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Learning Compliant Manipulation through Kinesthetic and Tactile Human-Robot Interaction

Aude Billard, Klas Jonas Alfred Kronander

Robot Learning from Demonstration (RLfD) has been identified as a key element for making robots useful in daily lives. A wide range of techniques has been proposed for deriving a task model from a set of demonstrations of the task. Most previous works use ...

Ieee Computer Soc2014

Scaling unreinforced masonry for reduced-scale seismic testing

Katrin Beyer, Sarah Petry

When testing multi-storey structures, most testing facilities require the testing of a reduced-scale model. A literature review on tests of scaled masonry structural components revealed that scaling of masonry was rather challenging and often significant d ...

Springer Verlag2014

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

Survey of Web-based Crowdsourcing Frameworks for Subjective Quality Assessment

Philippe Hanhart

The popularity of the crowdsourcing for performing various tasks online increased significantly in the past few years. The low cost and flexibility of crowdsourcing, in particular, attracted researchers in the field of subjective multimedia evaluations and ...

2014

Active Control mitigating the Ear Canal Occlusion Effect caused by Hearing Aids

Thomas Stefan Zurbrügg

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the prevalence of a disabling hearing loss to be above 5% world-wide 1. A treatment with a hearing aid - be it behind-the-ear (BTE), in-the-ear (ITE) or receiver-in-canal (RIC) - involves some degree of occlusi ...

EPFL2014

Towards a Disambiguation Canvas

Ronan Boulic, Anderson Maciel

We present Disambiguation canvas, a technique for selection by progressive refinement using a mobile device and consisting of two steps. During the first, the user defines a subset of objects through the orientation sensors of the device and a volume-casti ...

Ieee2013

Disambiguation Canvas: A Precise Selection Technique for Virtual Environments

Ronan Boulic, Anderson Maciel, Henrique Galvan Debarba

We present the disambiguation canvas, a technique developed for easy, accurate and fast selection of small objects and objects inside cluttered virtual environments. Disambiguation canvas rely on selection by progressive refinement, it uses a mobile device ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2013

Tool for Design Decision Making: Zero Energy Residential Buildings in Hot Humid Climate

Shady Galal Mohamed Attia

Informed decision-making is the basis for the design of Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs). This paper investigates the use of building performance simulation tools as a method of informing the design decision of NZEBs. The aim of this study was to develop ...

2013

Person Independent 3D Gaze Estimation From Remote RGB-D Cameras

Jean-Marc Odobez, Kenneth Alberto Funes Mora

We address the problem of person independent 3D gaze estimation using a remote, low resolution, RGB-D camera. The approach relies on a sparse technique to reconstruct normalized eye test images from a gaze appearance model (a set of eye image/gaze pairs) a ...

IEEE2013

Making Automated Testing of Cloud Applications an Integral Component of PaaS

George Candea, Johannes Kinder, Stefan Bucur

Traditional testing is inadequate for the complexity of modern cloud application software stacks. While the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model has streamlined application development and deployment, its multiple abstraction layers and dependencies have mad ...

2013

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