Publications related to Human behavioral ecology

Ethological computational psychiatry: Challenges and opportunities

Studying the intricacies of individual subjects' moods and cognitive processing over extended periods of time presents a formidable challenge in medicine. While much of systems neuroscience appropriately focuses on the link between neural circuit functions ...

Current Biology Ltd2024

Many Are The Ways to Learn: Identifying multi-modal behavioral profiles of collaborative learning in constructivist activities

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir, Aditi Kothiyal

Understanding how learners engage with learning technologies, and its relation with their learning, is crucial to the design of effective learning interventions. Assessing the learners’ state however, is non-trivial. Research suggests that performance is n ...

2021

Social NCE: Contrastive Learning of Socially-aware Motion Representations

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Yuejiang Liu

Learning socially-aware motion representations is at the core of recent advances in multi-agent problems, such as human motion forecasting and robot navigation in crowds. Despite promising progress, existing representations learned with neural networks sti ...

2021

From human action understanding to robot action execution: how the physical properties of handled objects modulate non-verbal cues

Aude Billard, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis, Nuno Ricardo Ferreira Duarte, José Santos-Victor

Humans manage to communicate action intentions in a non-verbal way, through body posture and movement. We start from this observation to investigate how a robot can decode a human's non-verbal cues during the manipulation of an object, with specific physic ...

IEEE2020

Tapping into Multi-Faceted Human Behavior and Psychopathology Using fMRI Brain Dynamics

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thomas William Arthur Bolton, Maria Giulia Preti, Elenor Morgenroth

Human behavior comprises many aspects that stand out by their dynamic nature. To quantify its neural underpinnings, time-resolved fMRI methods have blossomed over the past decade. In this review we conceptually organize a broad repertoire of dynamic analyt ...

2020

Human-Human, Human-Robot and Robot-Robot Interaction While Walking: Data Analysis, Modelling and Control

Jessica Lanini

In everyday life humans perform many tasks with other partners which involve coordination, involuntary communication and mutual control adaptation, as the case of carrying objects together with another person. Humanoid robots may help with such activities ...

EPFL2019

An Overview of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques for Organizational Research

Kerstin Preuschoff, Leyla Loued-Khenissi

Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a galvanizing tool for behavioral scientists. It provides a means by which to see what the brain does while a person thinks, acts, or perceives, without invasive procedures. In this, fMRI affords us a relatively eas ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2019

Resting brain dynamics at different timescales capture distinct aspects of human behavior

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Raphaël Pierre Liégeois

Linking human behavior to resting-state brain function is a central question in systems neuroscience. In particular, the functional timescales at which different types of behavioral factors are encoded remain largely unexplored. The behavioral counterparts ...

Springer2019

Exploring the diversity of social preferences: Is a heterogeneous population evolutionarily stable under assortative matching?

Boris Thurm, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

Why do individuals make different decisions when confronted with similar choices? This paper investigates whether the answer lies in an evolutionary process. Our analysis builds on recent work in evolutionary game theory showing the superiority of a given ...

2018

Data-driven healthcare: from patterns to actions

Matthias Grossglauser

The era of big data opens up new opportunities in personalised medicine, preventive care, chronic disease management and in telemonitoring and managing of patients with implanted devices. The rich data accumulating within online services and internet compa ...

Sage Publications Ltd2014

A Survey of Personality Computing

Gelareh Mohammadi, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Personality is a psychological construct aimed at explaining the wide variety of human behaviors in terms of a few, stable and measurable individual characteristics. In this respect, any technology involving understanding, prediction and synthesis of human ...

2014

An evolutionarily conserved role for the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in the regulation of movement

Johan Auwerx, Bart Deplancke, Laurent Mouchiroud, Pénélope Andreux, Evan Graehl Williams, Michael Vincent Frochaux

The BXD genetic reference population is a recombinant inbred panel descended from crosses between the C57BL/6 (B6) and DBA/2 (D2) strains of mice, which segregate for about 5 million sequence variants. Recently, some of these variants have been established ...

Public Library of Science2014

Game-theoretic Models of Web Credibility

Karl Aberer

Research on Web credibility assessment can significantly benefit from new models that are better suited for evaluation and study of adversary strategies. Currently employed models lack several important aspects, such as the explicit modeling of Web content ...

ACM2012

Personality traits in rats predict vulnerability and resilience to developing stress-induced depression-like behaviors, HPA axis hyper-reactivity and brain changes in pERK1/2 activity

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Jorge Eduardo Castro Cifuentes, Cristina Marquez Vega, Shanaz Diessler

Emerging evidence indicates that certain behavioral traits, such as anxiety, are associated with the development of depression-like behaviors after exposure to chronic stress. However, single traits do not explain the wide variability in vulnerability to s ...

Elsevier2012

New Challenges in Disaggregate Behavioral Modeling : Emotions, Investments and Mobility

Thomas Robin

This thesis tackles new challenges associated with the disaggregate modeling of the human behavior. Decision-aid tools help in making decisions, by providing quantitative insights on the decisions and associated consequences. They are useful in complex sit ...

EPFL2011

An application of advanced spatio-temporal formalisms to behavioural ecology

Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent

There is great potential for the development of many new applications using data on mobile objects and mobile regions. To promote these kinds of applications advanced data management techniques for the representation and analysis of mobility-related data a ...

2008