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Explainability as fig leaf? An exploration of experts’ ethical expectations towards machine learning in psychiatry

The increasing implementation of programs supported by machine learning in medical contexts will affect psychiatry. It is crucial to accompany this development with careful ethical considerations informed by empirical research involving experts from the fi ...

2023

Towards Novel Evaluation Methods for Social Dialog Systems

Ekaterina Svikhnushina

Language has shaped human evolution and led to the desire to endow machines with language abilities. Recent advancements in natural language processing enable us to achieve this breakthrough in human-machine interaction. However, introducing conversational ...

EPFL2023

Multisensory interactions in peripersonal space and their contributions to bodily self-consciousness

Petr Grivaz

What is the relevance of the body and body-transformed sensory information for subjective experience? In the last two decades, paradigms from cognitive neuroscience have demonstrated that the subjective sensations of possessing a body (body ownership, BO), ...

EPFL2017

Connecting space and justice in metropolitan Porto

Ana Moura Bastos de Fernandes Póvoas

This investigation on spatial justice, while being fundamental research, has empirical pertinence and operational quality in the form of a justice-minded urbanism. Connecting the concreteness of cities with the societal objectives of development and of jus ...

EPFL2016

Watching MOOCs together: investigating co-located MOOC study groups

Pierre Dillenbourg, Guillaume Zufferey, Nan Li, Himanshu Verma, Afroditi Skevi

Research suggests that massive open online course (MOOC) students prefer to study in groups, and that social facilitation within the study groups may render the learning of difficult concepts a pleasing experience. We report on a longitudinal study that in ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

Polycrystalline graphene and other two-dimensional materials

Oleg Yazyev

Graphene, a single atomic layer of graphitic carbon, has attracted intense attention because of its extraordinary properties that make it a suitable material for a wide range of technological applications. Large-area graphene films, which are necessary for ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Comminution limit (CL) of particles and possible implications for pumped storage reservoirs

Mohamed Farhat

Comminution (fragmentation) of solid particles is important in a range of technologies. An interesting effect is the so-called comminution limit (CL), which is effectively a brittle/ductile transition. Above the CL particles fail by fracture. However, as p ...

Springer2014

Nonconscious learning from crowded sequences

Nathan Quentin Faivre

Can people learn complex information without conscious awareness? Implicit learning-learning without awareness of what has been learned-has been the focus of intense investigation over the last 50 years. However, it remains controversial whether complex kn ...

2013

New efficient synthetic strategies towards the AB and CD spiroketal fragments of spongistatins and analogues

Sylvain Favre

For thousands of years, nature provided us remedies to treat diseases and its biologically active molecules inspired chemists for the development of new drugs. In 1993, three research groups independently reported the isolation, from sponges, of spongistat ...

EPFL2009

Multimodal Biometrics for Identity Documents

Jonas Richiardi, Andrzej Drygajlo

The MBioID initiative has been set up to address the following germane question: What and how biometric technologies could be deployed in identity documents in the foreseeable future? This research effort proposes to look at current and future practices an ...

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