Mireille Betrancourt

Mireille Betrancourt is a professor at the University of Geneva, affiliated with the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and the Technologies of Training and Learning department. She leads research at the Interfaculty Center for Affective Sciences and the TECFA research group, focusing on digital education, collaborative learning, and emotional design.

• Research Themes: Digital competency development, visuospatial skill acquisition, affective computing, and multimedia learning
• Methodology: Uses virtual environments, eye-tracking, and physiological coupling to study collaborative processes

Recent work examines digital education implementation in Swiss schools, collaborative problem-solving in virtual spaces, and the interplay between emotional design and cognitive processes. Her publications span topics like 3D anatomical models in education, MOOC pedagogy, and ICT integration in teacher training.

She has supervised 71 works and contributed to 54 publications, with notable studies on:

• Emotion feedback mechanisms in digital collaboration
• Impact of wayfinding in virtual environments
• Physiological synchronization in group learning
• Adaptive game difficulty through emotion detection

Her research has garnered over 28,000 views and 22,000 downloads, demonstrating significant influence in educational technology and affective computing fields.