Publications related to Engagement

Mining Effective Strategies for Climate Change Communication

Matthias Grossglauser, Aswin Suresh, Lazar Milikic, Yurui Zhu

With the goal of understanding effective strategies to communicate about climate change, we build interpretable models to rank tweets related to climate change with respect to the engagement they generate. Our models are based on the Bradley-Terry model of ...

2023

How Words Move Hearts: Interpretable Machine Learning Models of Bias, Engagement, and Influence in Socio-Political Systems

Aswin Suresh

We study socio-political systems in representative democracies. Motivated by problems that affect the proper functioning of the system, we build computational methods to answer research questions regarding the phenomena occurring in them. For each phenomen ...

EPFL2023

Poster World. Bespoke AI Meets Curator Expertise for Public Engagement

Mathieu Salzmann, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Clare Groves, Andrea Regula Schneider

Though museums are digitising their archives, online consultations remain low. New forms of engagement bring these digital memories to life and can support museums in maintaining and developing digital resources. Artificial Intelligence presents opportunit ...

2022

Quand les artistes font forme en habitant ensemble. Usages, présences, imaginaires

Mathilde Coline Chénin

Taking root within a historical and transversal perspective of communities of artists at work, and of the relationship that they nourish with the places that host their creative activity, the present research intends to bring to light the grammars of "the ...

EPFL2022

A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia

Tiziano Piccardi, Daniele Rama

Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However, despite their widespr ...

SPRINGER2022

Towards Immersive Generosity: The Need for a Novel Framework to Explore Large Audiovisual Archives through Embodied Experiences in Immersive Environments

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Giacomo Alliata, Lillian Hibberd

This paper proposes an innovative framework to explore large audiovisual archives using Immersive Environments to place users inside a dataset and create an embodied experience. It starts by outlining the need for such a novel interface to meet the needs o ...

2021

EEG Correlates of Difficulty Levels in Dynamical Transitions of Simulated Flying and Mapping Tasks

David Atienza Alonso, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Adriana Arza Valdes, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Ping-Keng Jao

Decoding the subjective perception of task difficulty may help improve operator performance, i.e., automatically optimize the task difficulty level. Here, we aim to decode a compound of cognitive states that covaries with the task difficulty level. We desi ...

2020

Glutamine-to-glutamate ratio in the nucleus accumbens predicts effort-based motivated performance in humans

Rolf Gruetter, Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Lijing Xin, Alina Veronika Irene Strasser, Gediminas Luksys

Substantial evidence implicates the nucleus accumbens in motivated performance, but very little is known about the neurochemical underpinnings of individual differences in motivation. Here, we applied 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) at ultra-hi ...

2020

Engagement in Human-Agent Interaction: An Overview

Jauwairia Nasir, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Engagement is a concept of the utmost importance in human-computer interaction, not only for informing the design and implementation of interfaces, but also for enabling more sophisticated interfaces capable of adapting to users. While the notion of engage ...

2020

Prepare Scientists to Engage in Science‐Policy

Julia Schmale

There is a dire need for deeper science‐policy engagement to face recent developments such as entering into the Anthropocene and our dependence as a species on technological and scientific advancements. However, there is a lack of preparedness and training ...

2020

Visualising and revitalising traditional Chinese martial arts Visitors' engagement and learning experience at the 300 years of Hakka Kungfu

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Jeffrey Shaw

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how the emergent 3D interactive media technologies are used as a viable tool for enhancing visitors' overall experiences at an exhibition entitled, 300 Years of Hakka Kungfu - Digital Vision of Its Legacy and ...

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Socialisations volontaires, médiateurs et régimes d’engagement dans les mondes virtuels - L’invitation, l’annonce et la carte : trois médiateurs des régimes d’engagement en plan et exploratoire lors d’événements en ligne

Jean-François Lucas

Les utilisateurs de jeux vidéo en ligne et de mondes virtuels ont parfois des interactions qui ne sont pas instrumentalisées par le dispositif et l’environnement numérique dont ils font l’expérience. Les socialisations qui en résultent sont qualifiées de v ...

2018

You're Doing It Wrong! Studying Unexpected Behaviors in Child-Robot Interaction

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Séverin Lemaignan, Julia Fink

We present a study on the impact of unexpected robot behaviors on the perception of a robot by children and their subsequent engagement in a playful interaction based on a novel ”domino” task. We propose an original analysis methodology which blends behavi ...

Springer International Publishing2015