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User decision improvement and trust building in product recommender systems

Li Chen

As online stores are offering an almost unlimited shelf space, users must increasingly rely on product search and recommender systems to find their most preferred products and decide which item is the truly best one to buy. However, much research work has ...

EPFL2008

Sensor Metadata Management and its Application in Collaborative Environmental Research

Karl Aberer, Michael Lehning, Sebastian Michel

This paper considers metadata generation and tracking in a collaborative environment where users publish raw sensor data in the form of virtual sensors and post-process data by means of filtering, modeling, or query processing techniques. In the metadata s ...

2008

Remote lab: online support and awareness analysis

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Peter Scott

This paper presents an initiative for integrating leading edge remote experimentation and synchronous collaboration solutions as a proof of concept to pave the way towards comprehensive learning environments for live interaction, not only between people th ...

The International Federation of Automatic Control2008

Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards: European Perspective

Andrzej Drygajlo

With an increase in identity fraud and the emphasis on security, there is a growing and urgent need to efficiently identify humans both locally and remotely on a routine basis. The appearance of biometric identity documents such as passports, visas, nation ...

2008

Development of Two Heliodon Systems and Recommendations for their Use

Marilyne Andersen

Heliodons aid the building design process by allowing the simulation of different solar angles with respect to physical scale models. At MIT, two different variations of this setup are being developed. The first one consists of a small, portable heliodon t ...

2007

Immersive flight for surveillance applications

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo, Sylvain Cardin, Xavier Righetti

In this paper , we present a VR-based first-person view paradigm applied to a tele-surveillance application. Using an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV), we have developed an intuitive tangible interface between the pilot and his airship (blimp). The idea is to ma ...

2007

2dx - User-friendly image processing for 2D crystals

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg

Electron crystallography determines the structure of two-dimensional (2D) membrane protein crystals and other 2D crystal systems. Cryotransmission electron microscopy records high-resolution electron micrographs, which require computer processing for three ...

Elsevier BV2007

Hybrid critiquing-based recommender systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Li Chen

We propose a novel critiquing-based recommender interface, the hybrid critiquing interface that integrates the user self-motivated critiquing facility to compensate for the limitations of system-proposed critiques. The results from our user study show that ...

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY 10036-5701, United States2007

Generic and Systematic Evaluation of Haptic Interfaces Based on Testbeds

Hannes Bleuler, Fei Wang, Evren Samur

The purpose of evaluation procedures is to achieve both qualitative and quantitative statements on haptic rendering realism and performance. Since a haptic interface provides an interaction between a user and a virtual environment, fidelity of a haptic int ...

IEEE2007

A comparison of two compound critiquing systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Jiyong Zhang

Compound critiques allow users to simultaneously express directional preferences over several product attributes. Presenting the user with compound critiques is not a new idea. The original Find-Me Systems (e.g., Car Navigator) showed static compound criti ...

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY 10036-5701, United States2007