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More Than Meets the Eye: First-Person Methods, by Julien Putz (UC Berkeley, Graduate Group in Science & Mathematics Education)

When:
TUE, 30 SEPT 2025
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3:00 PM
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4:00 PM
Where:
Hybrid
LISER, Maison des Sciences Humaines

11, Porte des Sciences - Belval

Jane Jacobs (1st floor)
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Across the mind sciences, first-person reports are already woven into everyday practice—from button-press self-ratings to open interviews—yet they rarely receive sustained methodological attention. This talk asks how we can elicit and integrate them better. I introduce micro-phenomenology as a disciplined way to obtain fine-grained descriptions of lived experience and exemplify it with pilot studies on mathematical cognition—especially problem solving and proof comprehension. I argue that structured first-person inquiry can render learning theories more meaningful for learners and illuminate tacit dimensions of (mathematical) expertise. Brief vignettes illustrate how these descriptions can be aligned with co-registered gaze and interaction traces to support analysis and validation. While the cases come from mathematics education, the methodological issues—how to elicit, analyze, and integrate first-person data—are relevant across research on mind, learning, and behavior.

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JulienPutz
Julien Putz
Julien Putz is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Group in Science & Mathematics Education at UC Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in Cognitive Science. His work examines how people perceive, and reason with, mathematical diagrams, using an embodied/enactive framework. Methodologically, he integrates first-person descriptions from micro-phenomenological interviews with instrumented measures such as eye-tracking. Prior to Berkeley, he earned his Master in Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg and completed an industrial mathematics internship at IEE S.A.

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