Publications de Pierre Dillenbourg

Quantitative analysis of the correlation between body posture quality assessment scores and handwriting quality measures

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Various technological applications for body posture correction have been proposed in order to improve handwriting or facilitate its learning for children, under the assumption that a better posture promotes better handwriting. However, very little research ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

The Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention to Promote Correct Handwriting Posture for Children

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Persuasive social robots have the ability to influence human behaviour through social interaction, which makes them a valuable technological solution for all applications aiming to support a person's behaviour change. The recently proposed Child-Robot Rela ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

"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

Rapid in-class assessment of handwriting using a digital tablet: Multidimensional analysis of gender and socioeconomic status

Pierre Dillenbourg

2025

Learning by Teaching: Designing Teachable Agents to Support Children's Pronunciation Skill Learning

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang

Pronunciation is a critical yet challenging aspect of language acquisition, especially for children. In this work, we propose a new teachable agent system designed to support children's pronunciation learning through a Learning-by-Teaching paradigm to addr ...

Association for Computing Machinery2025

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

PE-HRI-temporal: A Multimodal Temporal Dataset in a robot mediated Collaborative Educational Setting

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jauwairia Nasir, Barbara Bruno

Please note that this dataset corresponds to the training data used in "Social robots as skilled ignorant peers for supporting learning "[7]. This (second) version of the dataset additionally includes labels (PE score and cluster labels for each datapoint) ...

Zenodo2024

Exploring and Evaluating the Impacts of Rhythm Training on Reading through Interaction Design

Pierre Dillenbourg, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Reading is an essential skill that plays a crucial role in education, and it involves mastering various sub-skills, such as decoding tokens and acquiring phonological awareness. Research indicates that practising music in an educational setting can enhance ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2024

Co-designing a Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention to Regulate Children's Handwriting Posture

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Persuasive social robots employ their social influence to modulate children's behaviours in child-robot interaction. In this work, we introduce the Child-Robot Relational Norm Intervention (CRNI) model, leveraging the passive role of social robots and chil ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2024

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

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

INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: A CASE STUDY FROM EPFL

Pierre Dillenbourg, Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Jacopo Grazioli, Adélie Eliane Garin

As concerns regarding sustainability and ethical responsibility in engineering practices continue to rise, it becomes imperative for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to equip future engineers with the necessary knowledge and skills to address these cha ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

WriteUpRight: Regulating Children’s Handwriting Body Posture by Unobstrusively Error Amplification via Slow Visual Stimuli on Tablets

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Maintaining a proper body posture during interactions with educational tablet applications is crucial for children's physical well-being and task performance, especially considering digital tablet's increasingly pervasive use in classrooms. In this work we ...

2024

Effects of online parent coaching on Filipino children's skills

Pierre Dillenbourg

In the present study, we conducted all assessment and training of both parents and children entirely online to examine the effectiveness of an online parental coaching programme in facilitating young Filipino children's language, literacy, and numeracy ski ...

2024

An HMM-based Real-time Intervention Methodology for a Social Robot Supporting Learning

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mortadha Abderrahim, Barbara Bruno

To make social robots effective in education, they need to be autonomous both in terms of assessing the student's engagement state as well as intervening effectively in soft real-time when necessary. Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is an interpretable machine le ...

IEEE2023

The iReCheck project: using tablets and robots for personalised handwriting practice

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, David Cohen, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Handwriting is an important skill in children development as well as in education that take years to be mastered. While keyboards and similar technological devices increasingly become more popular, new tools and engaging approaches are also required to kee ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Unobtrusively Regulating Children’s Posture via Slow Visual Stimuli on Tablets

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Children’s retention of a proper body posture while interacting with educational tablet applications is important for both their physical health and task performance. In this work, we propose a new approach to unobtrusively induce postural changes in child ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

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

Immediate effects of short-duration wellbeing practices on children’s handwriting and posture guided by a social robot

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore, Melike Cezayirlioglu

Handwriting practising, as any other repetitive task, often leads the practiser to an overconcentration state where their performance might be affected by postural and mental fatigue. Short breaks to perform unrelated activities, especially relaxation exer ...

2023