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Improving 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 Foundation2023Cultural Adaptation, Validation, and Psychometric Description of the Pictorial Empathy Test (PET) in the Spanish Population
Research in psychology and social neuroscience distinguishes between dispositional and situational empathy for the cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. Yet, the Pictorial Empathy Test (PET) is one of the few brief tests focusing on situational affec ...
HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP2022Decoding 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 ...
EPFL2020Highlights 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 JAPAN2020Multimodal 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 ...
EPFL2019Automatic extraction of constraints in manipulation tasks for autonomy and interaction
Tasks routinely executed by humans involve sequences of actions performed with high dexterity and coordination. Fully specifying these actions such that a robot could replicate the task is often difficult. Furthermore the uncertainties introduced by the us ...
EPFL2018Action Units and Their Cross-Correlations for Prediction of Cognitive Load during Driving
Jean-Philippe Thiran, Anil Yuce, Hua Gao, Gabriel Louis Cuendet
Driving requires the constant coordination of many body systems and full attention of the person. Cognitive distraction (subsidiary mental load) of the driver is an important factor that decreases attention and responsiveness, which may result in human err ...
Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017The symmetry of partner modelling
Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova, Séverin Lemaignan, Mirweis Sangin, Gaëlle Molinari
Collaborative learning has often been associated with the construction of a shared understanding of the situation at hand. The psycholinguistics mechanisms at work while establishing common grounds are the object of scientific controversy. We postulate tha ...
Springer2016A Method for Record Linkage with Sparse Historical Data
Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Giovanni Colavizza
Massive digitization of archival material, coupled with automatic document processing techniques and data visualisation tools offers great opportunities for reconstructing and exploring the past. Unprecedented wealth of historical data (e.g. names of perso ...
2016Vestibular contribution to bodily self-consciousness and multisensory cortical processing
How does the self relate to the body? Bodily self-consciousness, i.e. the sense of being a subject bound to a body, involves a first-person perspective (1PP), i.e. the sense of being directed at the world. Prior research suggests that bodily self-conscious ...
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