Publications associées à ‘Location is not enough!’: an Empirical Study of Location-Awareness in Mobile Collaboration

Generalization and Personalization of Machine Learning for Multimodal Mobile Sensing in Everyday Life

A range of behavioral and contextual factors, including eating and drinking behavior, mood, social context, and other daily activities, can significantly impact an individual's quality of life and overall well-being. Therefore, inferring everyday life aspe ...

EPFL2024

The role of feedback and guidance as intervention methods to foster computational thinking in educational robotics learning activities for primary school

Francesco Mondada, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Evgeniia Bonnet, Christian Giang, Bernard Baumberger, Vaios Papaspyros

Computational thinking (CT) is considered an emerging competence domain linked to 21st-century competences, and educational robotics (ER) is increasingly recognised as a tool to develop CT competences. This is why researchers recommend developing intervent ...

2022

Study on the signal-to-noise ratio of Brillouin optical-time domain analyzers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Sheng Wang

The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers (BOTDA) is modelled and experimentally validated, using direct detection with and without the use of optical pre-amplification. The behavior of SNR as a function of the Brillouin ga ...

2020

Real-time EEG Feedback on Alpha Power Lateralization Leads to Behavioral Improvements in a Covert Attention Task

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Michael Eric Anthony Pereira, Luca Tonin, Christoph Schneider

Visual attention can be spatially oriented, even in the absence of saccadic eye-movements, to facilitate the processing of incoming visual information. One behavioral proxy for this so-called covert visuospatial attention (CVSA) is the validity effect (VE) ...

SPRINGER2020

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

Privacy Preserving and Cost Optimal Mobile Crowdsensing using Smart Contracts on Blockchain

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Dimitrios Chatzopoulos

The popularity and applicability of mobile crowdsensing applications are continuously increasing due to the widespread of mobile devices and their sensing and processing capabilities. However, we need to offer appropriate incentives to the mobile users who ...

IEEE2018

A New Kinematic Model and Control Strategy for a Mobile Platform for Transporting Lightweight Manipulators

Andres San Millan Rodriguez

This work is concerned with the mechanical design and the description of the different components of a new mobile base for a lightweight mobile manipulator. These kinds of mobile manipulators are normally composed of multiple lightweight links mounted on a ...

MDPI2018

Effect of pre-existing immobile dislocations on the evolution of geometrically necessary dislocations during fatigue

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Nicolò Grilli, Ainara Irastorza Landa

The role of pre-existing mobile and immobile dislocation densities on the evolution of geometrical necessary dislocation densities (GNDs) during cyclic fatigue in shear is studied using a continuum dislocation-based model incorporated in a crystal plastici ...

2017

Mobile Health Applications to Promote Active and Healthy Ageing

Kamiar Aminian

The European population is ageing, and there is a need for health solutions that keep older adults independent longer. With increasing access to mobile technology, such as smartphones and smartwatches, the development and use of mobile health applications ...

Mdpi Ag2017

Assembler son quotidien sur la route : une ethnographie de l'habiter mobile contemporain

Lisa Maude Reitz

In a context of housing crisis and general increase in short-term/casual work, new forms of social precarity have developed since the end of the nineties in Western countries. Furthermore, a movement of voluntary shift to nomadic lifestyles is initiated. P ...

EPFL2016

On the Privacy Implications of Location Semantics

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Urs Beda Hengartner

Mobile users increasingly make use of location-based online services enabled by localization systems. Not only do they share their locations to obtain contextual services in return (e.g., 'nearest restaurant'), but they also share, with their friends, info ...

2016

Hiding in the Mobile Crowd: Location Privacy through Collaboration

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Reza Shokri, Georgios Theodorakopoulos, Ehsan Kazemi

Location-aware smartphones support various location-based services (LBSs): users query the LBS server and learn on the fly about their surroundings. However, such queries give away private information, enabling the LBS to track users. We address this probl ...

Ieee Computer Soc2014

A Responsive Design Approach for Supporting Mobile Access to Virtual and Remote Laboratories

Na Li

Remote and virtual laboratories aim to overcome typical constraints of traditional laboratories and offer access to laboratory experiments without location and time restrictions. Additionally, the continuous growth of mobile devices’ ownership, as well as ...

2014

Mobile technology for awareness of time progression and its impact on meetings

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Flaviu Roman, Nan Li, Himanshu Verma

In this paper we present the motivation, design, development, and initial evaluation of a time awareness technology for meetings. As part of improving meetings effectiveness using technology, we focus on the meeting time management, and the method relies o ...

Ieee2013

Quantifying and Protecting Location Privacy

Reza Shokri

Recent developments in information and communication technologies have been profound and life-changing. Most people are now equipped with smart phones with high computation power and communication capabilities. These devices can efficiently run multiple so ...

EPFL2013

How Others Compromise Your Location Privacy: The Case of Shared Public IPs at Hotspots

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Nevena Vratonjic, Vincent Bindschaedler, Kévin Clément Huguenin

Location privacy has been extensively studied over the last few years, especially in the context of location-based services where users purposely disclose their location to benefit from convenient context-aware services. To date, however, little attention ...

2013

Inferring Social Ties in Academic Networks Using Short-Range Wireless Communications

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Igor Bilogrevic, Murtuza Jadliwala, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Valtteri Niemi, Florent Lopez

WiFi base stations are increasingly deployed in both public spaces and private companies, and the increase in their density poses a significant threat to the privacy of connected users. Prior studies have provided evidence that it is possible to infer the ...

2013

Track Me If You Can: On the Effectiveness of Context-based Identifier Changes in Deployed Mobile Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Imad Aad, Igor Bilogrevic, Laurent Bindschaedler, Murtuza Jadliwala, Valtteri Niemi

Location privacy is a major concern in an increasingly connected and highly pervasive network of mobile users. Novel location-based applications and device-to-device services (on these mobile devices) are gaining popularity, but at the same time, these ser ...

Internet Society2012

Protecting Location Privacy: Optimal Strategy against Localization Attacks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Reza Shokri, Georgios Theodorakopoulos, Carmela González Troncoso

The mainstream approach to protecting the location-privacy of mobile users in location-based services (LBSs) is to alter the users' actual locations in order to reduce the location information exposed to the service provider. The location obfuscation algor ...

2012

Big Brother Knows Your Friends: on Privacy of Social Communities in Pervasive Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Imad Aad, Igor Bilogrevic, Laurent Bindschaedler, Murtuza Jadliwala, Valtteri Niemi

Wireless network operators increasingly deploy WiFi hotspots and low-power, low-range base stations in order to satisfy users' growing demands for context-aware services and performance. In addition to providing better service, such capillary infrastructur ...

2012