Publications related to Usability engineering

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

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

Wannier90 as a community code: new features and applications

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Marco Gibertini, Antimo Marrazzo, Hyungjun Lee, Junfeng Qiao, Samuel Poncé, Lorenzo Paulatto, Daniel John Gilles Marchand

Wannier90 is an open-source computer program for calculating maximally-localised Wannier functions (MLWFs) from a set of Bloch states. It is interfaced to many widely used electronic-structure codes thanks to its independence from the basis sets representi ...

2020

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

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

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

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

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

Battle of the Water Networks II

José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Qi Wang, Marco Franchini

The Battle of the Water Networks II (BWN-II) is the latest of a series of competitions related to the design and operation of water distribution systems (WDSs) undertaken within the Water Distribution Systems Analysis (WDSA) Symposium series. The BWN-II pr ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2014

Brain connectivity in continuous error tasks

Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil

Error-related potentials (ErrP) have been recently incorporated in brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) due to its ability to adapt and correct both the output of the BMI or the behavior of the machine. Most of these applications rely on synchronous tasks with ...

2014

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

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