Publications by Bertrand Roland Schneider

Hands-on tasks make learning visible: a learning analytics lens on the development of mechanistic problem-solving expertise in makerspaces

Bertrand Roland Schneider, Richard Lee Davis

This study investigated the impact of participating in a year-long digital-fabrication course on high-school seniors' problem-solving skills, with a focus on problems involving mechanistic systems. The research questions centered on whether working in a ma ...

Springer2023

Facilitators First: Building a Tool With Facilitators to Foster a More Collaborative Makerspace Community Through Movement Traces

Bertrand Roland Schneider, Léonore Valentine Guillain

Research indicates that makerspaces equip students with the practical skills needed to build their own projects and thrive in the twenty-first-century workforce. While the appeal of makerspaces lies in their spirit of tinkering and community-driven ethos, ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Leveraging mobile eye-trackers to capture joint visual attention in co-located collaborative learning groups

Guillaume Zufferey, Sébastien Cuendet, Pierre Dillenbourg, Bertrand Roland Schneider, Kshitij Sharma

This paper describes a promising methodology for studying co-located groups: mobile eye-trackers. We provide a comprehensive description of our data collection and analysis processes so that other researchers can take advantage of this cutting-edge technol ...

SPRINGER2018

Using Mobile Eye-Trackers to Unpack the Perceptual Benefits of a Tangible User Interface for Collaborative Learning

Guillaume Zufferey, Sébastien Cuendet, Pierre Dillenbourg, Bertrand Roland Schneider, Kshitij Sharma

In this study, we investigated the way users memorize, analyze, collaborate, and learn new concepts on a Tangible User Interface (TUI). Twenty-seven pairs of apprentices in logistics (N = 54) interacted with an interactive simulation of a warehouse. Their ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Detecting Collaborative Dynamics Using Mobile Eye-Trackers

Guillaume Zufferey, Sébastien Cuendet, Pierre Dillenbourg, Bertrand Roland Schneider, Kshitij Sharma

: Prior work has successfully described how low and high-performing dyads of students differ in terms of their visual synchronization (e.g., Barron, 2000; Jermann, Mullins, Nuessli & Dillenbourg, 2011). But there is far less work analyzing the diversity of ...

2016

Benefits of a Tangible Interface for Collaborative Learning and Interaction

Guillaume Zufferey, Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Bertrand Roland Schneider

We investigated the role that tangibility plays in a problem-solving task by observing logistic apprentices using either a multitouch or a tangible interface. Results showed that tangibility helped them perform the task better and achieve a higher learning ...

2011