Publications de Christian Giang

Editorial: Educational robotics as a tool to foster 21st century skills

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Identifying and Comparing Multi-dimensional Student Profiles Across Flipped Classrooms

Christian Giang, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Mirko Marras

Flipped classroom (FC) courses, where students complete pre-class activities before attending interactive face-to-face sessions, are becoming increasingly popular. However, many students lack the skills, resources, or motivation to effectively engage in pr ...

Springer2022

Generalisable Methods for Early Prediction in Interactive Simulations for Education

Christian Giang, Jade Maï L Cock, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober

Interactive simulations allow students to discover the underlying principles of a scientific phenomenon through their own exploration. Unfortunately, students often struggle to learn effectively in these environments. Classifying students’ interaction data ...

2022

Evolutionary Clustering of Apprentices' Self- Regulated Learning Behavior in Learning Journals

Christian Giang, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Mirko Marras

Learning journals are increasingly used in vocational education to foster self-regulated learning and reflective learning practices. However, for many apprentices, documenting working experiences is a difficult task. In this paper, we profile apprentices' ...

2022

Maschinelles Lernen zur Förderung von höheren Kompetenzen

Christian Giang, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Thiemo Wambsganss

Hintergrund: Die einschneidenden Veränderungen, welche moderne Gesellschaften durch die Digitalisierung erfahren haben, haben es unerlässlich gemacht, heutigen und künftigen Generationen höhere Kompetenzen als Rüstzeug für die neue Lern- und Arbeitswelt mi ...

2022

The role of feedback and guidance as intervention methods to foster computational thinking in educational robotics learning activities for primary school

Francesco Mondada, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Evgeniia Bonnet, Christian Giang, Bernard Baumberger, Vaios Papaspyros

Computational thinking (CT) is considered an emerging competence domain linked to 21st-century competences, and educational robotics (ER) is increasingly recognised as a tool to develop CT competences. This is why researchers recommend developing intervent ...

2022

Aligning the Design of Educational Robotics Tools With Classroom Activities

Francesco Mondada, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti

This chapter addresses the alignment of educational robotics (ER) tools with classroom activities. To this end, it first introduces a conceptualization of ER activities describing the relevant cognitive artifacts and the learning theories underlying such a ...

IGI Global2021

Accessible Maker-based Approaches to Educational Robotics in Online Learning

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Anthony Guinchard, Amaury Robert Dame, Christian Giang, Aditya Mehrotra

Educational Robotics holds the potential to promote the development of important 21st century skills, such as creativity and problem-solving skills in addition to digital literacy. However, the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has posed particular obstac ...

2021

Designing Tools and Activities for Educational Robotics in Online Learning

Evgeniia Bonnet, Christian Giang

The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent school closures created several challenges for teachers and students. From one day to the next, teachers had to rethink their educational activities and move to remote learning. Especially with regard to educational ...

IGI Global2021

Exploring a Handwriting Programming Language for Educational Robots

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Taavet Kangur, Laura Mathex, Christian Giang, Vaios Papaspyros, Barbara Bruno

Recently, introducing computer science and educational robots in compulsory education has received increasing attention. However, the use of screens in classrooms is often met with resistance, especially in primary school. To address this issue, this study ...

Springer, Cham2021

Teachers’ Perspective on Fostering Computational Thinking Through Educational Robotics

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Christian Giang, Barbara Bruno

With the introduction of educational robotics (ER) and computational thinking (CT) in classrooms, there is a rising need for operational models that help ensure that CT skills are adequately developed. One such model is the Creative Computational Problem S ...

Springer2021

Early Prediction of Conceptual Understanding in Interactive Simulations

Christian Giang, Jade Maï L Cock, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Mirko Marras

Interactive simulations allow students to independently ex- plore scientific phenomena and ideally infer the underlying principles through their exploration. Effectively using such environments is challenging for many students and there- fore, adaptive gui ...

2021

Motor improvement estimation and task adaptation for personalized robot-aided therapy: a feasibility study

Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Elvira Pirondini, Silvestro Micera, Martina Coscia, Christian Giang, Camilla Pierella

Background In the past years, robotic systems have become increasingly popular in upper limb rehabilitation. Nevertheless, clinical studies have so far not been able to confirm superior efficacy of robotic therapy over conventional methods. The personaliza ...

2020

A multimodal approach to capture post-stroke temporal dynamics of recovery

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Elvira Pirondini, Silvestro Micera, Martina Coscia, Christian Giang, Camilla Pierella

Objective.Several training programs have been developed in the past to restore motor functions after stroke. Their efficacy strongly relies on the possibility to assess individual levels of impairment and recovery rate. However, commonly used clinical scal ...

2020

Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving

Francesco Mondada, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti

Background: Educational robotics (ER) is increasingly used in classrooms to implement activities aimed at fostering the development of students’ computational thinking (CT) skills. Though previous works have proposed different models and frameworks to desc ...

2020

Introducing a Paper-Based Programming Language for Computing Education in Classrooms

Francesco Mondada, Andrea Mussati, Noé Duruz, Christian Giang, Aditya Mehrotra

Past research has shown that the use of tangible platforms for computingeducation can enhance students’ interest, engagement and collaboration within workgroups. However, to this day, the adoption of such interfaces in classrooms has remained relatively sc ...

ACM2020

Towards the alignment of educational robotics learning systems with classroom activities

Christian Giang

The technological advances of the past years have impressively demonstrated that the digital age is no longer just a science fiction vision of the future - we are in the midst of it. The digital transformation is affecting many areas of our lives, includin ...

EPFL2020

System for personalized robotic therapy and related methods

Nawal Noëlle Kinany, Elvira Pirondini, Silvestro Micera, Christian Giang, Camilla Pierella

The present invention provides an apparatus and a method able to estimate motor improvement in real-time during three-dimensional rehabilitation tasks and to consequently dynamically personalize the therapy.The method can be carried out by a computer progr ...

2019

How do pupils perceive educational robotics as a tool to improve their 21st century skills?

Christian Giang

In the past years, the use of educational robots has steadily increased, in particular due to the ongoing digitalization of modern societies and the new skills that professions require. It has been argued that educational robotics activities have the poten ...

2019

Heuristics for the Development and Evaluation of Educational Robotics Systems

Francesco Mondada, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti

Contribution: While previous research has studied the use of educational robotics in classrooms, there is still a lack of methods to support the development and evaluation of such tools. To this end, this paper presents an evaluation framework and a corres ...

2019