Publications by Adrian Christian Holzer

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

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

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

The Digital Ethics Canvas: A Guide For Ethical Risk Assessment And Mitigation In The Digital Domain

Patrick Jermann, Adrian Christian Holzer, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran, Vladimir Macko

Ethical concerns in the digital domain are growing with the extremely fast evolution of technology and the increasing scale at which software is deployed, potentially affecting our societies globally. It is crucial that engineers evaluate more systematical ...

2023

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

Promoting Computational Thinking Skills in Non-Computer Science Students Gamifying Computational Notebooks to Increase Student Engagement

Pascal Felber, Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah, Marc Lafuente Martinez

Computational thinking (CT) skills are becoming increasingly relevant for future professionals across all domains, beyond computer science (CS). As such, an increasing number of bachelor and masters programs outside of the computer science discipline integ ...

2022

A Canvas for the Ethical Design of Learning Experiences with Digital Tools

Pascal Felber, Denis Gillet, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Adrian Christian Holzer, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle

The use of digital tools has drastically increased in engineering education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These tools generate important ethical issues, in particular in terms of privacy and fairness. However, very few teacher training programmes ...

2022

Challenges and Opportunities in Integrating Interactive Chatbots into Code Review Exercises: A Pilot Case Study

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah

While chatbots are commonly used to support software developers with repetitive tasks, their use in programming education is still limited, particularly for students in non-technical domains. To better understand the potential for chatbots to support progr ...

IATED2022

Instruction, Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes: A Case Study Using Anonymous Social Media in a Face-to-face Classroom

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

With the wide availability of mobile devices and the growing interest in social media, numerous applications have emerged to support student engagement in the classroom. There is conflicting evidence, however, on whether the engagement benefits of such app ...

2020

Gamifying knowledge sharing in humanitarian organisations: a design science journey

Denis Gillet, Samuel Bendahan, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

Humanitarian organisations provide invaluable work to improve the lives of individuals impacted by natural and anthropogenic hazards. While humanitarian organisations are highly knowledge intensive, they often fail to manage knowledge effectively. Providin ...

2020

Bringing Computational Thinking to non-STEM Undergraduates through an Integrated Notebook Application

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah

Computational thinking courses are no longer exclusive to engineering and computer science students in higher education but have become a requirement in other fields, as well as for students in secondary, primary, and even early childhood education. Comput ...

2020

ICT Adoption in Executive Training for Development Blending Digital and Physical Communication and Awareness Channels

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

Digital capacity building is a key policy for states to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper(1) presents one of the actions carried out by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in collaboration with the Swiss Federal ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Active Interdisciplinary Learning in a Design Thinking Course: Going to Class for a Reason

Denis Gillet, Marc Laperrouza, Adrian Christian Holzer

New technologies such as MOOCs make it crucial for universities to find the added value of bringing students to campus. Designing lectures that foster more interactions could address this issue, as student engagement and interaction are harder to replicate ...

IEEE2018

Fostering 21st Century Skills through Interdisciplinary Learning Experiences

Denis Gillet, Marc Laperrouza, Roland John Tormey, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

2018

Blending Digital and Face-to-Face Interaction Using a Co -Located Social MediaApp in Class

Benoît Garbinato, Denis Gillet, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, Adrian Christian Holzer

Improving face-to-face (f2f) interaction in large classrooms is a challenging task as student participation can be hard to initiate. Thanks to the wide adoption of personal mobile devices, it is possible to blend digital and face-to-face interaction and in ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2018

The Multimodal Study of Blended Learning Using Mixed Sources: Dataset and Challenges of the SpeakUp Case

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Social media applications have been proposed as a tool to complement students’ formal learning experiences, often to increase interactivity and participation. However, evidence regarding the benefits and challenges of such applications is still conflicting ...

CEUR2017

Beyond ePortfolios: Creating, Exploiting, and Archiving Activity Traces, Learning Outcomes, and Learning Analytics as Personal Shareable Online Spaces

Denis Gillet, Andrii Vozniuk, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah

The concept of an ePortfolio was introduced in 1999 as an electronic learning record and further developed to overcome the limitation of learning management systems lacking persistent storage for learning artifacts. Nowadays, educational platforms have evo ...

IEEE2017

GraaspBox: Enabling Mobile Knowledge Delivery into Underconnected Environments

Denis Gillet, Andrii Vozniuk, Adrian Christian Holzer

Interacting with knowledge in a timely fashion is critical for the success of humanitarian missions. At the same time, the places where humanitarian action is needed are often those where Internet connection is poor or not available at all, making digital ...

ACM2017

Community Building with Co-located Social Media: A Field Experiment with Syrian Refugees

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer

While co-located social media previously has been employed to enhance interaction in community building activities in previous work, its range of effects have not been quantitatively described. In this study, we introduce a co-located social media app call ...

ACM2017

Towards a Principled Approach to Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

The humanitarian sector is entering in the network age. The explosion in access to new information and communication technology (ICT) like mobile phones, the internet, and social media, is changing the way people communicate in emergency situations. Howeve ...

ACM2017