In Their Hands: Emerging Participatory Technologies Supporting Professional Practice - day 2

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.