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Julia Chatain @juliachatain.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Realising I'm posting more about #books than research lately, but anyway! When I moved from Europe to #Singapore in early 2024, I wanted to get a better understanding of the region's history and culture, and here's the result: a book tour of #Asia. juliachatain.notion.site/A-book-tour-...

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A book tour of Asia | Notion

Ratings below are from 1 (minimum) to 5 (maximum). ⭐️ = how i would rate the book (story, writing, characters, etc) 📍 = how useful the book is to learn about this area of the world

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Julia Chatain @juliachatain.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

What are your favourite reads of 2024? This year, I read about the wind, about music, and about being far from home.

Covers of books with grades: Pachinko 5*, The name of the wind 5*, Red Sorghum 5*, Cloud Atlas 5*, Ways to Escape One's Former Country 5*, Dune 4*, Wednesday's child 4*, Light from uncommon stars 4*, Piranesi 4*, Butter 4*, How do you live 4*, La horde du contrevent 4*, The naked don't fear the water 4*, Shadow of the wind 4*, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers 4*, The house of doors 4*, The pursuit of love 3*, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop 3*, An equal music 2*

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Julia Chatain @juliachatain.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Earlier this week at #UCBerkeley, Venera and I presented our #DIS2024 paper on exploring the design space of embodied interaction for math learning, so I though it's finally time I record the talk: 📺 youtu.be/i6DTczmitVE

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Julia Chatain @juliachatain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

How can #VR be used to teach #OccupationalMedicine, a topic that requires experiencing real-life scenarios that are difficult to fit into students' and practitioners' busy schedules? I found this project particularly interesting as we looked into #embodiment to create #discomfort and raise #empathy.

Screenshot of the first page of the paper.

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Julia Chatain @juliachatain.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Happily bumped into an impromptu board games festival after training today 👌

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Julia Chatain @juliachatain.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The idea of using #VR to support learning through #movement and #embodiment is attractive, but how can we design #interaction and #avatars to actually support learning? In this extended abstract, we present the design space through #EmbodiedCognition, #EmbodiedInteraction and #AvatarEmbodiment.

Three pictures. 1. A person has an arm folded and an arm extended. These two arms represent the x and y axis in a horizontal plane. The plane is distorted, as one arm is longer than the other. On the plane are 3D houses and trees to show the distortion. 2. A woman interacts with a function curve in VR. The display also shows the derivative, which the woman manipulates through a digital rotating angle. 3. A man interacts with a pipe system representation of a graph in VR. He presses a button on a pipe with one hand, and adjusts the level of the water in the pipe with the other hand.

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Julia Chatain @juliachatain.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

How should we design digital #avatars? With our #DigitalGloves project, we used hands as both input and display to create #playful experiences. The rationale behind this was to show we could deliberately break morphological similarity between physical body and digital body to create #meaning.

Four images, the first one shows a person wearing a VR headset, looking at her hand. The other images shows three VR games played on the hand, including a pinball game, a race game, and a game played with two hands mimicking a twin pan balance.

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Julia Chatain @juliachatain.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hi Blue Sky 👋 I'm an interdisciplinary researcher in #HCI and #LearningSciences. I'm interested in how our #embodied experiences with digital worlds and digital bodies shape the way we learn and the way we think. I'm currently designing a research programme on #FutureEmbodiedLearningTechnologies ⚙️

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