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Design choices for Central Bank Digital Currency

Bryan Alexander Ford, Fan Zhang, Srdan Capkun, Ari Juels

Central banks around the world are exploring and in some cases even piloting central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). CBDCs promise to realize a broad range of new capabilities, including direct government disbursements to citizens, frictionless consumer p ...

Brookings Institution2020

BioLocker: A Practical Biometric Authentication Mechanism based on 3D Fingervein

Serge Vaudenay, Loïs Evan Huguenin-Dumittan, Fatma Betül Durak

We design a consecution of protocols which allows organizations to have secure strong access control of their users to their desktop machines based on biometry. It provides both strong secure authentication and privacy. Moreover, our mechanism allows the s ...

Springer, Cham2020

Designing a neighbourhood energy infrastructure: Applying a novel framework to Lisbon

Louis Alexandre Jewell

This thesis introduces a novel framework for the fundamental design of energy systems for neighbourhoods. The framework is based on the sequential integration of three software tools: QGIS, City Energy Analyst (CEA) and Urbio. QGIS is used to build the bui ...

2020

Evaluating the Effects of Introducing Three Gamification Elements in STEM Educational Software for Secondary Schools

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah

Gamification aims to enhance the educational experience by enabling students to have fun with technology. Although research in the field has previously looked into the effectiveness of gamification, reviews of existing studies show that in the context of e ...

Association for Computing Machinery2020

Behavioral Change towards EE by Utilizing ICT Tools

Marina Dorokhova

Due to end-users’ habit being one of the prominent factors influencing building performance, changing user behavior to encourage energy efficient habits has tremendous potential to facilitate energy savings. Four ongoing European projects, eTea ...

2020

Caching (Bivariate) Gaussians

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Guillaume Jean Op 't Veld

Caching is a technique that alleviates networks during peak hours by transmitting partial information before a request for any is made. In a lossy setting of Gaussian databases, we study a single-user model in which good caching strategies minimize the dat ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets

Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs

We present the design and implementation of SafetyPin, a system for encrypted mobile-device backups. Like existing cloud-based mobile-backup systems, including those of Apple and Google, SafetyPin requires users to remember only a short PIN and defends aga ...

USENIX Association2020

SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets

Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs

We present the design and implementation of SafetyPin, a system for encrypted mobile-device backups. Like existing cloud-based mobile-backup systems, including those of Apple and Google, SafetyPin requires users to remember only a short PIN and defends aga ...

USENIX ASSOC2020

Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube

Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Non-profits, as well as the media, have hypothesized the existence of a radicalization pipeline on YouTube, claiming that users systematically progress towards more extreme content on the platform. Yet, there is to date no substantial quantitative evidence ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Multisensory haptic system and method

Olaf Blanke, Simon Gallo, Giulio Rognini

A computer-implemented method for operating a haptic device, the haptic device comprising a plurality of tactile displays configured to provide haptic stimuli to a user, the method including the steps of (a) processing an audio signal derived from an audio ...

2020

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Design choices for Central Bank Digital Currency

BioLocker: A Practical Biometric Authentication Mechanism based on 3D Fingervein

Designing a neighbourhood energy infrastructure: Applying a novel framework to Lisbon

Evaluating the Effects of Introducing Three Gamification Elements in STEM Educational Software for Secondary Schools

Behavioral Change towards EE by Utilizing ICT Tools

Caching (Bivariate) Gaussians

SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets

SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets

Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube

Multisensory haptic system and method

BioLocker: A Practical Biometric Authentication Mechanism based on 3D Fingervein

Behavioral Change towards EE by Utilizing ICT Tools

SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets

Designing a neighbourhood energy infrastructure: Applying a novel framework to Lisbon

Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube

Evaluating the Effects of Introducing Three Gamification Elements in STEM Educational Software for Secondary Schools

Caching (Bivariate) Gaussians

Multisensory haptic system and method

Design choices for Central Bank Digital Currency

SafetyPin: Encrypted Backups with Human-Memorable Secrets