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Dr. | Senior Scientist Singapore-ETH Centre | Embodiment • Math Ed • HCI • XR • AI • Games | #FutureEmbodiedLearningTechnologies (FELT) | juliachatain.com | she/they | 🇸🇬🇨🇭🏳️🌈
Realising I'm posting more about #books than research lately, but anyway! When I moved from Europe to #Singapore in early 2024, I wanted to get a better understanding of the region's history and culture, and here's the result: a book tour of #Asia.
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Of course! Welcome!
05.03.2025 06:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hahaha probably well needed 🫣 Thank you!
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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*
What are your favourite reads of 2024?
This year, I read about the wind, about music, and about being far from home.
Thank you! This was a very exploratory project but I think it opens many interesting design possibilities so I am happy you liked it! And yes, very task-, domain- and context-dependent.
07.12.2024 12:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you so much!
06.12.2024 15:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you! Much appreciated!
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🗣️ Chatain, J., Gashaj, V., Muttappillil, B., Sumner, R. W., & 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.
Earlier this week at #UCBerkeley, Venera and I presented our #DIS2024 paper on exploring the design space of embodied interaction for math learning, so I though it's finally time I record the talk:
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Would love to join too if that makes sense, thank you :)
25.11.2024 15:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Would love to join :) Thank you!
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🗣️ Hänni, R. T., Luong, T., Chatain, J., Mangold, F., Dressel, H., & Holz, C. (2024). HistoLab VR: A User Elicitation Study Exploring the Potential of Virtual Reality Game-based Learning for Hazard Awareness. VRST.
Screenshot of the first page of the paper.
How can #VR be used to teach #OccupationalMedicine, a topic that requires experiencing real-life scenarios that are difficult to fit into students' and practitioners' busy schedules?
I found this project particularly interesting as we looked into #embodiment to create #discomfort and raise #empathy.
Top view of the board game festival
Board of the “Come Sail Away!” game
“Asian Board Games Festival” sign
Happily bumped into an impromptu board games festival after training today 👌
23.11.2024 14:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Added you! 👌
23.11.2024 01:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🌐 juliachatain.com/embodiment-l...
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🗣️ Chatain, J., Kapur, M., & Sumner, R. W. (2023). Three Perspectives on Embodied Learning in Virtual Reality: Opportunities for Interaction Design. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Three pictures. 1. A person has an arm folded and an arm extended. These two arms represent the x and y axis in a horizontal plane. The plane is distorted, as one arm is longer than the other. On the plane are 3D houses and trees to show the distortion. 2. A woman interacts with a function curve in VR. The display also shows the derivative, which the woman manipulates through a digital rotating angle. 3. A man interacts with a pipe system representation of a graph in VR. He presses a button on a pipe with one hand, and adjusts the level of the water in the pipe with the other hand.
Three figures are assembled together. The avatar embodiment figures is at the center and describes the process between learner, bodily actions, avatar, interaction, and object. The learner and bodily action area is within the embodied cognition space and results in learning. The avatar, interaction, and object part is within the embodied interaction space and results in meaning making. A double arrow connects meaning-making to learning.
The idea of using #VR to support learning through #movement and #embodiment is attractive, but how can we design #interaction and #avatars to actually support learning? In this extended abstract, we present the design space through #EmbodiedCognition, #EmbodiedInteraction and #AvatarEmbodiment.
21.11.2024 06:43 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Building a starter pack for #Embodiment research: #EmbodiedCognition #EmbodiedLearning #Gestures #Movement #BodilyActions #EmbodiedInteraction #Avatar #XR #VR #Robotics #EmbodiedAI etc
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🗣️ Chatain, J., Sisserman, D. M., ... & Bermano, A. H. (2020, November). Digiglo: Exploring the palm as an input and display mechanism through digital gloves. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play.
Four images, the first one shows a person wearing a VR headset, looking at her hand. The other images shows three VR games played on the hand, including a pinball game, a race game, and a game played with two hands mimicking a twin pan balance.
How should we design digital #avatars? With our #DigitalGloves project, we used hands as both input and display to create #playful experiences. The rationale behind this was to show we could deliberately break morphological similarity between physical body and digital body to create #meaning.
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Three pictures. 1. A person has an arm folded and an arm extended. These two arms represent the x and y axis in a horizontal plane. The plane is distorted, as one arm is longer than the other. On the plane are 3D houses and trees to show the distortion. 2. A woman interacts with a function curve in VR. The display also shows the derivative, which the woman manipulates through a digital rotating angle. 3. A man interacts with a pipe system representation of a graph in VR. He presses a button on a pipe with one hand, and adjusts the level of the water in the pipe with the other hand.
Hi Blue Sky 👋 I'm an interdisciplinary researcher in #HCI and #LearningSciences. I'm interested in how our #embodied experiences with digital worlds and digital bodies shape the way we learn and the way we think. I'm currently designing a research programme on #FutureEmbodiedLearningTechnologies ⚙️
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