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We present a unified framework for understanding human social behaviors in raw image sequences. Our model jointly detects multiple individuals, infers their social actions, and estimates the collective actions with a single feed-forward pass through a neur ...

Ieee2017

Modelling Urban Transitions: A Social Practice Theoretic Approach to the Urban Metabolism

Franziska Meinherz

Urban growth and the increase of the human environmental imprint has led to a growing interest in urban sustainability, a field mainly addressed by urban ecology and urban metabolism studies. The realisation that the urban material and energy flows are mai ...

2017

Where is my place? Native home and culture in Iranian immigrants' homemaking

Maryam Jafarbegloo

This research investigates homemaking of culturally diverse groups. Homemaking is a process, which is created by residents through the understanding of forms and belongings to represent and celebrate events throughout new structures and objects. Homemaking ...

EPFL2017

An understanding of the resilience of energy systems is critical in order to tackle forthcoming challenges. This chapter proposes that the polycentric governance perspective, developed by Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, may be highly relevant in formulating pol ...

Springer2017

This article analyses the social profile of Geneva's philanthropists around 1900. It shows that, contrary to what the literature on philanthropy argues, philanthropists belonged to varied social groups defined by diverse forms of capital (economic, social ...

Cambridge Univ Press2016

Guide to Local Planning for Communities Affected by Migration, Based on Human Rights and Gender Equality

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

The Mainstreaming Migration into Local Development project (MiDL) was launched in 2015 by UNDP Moldova in collaboration with the State Chancellery of the Government of Moldova, with financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (S ...

UNDP, UN Women2016

The advantage of the dynamism of the London architectural scene seems rather ignored by historians and theorists. Not only is London absent from the grand narrative of modernity, but it is also denied the status of avant-garde, although since the 1960s, th ...

EPFL2016

The increasing adoption of Social Intranets and other social technologies in organizations are transforming how people work together, share knowledge and learn. This, however, does not come without challenges since the impacts can be heterogeneous: employe ...

2016

Les médiations sociotechniques de l’observation en ligne. Analyse réflexive et comparative de deux projets de collecte de traces d’utilisateurs de réseaux sociaux et de mondes virtuels.

Jean-François Lucas

Cette communication a pour but de questionner les médiations (Callon, Latour, Akrich) qui transforment un processus d’observation en ligne dès lors que l’on mobilise des outils numériques tels que des bases de données (Hine, 2006). Nous réaliserons une ana ...

2016

Vers une activation du potentiel de durabilité des quartiers périurbains de maisons individuelles

Axelle Marchon

La densification des villes et la limitation de l'étalement urbain sont, à ce jour, les principaux axes d'action pour une gestion durable du territoire suisse. Cette stratégie ne donne cependant aucune clef quant aux espaces périurbains existants qui, par ...

2016