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Conference Guide Conference Guide Forest before trees: Towards identifying general patterns in text and graphics research August 27th - 29th, 2018 University of Freiburg, Germany Editors: Alexander Eitel, Mireille Bétrancourt, Janina Lehmann, Juliette Désiron 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS When organizing a conference, there are many smaller and bigger things that need to be taken care of. It is sometimes hard to see the bigger picture, namely the whole forest, among the many single tasks or trees. However, we were fortunate enough to have several people and organizations that helped us find our way through the forest! Here we want to express our special thanks organized in t(h)ree sections. First, we would like to express our dearest thanks to the members of both the scien- tific and the local organizing committee. Without your voluntary work, this confer- ence would have never happened! Second, we are grateful to all the participants including the keynote speakers who came from near and far to present their work and discuss ideas. This year, we re- ceived a total of 56 submissions by authors from 19 different countries. An additional warm thanks goes to the participants who served as session chair, and/or as mem- bers of the junior researcher award committee. Third, we would like to thank the Psychology Department of Freiburg University as well as the EARLI office for their kind support in making this conference possible. We also want to express our thanks to the German Research Foundation (DFG) who pro- vided crucial third-party funding. To all the participants, we wish you a very pleasant, “treelling” and “unforestable” confer- ence experience! J Alexander Eitel, Mireille Bétrancourt, Janina Lehmann & Juliette Désiron Conference Chairs of SIG2 2018 2 COMMITTEES Scientific Committee Shaaron Ainsworth, University of Nottingham Franck Amadieu, University of Toulouse Anne Bellert, Southern Cross University Australia Sandra Berney, University of Geneva Mireille Bétrancourt, University of Geneva (SIG coordinator) Jean-Michel Boucheix, University of Dijon Ivar Bråten, University of Oslo Cyril Brom, Charles University in Prague Raquel Cerdán, University of Valencia Jennifer Cromley, Illinois University Bjorn de Koning, VU University Amsterdam & LEARN! Institute Erica de Vries, University of Grenoble Alpes Juliette Désiron, University of Geneva Alexander Eitel, University of Freiburg (conference chair, SIG coordinator) Sarah Fabrikant, University of Zurich Manuela Glaser, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen Tim Höffler, Leibniz Institute for Mathematics and Science Education, Kiel Carolien Knoop-van Campen, Radboud University Nijmegen Tim Kühl, University of Mannheim Janina Lehmann, University of Ulm (JURE SIG coordinator) Detlev Leutner, University of Duisburg-Essen Marlit Lindner, Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Kiel Fons Maes, Tilburg University Lucia Mason, University of Padova Christoph Mengelkamp, University of Würzburg Martin Merkt, German Institute for Adult Education Bonn Gaëlle Molinari, Distance University Switzerland Juliane Richter, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen Tobias Richter, University of Würzburg Jean-François Rouet, LACO-CNRS, Poitiers Ladislao Salmeron, University of Valencia Katharina Scheiter, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen Florian Schmidt-Borcherding, UIniversity of Bremen Cornelia Schoor, University of Bamberg Anne Schüler, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen Neil Schwartz, California State University at Chico Tina Seufert, University of Ulm Tanmay Sinha, ETH Zürich Helge I. Strømsø, University of Oslo Huib Tabbers, Erasmus University Rotterdam Christian Tarchi, University of Florence Marije van Amelsvoort, Tilburg University Jan van der Meij, University of Twente Eduardo Vidal-Abarca, University of Valencia Local Committee Lisa Bender, Claudia Eitel, Erika Eitel, Fabian Fachinger, Lisa Flick, Inga Frey, Franziska Groß, Julia Kollmer, Lars Link, Monika Martin, Corinne Nal, Helene Rieche, Ana-Maria Rosca, Veit Wasser- fuhr 3 VENUE INFORMATION / MAP OF CITY 1 The meeting’s venue: Lecture Building of the Psychology Department of Freiburg University (Engelbergerstr. 41) – walk behind the main building 2 Conference dinner location: Greiffenegg-Schlössle (Schlossbergring 3) – use elevator or walk right up the hill (“Schlossberg”) 3 Starting point of guided city tour (Rathausplatz [in front of old town hall]) 4 PRACTICAL INFORMATION 1. Conference venue The conference will take place within and in front of the lecture building of the Psychology Department. Please do not hesitate to contact the person(s) at the information desk in case of any questions. You find the desk right behind the entrance of the left-hand side (see dia- gram). You will be able to store your luggage on Monday and Wednesday in the ‘Wardrobe’, which is located behind the information desk and under the stairs. Coffee and tea will be served in two corners of the lecture hall. Lunch will be offered as buffet outside of the building when the weather is good. The lunch area is located around the tree. In case of bad weather, lunch will be served in seminar room A (1st floor, see diagram on next page). All talks (i.e., the keynotes, paper presentations etc.) will take place in the lecture hall, located at the ground floor of the lecture building (see diagram above). The roundtable presentations will take place both in the lecture hall and in seminar rooms A + B. The latter are found on the first floor (see diagram on next page). Poster presentations will also take place in seminar rooms A + B. 5 2. Proceedings All proposals (three-pagers) that are presented at the conference have been put on the memory stick that you will find in your conference bag. A full program including abstracts is provided on the website and in this conference guide (page 7 ff.). 3. Reception / Welcome Drink Monday evening from 7 to 8 pm, you are invited to our opening reception with drinks and little snacks that will take place just outside of the lecture building (or inside if the weather is bad). 4. Members meeting You are all invited to join our yearly SIG 2 Members meeting on Monday, from 6 to 7 pm. During this meeting we will look back at the previous year and inform you of future SIG 2 activities, such as the EARLI 2019 Conference in Aachen, Germany. 5. Conference dinner On Tuesday from 7 to 11 pm, you are invited to the conference dinner that will take place at the Greiffenegg-Schlössle, which is located on the Schlossberg and thus allows for a nice view over the city and into the Black Forest. 6. Wifi If your home University is a member of the eduroam project, you can connect to this wifi by using the identifier and the password supplied by your organization. Make sure to have your computer, mobile phone or tablet configured beforehand. 6 7. Guided city tour On Wednesday afternoon, after the conference, a guided tour of Freiburg city center will be offered. It is termed „highlights of the old town” and starts at 2:30 pm in front of the old town hall “Rathausplatz, 79098 Freiburg”. We can walk there together starting at 2 pm from the meeting’s venue. 8. Useful vocabulary in the Freiburg region J Badisch (regional dialect) German English Adé tschüss, auf Wiedersehen bye BeiZ Wirtschaft pub Bibblekäs sowas wie Quark dairy made from fresh cheese Bobbele waschechte(r) Freiburger(in) a true Freiburg local Bolle (Eis-)Kugel spherical shape, here mentioned: a “ball” of ice cream, as in a scoop Brägele Bratkartoffeln roasted potatoes Dädsch…? Würdest Du bitte…? could you please…? FerZ/Saich Unsinn nonsense Fleischkäs Leberkäse, Fleischlaib a loaf of meat, a meat loaf fudsch oder hie Kaputt broken gell? stimmt’s? oder? ne? nech? am I right? Gosch Mund Mouth groddefalsch total verkehrt very wrong Ochs / Rindvie (badisches) Schimpfwort a swearword Käpsele schlauer Fuchs, kluger, gewitzter smart, witty person Mensch Radler Bier mit Limo Beer mixed with lemon soda s’bressierd wenn man es eilig hat when one’s in a hurry saiche regnen to rain salli hallo, guten Tag hello schaffe arbeiten work schwätZe / babble plaudern, reden chit-chat, talk schwoofe (langsam) tanzen (slow) dancing Seggel hinterlistiger Mensch a deceitful Individual Veschper kleine Mahlzeit beim Einkehren o- a small meal, a snack der mitgenommen von zu Hause Vierdele Viertelliter eines badischen Wei- a quarter of a litre of a local (Ba- nes den) wine Weckle Brötchen bread roll 7 PROGRAM OVERVIEW Monday, August 27th Time Activity Location 8:30 – 9:15 Registration Entrance of lecture hall 9:15 – 9:45 Opening & Welcome by Conference Chairs Lecture hall 9:45 – 10:45 Paper Session A: Affective-Motivational Influences on Lecture hall Learning – chaired by Huib Tabbers For whom pictures may not be beneficial: The case of spider fearful individuals (Kühl & Münzer) Context effects in learning from text and picture – the role of learners’ affective state (Seufert & von Randow) Interacting effects of background music and prior knowledge on learning outcomes (Lehmann & Seufert) 10:50 – 11:20 Coffee Break Lecture hall + SR A (and outside) 11:25 – 12:25 Paper Session B: Text- & Meta-Comprehension – chaired by Lecture hall Anne Bellert When do 4th graders generate causal inferences in exposi- tory text and film comprehension? (Tibus & Gerjets) Fostering text-learning strategies in secondary education through explicit strategy-instruction (Rogiers, Merchie, & Van Keer) Graphical insight: How to read an unconventional graph (Fox, Walker, & Hollan) 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break Outside of lecture building
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