Publications by Richard Lee Davis

"Jupyter-Notebook-as-Script": Investigating the Nature and Impact of Implicit Collaboration Scripts in Computational Notebooks

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Richard Lee Davis

There are a variety of CSCL scripts that offer different levels of flexibility, ranging from high-structured guidance towards low-rigidity support. This study is grounded in the view that scripts should be designed with a certain degree of structuredness, ...

2025

Jupyter Analytics: A Toolkit for Collecting, Analyzing, and Visualizing Distributed Student Activity in Jupyter Notebooks

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Richard Lee Davis

Jupyter is a web-based, interactive computing environment that supports many commonly-used programming languages. It has been widely adopted in the CS education community and is now rapidly expanding to other STEM disciplines due to the growing integration ...

ACM2025

Fashioning Creative Expertise with Generative AI: Graphical Interfaces for GAN-Based Design Space Exploration Beter Support Ideation Than Text Prompts for Difusion Models

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wei Jiang, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Richard Lee Davis, Thiemo Wambsganss

This paper investigates the potential impact of deep generative models on the work of creative professionals. We argue that current generative modeling tools lack critical features that would make them useful creativity support tools, and introduce our own ...

Association for Computing Machinery2024

Fashioning Creative Expertise with Generative AI: Graphical Interfaces for GAN-Based Design Space Exploration Better Support Ideation Than Text Prompts for Diffusion Models

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Wei Jiang, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Richard Lee Davis, Thiemo Wambsganss

This paper investigates the potential impact of deep generative models on the work of creative professionals. We argue that current generative modeling tools lack critical features that would make them useful creativity support tools, and introduce our own ...

2024

A Comparative Analysis of Tools & Task Types for Measuring Computational Problem-Solving

Engin Walter Bumbacher, Jérôme Guillaume Brender, Richard Lee Davis

How to measure students' Computational Problem-Solving (CPS) competencies is an ongoing research topic. Prevalent approaches vary by measurement tools (e.g., interactive programming, multiple-choice tests, or programming-independent tests) and task types ( ...

Association for Computing Machinery2024

Learning Analytics Beyond Traditional Classrooms: Addressing the Tensions of Cognitive and Meta-Cognitive Goals in Exercise Sessions

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Richard Lee Davis

A range of learning analytics (LA) tools have been designed and integrated into university classes to facilitate teaching and learning. However, exercise sessions, the educational setting that complements lectures with practical activities, are commonly ov ...

2024

Fashioning the Future: Unlocking the Creative Potential of Deep Generative Models for Design Space Exploration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Wei Jiang, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Richard Lee Davis, Thiemo Wambsganss

This paper investigates the potential impact of deep generative models on the work of creative professionals, specifically focusing on fashion design. We argue that current generative modeling tools lack critical features that would make them useful creati ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

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

Mixplorer: Scaffolding Design Space Exploration through Genetic Recombination of Multiple Peoples’ Designs to Support Novices’ Creativity

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Richard Lee Davis

The ability to consider a wide range of solutions to a design problem is a crucial skill for designers, and is a major differentiator between experts and novices. One reason for this is that novices are unaware of the full extent of the design space in whi ...

2022

Educational Technologies for Vocational Education. Experiences as Digital Clay

Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis

This book summarises 15 years of research (2007-2021) on the exploitation of digital technologies for VET. In other words, our activities started the same year as the first iPhone was launched! Four research groups formed the leading house on the topic, na ...

EPFL2022

GANs for All: Supporting Fun and Intuitive Exploration of GAN Latent Spaces

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Wei Jiang, Richard Lee Davis

We have developed a new tool that makes it possible for people with zero programming experience to intentionally and meaningfully explore the latent space of a GAN. We combine a number of methods from the literature into a single system that includes multi ...

PMLR2022

On the radar: Predicting near-future surges in skills’ hiring demand to provide early warning to educators

Pierre Dillenbourg, Ramtin Yazdanian, Richard Lee Davis

The AI-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution and the COVID-19 pandemic have one important thing in common: they both have caused significant and rapid changes to the skill set landscape of various industries. These disruptive forces mean that the early ident ...

2021

Neural Design Space Exploration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Wei Jiang, Richard Lee Davis

We have developed a new tool that makes it possible for people with zero programming experience to intentionally and meaningfully explore the latent space of a GAN. This tool was developed to provide a means for designers to explore the "design space" of t ...

2021

Teaching With Hapkit Enabling Online Haptics Courses With Hands-On Laboratories

Richard Lee Davis

Online learning is an important aspect of higher education today. One-third of college students take at least one course online, and almost 70% of chief academic leaders say that online learning is critical to their long-term strategy. Despite the success ...

2021