Publications related to Mode (user interface)

Customizing the human-avatar mapping based on EEG error related potentials during avatar-based interaction

Olaf Blanke, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Fumiaki Iwane, Thibault Serge Mario Porssut

Objective. A key challenge of virtual reality (VR) applications is to maintain a reliable human-avatar mapping. Users may lose the sense of controlling (sense of agency), owning (sense of body ownership), or being located (sense of self-location) inside th ...

2024

Secure Interface Design Leveraging Hardware/Software Support

Atri Bhattacharyya

Computer systems rely heavily on abstraction to manage the exponential growth of complexity across hardware and software. Due to practical considerations of compatibility between components of these complex systems across generations, developers have favou ...

EPFL2024

lifex-ep: a robust and efficient software for cardiac electrophysiology simulations

Alfio Quarteroni, Francesco Regazzoni, Stefano Pagani, Marco Fedele

Background: Simulating the cardiac function requires the numerical solution of multi-physics and multi-scale mathematical models. This underscores the need for streamlined, accurate, and high-performance computational tools. Despite the dedicated endeavors ...

BMC2023

Shared Intelligence for Robot Teleoperation via BMI

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Luca Tonin

This article proposes a novel shared intelligence system for brain-machine interface (BMI) teleoperated mobile robots where user's intention and robot's intelligence are concurrent elements equally participating in the decision process. We designed the sys ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Learning to control a BMI-driven wheelchair for people with severe tetraplegia

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Bastien Orset, Kyuhwa Lee, Serafeim Perdikis, Luca Tonin

Mind-controlled wheelchairs are an intriguing assistive mobility solution applicable in complete paralysis. Despite progress in brain-machine interface (BMI) technology, its translation remains elusive. The primary objective of this study is to probe the h ...

Cell Press2022

Development of the RAPTOR suite of codes towards real-time reconstruction of JET discharges

Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

The RAPTOR suite of codes combines real-time model-based predictions of the plasma state with the available diagnostic measurements. Following the work on TCV and ASDEX-Upgrade, this paper presents the implementation of the RAPTOR suite for JET. This suite ...

2021

Multi-Step Critiquing User Interface for Recommender Systems

Boi Faltings, Diana Andreea Petrescu, Diego Matteo Antognini

Recommendations with personalized explanations have been shown to increase user trust and perceived quality and help users make better decisions. Moreover, such explanations allow users to provide feedback by critiquing them. Several algorithms for recomme ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Decoding of error-related potentials in continuous feedback protocols for personalized human computer interaction

Fumiaki Iwane

The ability to notice erroneous behavior is crucial for effective training. Within the framework of neuroprosthetics, numerous studies in electroencephalography (EEG) confirm the existence of neural correlates when humans perceive the erroneous actions of ...

EPFL2021

On the non-existence of stepped-pressure equilibria far from symmetry

Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

The Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code (SPEC) (Hudson et al 2012 Phys. Plasmas 19 112502) has been successful in the construction of equilibria in 3D configurations that contain a mixture of flux surfaces, islands and chaotic magnetic field lines. In this m ...

2021

Adaptive Wireless Power Transfer and Backscatter Communication for Perpetual Operation of Wireless Brain-Computer Interfaces

James Daniel Rosenthal

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are neural prosthetics that enable closed-loop electrophysiology procedures. These devices are currently used in fundamental neurophysiology research, and they are moving toward clinical viability for neural rehabilitation. ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Tamaas: a library for elastic-plastic contact of periodic rough surfaces

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Son-Jonathan Pham-Ba, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot, Valentine Ginette Madeleine Rey

Tamaas: a library for elastic-plastic contact of periodic rough surfaces", published in the Journal of Open Source Softwares describes the free and open-source library Tamaas. More than five years in the making, Tamaas is a high performance C++/Python libr ...

2020

From bulk descriptions to emergent interfaces: Connecting the Ginzburg-Landau and elastic-line models

Elisabeth Agoritsas, Thierry Giamarchi

Controlling interfaces is highly relevant from a technological point of view. However, their rich and complex behavior makes them very difficult to describe theoretically, and hence to predict. In this work, we establish a procedure to connect two levels o ...

2020

Towards BCI-Based Interfaces for Augmented Reality: Feasibility, Design and Evaluation

Nicolas Julien Roussel, Camille Marie Jeunet

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) enable users to interact with computers without any dedicated movement, bringing new hands-free interaction paradigms. In this paper we study the combination of BCI and Augmented Reality (AR). We first tested the feasibilit ...

2020

The Connection Between the Nervous System and Machines: Commentary

Giacomo Valle

Decades of technological developments have populated the field of brain-machine interfaces and neuroprosthetics with several replacement strategies, neural modulation treatments, and rehabilitation techniques to improve the quality of life for patients aff ...

2019

A Tangible Programming Language for the Educational Robot Thymio

Francesco Mondada, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti, Andrea Mussati

In the past, the use of tangible programming languages has shown several advantages compared to screen-based graphical programming languages. Especially when presented to novices, such interfaces may represent a more intuitive and straightforward alternati ...

2019

The Human-Computer Connection An Overview Of Brain-Computer Interfaces

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz

This article introduces the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCI), which allows the control of devices without the generation of any active motor output but directly from the decoding of the user's brain signals. Here we review the current state of the ...

2019

A Framework for Adaptive User Interface Generation based on User Behavioural Patterns

Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

The concept of adaptivity is crucial in enterprise software systems with a large user base. Adaptive user interfaces (AUI) is an emerging research area that enables customized user experience based on user activities. Most of the existing studies that are ...

IEEE2019

The Cybathlon BCI race: Successful longitudinal mutual learning with two tetraplegic users

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Serafeim Perdikis, Luca Tonin, Sareh Saeedi, Christoph Schneider

This work aims at corroborating the importance and efficacy of mutual learning in motor imagery (MI) brain–computer interface (BCI) by leveraging the insights obtained through our participation in the BCI race of the Cybathlon event. We hypothesized that, ...

2018

Data-driven body–machine interface for the accurate control of drones

Dario Floreano, Silvestro Micera, Stefano Mintchev, Jenifer Cléa Miehlbradt, Fiorenzo Artoni, Martina Coscia, Alexandre Thierry Cherpillod

The teleoperation of nonhumanoid robots is often a demanding task, as most current control interfaces rely on mappings between the operator’s and the robot’s actions, which are determined by the design and characteristics of the interface, and may therefor ...

2018

Privacy in Recommender Systems

Mahsa Taziki

The upsurge in the number of web users over the last two decades has resulted in a significant growth of online information. Recommenders are machine learning approach and are becoming one of the main ways to navigate the Internet. They recommend appropria ...

EPFL2018