Publications related to Personal digital assistant

PopTouch: A Submillimeter Thick Dynamically Reconfigured Haptic Interface with Pressable Buttons

Herbert Shea, Ayana Mizutani, Amir Firouzeh

The interactions with touchscreens rely heavily on vision: The virtual buttons and virtual sliders on a touchscreen provide no mechanical sense of the object they seek to represent. This work presents PopTouch: a 500 mu m thick flexible haptic display that ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Advancing the Adaptability of Compliant Robot Controllers for Exploration, Interaction, and Manipulation

Farshad Khadivar

As technology continues to evolve, robots are becoming an intrinsic part of our lives. While robots surpass human capabilities in precision and speed, they are far from matching humans' ability to adapt to unexpected changes. Humans can quickly and complia ...

EPFL2022

Augmenting Collaborative MOOC Video Viewing with Synchronized Textbook

Pierre Dillenbourg, Lukasz Kidzinski, Nan Li

We designed BOOC, an application that synchronizes textbook content with MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) videos. The application leverages a tablet display split into two views to present lecture videos and textbook content simultaneously. The display o ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

Personal Robust Navigation in Challenging Applications

Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler

Personal navigation has grown rapidly with the introduction of ubiquitous computing and the new generation of smart phones. Appropriate localisation is nowadays a central element for many applications and mobile services. However the proper estimation of t ...

Cambridge University Press2011

Subtypes of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and their differing responses to therapy

Douglas Hanahan, Anguraj Sadanandam

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a lethal disease. Overall survival is typically 6 months from diagnosis(1). Numerous phase 3 trials of agents effective in other malignancies have failed to benefit unselected PDA populations, although patients do ...

Nature Publishing Group2011

Batch processing for efficient base-band operations in real-time GNSS software receivers

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Marcel Baracchi Frei

Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) or mobile phones applications are not anymore restricted to multimedia or wireless communications, but have been extended to handle Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) functionalities. The new generation of portable ...

Inst Navigation, 815 15Th Th St Nw, Ste 832, Washington, Dc 20005 Usa2010

Architecture of a Real-Time Platform Independant GPS L1 Software Receiver

Personal digital assistants or mobile phones applications are not anymore restricted to multimedia or wireless communications, but have been extended to handle Global Positioning System (GPS) functionalities. Consequently, the growing market of GPS capable ...

EPFL2010

Performances of a New Correlation Algorithm for a Platform-independent GPS Software Receiver

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Marcel Baracchi Frei

Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s) or mobile phones applications are not anymore restricted to wireless communications or multimedia, but have been extended to handle Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) functionalities. Consequently, the growing mar ...

Inst Navigation, 815 15Th Th St Nw, Ste 832, Washington, Dc 20005 Usa2009

A virtual 3D mobile guide in the INTERMEDIA project

Daniel Thalmann, Xavier Righetti, Achille Peternier

In this paper, we introduce a European research project, interactive media with personal networked devices (INTERMEDIA) in which we seek to progress beyond home and device-centric convergence toward truly user-centric convergence of multimedia. Our vision ...

2008

Rendering massive real-time crowds

Pablo Stanislaw De Heras Ciechomski

This thesis presents how to visualize a large crowd of virtual human characters in real time on a standard issue personal computer. The virtual humans are distributed into rendering fidelities such that the humans closer to the viewer are detailed and expr ...

EPFL2006

Adaptive video delivery using semantics

Olivier Steiger

The diffusion of network appliances such as cellular phones, personal digital assistants and hand-held computers has created the need to personalize the way media content is delivered to the end user. Moreover, recent devices, such as digital radio receive ...

EPFL2005

The mobile animator: interactive character animation in collaborative virtual environments

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo

We have designed a mobile -PDA-based- interface for real-time control of virtual characters in multiuser semi-immersive virtual environments - using a large rear-projection screen. The proof-of-concept implementation we present shows the potential of handh ...

2004