The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is one of the top European Universities participating in numerous national and international research projects. The Real-Time Coordination and Distributed Interaction Systems Group (React) belongs to the EPFL School of Engineering and carries out research in Distributed Systems, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and Knowledge Management (KM). The group focuses on real-time and ubiquitous human-machine interaction, artifact-based collaborative learning, context-sensitive awareness and recommendation, smart devices, in addition to knowledge and resource management.

React pioneered research and deployment of remote and virtual experimentation back to 1996 with a full remotely accessible lab for higher engineering education accessible 24/7 since 2001. Joint research on remote labs were carried out at the Swiss level in the eMersion project and at the European level with the RELAX project, a Remote LAboratory eXperimentation trial and  in the  AutoTECH  project  focusing  on  Automation  Technicians Vocational Training Repository, as well as with dedicated work package in the ProLEARN network of Excellence. React had then a leading role in the Palette Integrated  Project  that  aimed  at  facilitating  and  augmenting  individual  and  organizational  learning  in Communities of Practice. In this framework, it investigated and developed social software to support formal and informal collaborative learning and ubiquitous knowledge sharing. 

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