Publications related to Technology adoption life cycle

Assessing the readiness of municipalities for digital process innovation

Pre-adoption phases of innovation are understudied in the innovation literature. This article addresses preadoption phases of innovation by running a prospective analysis. We assess the readiness of municipalities for the adoption of a digital tool that br ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Immigration, Innovation, and Knowledge Diffusion

Gabriele Cristelli

This dissertation studies the relationship between immigration and innovation. It adopts an empirical perspective and focuses on Switzerland, combining the use of patent data and immigration administrative records. The first essay is based on a novel dat ...

EPFL2021

Seeking methods for improving sustainability in the extractive sector

Farnaz Eslamishoar

Extractive resources are indisputably a necessary component of international sustainable development. Despite current advancements in the circular economy, world production needs for raw materials are ever increasing, and still a long way remains for it to ...

EPFL2021

Assessing Technology Adoption in the European Air Traffic Management: The Cases of Virtual Centre and Flight-Centric Operations

Engin Zeki

This research focuses on emerging technologies in the European air traffic management (ATM), specifically investigating technology adoption by the main stakeholders. The European ATM consists of a highly fragmented aviation infrastructure, built and manage ...

EPFL2020

Social practices in teacher knowledge creation and innovation adoption: a large-scale study in an online instructional design community for inquiry learning

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Social practices are assumed to play an important role in the evolution of new teaching and learning methods. Teachers internalize knowledge developed in their communities through interactions with peers and experts while solving problems or co-creating ma ...

2020

Tracing Teacher Collaborative Learning and Innovation Adoption: a Case Study in an Inquiry Learning Platform

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos

Social processes play an important role in teachers' ongoing professional learning: through interactions with peers and experts to solve problems or co-create materials, teachers internalize knowledge developed in their communities. However, these social p ...

International Society of Learning Sciences2019

Linking business model innovation with energy system optimization

Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera

There are dedicated computational models and platforms to facilitate the design and planning of multi-energy-systems. However, the widespread adoption of new technological solutions largely depends on the right business models. Whilst there exists a list o ...

IOP Science2019

Can Caesar Beat Galois?

Serge Vaudenay, Damian Vizár

The Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability and Robustness (CAESAR) has as its official goal to “identify a portfolio of authenticated ciphers that offer advantages over [the Galois-Counter Mode with AES]” and are suitable for wid ...

2018

Microstructure informed tractography: pitfalls and open challenges

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Maxime Descoteaux

One of the major limitations of diffusion MRI tractography is that the fiber tracts recovered by existing algorithms are not truly quantitative. Local techniques for estimating more quantitative features of the tissue microstructure exist, but their combin ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2016

Spatio-Temporal Patterns for a Generalized Innovation Diffusion Model

Max-Olivier Hongler, Fariba Hashemi, Olivier Gallay

We construct a model of innovation diffusion that incorporates a spatial component into a classical imitation-innovation dynamics first introduced by F. Bass. Relevant for situations where the imitation process explicitly depends on the spatial proximity b ...

2012

Process Bifurcation and the Digital Chain in Architecture

Russell Alexander Loveridge

This thesis investigates the impact of digital technology on the methods of design and production in architecture. Through research of history, theory, technology, and methods, the work determines whether the current use of new technologies should be consi ...

EPFL2012

Platform development for studying integrated energy conversion processes: Application to a power plant process with CO2 capture

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

This paper presents the development of a platform for studying, designing and optimizing complex integrated energy systems. Technology models representing the physical behavior are separated from thermo-economic analysis and multi-objective optimization in ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

User Technology Adoption Issues in Recommender Systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Nicolas Jones

Two music recommender websites, Pandora (a content-based recommender) and Last.fm (a rating-based social recommender), were compared side-by-side in a within-subject user study involving 64 participants. The main objective was to investigate users’ initial ...

2007