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Recommender Systems for Healthy Behavior Change

Onur Yürüten

Sedentary lifestyles and bad eating habits influence the onset of many serious health problems. Healthy behavior change is an arduous task, and requires a careful planning. In this thesis, we propose that behavior recommenders can help their users achieve ...

EPFL2017

Spatially explicit modeling of cholera epidemics

Flavio Finger

Understanding the epidemiology of cholera, when and where it occurs and how it spreads, is key to its prevention and control. Models can help to apprehend cholera outbreaks by providing insight into critical epidemiological processes, and may be used to ev ...

EPFL2017

Precision global health in the digital age

Marcel Salathé, Idris Guessous, Gérard Escher

Precision global health is an approach similar to precision medicine, which facilitates, through innovation and technology, better targeting of public health interventions on a global scale, for the purpose of maximising their effectiveness and relevance. ...

EMH Swiss Medical Publishers, Ltd.2017

Knowledge Transfer for Scene-specific Motion Prediction

Alexandre Massoud Alahi

When given a single frame of the video, humans can not only interpret the content of the scene, but also they are able to forecast the near future. This ability is mostly driven by their rich prior knowledge about the visual world, both in terms of (i) the ...

Springer2016

Demand Side Management for Enhanced Integration of Photovoltaics into Grid

Christophe Ballif, Yannick Samuel Riesen, Raffael Fabian Tschui, Christophe Germain Boillat

Demand side management could be a very effective way to shift electric consumption of households to the maximum production hours of photovoltaic (PV) systems. A field study on more than 100 households were performed to evaluate the share of electric consum ...

WIP Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur GmbH & Co Planungs KG2015

Sleep sharpens sensory stimulus coding in human visual cortex after fear conditioning

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville

Efficient perceptual identification of emotionally-relevant stimuli requires optimized neural coding. Because sleep contributes to neural plasticity mechanisms, we asked whether the perceptual representation of emotionally-relevant stimuli within sensory c ...

Elsevier2014

Complex social contagion makes networks more vulnerable to disease outbreaks

Marcel Salathé

Social network analysis is now widely used to investigate the dynamics of infectious disease spread. Vaccination dramatically disrupts disease transmission on a contact network, and indeed, high vaccination rates can potentially halt disease transmission a ...

2013

Learning Analytics Dashboard Applications

Sten Govaerts

This article introduces learning analytics dashboards that visualize learning traces for learners and teachers. We present a conceptual framework that helps to analyze learning analytics applications for these kinds of users. We then present our own work i ...

Sage Publications Inc2013

The dynamics of health behavior sentiments on a large online social network

Marcel Salathé

Modifiable health behaviors, a leading cause of illness and death in many countries, are often driven by individual beliefs and sentiments about health and disease. Individual behaviors affecting health outcomes are increasingly modulated by social network ...

2013

Spatio-Temporal Patterns for a Generalized Innovation Diffusion Model

Max-Olivier Hongler, Olivier Gallay, Fariba Hashemi

We construct a model of innovation diffusion that incorporates a spatial component into a classical imitation-innovation dynamics first introduced by F. Bass. Relevant for situations where the imitation process explicitly depends on the spatial proximity b ...

2012