Publications related to End-user development

Protecting Mobile Food Diaries from Getting too Personal

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Smartphone applications that use passive sensing to support human health and well-being primarily rely on: (a) generating low-dimensional representations from high-dimensional data streams; (b) making inferences regarding user behavior; and (c) using those ...

Association for Computing Machinery2020

Modeling Multimodal-Multiuser Interactions in Declarative Multimedia Languages

Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

Recent advances in hardware and software technologies have given rise to a new class of human-computer interfaces that both explores multiple modalities and allows for multiple collaborating users. When compared to the development of traditional single-use ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Interactive Programming by Example

Mikaël Mayer

As of today, programming has never been so accessible. Yet, it remains a challenge for end-users: students, non-technical employees, experts in their domains outside of computer science, and so on. With its forecast potential for solving problems by only o ...

EPFL2017

Windfield: Learning Wind Meteorology with Handheld Haptic Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ayberk Özgür

This article presents a learning activity and its user study involving the Cellulo platform, a novel versatile robotic tool designed for education. In order to show the potential of Cellulo in the classroom as part of standard curricular activities, we des ...

ACM2017

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

Language Support for Distributed Functional Programming

Heather Christine Klug

Software development has taken a fundamental turn. Software today has gone from simple, closed programs running on a single machine, to massively open programs, patching together user experiences byway of responses received via hundreds of network requests ...

EPFL2015

Towards Ontology-based Context Modeling for Manufacturing Applications

Drazen Nadoveza

Relevant and readily available information is a crucial basis for decision making, problem solving or performing knowledge-intensive work. The motivation for this thesis lays in the fact that in certain situations not all information provided by an applica ...

EPFL2014

BactImAS: a platform for processing and analysis of bacterial time-lapse microscopy movies

Zeljka Maglica

Background: The software available to date for analyzing image sequences from time-lapse microscopy works only for certain bacteria and under limited conditions. These programs, mostly MATLAB-based, fail for microbes with irregular shape, indistinct cell d ...

Biomed Central Ltd2014

Transferring brain-computer interfaces beyond the laboratory: Successful application control for motor-disabled users

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Serafeim Perdikis, Luca Tonin, Tom Edward Carlson, Andrea Biasiucci, Michele Tavella, Alberto Molina Arribere, Marco Creatura

OBJECTIVES: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are no longer only used by healthy participants under controlled conditions in laboratory environments, but also by patients and end-users, controlling applications in their homes or clinics, without the BCI exp ...

Elsevier2013

Design and Evaluation of a Graphical iPad Application for Arranging Adaptive Furniture

Auke Ijspeert, Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Julia Fink, Rico Möckel, Stéphane Bonardi, Jérémy Blatter

We present the design and evaluation of an iPad application that will be used to operate the modular robots “Roombots”. Roombots are the building blocks for adaptive pieces of furniture. The application allows a user to arrange adaptive furniture within a ...

2012

Exterminating Bugs via Collective Information Recycling

George Candea

End-user software is executed billions of times daily, but the corresponding execution details (“by-products”) are discarded. We hypothesize that, if suitably captured and aggregated, these by-products could substantially speed up the process of testing pr ...

2011

Are we ready? Issues in transferring BCI technology from experts to users

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Serafeim Perdikis, Luca Tonin, Tom Edward Carlson, Andrea Biasiucci, Michele Tavella

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are no longer only used by healthy subjects under control conditions in laboratory environments, but by patients controlling applications at their homes, without the BCI experts around. But are the technology and the field ...

Verlag der Technischen Universitaet Graz2011

WaRR: A Tool for High-Fidelity Web Application Record and Replay

George Candea, Silviu Andrica

We introduce WaRR, a tool that records and replays with high ﬁdelity the interaction between users and modern web applications. WaRR consists of two independent components: the WaRR Recorder and the WaRR Replayer. The WaRR Recorder is embedded in a web bro ...

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Designable Visual Markers for Mobile Human-Computer Interaction

Enrico Costanza

Visual markers are graphic symbols designed to be easily recognised by machines. They are traditionally used to track goods, but there is increasing interest in their application to mobile human-computer interaction (HCI). By scanning a visual marker throu ...

EPFL2010

Design and implementation of an efficient data stream processing system

Ali Salehi

In standard database scenarios, an end-user assumes that all data (e.g., sensor readings) is stored in a database. Therefore, one can simply submit any arbitrary complex processing in the form of SQL queries or stored procedures to a database server. Data ...

EPFL2010

User decision improvement and trust building in product recommender systems

Li Chen

As online stores are offering an almost unlimited shelf space, users must increasingly rely on product search and recommender systems to find their most preferred products and decide which item is the truly best one to buy. However, much research work has ...

EPFL2008

Design of multimodal dialogue-based systems

Miroslav Melichar

Multimodal dialogue systems integrate advanced (often spoken) language technologies within human-computer interaction methods. Such complex systems cannot be designed without extensive human expertise and systematic design guidelines taking into account th ...

EPFL2008

Active: a unified platform for building intelligent applications

Computers have become affordable, small, omnipresent and are often connected to the Internet. However, despite the availability of such rich environments, user interfaces have not been adapted to fully leverage their potential. In our view, user interfaces ...

EPFL2008

Application of FPGA Emulation to SoC Floorplan and Packaging Exploration

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Pablo Garcia del Valle, Roman Hermida Correa

New tendencies in the consumer electronics market present Multi-Processor Systems-On-Chip (MPSoCs) as a promising solution for meeting the processing demands of upcoming generations of user applications. MPSoCs are complex to design, as they must execute m ...

2007

M/ORIS - Medical / Operating Room Interaction System

Sébastien Grange

The routine use of Computer-Assisted Surgery (CAS) in a wide range of surgical procedures and specialties is being hindered by the lack of suitable user interface for surgical environments. While many computer techniques and software exist to assist surgeo ...

EPFL2007