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Designing Gamified Activities with Haptic-Enabled Tangible Robots for Therapy and Assistance

In this thesis, we contribute to the field of rehabilitation robotics by designing haptic-enabled tangible robot-based activities and exploring their added value for therapy and assistance. The research specifically focuses on the design and development of ...

EPFL2021

Dynamic Learning in Markets: Pricing, Advertising, and Information Acquisition

Thomas Alois Weber

In the face of demand uncertainty, a monopolist can observe sales as a controlled reaction to its price and advertising so as to improve the choice of this marketing mix in the future. Furthermore, to upgrade its knowledge about demand the firm has the opt ...

2019

Model-based interpretation of floor vibrations for indoor occupant tracking

Ian Smith, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Slah Drira

Information regarding occupant flows inside buildings is beneficial for applications such as thermal-load control, market research and security enhancement. Existing methodologies for occupant tracking involve data-driven techniques that rely either on rad ...

2019

Innovation capacity of the agricultural sector: network of productive interactions, knowledge transfer and differentiation mechanisms

Camille Marguerite Aouinait

Economic growth is increasingly explained and driven by knowledge acquisition and firmsâ capabilities to adapt to new evolving situations to fit economic, societal and environmental frames. Strategic behavior of private companies in differentiating and p ...

EPFL2019

Latest advances in aging research and drug discovery

Andrea Ablasser

An increasing aging population poses a significant challenge to societies worldwide. A better understanding of the molecular, cellular, organ, tissue, physiological, psychological, and even sociological changes that occur with aging is needed in order to t ...

IMPACT JOURNALS LLC2019

Towards Novel Researcher Tooling Based on Multimodal Analytics

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Much of educational research today employs a complex mixture of qualitative and quantitative analyses, both during the exploratory and confirmatory phases. However, researchers are still stuck with tools that were developed mainly for single-perspective re ...

2017

Science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems

Andras Kis, Zhe Sun

We present the science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems, targeting an evolution in technology, that might lead to impacts and benefits reaching into most areas of society. This roadmap was developed ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Research and developments-where people are exposed to nanomaterials

Thierry Meyer, Chantal Imhof

Objectives: Many nanomaterials (materials with structures smaller than 100 nm) have chemical, physical and bioactive characteristics of interest for novel applications. Considerable research efforts have been launched in this field. This study aimed to stu ...

2015

Hire Me: Computational inference of hirability in employment interviews based on nonverbal behavior

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen, Denise Frauendorfer

Understanding the basis on which recruiters form hirability impressions for a job applicant is a key issue in organizational psychology and can be addressed as a social computing problem. We approach the problem from a face-to-face, nonverbal perspective w ...

2014

Inventory Management with Working Capital Restrictions

Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila

Working capital restrictions can have disruptive effects on the coordination of the operations and finances of a company. Working capital restrictions may limit the inventory ordering power, reduce revenues, and increase the use of high premium debt. It ma ...

EPFL2013

From big smartphone data to worldwide research: The Mobile Data Challenge

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Imad Aad, Olivier Dousse, Julien Eberle

This paper presents an overview of the Mobile Data Challenge (MDC), a large-scale research initiative aimed at generating innovations around smartphone-based research, as well as community-based evaluation of mobile data analysis methodologies. First, we r ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

An Adaptive Approach for Online Segmentation of Multi-Dimensional Mobile Data

Karl Aberer, Zhixian Yan, Tian Guo

With increasing availability of mobile sensing devices including smartphones, online mobile data segmentation becomes an important topic in reconstructing and understanding mobile data. Traditional approaches like online time series segmentation either use ...

2012

Vision-Based Scene Understanding with Sparsity Promoting Priors

Alexandre Massoud Alahi

Human beings are interested in understanding their environments and the dynamic content that fills their surroundings. For applications ranging from security to marketing, people have installed networks of cameras to capture the dynamic elements of scenes. ...

EPFL2011

There is more to market learning than gathering good information: The role of shared team values in radical product definition

Christopher Tucci

User feedback is vital to a radical new product development (NPD) effort. However, shared team values (beliefs and possibly ideology) determine whether a development team will act on user feedback. This paper addresses this important issue by investigating ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

On Evaluating Video Object Segmentation Quality: A Perceptually Driven Objective Metric

Touradj Ebrahimi, Elisa Drelie Gelasca

The task of extracting objects in video sequences emerges in many applications such as object-based video coding (e.g., MPEG-4) and content-based video indexing and retrieval (e.g., MPEG-7). The MPEG-4 standard provides specifications for the coding of vid ...

2009

How to move from perception to design: application to keystroke sound

Hervé Lissek, Romain Boulandet

Nowadays, customers have legitimate requirements as regards quality that marketing and consumers departments attempt to satisfy. The sound is well-known to enhance or detract from our pleasure in possessing or using a product. Sound quality engineering is ...

2008

Strategic adaptation in global logistics partnerships : an integrated approach

In modern supply chains, specialized companies called third party logistics providers1 (TPLs) realize a growing part of the logistics and supply chain functions. In parallel to this evolution, traditional manufacturers have raised their willingness and rea ...

EPFL2004