Publications related to Web usability

Evaluating initial usability of a hand augmentation device across a large and diverse sample

The advancement of motor augmentation and the broader domain of human-machine interaction rely on a seamless integration with users' physical and cognitive capabilities. These considerations may markedly fluctuate among individuals on the basis of their ag ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2024

A mirror therapy system using virtual reality and an actuated exoskeleton for the recovery of hand motor impairments: a study of acceptability, usability, and embodiment

Luca Randazzo, Antonio Paolillo

Hand motor impairments are one of the main causes of disabilities worldwide. Rehabilitation procedures like mirror therapy are given crucial importance. In the traditional setup, the patient moves the healthy hand in front of a mirror; the view of the mirr ...

Nature Portfolio2023

E-guerrilla 3D participation: Approach, implementation, and usability study

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

Typical urban participatory approaches engage citizens through lengthy sessions far from the area under transformation by an urban project. Several issues result from these settings of involvement including the mobilization of similar individuals, overwhel ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

The UX Construct – Does the Usage Context Influence the Outcome of User Experience Evaluations?

Andreas Sonderegger

How are different measures of user experience (UX) related to each other? And does it differ if a technological device is used for work or leisure with regard to UX? In the present study, the influence of context factors (i.e. usage domain) on the outcomes ...

Springer2019

Evaluation of an Industrial Robotic Assistant in an Ecological Environment

Aude Billard, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Leonardo Urbano, Baptiste Busch

Social robotic assistants have been widely studied and deployed as telepresence tools or caregivers. Evaluating their design and impact on the people interacting with them is of prime importance. In this research, we evaluate the usability and impact of AR ...

2019

Pictorial System Usability Scale (P-SUS): Developing an Instrument for Measuring Perceived Usability

Andreas Sonderegger

We have developed a pictorial multi-item scale, called P-SUS (Pictorial System Usability Scale), which aims to measure the perceived usability of mobile devices. The scale is based on the established verbal usability questionnaire SUS (System Usability Sca ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Photons in - numbers out: perspectives in quantitative fluorescence microscopy for in situ protein counting

Kristin Stefanie Grussmayer

The full understanding of cellular functions requires information about protein numbers for various biomolecular assemblies and their dynamics, which can be partly accessed by super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Yet, many protein assemblies and cellu ...

2019

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Mobile Applications and Services

Thi Van Anh Pham

Over a third of the world 's population owns a smartphone. As generic computing devices that support a large and heterogeneous collection of mobile applications (apps), smartphones provide a plethora of functionalities and services to billions of users. B ...

EPFL2019

Findings from a survey on the current use of life-cycle assessment in building design

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

The built environment is facing environmental regulations more ambitious than ever before. In Europe, a law will lead all new buildings to the Nearly Zero-Energy performance level. However, even if a building does not have any energy consumption for its op ...

PLEA2018

HRI usability evaluation of interaction modes for a teleoperated agricultural robotic sprayer

Thanasis Hadzilacos

Teleoperation of an agricultural robotic system requires effective and efficient human-robot interaction. This paper investigates the usability of different interaction modes for agricultural robot teleoperation. Specifically, we examined the overall influ ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Tool for Design Decision Making: Zero Energy Residential Buildings in Hot Humid Climate

Shady Galal Mohamed Attia

Informed decision-making is the basis for the design of Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs). This paper investigates the use of building performance simulation tools as a method of informing the design decision of NZEBs. The aim of this study was to develop ...

2013

Classroom orchestration : The third circle of usability

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Patrick Jermann, Guillaume Zufferey, Sébastien Cuendet, Quentin Bonnard, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Lenh Hung Son Do

We analyze classroom orchestration as a question of usability in which the classroom is the user. Our experiments revealed design features that reduce the global orchestration load. According to our studies in vocational schools, paper-based interfaces hav ...

International Society of the Learning Sciences2011

User interaction with online geospatial systems

Jens Ingensand

User interaction with online geospatial systems is an inter-disciplinary research field that combines the two disciplines Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and geographic information sciences. In recent years online geospatial systems have been created for ...

EPFL2010

The 3A Interaction Model and Relation-Based Recommender System : Adopting Social Media Paradigms in Designing Personal Learning Environments

Sandy Ingram

We live in a rapidly changing digital world marked by technological advances, and fraught with online information constantly growing thanks to the Internet revolution and the online social applications in particular. Formal learning acquired in traditional ...

EPFL2010

User decision improvement and trust building in product recommender systems

Li Chen

As online stores are offering an almost unlimited shelf space, users must increasingly rely on product search and recommender systems to find their most preferred products and decide which item is the truly best one to buy. However, much research work has ...

EPFL2008

Error handling in multimodal voice-enabled interfaces of tour-guide robots using graphical models

Plamen Prodanov

Mobile service robots are going to play an increasing role in the society of humans. Voice-enabled interaction with service robots becomes very important, if such robots are to be deployed in real-world environments and accepted by the vast majority of pot ...

EPFL2006