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ORBIT at the Luxembourg Science Festival 2021
From 11 to 14th of November, the serious game Orbitia is presented at the 2021 edition of the Science Festival. Come and meet us on booth nr 13 "Travailler en équipe sur la planète Orbitia / Team-Arbeit auf dem Planeten Orbitia / Collaborate on the planet Orbitia".
More information and registration: https://www.science-festival.lu/
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New article in Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Have a look at our newest article: "Balancing Shareability and Positive Interdependence to Support Collaborative Problem-Solving on Interactive Tabletops", published in the Journal "Advances in Human-Computer Interaction": www.hindawi.com/journals/ahci/2021/6632420/
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ORBIT at the Luxembourg Science Center
From 13 to 21 February, a version of the digital serious game activity Orbitia is be shown at the Luxembourg Science Center in Differdange (www.science-center.lu).
Come by, become a space-mining crew and work together to collect minerals and overcome obstacles in the harsh environment of the distant planet Orbitia!
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ORBIT Workshop held at the European Tangible Interaction Studio
Team members Hoorieh Afkari and Valérie Maquil participated to the 4th European Tangible Interaction Studio that took place online and conducted a workshop on "Exploring Opportunities of Tabletop Interfaces for Promoting and Analysing Collaboration".
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Starting the third series of trials
With a little delay, we started today with the third series of trials. Of course, we put in place a series of extra safety measures to ensure there is no risk of virus propagation. Nevertheless we are very happy to start again with the trials!
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ORBIT Poster presented at the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2020
Team member Hoorieh Afkari presented the short paper "Designing different features of an interactive tabletop application to support collaborative problem-solving" at the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2020, held in Ischia Island, Italy.
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Participation to European Conference of Conversation Analysis 2020
Team member Svenja Heuser participated to ECCA 2020 and presented the work 'Reading aloud during an interactive tabletop game activity: Getting each other’s orientation in line’.
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Article in newspaper "L'essentiel"
The luxembourgish newspaper "l'essentiel", reports about our project!
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ORBIT Open day
Event date: Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:00 – 19:00
Place: Campus Belval, Maison des Sciences Humaines, 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette
The research project ORBIT (Overcoming Breakdowns in Teams with Interactive Tabletops) is organising an Open Day to display the current version of its interactive tabletop aiming at inducing collaboration.
Drop in and try out!
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Starting the second series of trials
Today we started the second series of trials. 7 participants tested the new version of the ORBIT application as part of a seminar on collaboration.
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Participation to the Conference of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Team Member Svenja Heuser participated to the Conference of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, held in Mannheim, Germany, from July 2-5, 2019.
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ORBIT is presented at the 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in Salzburg, Austria
Team member Patrick Sunnen presents our paper Designing collaborative scenarios on tangible tabletop interfaces - insights from the implementation of paper prototypes in the context of a multidisciplinary design workshop at the 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) in Salzburg, Austria.
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Starting the trials
The first version of the ORBIT application is tested in a seminar on collaboration, organized by the project team for the employees of Ville de Luxembourg.
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Participation to Workshop "Konversationsanalyse" in Berlin
Team member Svenja Heuser is participating to the Workshop "Konversationsanalyse" proposed by Arnulf Deppermann in the Institute for qualitative Research in Berlin.
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Expert Workshop with Timothy Koschmann
Timothy Koschmann visited the ORBIT project team. We had a very fruitful trial and discussion of the first running prototype of the joint problem solving activity.
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Publication accepted for ECSCW
Our publication "Designing collaborative scenarios on tangible tabletop interfaces - insights from the implementation of paper prototypes in the context of a multidisciplinary design workshop" got accepted for ECSCW 2019!
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The First Multidisciplinary Design Workshop
Today we had a very productive workshop to try out and discuss first paper prototypes for the joint problem solving scenarios.
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Two new ORBIT team members
Svenja Heuser (doctoral researcher) and Hoorieh Afkari Roshkhari (post doc) join the team. We wish them a warm welcome!
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ORBIT starts for three years!
Today is the official starting date of the ORBIT project.
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ORBIT is presented at the International 13th International Conference of The Learning Sciences in London
Team member Patrick Sunnen presents the short paper "ORBIT - Overcoming Breakdowns in Teams with Interactive Tabletops" at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2018 in London.
