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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

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

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

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

An Exploratory Study of Reactions to Bot Comments on GitHub

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah, Xinyang Lu

The widespread use of bots to support software development makes social coding platforms such as GitHub a particularly rich source of data for the study of human-bot interaction. Software development bots are used to automate repetitive tasks, interacting ...

ACM2022

Impersonating Chatbots in a Code Review Exercise to Teach Software Engineering Best Practices

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Vandit Sharma

Over the past decade, the use of chatbots for educational purposes has gained considerable traction. A similar trend has been observed in social coding platforms, where automated agents support software developers with tasks such as performing code reviews ...

IEEE2022

Supporting Developers in Creating Web Apps for Education via an App Development Framework

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah

As more educational activities are conducted online, the need for interactive applications (apps) that can effectively support educators in their practice is increasing. These apps are often created by web developers or by researchers, educators, and even ...

Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València2022

Toward Code Review Notebooks

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah

Peer code review has proven to be a valuable tool in software engineering. However, integrating code reviews into educational contexts is particularly challenging due to the complexity of both the process and popular code review tools. We propose to addres ...

IEEE2022

A Blueprint for Integrating Task-Oriented Conversational Agents in Education

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the use of chatbots for educational purposes. Nevertheless, the chatbot technologies and architectures that are often applied to educational contexts are not necessarily designed for such contexts. Whi ...

2022

Is Your Time Well Spent Online?: Focusing on Quality Experiences Through a User-Centered Recommendation Algorithm and Simulation Model

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Rania Islambouli

Spending an uncontrolled quantity and quality of time on digital news and social media platforms can negatively influence mental health and decrease cognitive abilities. In this paper, we propose a sequential news recommendation system employing deep reinf ...

IEEE2022

Conveying the Perception of Humor Arising from Ambiguous Grammatical Constructs in Human-Chatbot Interaction

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah, Vandit Sharma

Chatbots have long been advocated for computer-assisted language learning systems to support learners with conversational practice. A particular challenge in such systems is explaining mistakes stemming from ambiguous grammatical constructs. Misplaced modi ...

2021

An End-to-End Data Pipeline for Managing Learning Analytics

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Joana Catarina Soares Machado, Juan Carlos Farah

Despite the importance of learning analytics in digital education, there is limited support for researchers in education to generate, access, and share experimental data while complying with ethical and privacy legislation. We propose a set of related tool ...

2021

An Integrated Approach to Learning Analytics

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah

Despite the rise in services generating learning analytics, there is a lack of standard models and guidelines for data integration and aggregation to inform the design choices of applications supporting learning analytics. We propose a bottom-up, user-driv ...

2021

Learning Finance with Games: An Empirical Study

Sandy Ingram, Rania Islambouli

This paper presents an empirical case study on applying game-based learning in an undergraduate finance course. The paper describes the experimental study context, protocol, and results. Using multivariate regression analysis, a significant game effect on ...

IEEE2021

A User Centered News Recommendation System

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Rania Islambouli

Spending an uncontrolled quantity and quality of time on digital information sites is affecting our well-being and can lead to serious problems in the long term. In this paper, we present a sequential recommendation framework that uses deep reinforcement l ...

ACM2021

Klewel Webcast: from Research to Growing Company

Alessandro Vinciarelli, Jean-Marc Odobez, Sandy Ingram

The main motivations behind the webcasting company, Klewel, were to go beyond text-based conference proceedings to offer a user-friendly way to browse and replay presentations, access slides, and search for specific information within a recording. As the p ...

2015

A Social Media Platform in Higher Education

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sandy Ingram, Evgeny Bogdanov, Na Li

This paper reports on the successful use of Graasp, a social media platform, by university students for their collaborative work. Graasp features a number of innovations, such as administrator-free creation of collaborative spaces, context-aware recommenda ...

2012

A Federated Search and Social Recommendation Widget

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Sten Govaerts

This paper presents a federated search and social recommen- dation widget. It describes the widget’s interface and the un- derlying social recommendation engine. A preliminary eval- uation of the widget’s usability and usefulness involving 15 subjects is a ...

2011

The 3A interaction model: towards bridging the gap between formal and informal learning

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Na Li

This paper discusses the adoption of bottom-up social software tools in formal learning environments. This is believed to enhance the learning experience of today’s young generation characterized by being technology savvy and keen on social networking. As ...

IEEE Computer Society2010

Using Social Software for Teamwork and Collaborative Project Management in Higher Education

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Na Li

This paper discusses the potential role of social software in supporting teamwork and collaborative project management in higher education. Based on the fact that social software has been widely spread among young students nowadays, using it for collaborat ...

Springer2010