), focusing on their lifecycle, as well as the integration of AI for supporting educators in their classification of the created conten ...

2024

Less Conservatism, Stronger Robustness: Iterative Robust Gain-Scheduled Path Following Control of Autonomous Bus With Unstructured and Changing Dynamics

Denis Gillet, Jianwei Li, Man Shi

Path-following control is a critical technology for autonomous vehicles. However, time-varying parameters, parametric uncertainties, external disturbances, and complicated environments significantly challenge autonomous driving. We propose an iterative rob ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Engineering a Sustainable Future: Inspiring next STEM generation by Innovation

Denis Gillet

The aim of the workshop is to foster a synergetic collaboration between engineers/industry professionals and educators, teachers and students, with goal to address STEM education gaps related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Engineers and scienc ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Generative AI-Enabled Conversational Interaction to Support Self-Directed Learning Experiences in Transversal Computational Thinking

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Abdessalam Ouaazki, Juan Carlos Farah

As computational thinking (CT) becomes increasingly acknowledged as an important skill in education, self-directed learning (SDL) emerges as a key strategy for developing this capability. The advent of generative AI (GenAI) conversational agents has disrup ...

2024

Leveraging Collaborative Digital Platforms for Supervising Project-Based Learning Activities: A Case Study

Denis Gillet

In contemporary engineering education, project-based learning (PBL) has emerged as a prominent pedagogical approach to foster transversal skills like collaboration and communication. However, effective supervision and guidance of student groups in PBL pres ...

SEFI2024

Teacher-Mediated and Student-Led Interaction with a Physics Simulation: Effects on the Learning Experience

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah

Computer simulations are often used as support material for science education, as they can engage students through inquiry-based learning, promote their active interaction in the experimentation phase, and help them visualize abstract concepts. For instanc ...

2024

SUPPORTING THE FULL LIFE CYCLE OF RICH OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES WITH A LEARNING EXPERIENCE PLATFORM

Denis Gillet

Digital solutions play a key role for enabling blended learning in higher engineering education, where the acquisition and the appropriation of core competences and transversal skills require interactive resources offering a high-level and quasi-profession ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Understanding Digital Wellbeing Through Smartphone Usage Intentions and Regrettable Patterns

Denis Gillet, Rania Islambouli

The ubiquitous presence of smartphones raises significant concerns regarding their impact on users' digital well-being. This study delves into the complex relationship between smartphone usage patterns and digital wellbeing while focusing on the physical, ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Assessing ChatGPT's Influence on Critical Thinking in Sustainability Oriented Activities

Denis Gillet

Critical thinking is vital in every education system. Digital tools like Large Language Models (LLMs), exemplified by ChatGPT, are part of a new scheme of education; studying its influence on critical thinking (CT) is a rising research field with a need fo ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Supporting Well-Being: A Digital Intervention Model for Disclosing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia

Sexual harassment is prevalent at all levels of higher education and research and in all disciplines, which means that engineering education is no exception. Following the #MeToo movement, students have started to report cases of abuses publicly in our ins ...

IEEE2023

TRACE: A Conceptual Model to Guide the Design of Educational Chatbots

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Fanny Kim-Lan Lasne

Driven by the rising popularity of chatbots such as ChatGPT, there is a budding line of research proposing guidelines for chatbot design, both in general and specifically for digital education. Nevertheless, few researchers have focused on providing concep ...

Springer2023

Using Video Streaming Feeds to Encourage Informal Learning

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Rania Islambouli

Social media have become an indispensable part of daily life, particularly among university students, who regularly browse social news feeds in their spare time. Due to their pervasiveness, social media platforms provide an opportunity for influencing user ...

Los Alamitos2023

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

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah

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

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

Prompting Large Language Models to Power Educational Chatbots

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah, Fanny Kim-Lan Lasne

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