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Towards a Framework for Estimation of User Susceptibility to Cybersickness

Cybersickness still poses a significant challenge to the widespread usage of virtual reality (VR), leading to different levels of discomfort and potentially breaking the immersive experience. Researchers have attempted to discover the possible fundamental ...

EPFL2023

Sustainable Construction in Humanitarian. Action Criteria for humanitarian building sustainability

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Guillaume Habert, Sebastian Duque Mahecha, André Ullal

Humanitarian organisations have an interest in improving the sustainability of buildings that support the assistance provided to people affected by conflict and disaster. Yet, usual means of assessing building sustainability - e.g., labels such as LEED and ...

2022

Self-help housing / autoconstruction

Sila Karatas

This is a historical inquiry on self-help housing, or autoconstruction as its French equivalent, a term mainly overlooked by architects but favoured by policymakers for low-cost housing development. Self-help housing has been a field of ‘aid’ or ‘assistanc ...

2021

Modelled effects of prawn aquaculture on poverty alleviation and schistosomiasis control

Andrea Rinaldo, Lorenzo Mari, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Marino Gatto

Recent evidence suggests that snail predators may aid efforts to control the human parasitic disease schistosomiasis by eating aquatic snail species that serve as intermediate hosts of the parasite. Here, potential synergies between schistosomiasis control ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology

Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Over the last decade, the study of group behavior for multimodal interaction technologies has increased. However, we believe that despite its potential benefits on society, there could be more activity in this area. The aim of this workshop is create a for ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Facile route to freestanding CH3NH3PbI3 crystals using inverse solubility

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura, Jeannette Medina Kadro

CH3NH3PbI3 was found to exhibit inverse solubility at high temperatures in gamma-butyrolactone. Making use of this unusual, so far unreported phenomenon, we present a facile method for the growth of freestanding crystals of CH3NH3PbI3 from solution without ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Survey of Web-based Crowdsourcing Frameworks for Subjective Quality Assessment

Philippe Hanhart

The popularity of the crowdsourcing for performing various tasks online increased significantly in the past few years. The low cost and flexibility of crowdsourcing, in particular, attracted researchers in the field of subjective multimedia evaluations and ...

2014

Biofuel Cells and Inductive Powering as Energy Harvesting Techniques for Implantable Sensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Jacopo Olivo

In order to increase the power autonomy of implantable sensors, energy harvesters can aid and, in certain cases, substitute implantable batteries. The paper describes two promising techniques among the approaches presented in literature: biofuel cells and ...

2011

The 3A interaction model: towards bridging the gap between formal and informal learning

Denis Gillet, Na Li

This paper discusses the adoption of bottom-up social software tools in formal learning environments. This is believed to enhance the learning experience of today’s young generation characterized by being technology savvy and keen on social networking. As ...

IEEE Computer Society2010

A new fuzzy multicriteria decision aid method for conceptual design

Product end-of-life treatment is unavoidable, no matter how well the product is designed. European regulations becoming stringent regarding the disposal of products, emphasis on end-of-life (EOL) issues at the conceptual design stage gained in importance. ...

EPFL2005

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