Publications related to Graphic design

Imagine the Unseen World: A Benchmark for Systematic Generalization in Visual World Models

Systematic compositionality, or the ability to adapt to novel situations by creating a mental model of the world using reusable pieces of knowledge, remains a significant challenge in machine learning. While there has been considerable progress in the lang ...

2023

Sustainability and Ethicality are Peripheral to Students’ Software Design

Bryan Alexander Ford, Siara Ruth Isaac, Pierluca Borsò, Aditi Kothiyal

The conceptual design phase is a fascinating moment to observe how a design task is interpreted, as the (often implicit) relative importance students accord to the various requirements and constraints offers a window into the thinking underpinning their de ...

Tempus Publications2023

MultiModN- Multimodal, Multi-Task, Interpretable Modular Networks

Martin Jaggi, Mary-Anne Hartley, Vinitra Swamy, Thierry Bossy, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Thijs Vogels, Malika Satayeva, Jibril Albachir Frej

Predicting multiple real-world tasks in a single model often requires a particularly diverse feature space. Multimodal (MM) models aim to extract the synergistic predictive potential of multiple data types to create a shared feature space with aligned sema ...

2023

Collective data-based drawings A common ground for adaptive contributive design

The laboratory ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) advances a comprehensive approach to data-based drawing oriented towards architectural and urban co-design processes. This drawing methodolog ...

2023

Computational conceptual design — typological exploration of spatial truss systems through optimization

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Pierluigi D'Acunto

Exploring a wide range of design options is crucial for every sound conceptual design process. In the conventional structural design workflow, optimization techniques are generally employed to generate well-performing design options. However, focusing only ...

International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)2023

Mixplorer: Scaffolding Design Space Exploration through Genetic Recombination of Multiple Peoples’ Designs to Support Novices’ Creativity

Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis, Kevin Gonyop Kim

The ability to consider a wide range of solutions to a design problem is a crucial skill for designers, and is a major differentiator between experts and novices. One reason for this is that novices are unaware of the full extent of the design space in whi ...

2022

Design and evaluation of digital tools to expand experience in vocational education

Kevin Gonyop Kim

Vocational education and training (VET) is the most popular form of upper-secondary education in Switzerland, with more than two-thirds of the teenagers enrolling in a VET program after finishing their compulsory education. The vast majority of the Swiss V ...

EPFL2022

Introducing Alternative Value Proposition Canvases for Collaborative and Blended Design Thinking Activities in Science and Engineering Education

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia

The value proposition canvas introduced in 2015 by Pigneur et al. is broadly used by entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to create new services and products. We decided to apply it for collaborative and blended design thinking activities in a specialization in ...

IEEE2022

Systematic Literature Review of MBSE Tool-Chains

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Yan Yan

Currently, the fundamental tenets of systems engineering are supported by a model-based approach to minimize risks and avoid design changes in late development stages. The models are used to formalize, analyze, design, optimize, and verify system developme ...

MDPI2022

Adaptive Body Biasing in Strong Body Factor Technologies

Thomas Christoph Müller

With the advent of intelligent sensor nodes in everyday life, low power aspects of system design become more and more important. Adaptive body biasing is a promising methodology to achieve dynamic adaptation of the tradeoff between performance and energy b ...

EPFL2021

Automatic Content Curation of Visual Heritage

Mathieu Salzmann, Frédéric Kaplan, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Valentine Bernasconi

Digitization and preservation of large heritage induce high maintenance costs to keep up with the technical standards and ensure sustainable access. Creating impactful usage is instrumental to justify the resources for long-term preservation. The Museum fü ...

2021

All-Solid-State Ion-Selective Electrodes: A Tutorial for Correct Practice

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Irene Taurino, Francesca Criscuolo

The research on ion-measuring devices has seen a rapid expansion in the last years as a consequence of the growing interest in wearable sensors for biofluids analysis and in portable devices for remote or in-line water and food quality monitoring. As a res ...

2021

How Florist Apprentices Explore Bouquet Designs: Supporting Design Space Exploration for Vocational Students

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Context: Exploring the design space is an important process in a design task. In this study, we considered design space exploration for the learners in vocational education and training (VET). The goal of the study was to investigate how they explore the d ...

2021

Algebraic and Boolean Optimization Methods for AQFP Superconducting Circuits

Giovanni De Micheli, Eleonora Testa, Heinz Riener, Siang-Yun Lee

Adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron (AQFP) circuits are a family of superconducting electronic (SCE) circuits that have recently gained growing interest due to their low-energy consumption, and may serve as alternative technology to overcome the down-scaling ...

IEEE2021

OMiLAB: A Smart Innovation Environment for Digital Engineers

Dimitrios Kyritsis

This position paper introduces a Smart Innovation Environment for experimentation related to digital transformation projects, for the consolidation of a proposed "Digital Engineer" skill profile (with a business-oriented facet labelled as "Digital Innovato ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2021

Computational tool for stock-constrained design of structures

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

Designing structures from reused elements is becoming an increasingly important design task for structural engineers as it has potential to significantly reduce adverse environmental impacts of building structures. To allow for a broad application of this ...

2021

Designing Multi-disciplinary Interactive Virtual Environments for Next-Generation Immersive Learning Experiences: Case Studies and Future Directions in Astrobiology, Anatomy and Cultural Heritage

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine

This chapter describes the creation and deployment of the Immersive Learning Level Editor (iLLE), a new cross-platform IVE engineered at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney. It illustrates the design considerations, discipline-specific workflow ...

Springer, Cham2021

pyGenomeTracks: reproducible plots for multivariate genomic datasets

Lucille Delisle

Motivation Generating publication ready plots to display multiple genomic tracks can pose a serious challenge. Making desirable and accurate figures requires considerable effort. This is usually done by hand or using a vector graphic software. ...

2020

High Precision Capacitive Moisture Sensor for Polymers: Modeling and Experiments

Marco Mattavelli, Jean-Michel Sallese, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino

In this work a high precision capacitive moisture sensor for polymers was designed and fabricated. The device is part of a compact, fast, and economic moisture analyzer capable of reaching a similar precision than commercial moisture analyzers based on the ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Hydraulic design of classical stilling basins downstream of stepped chutes

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Michael Pfister, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Ivan Stojnic

New design information regarding the hydraulic behaviour of classical stilling basins downstream of stepped chutes is presented and discussed. An extensive experimental campaign revealed that classical stilling basins preceded by stepped chutes cannot be a ...

2020