Publications associées à Special Session-Online Laboratories in Engineering Education: Innovation, Disruption, and Future Potential

Embodied Carbon Premium for Cantilevers

David Michael Volpe Ruggiero, Paola Costanza Miglietta

This study addresses the critical need for sustainable architectural designs within the context of climate change and the significant role the built environment plays in greenhouse gas emissions. The focus of this paper is on understanding the influence of ...

2024

A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Conversational Agents in Digital Education

Juan Carlos Farah

The presence of conversational agents (or chatbots) in educational contexts has been steadily increasing over the past few years. Recent surveys have shown widespread interest in the use of chatbots in education, both for research and practice. Although th ...

EPFL2023

OMiLAB: A Smart Innovation Environment for Digital Engineers

Dimitrios Kyritsis

This position paper introduces a Smart Innovation Environment for experimentation related to digital transformation projects, for the consolidation of a proposed "Digital Engineer" skill profile (with a business-oriented facet labelled as "Digital Innovato ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2021

Designing for the co-Orchestration of Social Transitions between Individual, Small-Group and Whole-Class Learning in the Classroom

Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

Educational technologies are often developed such that students work on specific social levels (e.g., individual, small group, whole class) at specific times. However, in the reality of the classroom, learning activities are not so cleanly divided, with tr ...

2020

Reflection for action: designing tools to support teacher reflection on everyday evidence

Pierre Dillenbourg

Improving educational practice through reflection is one important focus of teacher professional development approaches. However, such teacher reflection operates under practical classroom constraints that make it happen infrequently, including the relianc ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

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

Applying IDC theory to education in the Alps region: A response to Chan et al.’s contribution

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Shuqing Teresa Yeo, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Jauwairia Nasir

In this paper, we present a response to the Interest-Driven Creator (IDC) Theory from a European perspective. Specifically, we raise six questions intended to start a dialogue with respect to IDC Theory’s placement in existing learning theories, its adopti ...

2019

Food Talks: visual and interaction principles for representing environmental and nutritional food information in augmented reality

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves

This user-centered design research project aimed to investigate visual and interaction principles for augmented reality (AR) in the context of environmental and nutritional food labelling. Nutritional information on existing food labels is often misunderst ...

2019

Toward ultra-low power design methodology for frequency generation in the IoT design space

Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

Today, the semiconductor industry is feeding our digital world with more and more data coming from compact embedded electronics that are monitoring our environment and feeding analytics for action. Interaction with our digital world is mostly achieved thro ...

EPFL2019

A Digital Platform connecting Academia and Small Businesses: An opportunity for Knowledge Management Experiments

Quentin Adrien Cavillier

Digital transformation is one of the biggest phenomena of this decade. One enabler of this revolution was cloud computing. Today, software engineers can deliver software as a service (SaaS), which is accessible to users through the Internet. Slack, Shopify ...

EPFL2019

The Future of Electronics: Silicon to Cloud Technologies

Mihai Adrian Ionescu

We will present and discuss some of the great research challenges and opportunities related to 21st century energy efficient computing and sensing devices and systems, in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution. In the future, major innovati ...

IEEE2018

Orchestration Graphs: Enabling Rich Social Pedagogical Scenarios in MOOCs

Pierre Dillenbourg, Louis Pierre Faucon, Stian Haklev, Thanasis Hadzilacos

One of the initial promises of MOOCs was to enable participants from around the world to learn and build knowledge together, however existing MOOC platforms are very limited in their collaborative functionality. Using a recent educational modeling language ...

ACM2017

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

Design and Applications of Approximate Circuits by Gate-Level Pruning

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Energy-efficiency is a critical concern for many systems, ranging from Internet of things objects and mobile devices to high-performance computers. Moreover, after 40 years of prosperity, Moore's law is starting to show its economic and technical limits. N ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Towards a Living Lab to support evidence-based educational research and innovation

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Living Labs represent a promising approach to bridge the gap between evidence-based educational research and sustained innovation. This position paper presents our initial work related to educational Living Labs. It describes a model of the research and in ...

2017

Towards the next generation of intelligent building: An assessment study of current automation and future IoT based systems with a proposal for transitional design

Maher Kayal, Gilbert Didier Francis Conus, Nastaran Asadi Zanjani, Georgios Lilis

The intelligent building, a major smart city research and development domain, has grown beyond the scope of automation, currently focusing on the occupant centered approaches and the ancillary services offered to the power grid. The Internet of Things (IoT ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Sustainable Architecture for Educational Space in Africa and China

Ning Liu

Countries in the Global South are producing the most important educational needs of the 21st century. Fast-growing cities can provide the most striking examples of these current tendencies. Just over a decade after the start of the new millennium, the need ...

EPFL2015

Tangible Interfaces for Learning : Training Spatial Skills in Vocational Classrooms

Sébastien Cuendet

There have been many claims that Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) can have a positive impact on learning. Alleged benefits include increasing usability, improving engagement and collaboration of students, and providing a better perception of the task, esp ...

EPFL2013

Design of Thermal Management Control Policies for Multiprocessors Systems on Chip

Francesco Zanini

The contribution of this thesis is a thorough study of thermal aware policy design for MPSoCs. The study includes the modelling of their thermal behavior as well as the improvement and the definition of new thermal management and balancing policies. The wo ...

EPFL2011

The Complementarity of Tangible and Paper Interfaces in Tabletop Environments for Collaborative Learning

Guillaume Zufferey

The current trend in Human-Computer Interaction aims at bridging the gap between the digital and the real world, exploring novel ways to engage users with computational devices. Computers take new forms that are better integrated into our environment and c ...

EPFL2010