Publications associées à Klewel Webcast: from Research to Growing Company

impresso Text Reuse at Scale. An interface for the exploration of text reuse data in semantically enriched historical newspapers

Text Reuse reveals meaningful reiterations of text in large corpora. Humanities researchers use text reuse to study, e.g., the posterior reception of influential texts or to reveal evolving publication practices of historical media. This research is often ...

2023

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

lifex-ep: a robust and efficient software for cardiac electrophysiology simulations

Alfio Quarteroni, Francesco Regazzoni, Marco Fedele, Stefano Pagani

Background: Simulating the cardiac function requires the numerical solution of multi-physics and multi-scale mathematical models. This underscores the need for streamlined, accurate, and high-performance computational tools. Despite the dedicated endeavors ...

BMC2023

Thermal Design of a Medium Voltage Modular Multilevel Converter Cell

Drazen Dujic, Yanick Patrick Frei

This paper presents the cooling concept for a medium voltage modular multilevel converter cell. To optimize power density, the metallic enclosure is used to dissipate the heat generated by semiconductor losses, while maintaining maximum temperatures below ...

New York2023

The Case for Performance Interfaces for Hardware Accelerators

George Candea, Aikaterini Argyraki, Rishabh Ramesh Iyer, Jiacheng Ma

While systems designers are increasingly turning to hardware accelerators for performance gains, realizing these gains is painstaking and error-prone. It can take several person-months to determine if a given accelerator is a good fit for a given piece of ...

2023

Multi-Step Critiquing User Interface for Recommender Systems

Boi Faltings, Diego Matteo Antognini, Diana Andreea Petrescu

Recommendations with personalized explanations have been shown to increase user trust and perceived quality and help users make better decisions. Moreover, such explanations allow users to provide feedback by critiquing them. Several algorithms for recomme ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Reflection for action: designing tools to support teacher reflection on everyday evidence

Pierre Dillenbourg

Improving educational practice through reflection is one important focus of teacher professional development approaches. However, such teacher reflection operates under practical classroom constraints that make it happen infrequently, including the relianc ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

Meteolakes: An operational online three-dimensional forecasting platform for lake hydrodynamics

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Theo Baracchini

Environmental management depends on high-quality monitoring and its meaningful interpretation. The combination of local weather dynamics, regional anthropogenic stresses and global environmental changes make the evaluation of monitoring information in dyna ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery

Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

The popularity of delivery drones is constantly increasing due to their ability to deliver packages more rapidly and economically than current transportation methods. Consequently, drones have been employed by logistics companies for delivering payloads to ...

EPFL2020

Data-driven method for low-carbon building design at early stages

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

The Paris agreement on climate change called for carbon neutrality as of 2050. The built environment is one of the major contributors to the greenhouse effect, representing 39% of global emissions. As a result, this sector is targeted by green standards an ...

EPFL2020

AlpsNMR: an R package for signal processing of fully untargeted NMR-based metabolomics

José Luis Abelleira Fernández, Sofia Moco

aSummary: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabolomics is widely used to obtain metabolic fingerprints of biological systems. While targeted workflows require previous knowledge of metabolites, prior to statistical analysis, untargeted approaches re ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

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

Context-based Quality of Experience in Immersive Multimedia

Anne-Flore Nicole Marie Perrin

Since 1895, when the Lumière brothers came out with the projected cinematograph, motion pictures and more generally multimedia contents have considerably improved and are still experiencing a very dynamic development. Advances involved improving various mo ...

EPFL2019

Texture-driven parametric snakes for semi-automatic image segmentation

Michaël Unser, Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge, Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

We present a texture-driven parametric snake for semi-automatic segmentation of a single and closed structure in an image. We propose a new energy functional that combines intensity and texture information. The two types of image information are balanced u ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019

A Framework for Adaptive User Interface Generation based on User Behavioural Patterns

Kalpani Anuradha Welivita

The concept of adaptivity is crucial in enterprise software systems with a large user base. Adaptive user interfaces (AUI) is an emerging research area that enables customized user experience based on user activities. Most of the existing studies that are ...

IEEE2019

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Mobile Applications and Services

Thi Van Anh Pham

Over a third of the world 's population owns a smartphone. As generic computing devices that support a large and heterogeneous collection of mobile applications (apps), smartphones provide a plethora of functionalities and services to billions of users. B ...

EPFL2019

Interdependent and Multi-Subject Privacy: Threats, Analysis and Protection

Alexandra-Mihaela Olteanu

In Alan Westin's generally accepted definition of privacy, he describes it as an individual's right 'to control, edit, manage, and delete information about them[selves] and decide when, how, and to what extent information is communicated to others.' There ...

EPFL2019

Development of a New Embedded Dynamometer for the Measurement of Forces and Torques at the Ski-Binding Interface

Alain Schorderet, Alain Michel Prenleloup, Frédéric Meyer

In alpine skiing, understanding the interaction between skiers and snow is of primary importance for both injury prevention as well as performance analysis. Risk of injuries is directly linked to constraints undergone by the skier. A force platform placed ...

2019

Designing, Aligning, and Visualizing Service Systems

Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

Service is a concept that separates the concerns of an organization into (1) the value created for users and (2) the way the organization manages its resources to provide this value. The discipline of management of information technology (IT) uses services ...

EPFL2018

Can Who-Edits-What Predict Edit Survival?

Matthias Grossglauser, Lucas Maystre, Victor Kristof

As the number of contributors to online peer-production systems grows, it becomes increasingly important to predict whether the edits that users make will eventually be beneficial to the project. Existing solutions either rely on a user reputation system o ...

ACM2018