• How do table shape, group size, and gender affect on-task actions in computer education open-ended tasks

  Vujovic, Milica; Hernández Leo, Davinia (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022)

  This article presents a study that adds evidence to the field of computer education by focusing on the interaction between shapes of tables, group size, and gender, and their effects on on-task collaborative learning ...
• Inducing a meditative state by artificial perturbations: a mechanistic understanding of brain dynamics underlying meditation

  Dagnino, Paulina Clara; Galadí, Javier Alejandro; Càmara, Estela; Deco, Gustavo; Escrichs, Anira (MIT Press, 2024)

  Contemplative neuroscience has increasingly explored meditation using neuroimaging. However, the brain mechanisms underlying meditation remain elusive. Here, we implemented a mechanistic framework to explore the spatiotemporal ...
• Selective annotation of few data for beat tracking of latin american music using rhythmic features

  Maria, Lucas S.; Rocamora, Martín; Biscainho, Luis W.; Fuentes, Magdalena (Ubiquity Press, 2024)

  Training state-of-the-art beat tracking models usually requires large amounts of annotated data. It is widely known that data annotation is a time-consuming process and generally involves expert knowledge in the context ...
• Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries

  Jacoby, Nori; Rocamora, Martín; McDermott, Josh H. (Springer, 2024)

  Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? We measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm in 39 participant groups in 15 ...
• Measuring gender bias in student satisfaction in higher education: a cross-department study

  Marques, Francielle; Hernández-Leo, Davinia; Castillo, Carlos (Taylor & Francis, 2024)

  Student satisfaction surveys are widely accepted for measuring the quality of students’ overall experience with the received teaching and informing the design of improvements in higher education. However, several studies ...
• Intein-mediated thyroid hormone biosensors: towards controlled delivery of hormone therapy

  Martí Baena, Quim; Pascuet Fontanet, Andreu; Berjaga Buisan, Tomas; Caravaca Rodríguez, Miriam; Puig Costa-Jussà, Jaume; Sánchez Mejías, Avencia; Ivančić, Dimitrije; Mogas Díez, Sira; Güell Cargol, Marc, 1982-; Macía, Javier (Frontiers, 2024)

  Although blood sampling and medical imaging are well-established techniques in clinical diagnostics, they often require long post-processing procedures. Fast and simple quantification of signaling molecules can enable ...
• Towards citizen science-inspired learning activities: the co-design of an exploration tool for teachers following a human-centred design approach

  Calvera-Isabal, Miriam; Santos, Patricia; Hernández-Leo, Davinia (Taylor & Francis, 2023)

  The integration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) activities into formal education is encouraged by policy makers to promote engineering and science studies among young people. Studies show that students ...
• A hybrid-flipped classroom approach: students’ perception and performance assessment

  Yalcinkaya Gokdogan, Bengisu; Busra Coruk, Remziye; Benzaghta, Mohamed; Kara, Ali (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2023)

  This study presents an improved hybrid-flipped classroom (hybrid-FC) education method based on technology-enhanced learning (TEL) along with diluted classes for a course on probability and random processes in engineering. ...
• Surviving and thriving: how changes in teaching modalities influenced student satisfaction before, during and after COVID-19

  Ortiz Beltrán, Ariel; Hernández Leo, Davinia; Amarasinghe, Ishari (Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2023)

  This paper leverages analytics methods to investigate the impact of changes in teaching modalities shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic on undergraduate students’ satisfaction within a Spanish brick-and-mortar higher education ...
• Unveiling women’s needs and expectations as users of bike sharing services: the H2020 DIAMOND Project

  Gorrini, Andrea; Choubassi, Rawad; Messa, Federico; Saleh, Wafaa; Ababio-Donkor, Augustus; Chiara Leva, Maria; D’Arcy, Lorraine; Fabbri, Francesco; Laniado, David; Aragón, Pablo (MDPI, 2021)

  Within the objectives of the H2020 DIAMOND project, the paper investigates women’s needs and expectations as users of the bike-sharing service managed by Syndicat Mixte Autolib et Velib Métropole in the territory of Paris ...
• What I am and what I am not: destruktion of the mind–body problem

  Galadí, Javier Alejandro (MDPI, 2023)

  The German word destruktion is used here in the sense that philosophy should destroy some ontological concepts and the everyday meanings of certain words. Tradition allows the transmission of knowledge, but it can perpetuate ...
• A multimodal late fusion framework for physiological sensor and audio-signal-based stress detection: an experimental study and public dataset

  Xefteris, Vasileios-Rafail; Domínguez Bajo, Mónica; Grivolla, Jens; Tsanousa, Athina; Zaffanela, Francesco; Monego, Martina; Symeonidis, Spyridon; Diplaris, Sotiris; Wanner, Leo; Vrochidis, Stefanos; Kompatsiaris, Ioannis (MDPI, 2023)

  Stress can be considered a mental/physiological reaction in conditions of high discomfort and challenging situations. The levels of stress can be reflected in both the physiological responses and speech signals of a person. ...
• The role of local content in Wikipedia: a study on reader and editor engagement

  Miquel Ribé, Marc; Laniado, David; Kaltenbrunner, Andreas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2021)

  Aproximadamente una cuarta parte de cada Wikipedia está dedicada a representar “contenido local”, es decir, el contexto cultural correspondiente de la lengua (lugares geográficos, hechos históricos, figuras políticas, entre ...
• Modeling theory of mind in dyadic games using adaptive feedback control

  Freire, Ismael T.; Arsiwalla, Xerxes D.; Puigbò Llobet, Jordi-Ysard; Verschure, Paul F. M. J. (MDPI, 2023)

  A major challenge in cognitive science and AI has been to understand how intelligent autonomous agents might acquire and predict the behavioral and mental states of other agents in the course of complex social interactions. ...
• The morphospace of consciousness: three kinds of complexity for minds and machines

  Arsiwalla, Xerxes D.; Solé Vicente, Ricard, 1962-; Moulin-Frier, Clément; Herreros, Ivan; Sánchez-Fibla, Martí; Verschure, Paul F. M. J. (MDPI, 2023)

  In this perspective article, we show that a morphospace, based on information-theoretic measures, can be a useful construct for comparing biological agents with artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The axes of this space ...
• Configurations of digital participatory budgeting

  Palacin, Victoria; McDonald, Samantha; Aragón, Pablo; Nelimarkka, Matti (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024)

  Participatory budgeting is a democratic innovation increasingly supported by digital platforms. Like any technology, participatory budgeting platforms are not value-free or politically neutral; their design, configuration, ...
• The role of text-type and genre in the analysis of subtitles: towards measuring how green the media are

  Orero, Pilar; Shvets, Alexander (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press, 2023)

  The United Nations agency UNESCO issued in 2009 the Paris Declaration on Broadcast Media and Climate Change: A Public Service Remit where the role of communication was underlined as vital in informing and educating the ...
• Addressing the association between action video game playing experience and visual search in naturalistic multisensory scenes

  Hamzeloo, Mohammad; Kvasova, Daria; Soto Faraco, Salvador (Brill Academic Publishers, 2024)

  Prior studies investigating the effects of routine action video game play have demonstrated improve-ments in a variety of cognitive processes, including improvements in attentional tasks. However, there is little evidence ...
• Gender literacy through the making process: a feminist pedagogy approach

  Schaper, Marie Monique (Elsevier, 2024)

  This article aims at exploring how to support students' awareness on gender stereotypes and the development of gender literacy through the making process of interactive toys. I present a case study with 22 primary students ...
• A comparative user study of human predictions in algorithm-supported recidivism risk assessment

  Portela, Manuel; Castillo, Carlos; Tolan, Songül; Karimi-Haghighi, Marzieh; Andrés Pueyo, Antonio (Springer, 2024)

  In this paper, we study the effects of using an algorithm-based risk assessment instrument (RAI) to support the prediction of risk of violent recidivism upon release. The instrument we used is a machine learning version ...

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