Highlight

The AtGentNet platform

AtGentNet is a collaborative and social networking platform for supporting the social attention of a group of managers engaged in a blended training programme.

see also:

• some screenshots of the platform
• the architecture

Events

• February 2008: AtGentive project is featured in two articles:

  • Attention please! Next-generation e-learning is here

    • ICT Result , 14 Feb 2008

  • E-learning : avatars et collaboration améliorent l'apprentissage

    • Mathilde Cristiani, L'Atelier, Fevrier 2008
• 5 February 2008: AtGentive :: Final revue meeting, INSEAD, Fontrainebleau, France

• 26 October 2007 The ITM concept Worldwide launch, October 2007

  • ITM (International Trade Management) is an education programme in which CALT is involved, via the EIS Simulation and the ICDT platform (AtGentive project).

• 17-20 September 2007: ECTEL 2007 (we had a paper)

  • First European Technology Enhanced Learning Conference
  • 17-20 September 2007, Crete, Greece

• 16 September 2007: AMUCE 2007 Attention Management in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, Innsbruck September 16-19, 2007

  • Organised by AUP and Oxford Brooks University, two partners of the project

• Attention Aware System Networking session proposal

  • Submission for IST 2006, Helsinki, 21-23 november 2006
  • This session aims at exploring project themes related to applications, and R&D, for attention aware systems.
  • If you are interested in attending this session or giving a presentation please register your interest on the IST 2006 website

• ECTEL 2006 (we submitted a poster and a paper)

  • First European Technology Enhanced Learning Conference
  • 1-4 October 2006, Crete.
  • ECTEL 2006 will organize a special FP6 "Project GetTogether Meeting" with poster presentations. Each project will be provided with one poster board where your poster will be displayed throughout the conference. There will also be a special slot dedicated to a project poster session, during which a representative of your project is asked to be available for providing more information about your project, progress, and results, to all conference attendees. Please let us know whether you are interested in this opportunity.

Documents

Articles about Atgentive

• E-learning : avatars et collaboration améliorent l'apprentissage

  • Mathilde Cristiani, L'Atelier, Fevrier 2008
  • Le projet de formation en ligne AtGentive intègre des fonctions de réseau social pour faciliter l'implication des participants. Leurs interventions sont contrôlées par un surveillant virtuel.

Publications

Working papers

Deliverables

see also AtGentive Deliverables

Other

Systems

The platforms

• AtGentSchool platform

  • A platform supporting the attention of childreen in a classroom. (AtGentSchool sessions have been organised)

• AtGentNet platform

  • A social networking / collaboration platform that can be used un a variety of contexts such as blended learning, support of communities (alumni networks), support for project collaboration (knowledge repository and exchange).

Several components

• The reasoning module
• The perception module
• ASKME
• An artificial characters component based on La Cantoche technology

Pilots

• The AtGentSchool pilot

  • consisted in a series of sessions in the classroom

• ITM Training Europe 2007 (the AtGentNet pilot)

  • Part of ITM Worldwide concept

Note: ITM Training Europe 2007 used the Eagle Racing Simulation designed as part of the L2C project.