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As computational thinking (CT) becomes increasingly acknowledged as an important skill in education, self-directed learning (SDL) emerges as a key strategy for developing this capability. The advent of generative AI (GenAI) conversational agents has disrup ...

2024

Understanding and Enhancing Digital Wellbeing Dimensions: Empirical Studies on Smartphone Usage Patterns and Recommendations of Micro-Informative Content

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Digital technology has become an integral part of our lives, offering various benefits from communication and entertainment to education and productivity. However, its pervasive use has also raised concerns about its potential negative impact on users' wel ...

EPFL2024

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Technology supporting meditation is a multimillion-dollar market that continues to grow. There is also strong academic interest to understand and improve the impact technology can have for the user experience of practitioners. However, little work investig ...

2023

Referencing in YouTube Knowledge Communication Videos

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Haeeun Kim

In recent years, there has been widespread concern about misinformation and hateful content on social media that are damaging societies. Being one of the most influential social media that practically serves as a newsearch engine, YouTube has accepted crit ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

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

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

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

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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

Sensitivity to user mischaracterizations in electric vehicle charging

Nils Gustav Nilsson

In this paper, we consider electric vehicle charging facilities that offer various levels of service, i.e., charging rates, for varying prices such that rational users choose a level of service that minimizes the total cost to themselves including an oppor ...

ELSEVIER2023

incentive Mechanism Design for Responsible Data Governance: A Large-Scale Field Experiment

Boi Faltings, Naman Goel

A crucial building block of responsible artificial intelligence is responsible data governance, including data collection. Its importance is also underlined in the latest EU regulations. The data should be of high quality, foremost correct and representati ...

2023

Comparison of questionnaire items for discomfort glare studies in daylit spaces

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When studying discomfort glare, researchers tend to rely on a single questionnaire item to obtain user evaluations. It is unclear whether the choice of questionnaire item affects the distribution of user responses and leads to inconsistencies between studi ...

2023

Poster World. Bespoke AI Meets Curator Expertise for Public Engagement

Mathieu Salzmann, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Clare Groves, Andrea Regula Schneider

Though museums are digitising their archives, online consultations remain low. New forms of engagement bring these digital memories to life and can support museums in maintaining and developing digital resources. Artificial Intelligence presents opportunit ...

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Experiencing virtual geographic environment in urban 3D participatory e-planning: A user perspective

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

The adoption of technology in urban participatory planning with tools such as Virtual Geographic Environments (VGE) promises a broader engagement of urban dwellers, which should ultimately lead to the creation of better cities. However, the authorities and ...

ELSEVIER2022

Trust Indicators and Explainable AI: A Study on User Perceptions

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Andreas Sonderegger, Thanh Trung Phan

Nowadays, search engines, social media or news aggregators are the preferred services for news access. Aggregation is mostly based on artificial intelligence technologies raising a new challenge: Trust has been ranked as the most important factor for media ...

Springer2021

User Expectations of Conversational Chatbots Based on Online Reviews

Pearl Pu Faltings, Ekaterina Svikhnushina, Alexandru Placinta

Open-domain chatbots that can engage in a conversation on any topic received significant attention in the last several years, which opened opportunities for studying user interaction with them. Drawing from reviews of chatbots posted on Google Play, we exp ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Neural Design Space Exploration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Wei Jiang

We have developed a new tool that makes it possible for people with zero programming experience to intentionally and meaningfully explore the latent space of a GAN. This tool was developed to provide a means for designers to explore the "design space" of t ...

2021

User Evaluations of Contrast-Dominant Discomfort Glare Dim Daylit Scenarios: Preliminary Findings

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Geraldine Cai Ting Quek

Discomfort glare metrics typically consider at least one of the two effects of discomfort glare-saturation and contrast-in their equation. The former occurs when there is an excessively bright glare source in the field of view, while the latter occurs when ...

2021

Understanding intergenerational fitness tracking practices: 12 suggestions for design

Pearl Pu Faltings

The paper presents a qualitative study to explore the use of fitness trackers and their social functions in intergenerational settings. The study covered three phases of semi-structured interviews with older and younger adults during individual and interge ...

SPRINGERNATURE2022

Optimal integration of sustainable multi-energy systems in districts

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The integration of renewable energy sources within the built environment is a compelling challenge to tackle. With the recent climate targets aiming at a carbon neutral energy supply by the mid-century, a modern building energy system (BES) should maximize ...

ECOS 2020 Organizing Committee2020

Performance Comparative Assessment of Grid Connected Power Converters Control Strategies

Mario Paolone, Giacomo Piero Schiapparelli

Renewable energy sources are generally interfaced with the electric distribution and transmission grid via power converters. The displacement of the traditional generating plants requires the new resources to be involved in the grid control strategy. This ...

IEEE2020

Office densification effects on comfort, energy, and carbon lifecycle performance: An integrated and exploratory study

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Cédric Liardet, Laurent Liardet

Generally, the environmental impacts of buildings are benchmarked per square meter as a functional unit. However, this practice prevents developing a user-centered approach in which performance is linked to real usage and not building size. Currently, the ...

2020

Dual Connectivity-Based Mobility Management and Data Split Mechanism in 4G/5G Cellular Networks

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The emerging 5G mobile network technology is envisioned to provide an efficient platform to interconnect machines, objects, and devices in addition to interconnecting people. Equipped with peak data rates, low latency, and massive capacity, 5G technology w ...

2020