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Assessing the implementation of user-centred design standards on assistive technology for persons with visual impairments: a systematic review

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Mario Andres Chavarria Varon

Despite scientific and technological advances in the field of assistive technology (AT) for people with visual impairment (VI), technological designs are frequently based on a poor understanding of the physical and social context of use, resulting in devic ...

Frontiers Media Sa2023

Economic Effect of Patents and the Patent System: Insights from Linked Patent-Product Data

George Abi Younes

This thesis investigates the economic effect of patents and the patent system through the lens of patent commercialisation. The thesis is composed of four chapters, where each chapter is an independent scientific paper. In the first chapter, we present a ...

EPFL2023

Does Sharing Lead to Smarter Products? Managing Information Flows for Collective Servitization

Thomas Alois Weber

Peer-to-peer sharing induces persistent changes in product design. Besides bifurcating product durability, this adaptation increases the compatibility of collaborative use with rent extraction—from a producer’s viewpoint. For owners it decreases the commit ...

Springer2023

Model-based Systems Engineering Papers Analysis based on Word Cloud Visualization

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

With the continuous improvement of system scale and complexity, model-based system engineering (MBSE) is of great importance in the practice of system engineering (SE). MBSE has been widely concerned in industry, especially in the field of complex equipmen ...

IEEE2022

Cyber-Physical LPG Debutanizer Distillation Columns: Machine-Learning-Based Soft Sensors for Product Quality Monitoring

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Refineries execute a series of interlinked processes, where the product of one unit serves as the input to another process. Potential failures within these processes affect the quality of the end products, operational efficiency, and revenue of the entire ...

2021

Model-Based Systems Engineering Tool-Chain for Automated Parameter Value Selection

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) integrate heterogeneous systems and process sensor data using digital services. As the complexity of CPS increases, it becomes more challenging to efficiently formalize the integrated multidomain views with flexible automated ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Automated Design: A Journey Across Modelling, Optimization, and Education

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Machine intelligence greatly impacts almost all domains of our societies. It is profoundly changing the field of mechanical engineering with new technical possibilities and processes. The education of future engineers also needs to adapt in terms of techni ...

EPFL2021

The Lean Startup Framework: Closing the Academic-Practitioner Divide

Marc Gruber

The lean startup framework is one of the most popular contributions in the practitioner-oriented entrepreneurship literature. This study seeks to generate new insights into how new ventures are started by describing the five main building blocks of the lea ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2020

EaRL—Software for Earthquake Risk, Loss and Lifecycle Analysis

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Performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) has become an increasingly popular framework to design, retrofit and manage structures. This probabilistic framework integrates data from the seismic hazard, structural response, damage fragility and damage c ...

2020

A Complexity Analysis Approach for Model-based System Engineering

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng, Jinwei Chen

With the increasing complexity of the highly engineered products, Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is proposed to support the complexity management of the product development. As the basic of complexity management, complexity analysis is used to meas ...

IEEE2020

Increasing the relevance of science for practice and practice for science: Quantitative empirical insights

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Ralph Hansmann

We present results of a survey conducted with researchers and practitioners involved in a Swiss National Research Programme on steering energy consumption. We analyse what motivates practitioners and researchers to engage in a collaborative research projec ...

2020

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

Life-Cycle Assessment as a decision-support tool for early phases of urban planning: evaluating applicability through a comparative approach

Marilyne Andersen, Émilie Nault, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Katarina Slavkovic

While ambitious environmental objectives are being set for new constructions in Switzerland, the assessment of urban-scale projects and comparison of their performance to national targets are made possible by a growing number of life-cycle assessment (LCA) ...

IOP Publishing2019

Lean synthesis and application to lower-limb exoskeletons

Tristan Hubert Vouga

Mobility impairments are the most prevalent of all disabilities, affecting the life of nearly one in 20 individuals in developed countries. In the most severe cases, they can have dramatic consequences for the social, mental and physical well-being of thos ...

EPFL2019

Quantifying Collaboration in Synchronous Document Editing

Adrian Pierre Sergio Pace, Louis Antoine Baligand, Stian Haklev, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen

Collaborative synchronous writing tools like Google Docs and Etherpad let multiple users edit the same document and see each others edits in near real-time to simplify collaboration and avoid merge-conflicts. These tools are used extensively across many do ...

2018

Biomimetic adaptive control of a deployable tensegrity structure

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Biomimetic behavior includes aspects such as learning from previous experience, self-diagnosis, and adaptation. This thesis describes control methodologies that are essential to development towards biomimetic behavior of a complex deployable structure. Sim ...

EPFL2018

Trust, integrated information technology and new product success

Christopher Tucci

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the combined roles via trust relationships of the two technology cores of the firm: information technology (IT) and R& D and their impact on new product success. Design/methodology/approach - A model wa ...

Emerald2017

Diving into the dynamics of product evolution : analyzing technological discontinuities during the era of incremental change and cognitive convergence on a dominant design

Olivier Waeber

Three distinct stages describe the technological evolution of a product over time: ferment, convergence on a dominant design and an era of incremental change. Until recently, the era of incremental change has been characterized as stable and one that invol ...

EPFL2017

At the Origins of Learning: Absorbing Knowledge Flows from within the Team

Fabiana Visentin, Michele Pezzoni, Charles Chadi Ayoubi

Empirical studies document a positive effect of collaboration on team productivity. However, little has been done to assess how knowledge flows among team members. Our study addresses this issue by exploring unique rich data on a Swiss funding program prom ...

Elsevier2017

Predictive Models for Thermal Stability and Explosive Properties of Chemicals from Molecular Structure

Nadia Baati

Industrial chemical processes may involve thermal risks as most of the reactions performed are exothermic, the chemicals used are often thermally unstable, and the operating conditions are set to induce high conversion and throughput. Besides the reactive ...

EPFL2016