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The symmetry of partner modelling

Mirweis Sangin, Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova, Gaëlle Molinari, Séverin Lemaignan

Collaborative learning has often been associated with the construction of a shared understanding of the situation at hand. The psycholinguistics mechanisms at work while establishing common grounds are the object of scientific controversy. We postulate tha ...

Springer2016

Topographies réticulaires

Nicolas Nova, Boris Beaude

2016

The effects of mutual location-awareness on group coordination

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

The importance of space and place in collaborative practices has been strengthened with the ubiquitous computing paradigm, which aims at the integration of computation in physical objects and places. New location-based applications allow users to know wher ...

2010

Detecting air travel to survey passengers on a worldwide scale

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

2009

Reconsidering Clark's Theory in CSCW

Mirweis Sangin, Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

The use of Herbert Clark’s work as a theoretical framework in the Computer Supported Collaborative Work domain is often dismissed or judged as “cooked” and led to a large body of controversy. This article intends to reconsider his contribution and re-exami ...

Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix-en_Provence2008

Partner Modeling is Mutual

Mirweis Sangin, Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova, Gaëlle Molinari

Collaborative learning has been hypothesized to be related to the cognitive effort engaged by co-learners to build a shared understanding. The process of constructing this shared understanding requires each team member to build some kind of representation ...

2007

Collaboration in a multi-user game: impacts of an awareness tool on mutual modeling

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

This paper presents an experimental research that focuses on collaboration in a multi-player game. The aim of the project is to study the cognitive impacts of awareness tools, i.e. artifacts that allow users of a collaborative system to be aware of what is ...

Springer, Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com2007

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

The Underwhelming Effects of Automatic Location-Awareness on Collaboration in a Pervasive Game

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova, Gaëlle Molinari

In this paper we seek to empirically study the use of location-awareness of others in the context of mobile collaboration. We report on a field experiment carried out using a pervasive game we developed called CatchBob!. Using both quantitative and qualita ...

2006

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

A Mobile Game to Explore the Use of Location Awareness on Collaboration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

2006

The RoadForum: Sharing informal knowledge in a distributed team through a mobile audio environment

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

2006

A Mobile Game to Explore the Use of Location Awareness on Collaboration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

2005

A Review of How Space Affords Socio-Cognitive Processes during Collaboration

Nicolas Nova

This paper reviews the literature about social and cognitive functions of spatial features used when collaborating in both physical and virtual settings. Those concepts come from various fields like social, cognitive as well as environmental psychology or ...

2005

‘Location is not enough!’: an Empirical Study of Location-Awareness in Mobile Collaboration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

There is an ever growing number of mobile learning applications based on location-awareness, However, there is still a lack of information concerning how it might impact socio-cognitive processes involved in collaboration. This is what the following empiri ...

IEEE Press2005

Etude empirique de l'utilisation de la géolocalisation en collaboration mobile

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

Cet article décrit une application de géolocalisation de groupe en environnement construit. Ce système constitue une plateforme d’exploration de l’impact des technologies de positionnement spatial sur les processus de collaboration entre partenaires géogra ...

2005