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PopTouch: A Submillimeter Thick Dynamically Reconfigured Haptic Interface with Pressable Buttons

Herbert Shea, Amir Firouzeh, Ayana Mizutani

The interactions with touchscreens rely heavily on vision: The virtual buttons and virtual sliders on a touchscreen provide no mechanical sense of the object they seek to represent. This work presents PopTouch: a 500 mu m thick flexible haptic display that ...

Weinheim2023

Fermi energy determination for advanced smearing techniques

Nicola Marzari, Flaviano José Dos Santos

Smearing techniques are widely used in first-principles calculations of metallic and magnetic materials where they improve the accuracy of Brillouin-zone sampling and lessen the impact of level-crossing instabilities. Smearing introduces a fictitious elect ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Advancing the Adaptability of Compliant Robot Controllers for Exploration, Interaction, and Manipulation

Farshad Khadivar

As technology continues to evolve, robots are becoming an intrinsic part of our lives. While robots surpass human capabilities in precision and speed, they are far from matching humans' ability to adapt to unexpected changes. Humans can quickly and complia ...

EPFL2022

Motility as a tool to uncover mobility practices

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Eloi Antoine Maël Bernier

This paper investigate the causal relationships that exist between the motility, defined as the personal ability to be mobile (Kaufmann et al., 2015), and mobility behaviors. To do so, we use the first wave (2018) of the "national daily mobility panel" sur ...

2019

An Interactive App for Color Deficient Viewers

Sabine Süsstrunk, Cheryl Shaulya Lau, Nicolas Perdu, Gaurav Sharma

Color deficient individuals have trouble seeing color contrasts that could be very apparent to individuals with normal color vision. For example, for some color deficient individuals, red and green apples do not have the striking contrast they have for tho ...

2015

Augmenting Collaborative MOOC Video Viewing with Synchronized Textbook

Pierre Dillenbourg, Lukasz Kidzinski, Nan Li

We designed BOOC, an application that synchronizes textbook content with MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) videos. The application leverages a tablet display split into two views to present lecture videos and textbook content simultaneously. The display o ...

2015

Augmenting Collaborative MOOC Video Viewing with Synchronized Textbook

Pierre Dillenbourg, Lukasz Kidzinski, Nan Li

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

Dissecting UbuntuOne: Autopsy of a Global-scale Personal Cloud Back-end

Marko Vukolic, Hamza Harkous, Yongchao Tian

Personal Cloud services, such as Dropbox or Box, have been widely adopted by users. Unfortunately, very little is known about the internal operation and general characteristics of Personal Clouds since they are proprietary services. In this paper, we fo ...

ACM Press2015

Two Sides of a Coin: Separating Personal Communication and Public Dissemination Accounts in Twitter

Marcel Salathé

There are millions of accounts in Twitter. In this paper, we categorize twitter accounts into two types, namely Personal Communication Account (PCA) and Public Dissemination Account (PDA). PCAs are accounts operated by individuals and are used to express t ...

Springer2014

Residential mobility and the spatial dispersion of personal networks: effects on social support

Gil Viry

Using a representative national sample of personal networks, this article explores how the spatial dispersion of networks, residential mobility and social support are linked. Three issues will be addressed here. Firstly, how is the spatial dispersion of pe ...

Elsevier2012

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