@JuliaChatain

Dr. | Senior Scientist @SEC_ETH | Future Embodied Learning Technologies (FELT) | Math Ed • HCI • XR • AI • Games | 🐘 @jc@hci.social | 🦋 @juliachatain

 Zürich, Switzerland
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Joined October 2015
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🧵 It is time! In this thread, I will present the most interesting contributions from my doctoral work on "Embodied Interaction in Virtual Reality for Grounding Mathematics" #embodiment #VirtualReality #MathEducation juliachatain.com/amatheur/
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What are your favourite reads of 2024? This year, I read about the wind, about music, and about being far from home.
Covers of books with grades: Pachinko 5*, The name of the wind 5*, Red Sorghum 5*, Cloud Atlas 5*, Ways to Escape One's Former Country 5*, Dune 4*, Wednesday's child 4*, Light from uncommon stars 4*, Piranesi 4*, Butter 4*, How do you live 4*, La horde du contrevent 4*, The naked don't fear the water 4*, Shadow of the wind 4*, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers 4*, The house of doors 4*, The pursuit of love 3*, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop 3*, An equal music 2*

ALT Covers of books with grades: Pachinko 5*, The name of the wind 5*, Red Sorghum 5*, Cloud Atlas 5*, Ways to Escape One's Former Country 5*, Dune 4*, Wednesday's child 4*, Light from uncommon stars 4*, Piranesi 4*, Butter 4*, How do you live 4*, La horde du contrevent 4*, The naked don't fear the water 4*, Shadow of the wind 4*, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers 4*, The house of doors 4*, The pursuit of love 3*, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop 3*, An equal music 2*

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Earlier this week at @UCBerkeley, @GashajVenera and I presented our @acm_dis paper on exploring the design space of embodied interaction for math learning, so I though it's finally time I record the talk: 📺 youtu.be/i6DTczmitVE
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🔗 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36438… 📄 Chatain, J., Gashaj, V., ..., & Kapur, M. (2024). Designing for Embodied Sense-making of Mathematics: Perspectives on Directed and Spontaneous Bodily Actions. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.

Designing for Embodied Sense-making of Mathematics: Perspectives on Directed and Spontaneous Bodily...

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Such an inspiring event, with challenging and stimulating conversations on #ProductiveFailure & #EmbodiedLearning! Always grateful for these moments as they help shape and refine our ideas towards #FutureEmbodiedLearningTechnologies, and ensure scientific excellence and impact.
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On 14 Nov, SEC hosted a session with Prof. Stanislas Dehaene & MOE’s Dr. Chew-Leng Poon. Key topics: integrating #ProductiveFailure, #ProblemSolving, & sensorimotor learning into Singapore’s education system. Excited to shape the future of education! #LearningSciences #EdTech
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Hiring!🚀 I'm looking for a new PhD student in the lab. If you have background in HCI, LS, EdPsych... and want to do a PhD on supporting meaningful student learning using AI-based tech, please apply! @SIC_Saar tomonag.org/ Deadline Dec 13th: tomonag.org/wp-content/uploa…
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Last week was the #AIforEducation event at @NTUsg! It was very interesting to hear perspectives from learning scientists on the topic, as it is often lacking. Some of my main take-aways below 👇 ntu.edu.sg/mae/ai-education-…

AI for Education Singapore 2024

Organised by NTU and supported by NVIDIA, this pioneering event aims to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on the field of education.

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Dr. @jianganghao: AI enables scalable or new learning #assessments e.g. #game-based assessments, #adaptive assessments, #conversation-based assessments, and multi-#agents assessments.
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A/Prof. @TanmaySinha655: We need truly interdisciplinary research between #ComputerScience and #LearningSciences! Looking at #embodied learning, we need #multimodal datasets, and socially-aware AI systems accounting for the #emotions of learners.
Assistant Professor Tanmay Sinha explains that good AI for Education is different if we look at it from an instructivist, a constructivist, or an embodied learning sciences perspective.

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It's been a pleasure hosting Dr. @mueller_char at @SEC_ETH: 💡Between #Singapore 🇸🇬 and #Switzerland 🇨🇭, we are hoping to offer a multi-cultural perspective on #EmbodiedLearning, exploring #gestures and #metaphors specifically. 🔜 Follow her work for more info!
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Notably, we also finally finished a "little side project" that ended up being three years of work, and I am very much looking forward to being able to share our results!
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Thank you for having me! Loved chatting with Adani!
Stanford Psychology Podcast@StanfordPsyPod25 Oct 2024
NEW EPISODE OUT! Adani chats with @JuliaChatain about her recent work on the role of embodied cognition in math learning and how we can leverage various technologies to support learners at the cognitive and affective level! buzzsprout.com/1801436/episo…
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📣 New paper out! We looked into how #VR experiences can be used to teach #OccupationalMedicine, a topic hard to teach because it requires experiencing various real-life scenarios that are difficult to fit into students' and practitioners' busy schedules. doi.org/10.1145/3641825.3687…
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📄 HistoLab VR: A User Elicitation Study Exploring the Potential of Virtual Reality Game-based Learning for Hazard Awareness R. Hänni, T. Luong, J. Chatain, F. Mangold, H. Dressel, C. Holz In 30th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST’24).
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🗓️ For those attending #VRST2024, Robin will present the paper during this session: Session 6: Collaboration and Games Thursday 10th, October 13:30 – 15:00
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1/ Recently got access to Google's Illuminate, which AI-generates a ~6min "podcast"-format summary of a research paper. To test it, I gave it 5 of my own recent papers. This thread summarizes the evaluation: ↵
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💥We are hiring 💥 The Virtual Learning Lab is looking for a new post doc with expertise within the areas of Generative AI and Extended Reality technologies. It is a one-year position, with the possibility of extension. Read more and apply here 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli…
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📣 The team is growing! A warm welcome to Laura Bock and Maria Ioanna Magkouta, two new doctoral students at the Professorship for Learning Sciences and Higher Education at @ETH, under @ManuKapur24's supervision. 🤝 Laura and Maria Ioanna are part of @jdplsCH.
Collage of 8 portrait photos of the current team members: Sara May, Manu Kapur, Rudolf Varga, Jakub Macina, Julia Chatain, Fan Wang, Maria Ioanna Magkouta, Laura Bock

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Last week, I presented two of our recent projects at @EARLISIG6 @EarliSIG7 in beautiful Tübingen, Germany! 🧵 More info in thread
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👋 We explored how spontaneous and directed #movement supports learning of #mathematics (and derivatives specifically), and we concluded with design recommendations for interaction. 🔗 juliachatain.com/directed-sp… 👥 @GashajVenera, B. Muttappillil, R.W. Sumner, @ManuKapur24
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👓 When researching #embodied learning, it's crucial to look into #accessibility: as we bring visuals and movement into learning activities, how do we ensure that we do not leave anyone behind? 🔗 juliachatain.com/alt-texts/ (more info soon!) 👥 G. Kortemeyer, @andreas_fender
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