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Social Inclusion: A Multidisciplinary Design Approach

This article shows the design of an assistive product and a proposal of a business plan for persons with motor disability in lower-limbs, in accordance with the guidelines for social inclusion of the World Health Organization (2001). The design project wit ...

2012

Big Brother Knows Your Friends: on Privacy of Social Communities in Pervasive Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Imad Aad, Murtuza Jadliwala, Igor Bilogrevic, Valtteri Niemi, Laurent Bindschaedler

Wireless network operators increasingly deploy WiFi hotspots and low-power, low-range base stations in order to satisfy users' growing demands for context-aware services and performance. In addition to providing better service, such capillary infrastructur ...

2012

Public Urban Transport, Mobility Patterns and Social Exclusion

Regina Witter

What are the social impacts of a new, less efficient public transport system in a city that is known for its inequality concerning access to daily activities and participation in urban life? More precisely, what are the implications of a re-regulated trans ...

EPFL2012

Computational modeling of face-to-face social interaction using nonverbal behavioral cues

Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

The computational modeling of face-to-face interactions using nonverbal behavioral cues is an emerging and relevant problem in social computing. In the thesis, we have investigated individual social constructs in small groups such as dominance and status ( ...

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne2011

Mobility and social exclusion : the need of a comprehensive research approach

Hanja-Niriana Maksim, Regina Witter

In recent years, issues of social inequality and social exclusion in mobility and transport have gained increasing attention, both in empirical research and in policymaking and transport development. While some European countries (such as Great Britain, th ...

Éditions Alphil – Presses universitaires suisses2011

Computational Modeling of Face-to-Face Social Interaction Using Nonverbal Behavioral Cues

Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

The computational modeling of face-to-face interactions using nonverbal behavioral cues is an emerging and relevant problem in social computing. Studying face-to-face interactions in small groups helps in understanding the basic processes of individual and ...

EPFL2011

University research and public-private interaction

Dominique Foray, Francesco Lissoni

Universities’ centrality within the public research systems has been increasing over time, as it has their interactions with industry. Such interaction poses two dilemmas. One concerns individual scientists and the potential trade-off between basic researc ...

Elsevier2010

The role of public urban transport in the context of social inclusion; The Transantiago case

Regina Witter

“Santiago de Chile is implementing a new urban transport system that may give important incentives for other world cities”. This World Bank citation refers to the sophisticated public urban transport system called Transantiago started in February 2007. It ...

2007

Public urban transport in the context of social inclusion and cohesion – the case of Santiago de Chile

Regina Witter

What are the impacts of a re-designed public transportation system in a city where social differences are heavily manifested in spatial separation, i.e. where exist certain inequalities concerning the access to daily activities and participation in urban l ...

2007

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