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Opacité et transparence dans le design d'un dispositif de surveillance urbain : le cas de l'IMSI catcher
This thesis assesses the surveillance operated on the mobile phone network by governmental actors (intelligence agencies, police, army) and the relationship between monitored spaces and their users. Indeed, some new surveillance devices used by intelligenc ...
EPFL2022STATE FICTION. Neutral Only on the Outside
Under the title "State Fiction" (2014–2021) the artist's long-term research focusses on the zone that divides the two Koreas, a locus of congealed international Cold War interests and a source of improbable images. After an internationally brokered armisti ...
self-published2021Towards the alignment of educational robotics learning systems with classroom activities
The technological advances of the past years have impressively demonstrated that the digital age is no longer just a science fiction vision of the future - we are in the midst of it. The digital transformation is affecting many areas of our lives, includin ...
EPFL2020An Institutional Approach to Normative Distributed Robotics for Mixed Societies of Humans and Robots
We are entering the era of robots, for everyone, everywhere. The expectations of the robots being reliable, intelligent and friendly artificial creatures drive the key challenges of the state-of-the-art robotics: technological, practical and social. The la ...
EPFL2020When deictic gestures in a robot can harm child-robot collaboration
Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Elmira Yadollahi, Ana Paiva
This paper describes research aimed at supporting children's reading practices using a robot designed to interact with children as their reading companion. We use a learning by teaching scenario in which the robot has a similar or lower reading level compa ...
ACM2018Bactericide effects of transparent polyethylene photocatalytic films coated by oxides under visible light
This review addresses catalytic/photocatalytic films under visible light inducing fast bacterial inactivation. These films present uniform, stable and adhesive surfaces able to inactivate bacteria within minutes. Uniform sputtered polyethylene-TiO2 (PE-TiO ...
Elsevier2017Thinking Places
Nine films to place thought. Thinking Places is a series of nine scientific films, made with the following principle: coupling, through the language of cinema, a speech given by a scientist that works on inhabited space and a place this scientist has chose ...
Chôros, EPFL2015Towards non-invasive hybrid brain-computer interfaces: Framework, practice, clinical application and beyond
José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb
In their early days, BCIs were only considered as control channel for end users with severe motor impairments such as people in the locked-in state. But, thanks to the multidisciplinary progress achieved over the last decade, the range of BCI applications ...
Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015Brain-Controlled Telepresence Robot by Motor-Disabled People
José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Luca Tonin, Tom Edward Carlson
Abstract—In this paper we present the first results of users with disabilities in mentally controlling a telepresence robot, a rather complex task as the robot is continuously moving and the user must control it for a long period of time (over 6 minutes) t ...
IEEE2011Social interaction probed by reaching to face images: Rhesus monkeys consider a textured monkey avatar as a conspecific.
Hannes Bleuler, Solaiman Shokur, Miguel Nicolelis
Realistic body images (avatars) have been long utilized in virtual reality applications, and they are becoming increasingly used in Neuroscience and Neuroprosthetics fields. To elucidate monkeys' perception of avatars, we have measured reaction of two naiv ...
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