Publications de Hamed Seiied Alavi

Is Driverless Car Another Weiserian Mistake?

Hamed Seiied Alavi, Himanshu Verma, Farzaneh Bahrami

2017

The Evolution of Human-Building Interaction: An HCI Perspective PREFACE

Interaction Design & Architectures2017

“Our Inherent Desire for Control”: a Case Study of Automation’s Impact on the Perception of Comfort

Marilyne Andersen, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Himanshu Verma, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Arianna Brambilla

To investigate the relationship between occupants’ perception of control over building elements and their comfort, we conducted a study where two prototype office rooms were compared: while the first room allowed occupants to open or close the window and c ...

ELSEVIER2017

A gaze-based learning analytics model: in-video visual feedback to improve learner's attention in MOOCs

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Kshitij Sharma

In the context of MOOCs, “With-me-ness” refers to the extent to which the learner succeeds in following the teacher, specifically in terms of looking at the area in the video that the teacher is explaining. In our previous works, we employed eye-tracking m ...

ACM2016

Ambient Awareness for the Orchestration of Collaborative Problem Solving

Hamed Seiied Alavi

Classroom orchestration refers to the teacher's (or tutor's) responsibility to identify and manage the evolving learning opportunities and constraints, in real-time. We study the use of computer technology to support this orchestration task in a multi-cons ...

EPFL2012

An Ambient Awareness Tool for Supporting Supervised Collaborative Problem Solving

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hamed Seiied Alavi

We describe an ambient awareness tool, named Lantern, designed for supporting the learning process in recitation sections, (i.e., when students work in small teams on the exercise sets with the help of tutors). Each team is provided with an interactive lam ...

Ieee Computer Soc2012

Classroom orchestration : The third circle of usability

Guillaume Zufferey, Sébastien Cuendet, Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Frédéric Kaplan, Lenh Hung Son Do, Quentin Bonnard

We analyze classroom orchestration as a question of usability in which the classroom is the user. Our experiments revealed design features that reduce the global orchestration load. According to our studies in vocational schools, paper-based interfaces hav ...

International Society of the Learning Sciences2011

Distributed Awareness for Class Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Frédéric Kaplan

The orchestration process consists of managing classroom interactions at multiple levels: individual activities, teamwork and class-wide sessions. We study the process of orchestration in recitation sections, i.e. when students work on their assignments in ...

Springer2009

On the Importance of Spatial Configuration of Information

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Frédéric Kaplan

The spatial layout of information influences collaborative interactions. We compared two awareness tools which give information on the status of participants in a collaborative work, one displaying it on a single screen and the other distributing it in the ...

2009