1) Sten Govaerts is a researcher at EPFL interested in learning, music, social media, and information visualization.
2) He works on projects like Go-Lab and Graasp which bring scientific inquiry into the classroom through social media.
3) One project, SpeakUp, allows for location-based temporary anonymous interaction to enrich face-to-face and digital discussions, but balancing attention, participation, and information overload is challenging.
4. Bringing scientific
enquiry into the
classroom
through social
media!
Teacher edit mode
Student view mode
http://graasp.eu
5. SpeakUp
Q
A
A
❶
A
❷
❺
❷ ❹
Q
❶ ❸
Without SpeakUp
With SpeakUp
Scenario
Sten Govaerts, Adrian Holzer
and Denis Gillet, "Enriching
face-to-face and digital
interaction with SpeakUp:
challenges & lessons
learned"
9. 20
10
0
Number of messages
2 3 4 5 6
Lecture #
lecture related
fun
miscellaneous
social
news
irrelevant messages:
40 messages
30
of 20
Number 10
0
Messages relevant to the lecturer
Message not relevant to the lecturer
FC BC
FC = Frontchannel
BC = Backchannel
FC BC FC BC FC BC FC BC
Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 6
it’s not all
spam!
11. research question: how digital and f2f
interactions be interweaved?
experiments with different protocols
digital ▲, then
co-location need ▼
consolidate different
digital platforms
12. research question: how can participation
be improved?
SpeakUp increases participation.
how can participation become
more representative & inclusive?
does information
overload
affect
participation?
13. research question: how to balance
attention, distraction & awareness?
experiments with public display
push notifications to foster digital
interaction awareness
but, when, what and how?
using wearable tech?