Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences

The ALLS Lecture Series
Thursday, 4 April 2018, 4:30PM
Eugenio Lopez, Jr. Interdisciplinary Hub
3F Arete, Ateneo de Manila University

Designing within networks of relations for new forms of connection, collaboration and custodianship
Margot Brereton

Abstract:
Technologies are only as useful as the networks of people that make their use possible. In this talk Professor Brereton explored the idea of designing within networks of relations. She discussed a variety of projects and methods that investigated the relations between people, places and objects and also engaged people in co-design in order to create new technologies. She drew upon examples in the domains of ageing, intellectual disability, and environmental monitoring, describing how paying attention to networks of relations can help us to design technologies that foster new forms of connection and collaboration between people, and new kinds of custodianship of the environment.

The Technology-Assisted Teaching and Learning for Whole Person Education is a two-and-a-half-day conference that will explore current trends and disruptions affecting higher education in Asia – and the innovative ways in which colleges and universities leverage technological advances for the promotion of whole person education. The conference will be held in Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong from May 16-18, 2018. It will feature keynote presentations by Google and leaders in Asian higher education, this conference will provide an opportunity to hear directly from those at the forefront of innovation, as well from pivotal higher education leaders and technology pioneers within Asia.

We are pleased to announce that the proposal “Design and Development of an Augmented Reality Game for Philippine History” has been selected for a presentation during the conference.

The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) provides opportunities for the cross-fertilization of approaches, techniques, and ideas from the many fields that comprise AIED, including computer science, cognitive and learning sciences, education, game design, psychology, sociology, linguistics, as well as many domain-specific areas.

We are pleased to announce that the paper “Investigating the Impact of a Meaningful Gamification-Based Intervention on Novice Programers’ Achievement” by Jenilyn Agapito has been accepted as a full paper.

Congratulations to Christine Tablatin, Maureen Villamor, and Dr. Mercedes Rodrigo on the awards they had received from the Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC)!

The PCSC is an annual conference in computing that is organized by the Computing Society of the Philippines to enable computing educators, researchers, ICT professionals, and students to interact and to share their work in computing, computer science, computer engineering, computational science, and information and communications technology (ICT). The conference features contributed research papers and special lectures by prominent researchers and educators in the field of computing, ICT, and related fields.

The Philippine Information Technology Journal (PITJ) is a peer-reviewed research journal that features computing applications in the area of Information Technology.  This is co-published by CSP with the Philippine Society of IT Educators (PSITE).

We are pleased to announce that 5 submissions from ALLS have been accepted for the PITJ Special Issue on Eye Tracking. Below is the complete ALLS lineup:

• Japheth Samaco, Jo Cortez: An Experience Report on Gathering Eye Trace Data during a Novice Programmer Tracing and Debugging Experiment
• Christine Tablatin: Preliminary Analysis of Common Code Reading Patterns using Scanpath Trend Analysis
• Maureen Mamilic-Villamor: Who’s Following Who? Investigating Lag Times in a Pair Tracing and Debugging Eye Tracking Experiment
• Celesamae Tangub Vicente, myself, Hong-Fa Ho, Guan-An Chen: Analysis on Visual Attention of Students Solving Physics Playground Problems
• John David Castro, Ezekiel Adriel Lagmay, Harold Lim: A Preliminary Comparative Analysis of High Performing and Low Performing Students in Debugging