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Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of 'Neurorights'
The rise of neurotechnologies, especially in combination with artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods for brain data analytics, has given rise to concerns around the protection of mental privacy, mental integrity and cognitive liberty - often framed as ...
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2023Improving the use of the housing stock to reduce its environmental impact
In the future, the existing housing stock should be improved while less new dwellings are built. This improvement will take the form of energy-efficient renovation as well as by encouraging cohabitation and reducing the amount of living space occupied per ...
Swiss National Science Foundation2023Towards mainstreaming of shared spaces as a basis for sustainable wellbeing for all
Like other rich countries, Switzerland is using energy and material at a per-capita rate far above the world average, contributing to multiple crises of climate, biodiversity, pollution, and numerous factors of human wellbeing, especially health, inequalit ...
Lulu Press2023Hybrid Flock - Formation Control Algorithms
Alcherio Martinoli, Cyrill Silvan Baumann, Jonas Perolini, Emna Tourki
Two prominent categories for achieving coordinated multirobot displacement are flocking and navigation in formation. Both categories have their own body of literature and characteristics, including their respective advantages and disadvantages. While typic ...
2022Risk governance and the rise of deepfakes
Deepfakes first came to prominence less than five years ago. Since then, they have surged in quantity and quality, becoming both a source of viral entertainment and of concern about the dark side of digital life. In this article, we provide a risk governan ...
International Risk Governance Center2021Writing Multilateral Trade Rules in the League of Nations
This article analyses the mechanics and the political stakes of multilateral trade negotiations in the League of Nations, in the context of the transition from empires to nation states. It examines one attempt to transfer bilateral treaty norms to a multil ...
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2021Highlights of the Science and Life of Peter Varga (1946-2018)
Peter Varga has passed on October 27, 2018. His pioneering discoveries of chemical resolution at the atomic scale on surface alloys, atomic resolution of ultrathin alkali halides, nucleation of bcc iron in ultrathin films, and the microscopic structure of ...
SURFACE SCI SOC JAPAN2020Decoding Cognitive States under Varying Difficulty Levels
Understanding cognitive states of human under different difficulty levels is useful in improving human-human and human-machine interactions. For example, a crucial factor in designing games is maintaining the engagement of players. An ideal scenario would ...
EPFL2020Multimodal person recognition in audio-visual streams
Multimedia databases are growing rapidly in size in the digital age. To increase the value of these data and to enhance the user experience, there is a need to make these videos searchable through automatic indexing. Because people appearing and talking in ...
EPFL2019Aesthetic Space
Recent 'turns' in social sciences, namely the visual, qualitative, actorial or spatial turns, all indicate a rising interest in individuals. Since the aesthetic dimension always nourishes and informs individualsâ spatialities and their decision-making pr ...
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