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In Their Hands: Emerging Participatory Technologies Supporting Professional Practice - day 1

Series: Experimental and Participatory Research seminar (ExPaR)

In Their Hands: Emerging Participatory Technologies Supporting Professional Practice - day 1

When:

TUE, 9 SEPT 2025

From:

2:00 PM

To:

5:00 PM

Where:

Hybrid

Program

As researchers, we are increasingly using emerging technologies, such as multiple mobile eye tracking, virtual reality, and physiological indicators (e.g., heart rate and respiration) to study professionals’ individual and collaborative work practices. In this workshop, we will demonstrate how these technologies can be provided to professionals in various fields (e.g., education, healthcare, business, engineering, the arts) as a resource for self-reflection, enabling them to study and improve their own practices.

The goal of this workshop is to introduce and facilitate participants to experience novel approaches that use these emerging technologies and tools to help practitioners study their own skills and understand their learning processes. We will also show how focus groups and stimulated recall interviews can encourage and guide professionals to discover ways to incorporate these new technologies into their practice as resources for reflection and growth.

The workshop’s theme is educational practice and research, with a focus on showing how we can offer teachers theoretically driven and empirically validated methodologies for witnessing the micro-processes of collaborative mathematics learning. We will show and discuss how multiple mobile eye-tracking and virtual reality can be used in educational practice and for teacher training and professional development.

This approach and these emerging technologies are applicable not only in education, but also in all other fields of research that aim to study individual and collective practices, as well as professional learning, during the process of acquiring new skills or improving existing ones.

This event is part of a series. In this series:

Day 1 - 09/09/2025 - In Their Hands: Multiple Mobile Eye Tracking and Stimulated Recall Interviews

We will show how researchers can help professionals use multiple mobile eye tracking coupled with a stimulated recall interview to draw implications for their work and professional development. Participants will observe live data collection and visualization using this approach. Presentations of previous outcomes will be given, and discussions about the practical and methodological use of the approach will be held.

Day 2 - 10/09/2025 - In Their Hands: Virtual Reality Tasks, Co-Design, and Focus Groups

We will show how researchers can help professionals use virtual reality tasks coupled with a focus group to draw implications for their work and professional development. Participants will observe live data collection using this approach. Presentations of previous outcomes will be given, and discussions about the practical and methodological use of the approach will be held.

Day 3 - 18/09/2025 - In Their Hands: Physiological Indicators and Multidisciplinary Studies of Human Multimodality

In this session, we will show and discuss the possibilities and limitations of multidisciplinary studies of human multimodality by combining methods from different disciplines. We will show how we leverage qualitative emerging technologies and methodological approaches to study humans and provide insights for AI development. Participants will observe live data collection using physiological indicators. Presentations of previous outcomes will be given, and discussions about the practical and methodological use of the approach will be held.

Day 1 (TUE, 9 SEPT 2025)

Day 2 (WED, 10 SEPT 2025)

Day 3 (THU, 18 SEPT 2025)

2:00 PM - to: 3:00 PM

Multiple Mobile Eye Tracking in Collaborative Tasks as a Source for Professional Learning

Live data collection and visualization of data of the participants’ eye gaze during the collaborative construction task. Three participants will be active, while the audience watches passively. Afterwards, the audience will participate in the discussions about the approach and the generated data.

Moderated by Dor Abrahamson and Alik Palatnik

3:00 PM - to: 3:30 PM

In Their Hands: Multimodal Learning Analytics as Reflective-practice Resources Empowering Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Development

Presentation by Alik Palatnik

3:30 PM - to: 4:00 PM

Multiple Mobile Eye Tracking in Collaborative Tasks as a Source for Professional Learning Coupled with Stimulated Recall Interviews

Live stimulated recall interviews with the three participants are conducted while viewing a selection from the video of their activity, overlaid with their eye gaze. The three participants will be active, while the audience watches passively. Afterwards, the audience will participate in the discussions about the approach and the generated data.

Moderated by Dor Abrahamson, Alik Palatnik & Catalina Lomos

4:00 PM - to: 5:00 PM

The Icosahedron in the Room: Revisiting Pedagogical Dilemmas of Individual Learning in Collaborative Activities - the Role of Stimulated Recall Interviews

Presentation by Dor Abrahamson

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Dor Abrahamson - UC Berkeley

Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education

Dor Abrahamson (PhD, Learning Sciences) is Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development at the Graduate School of Education, University of California Berkeley, where he runs the Embodied Design Research Laboratory (https://edrl.berkeley.edu). A design-based researcher of mathematics cognition, teaching, and learning, Abrahamson develops and evaluates theoretical models of diverse students’ conceptual learning by analyzing empirical data collected in technological implementations of his innovative pedagogical design. Abrahamson and collaborators use mixed multimodal analytic methodologies to investigate the emergence of mathematical concepts from perceptual forms that facilitate sensorimotor coordination. Drawing on enactivist philosophy, dynamic systems theory, and sociocultural views, Abrahamson theorizes conceptual learning as students’ guided reconciliation of perceptually immediate and culturally mediated constructions of situated phenomena.

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