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Design and User Perception Issues for Personality-Engaged Recommender Systems

Recommender systems have emerged, as an intelligent information filtering tool, to help users effectively identify information items of interest from a set of overwhelming choices and provide personalized services. Most recommendation technologies typicall ...

EPFL2012

Microfabrication technologies in dielectrophoresis applications-A review

Rodrigo Martinez Duarte

DEP is an established technique for particle manipulation. Although first demonstrated in the 1950s, it was not until the development of miniaturization techniques in the 1990s that DEP became a popular research field. The 1990s saw an explosion of DEP pub ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Paper Interfaces for Learning Geometry

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Himanshu Verma, Quentin Bonnard

Paper interfaces offer tremendous possibilities for geometry education in primary schools. Existing computer interfaces designed to learn geometry do not consider the integration of conventional school tools, which form the part of the curriculum. Moreover ...

2012

FaceTube: predicting personality from facial expressions of emotion in online conversational video

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

The advances in automatic facial expression recognition make it possible to mine and characterize large amounts of data, opening a wide research domain on behavioral understanding. In this paper, we leverage the use of a state-of-theart facial expression r ...

2012

FaceTube: predicting personality from facial expressions of emotion in online conversational video

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

Idiap2012

Open Support Platform for Environmental Research (OSPER)-tools for the discovery and exploitation of environmental data

Karl Aberer, Michael Lehning, Alexis Berne, Anthony Christopher Davison, Marc Parlange, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Juliette Ferial Blanchet, Danny Eddy Scipion Castillo, Robert Gwadera

The Open Support Platform for Environmental Research (OSPER) has been launched to take forward key data management components developed under the Swiss Experiment platform project to achieve improved usability and a wider scope. With this project, we aim t ...

American Geophysical Union (AGU)2012

Pedagogical support services and academic developers at French universities

Siara Ruth Isaac

Numerous programmes have been implemented to improve the quality of French higher education but the paucity of learning-focused objectives has resulted in contradictory initiatives. Expanding pedagogical development activities for professors, as emphasised ...

2012

Classroom orchestration : The third circle of usability

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Patrick Jermann, Guillaume Zufferey, Sébastien Cuendet, Quentin Bonnard, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Lenh Hung Son Do

We analyze classroom orchestration as a question of usability in which the classroom is the user. Our experiments revealed design features that reduce the global orchestration load. According to our studies in vocational schools, paper-based interfaces hav ...

International Society of the Learning Sciences2011

Interactive tabletops in education

Pierre Dillenbourg

Interactive tabletops are gaining increased attention from CSCL researchers. This paper analyses the relation between this technology and teaching and learning processes. At a global level, one could argue that tabletops convey a socio-constructivist flavo ...

2011

Suitability of pesticide risk indicators for Less Developed Countries: A comparison

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Pesticide risk indicators provide simple support in the assessment of environmental and health risks from pesticide use, and can therefore inform policies to foster a sustainable interaction of agriculture with the environment. For their relative simplicit ...

Elsevier2011

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