Papers by tessy cerratto-pargman
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computing within Limits, 2016
In the age of Big Open Linked Data (BOLD), we inhabit a landscape where future scenarios are imag... more In the age of Big Open Linked Data (BOLD), we inhabit a landscape where future scenarios are imagined, modeled, planned for and embedded in policy. Between the euphoric techno-utopian rhetoric of the boundless potential of BOLD innovations and the dystopian view of the dangers of such innovations (e.g. ubiquitous surveillance etc.), this paper offers a critical understanding of the boundaries that are traversed by the implementation of BOLD within policy modeling. We examine BOLD as a tool for imagining futures, for reducing uncertainties, for providing legitimacy and for concentrating power. In doing so we further develop the LIMITs community's conceptualization of the societal limitations on computing, with specific reference to the assumptions, interpretations and trust that we place in these models when making socio-environmental policy decisions. We use an illustrative case of policy modeling, which provides a much-needed critical discussion of the inherent limitations and risks as well as the promises that are offered by BOLD.
The 34th Congress of the Nordic …, 2002
Since its emergence, the topic of online communities attracted large interest from Human-Computer... more Since its emergence, the topic of online communities attracted large interest from Human-Computer Interaction and sociology researchers alike. The term "online community" has been generally associated with electronic "meeting-points" of various degrees of synchronicity and persistence, provided through a number of technologies. Based on empirical studies of two different types of online communities, this paper attempts to challenge the "meeting-point" centered approach by i) reconsidering individual needs of the members forming the community and by ii) emphasizing the importance of supporting content-complex activities.
Wærn, Y. & Cerratto, T (2001). Problems in Orchestrating MOO Activity. In Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp.1-7) Maui, Hawaii
Cerratto, T. (2001). The use of synchronous text-based environments for teacher professional development. In M. Beißwenger (ed.) Chat-Kommunikation. Sprache, Interaktion, Sozialität & Identität in synchroner computervermittelter kommunikation. (pp.493-514). Ibidem. Stuttgart, Germany
Zeiliger, R., Belisle, C., Cerratto, T. (1999). Implementing a Constructivist Approach to Web Navigation Support, in proceedings of the ED-MEDIA’99 Conference, Eds.Collis,B., Oliver, R., June 19-24, (pp 403-408). AACE, Seattle,Wa., USA
Bodgan, C and Cerratto Pargman, T. (2002). Reconsidering support for the members of specialized online communities. In Proceedings of the Nordic Ergonomics Society’s 34th Annual, Congress on Humans in a Complex Environment (NES 2002), Volume I, (pp. 121-126). Norrköping, Sweden
Papy, F., Folcher, V., Sidir, M., and Cerrato Pargman, T. (2004). E-Learning et technologies pour la coopération : inadéquations artefactuelles et logiques des activités instrumentées. In proceedings of ERGO-IA 2004. (8 pages). Biarritz, France
Cerratto Pargman, T. (2003). Collaborating with writing tools: an instrumental perspective on the problem of computer support for collaborative activities. Interacting with Computers: the interdisciplinary journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Volume 15. (pp. 737-757). Elsevier Science. New York
Interacting with Computers
Cerratto Pargman, T. and Waern, Y. (2003). Appropriating the Use of a Moo for Collaborative Learning. Interacting with Computers: the interdisciplinary journal of Human-Computer Interaction Volume 15. (pp. 759-781). Elsevier Science. New York
Interacting with Computers
Cerratto Pargman, T. (2006). Pour une conception des technologies centrée sur l’activité du sujet. Le cas de l’écriture de groupe avec collecticiel. Dans Modèles du sujet pour la conception : Dialectiques activités développement, Dirigé par Pierre Rabardel et Pierre Pastré. (pp. 157-188). Octarès...
Karlström, P., Cerratto Pargman, T., Ramberg, R. (2006). Tools, Language Technology and Communication in Computer Assisted Language Learning. Chapter in n Luuk Van Waes, Mariëlle Leijten & Chris Neuwirth (Vol. Eds.) and G. Rijlaarsdam (series ed.), Studies in Writing:Vol.17.Writing and Digital Me...
On Fairness & Sustainability: Motivating Behavioral Change in the Networked Society
Eliasson, J., Spikol, D., Cerratto Pargman, T., & Ramberg, R. (2010) Get the bees away from the hive: Balancing visual focus on devices in mobile learning IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2010, Porto, Portugal
Designs for Learning, 2014
Media and technological devices function as socializing agents during children's leisure and ente... more Media and technological devices function as socializing agents during children's leisure and entertainment time. Drawing from the theory of cultural consumption, a socio educational approach to students' digital practices, and media literacy, this qualitative study seeks to explore and describe students' cultural consumption profile. The authors explore the representations and meanings of digital practices of public school students of a predominately working class neighborhood situated in the periphery of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Findings highlight different aspects of youth cultural consumption profile. Two themes were identified: a) children use computers for a multiplicity of different activities enacting multitasking practices; and b) children develop new forms of digital practices for social digital interaction that are expressed in the "need" to be connected, the production and use of shared codes and the establishment of ambivalent relations with social media platforms. Implications for education are explored.
Understanding audience participation in an interactive theater performance
Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Fun, Fast, Foundational - NordiCHI '14, 2014
ABSTRACT This article presents an empirical study investigating audience participation in an inte... more ABSTRACT This article presents an empirical study investigating audience participation in an interactive theater performance. During the performance, audience members were enticed to act upon and contribute to the performance by sharing their opinions, emotions, values and other thoughts, by means of text messages that were integrated into the performance itself. The study aimed at understanding the main characteristics of audience participation in the interactive performance, as well as the role of communication technology as a medium enabling social participation. The results draw attention to the immediate and reflective facets of audience participation, both unfolding at two different but interrelated levels of interactions: an individual and collective one.
Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 03 workshop on Building educational applications using natural language processing -, 2003
This paper focuses on the transformation of grammar checking technology into a learning environme... more This paper focuses on the transformation of grammar checking technology into a learning environment for second language writing. Our starting point is a grammar checker for Swedish, called Granska. Two studies have been conducted aimed at exploring the use of computer support for writing in the context of second language learning. In the first study, we developed a methodology to study naturalistic writing, and the impact of the grammar checker on the writer's text. In the second study, we were interested in how the methodology developed earlier would work in an educational setting. The problems with false alarms and limited recall are definitely a sensitive issue in the context of second language learners and educational settings. Both learners and teachers are concerned about the false alarms, and without perfectly working text analyzers, new strategies for dealing with these problems have to be further explored and developed together with learners and teachers.
Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06), 2006
We study the use of a computer application, intended for Computer Assisted Language Learning (CAL... more We study the use of a computer application, intended for Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). We present an analytical framework for CALL, consisting of technology, interaction with technology, a relationship between technology and students, and a context where technology is situated. The application we study performs several different kinds of state of the art linguistic analyses, and is intended for writing texts while paying attention to linguistic forms. We have conducted a naturalistic field study of two informants use the tool collaboratively. Our question is in what manners these students put the tool into use. These students let initiative be taken by the CALL application, despite it being designed with student initiative in mind, and despite students being aware of features and occasions where they could take initiative. We use our framework to point out how this student-system relationship is formed, and provide guidance for future design.
Proceedings of IC, 2000
A partir d'une étude comparative sur l'activité d'écriture des groupes collaborant en face-à-face... more A partir d'une étude comparative sur l'activité d'écriture des groupes collaborant en face-à-face et avec un collecticiel synchrone (Aspects®), ce travail présente une analyse des transformations que l'outil informatique introduit dans l'organisation de l'activité des co-auteurs. Nous appuyant sur le concept de schème et d'instrument [26], nous montrons que le collecticiel dans l'activité collaborative étudiée, devient un révélateur des composantes de l'écriture collaborative et un diffracteur de la collaboration mettant en défaut la structure et l'organisation des schèmes collaboratifs du groupe.
Designing Nordic technology-enhanced learning
The Internet and Higher Education, 2012
ABSTRACT The latest developments of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and its larg... more ABSTRACT The latest developments of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and its large penetration in different sectors of our society pose new challenges and demands in the field of education. This special issue entitled "Designing Nordic Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL)", presents and discusses how researchers in the Nordic countries are currently framing and thinking about issues that are related to pedagogical design of learning spaces, digital literacies, educational professional development, design of tools engaging students in collaborative inquiry learning as well as design-oriented multimodal understandings of learning. The objective pursued with the special issue has been to reflect upon current problems that educational institutions, practitioners and TEL researchers are facing in the Nordic countries as regards the acknowledgment of young people's ICT practices within formal education. Such analytical work has led us to identify and elaborate on what we believe constitute forthcoming research challenges for learning and education in the Nordic countries.
ReCALL, 2007
We present two case studies of two different pedagogical tasks in a Computer Assisted Language Le... more We present two case studies of two different pedagogical tasks in a Computer Assisted Language Learning environment called Grim. The main design principle in Grim is to support ‘Focus on Form’ in second language pedagogy. Grim contains several language technology-based features for exploring linguistic forms (static, rule-based and statistical), intended to be used while writing. Our question is, in what ways does Grim support Focus on Form in actual classroom use. We have explored this question within sociocultural theory, emphasizing tool mediation and how tools shape the learner’s activity. The first case concerns a text-reconstruction exercise in which students worked in a pair within the Grim environment. The second case was conducted with another group of students, who engaged in collaborative revision of texts, written in advance by one of the students, in student pairs. In both studies, students were instructed and encouraged to use the different features of Grim. Data was c...
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