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Arts and design strategies to address climate emergency and action: the case of electronic waste in Accra, Ghana

This contribution situates the role of public media art, critical making and reappropriation techniques as sociopolitical vehicles for enhancing climate actions and awareness in contexts of technological inequalities and electronic waste in Accra, Ghana. O ...

2023

Automatic Dysarthric Speech Detection Exploiting Pairwise Distance-Based Convolutional Neural Networks

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

Automatic dysarthric speech detection can provide reliable and cost-effective computer-aided tools to assist the clinical diagnosis and management of dysarthria. In this paper we propose a novel automatic dysarthric speech detection approach based on analy ...

IEEE2021

AUTOMATIC DYSARTHRIC SPEECH DETECTION EXPLOITING PAIRWISE DISTANCE-BASED CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

Idiap2020

A Comparison of Social Robot to Tablet and Teacher in a New Script Learning Context

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

This research occurred in a special context where Kazakhstan's recent decision to switch from Cyrillic to the Latin-based alphabet has resulted in challenges connected to teaching literacy, addressing a rare combination of research hypotheses and technical ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Decoding of grasping tasks from intraneural recordings in trans-radial amputee

Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle

Objective. A major challenge in neuroprosthetics is the restoration of sensory-motor hand functions in upper-limb amputees. Neuroprostheses based on the direct re-connection of the peripheral nerves may be an interesting approach for re-establishing the na ...

2020

Repair as Practice and Knowledge. An Ethnography of Two Repair Cafés

Jérôme Baudry

Current repair initiatives, from networks of repair cafés run by local volunteers to community-turned-company iFixit, have been very successful at putting questions of repair and maintenance at the forefront of public debate. However, they have done so in ...

2019

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

Left neglect dyslexia: Perseveration and reading error types

Roberta Ronchi, Giuseppe Vallar

Right-brain-damaged patients may show a reading disorder termed neglect dyslexia. Patients with left neglect dyslexia omit letters on the left-hand-side (the beginning, when reading left-to-right) part of the letter string, substitute them with other lette ...

Elsevier2016

Livret "La Sensi à l'information Literacy"

Aurore Fanny Granval, Noémi Valérie Suzanne Cobolet

Prenez la route avec nous pour découvrir l'Information Literacy. En suivant ce parcours de sensibilisation, vous découvrirez les différents enjeux liés à la maîtrise de l'information. ...

2015

Integrating an online information literacy module in all students' curriculum: teaching across the disciplines in a technical university

Raphaël Grolimund, Caroline Salamin

The EPFL Library recently took part in the creation of a new educational offer, called Global Issues, targeting 1st year Bachelor students across all disciplines taught at EPFL, which represents 1,600 people. This course is a multidisciplinary approach of ...

2014

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