Publications related to Heuristic evaluation

Towards Novel Evaluation Methods for Social Dialog Systems

Language has shaped human evolution and led to the desire to endow machines with language abilities. Recent advancements in natural language processing enable us to achieve this breakthrough in human-machine interaction. However, introducing conversational ...

EPFL2023

impresso Text Reuse at Scale. An interface for the exploration of text reuse data in semantically enriched historical newspapers

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

Text Reuse reveals meaningful reiterations of text in large corpora. Humanities researchers use text reuse to study, e.g., the posterior reception of influential texts or to reveal evolving publication practices of historical media. This research is often ...

2023

The impact of human expert visual inspection on the discovery of strong gravitational lenses

Frédéric Courbin, Benjamin Yvan Alexandre Clement, Eric Gérard Guy Paic, Hung-Hsu Chan, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Karina Alexandra Rojas Olate, Rémy Elie Joseph, Elodie Marie Charlène Savary, Yue Pan

We investigate the ability of human 'expert' classifiers to identify strong gravitational lens candidates in Dark Energy Survey like imaging. We recruited a total of 55 people that completed more than 25 per cent of the project. During the classification t ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

User Evaluations of Contrast-Dominant Discomfort Glare Dim Daylit Scenarios: Preliminary Findings

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Geraldine Cai Ting Quek

Discomfort glare metrics typically consider at least one of the two effects of discomfort glare-saturation and contrast-in their equation. The former occurs when there is an excessively bright glare source in the field of view, while the latter occurs when ...

2021

Facilitators First: Building a Tool With Facilitators to Foster a More Collaborative Makerspace Community Through Movement Traces

Bertrand Roland Schneider, Léonore Valentine Guillain

Research indicates that makerspaces equip students with the practical skills needed to build their own projects and thrive in the twenty-first-century workforce. While the appeal of makerspaces lies in their spirit of tinkering and community-driven ethos, ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Computational tool for stock-constrained design of structures

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

Designing structures from reused elements is becoming an increasingly important design task for structural engineers as it has potential to significantly reduce adverse environmental impacts of building structures. To allow for a broad application of this ...

2021

Recommending Burgers based on Pizza Preferences: Addressing Data Sparsity with a Product of Experts

Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Diego Matteo Antognini, Martin Milenkoski

In this paper, we describe a method to tackle data sparsity and create recommendations in domains with limited knowledge about user preferences. We expand the variational autoencoder collaborative filtering from a single-domain to a multi-domain setting. T ...

2021

Broccoli: Sprinkling Lightweight Vocabulary Learning into Everyday Information Diets

Robert West

The learning of a new language remains to this date a cognitive task that requires considerable diligence and willpower, recent advances and tools notwithstanding. In this paper, we propose Broccoli, a new paradigm aimed at reducing the required effort by ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Malware in the SGX supply chain: Be careful when signing enclaves!

Rafael Pereira Pires, Pascal Felber

Malware attacks are a significant part of the new software security threats detected each year. Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) are a set of hardware instructions introduced by Intel in their recent lines of processors that are intended to provide a ...

2022

The Sixth Visual Object Tracking VOT2018 Challenge Results

Erhan Gündogdu, Tianzong Zhang, Wei Wu, Qiang Wang, Zhiye Wang, Li Wang, Bo Li, Yunpeng Li, Zeyu Zhang, Bo Chen, Jiri Matas, Namhoon Lee, Tianyang Xu, Jing Li, Ning Wang, Hongwei Li, Feng Li, Jue Wang, Peixia Li, Ran Tao, Yi Wu, Yunhua Zhang, Yuxuan Sun, Qing Guo, Xiaofan Zhang, Wenjun Zeng, Luca Bertinetto, Siwen Wang, Chong Sun, Litu Rout

The Visual Object Tracking challenge VOT2018 is the sixth annual tracker benchmarking activity organized by the VOT initiative. Results of over eighty trackers are presented; many are state-of-the-art trackers published at major computer vision conferences ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

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

Towards Norm Realization in Institutions Mediating Human-Robot Societies

Alcherio Martinoli, Stevan Tomic, Alicja Barbara Roelofsen

Social norms are the understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society. As such, they regulate communication, cooperation and other social interactions. Robots capable of reasoning about social norms are more likely to be recognized as an ext ...

2018

Analysis of EEG Correlates of Perceived Difficulty in Dynamically Changing Flying Tasks

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Ping-Keng Jao

Real-time workload estimation can be an important tool to improve human-machine interaction. Despite multiple efforts in this sense, most studies focused on tasks designed to have extreme conditions of workload (high vs low), and these levels remain rather ...

IEEE2018

Analyzing and Visualizing Ancient Maya Hieroglyphics Using Shape: from Computer Vision to Digital Humanities

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, Rui Hu

Maya hieroglyphic analysis requires epigraphers to spend a significant amount of time browsing existing catalogs to identify individual glyphs. Automatic Maya glyph analysis provides an efficient way to assist scholars’ daily work. We introduce the Histogr ...

2017

Systemic evaluation of actions toward developing practical broadband applications for elderly and people with disabilities

Patrick Roe

The paper reports results of a structured democratic dialogue Co-Laboratory that aimed to explore actions that could alleviate obstacles preventing the development of practical broadband applications for elderly people and people with disabilities. Thirty- ...

Springer Verlag2017

A Scalable and Secure System Architecture for Smart Buildings

Georgios Lilis

Recent years has seen profound changes in building technologies both in Europe and worldwide. With the emergence of Smart Grid and Smart City concepts, the Smart Building has attracted considerable attention and rapid development. The introduction of novel ...

EPFL2017

COMPARISON OF LUMINANCE BASED METRICS IN DIFFERENT LIGHTING CONDITIONS

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Mandana Sarey Khanie

In this study, we evaluate established and newly developed metrics for predicting glare using data from three different research studies. The evaluation covers two different targets: 1. How well the user’s perception of glare magnitude correlates to the pr ...

CIE, Vienna2017

Social Interface and Interaction Design for Group Recommender Systems

Yu Chen

Group recommender systems suggest items of interest to a group of people. Traditionally, group recommenders provide recommendations by aggregation the group membersâ preferences. Nowadays, there is a trend of decentralized group recommendation process th ...

EPFL2015

Interactive Design of Probability Density Functions for Shape Grammars

Mark Pauly, Duygu Ceylan, Boris Neubert, Stefan Lienhard

A shape grammar defines a procedural shape space containing a variety of models of the same class, e.g. buildings, trees, furniture, airplanes, bikes, etc. We present a framework that enables a user to interactively design a probability density function (p ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

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