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CRAFT : Teacher support unit and Research lab on training technologiesUpcoming Seminars and EventsNews from CRAFTFrederic Kaplan' s new book in french is out : La metamorphose des objets Objects are about to undergo a metamorphosis process. They are becoming our privileged interfaces to the digital world. This book explains how this revolution is going to transform our everyday life, from the way we listen to music or read a book to the manner in which we conduct our diner conversations around a table. It describes how this technical change announces the eventual end of the personal computer era, a sustainable lifecycle for electronic objects and, most importantly, innovative ways for representing our lives. By telling the story of the invention of these new objects, it deals with issues that concern design, ecology, sociology and philosophy and emphasizes how important and difficult it is to create technologies that enrich our everyday life instead of making it more difficult. This book brings a coherent and personal vision of the shape of things to come by an author who is both a thinker and an actor of this transformation. This book is also on bookstrapping with additional images, videos and comments. Check out this video to see how to link each physical page of the book with its related digital content. Patrick Jermann obtained an Ambizione Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to conduct a three years research program on multimodal collaborative interaction modeling. The goal is to use interaction traces to build a computational model which can help collaborators to understand and improve the way they interact. An interview of Frédéric Kaplan during Télécom 2009, in Geneva. "Le PC c'est fini ?: Interview de Frédéric Kaplan diffusée sur TSR1 et TSR2"
The new Teacher training worshops programm is on line! The next workshops at the EPFL are:
Computer interfaces used to be a set of graphical objects on a computer display. Novel interfaces are embedded in concrete artefacts such as interactive lamps or chairs, tabletops or coffee mugs. After two decades of virtual environments, computer science is back to the physical realm. These interfaces strive for discretion. They disappear in the background, leaving the front stage to rich social interactions.
QB1 is a computer developed at CRAFT and by the spin-off OZWE. It fundamentally changes the relationship between man and machine. It's no longer the user who goes to the computer, but the inverse. To interact with QB1, you don't need a keyboard or a mouse; simple gestures do the trick. organized in collaboration with the University of Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel and Fribourg is on-line. The next one are:
For related matters please consult our on-line resources, such as the ABC for teaching and the Teaching Guide. We are at your availibality to support your work. The book "Interactive Artifacts and Furniture Supporting Collaborative Work and Learning" illustrates a turn in the field of CSCL and emphasizes an important message for a generation of CSCL designers and researchers. Book's editors : Pierre Dillenbourg, Jeffrey Huang and Mauro Cherubini Full description : http://www.springer.com/education/learning+%26+instruction/book/978-0-387-77233-2 Give a kick-off start to your semester by taking advantage of the following teacher training workshops of the autumn programm, organized in collaboration with the University of Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchâtel! Flyer to print 3rd European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning. |
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