Publications associées à Life satisfaction

Social Workers and Irregular Migrants in the Assistance Circuit: Making Sense of Paradoxical Inclusion

Maxime Carl Felder, Joan Stavo-Debauge, Sahar Fneich

Despite restrictive policy frameworks, cities sometimes provide support to irregular migrants. Scholars have analysed these forms of inclusion, focusing on policies and tensions between inclusionary approaches by local or urban actors and exclusionary appr ...

2023

Promoting synergies for sustainability through peer-to-peer sharing: an analysis of drivers and barriers

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ralph Hansmann

Peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing may foster sustainability synergistically by saving resources, reducing costs and promoting satisfaction of consumer needs and social connectivity. A survey of Swiss and Swedish consumers (N = 1522) was conducted to analyze drive ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2023

Occupant satisfaction with indoor environmental quality, sick building syndrome (SBS) symptoms and self-reported productivity before and after relocation into WELL-certified office buildings

Dusan Licina, Serra Yildirim

Recent green building certification programs have put a strong emphasis on occupant health and well-being. For recently emerged WELL certification, we lack evidence about its effectiveness in relation to occupant satisfaction, productivity and health. Here ...

2021

Activities, Housing Situation and Other Factors Influencing Psychological Strain Experienced During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Anna Pagani, Garance Clément, Ralph Hansmann

Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis and the corresponding first nationwide lockdown from mid-March to 10 May 2020 engendered considerable psychological strain among people in Switzerland. This study analyzes determinants of changes i ...

Frontiers Media2021

Determinants of pro-environmental behavior: A comparison of university students and staff from diverse faculties at a Swiss University

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Rafael Laurenti, Ralph Hansmann

In the context of an initiative to become a carbon neutral campus, an online survey (N = 1864) of students, scientists, and administrative and technical staff of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Point Cloud Quality Assessment Metric Based on Angular Similarity

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou

The rise of immersive technologies has been recently fuelled by emerging applications which employ advanced content representations. Among various alternatives, point clouds denote a promising solution which has recently drawn a significant amount of inter ...

2018

Illusory hand ownership in a patient with personal neglect for the upper limb, but no somatoparaphenia

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Roberta Ronchi, Lukas Heydrich

The symptoms of patients with left personal neglect are characterized by inattention towards contralesional (left) body parts while at the same time explicitly ascertaining ownership for the neglected hemibody. It is currently unknown if personal neglect i ...

British Psychological Society2018

Event-driven Human Based Evolutionary Knowledge Base for Smart Buildings

Maher Kayal, Nastaran Asadi Zanjani

This paper presents an approach to automatically create a knowledge base for smart buildings and let it dynamically evolve based on the behaviors of the occupants inside. Such a knowledge base compromises all life-style experiences and intelligent building ...

Ieee2016

Objective and subjective validation of an active control approach to reduce the occlusion effect in hearing aids

Hervé Lissek, Thomas Stefan Zurbrügg

The occlusion effect refers to the altered perception of one's own voice when the ear canal is fully or partially obstructed. Conventional countermeasures include the use of large vent bores or open fittings on the one hand and fittings reaching as deep as ...

S Hirzel Verlag2015

Predictors of Life Satisfaction based on Daily Activities from Mobile Sensor Data

Pearl Pu Faltings, Jiyong Zhang, Onur Yürüten

In recent years much research work has been dedicated to detecting user activity patterns from sensor data such as location, movement and proximity. However, how daily activities are correlated to people's happiness (such as their satisfaction from work an ...

2014

Learning Reach-to-Grasp Motions From Human Demonstrations

Ashwini Shukla

Reaching over to grasp an item is arguably the most commonly used motor skill by humans. Even under sudden perturbations, humans seem to react rapidly and adapt their motion to guarantee success. Despite the apparent ease and frequency with which we use th ...

EPFL2014

A mixed random utility Random regret model linking the choice of decision rule to latent character traits

Amanda Blomberg Stathopoulos

An increasing number of studies are concerned with the use of alternatives to random utility maximisation as a decision rule in choice models, with a particular emphasis on regret minimisation over the last few years. The initial focus was on revealing whi ...

2013

Teaching a Humanoid: A User Study on Learning by Demonstration with HOAP-3

Aude Billard, Sylvain Calinon

This article reports on the results of a user study investigating the satisfaction of naïve users conducting two learning by demonstration tasks with the HOAP-3 robot. The main goal of this study was to gain insights on how to ensure a successful as well a ...

2009