Sten GovaertsEPFL, Switzerland

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Research interests

Learning

Music

Information visualisation

Social media

Go-LabEncouraging students to study STEM!

http://golabz.eu

Bringing scientific enquiry into the classroom through social media!

Teacher edit mode

Student view mode

http://graasp.eu

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Sten Govaerts, Adrian Holzer and Denis Gillet, "Enriching face-to-face and digital interaction with SpeakUp: challenges & lessons learned"

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it’s not all spam!

temporary social media:

users: YES! non-users: not needed…

research question: how digital and f2f interactions be interweaved?

experiments with different protocols

digital ▲, then co-location need ▼

consolidate different digital platforms

research question: how can participationbe improved?

SpeakUp increases participation.

how can participation become more representative & inclusive?

does information overload affect participation?

research question: how to balance attention, distraction & awareness?

experiments with public display

push notifications to foster digital interaction awareness

💡 using wearable tech?

but, when, what and how?

http://www.seance.ch

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