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Digital manufacturing of personalised footwear with embedded sensors

Danick Briand, Ryan Mitchell van Dommelen, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Jaemin Kim

The strong clinical demand for more accurate and personalized health monitoring technologies has called for the development of additively manufactured wearable devices. While the materials palette for additive manufacturing continues to expand, the integra ...

2023

Audiovisual archives are the mnemonic archives of the 21st century, with important cultural institutions increasingly digitizing their video collections. However, these remain mostly inaccessible, due to the sheer amount of content combined with the lack o ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2022

Automatic table detection and classification in large-scale newspaper archives

In recent decades, major efforts to digitize historical documents led to the creation of large machine readable corpora, including newspapers, which are waiting to be processed and analyzed. Newspapers are a valuable historical source, notably because of t ...

2022

Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

Maud Ehrmann, Frédéric Clavert

The application of digital technologies to historical newspapers has changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite undeniable advantages, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also transforms research practices ...

De Gruyter2022

Digitised Historical Newspapers: A Changing Research Landscape (Introduction)

Maud Ehrmann, Frédéric Clavert

The application of digital technologies to newspaper archives is transforming the way historians engage with these sources. The digital evolution not only affects how scholars access historical newspapers, but also, increasingly, how they search, explore a ...

De Gruyter Oldenbourg2022

Combining Visual and Textual Features for Semantic Segmentation of Historical Newspapers

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Sofia Ares Oliveira, Raphaël Barman

The massive amounts of digitized historical documents acquired over the last decades naturally lend themselves to automatic processing and exploration. Research work seeking to automatically process facsimiles and extract information thereby are multiplyin ...

2021

Design and development of a haptic feedback demonstrator using time-reversal method and FPGAS

Andrés Chica Linares

The EPFL-LAI is investigating on haptic technologies to give vibrotactile feedback in digital musical interfaces. The aim is to develop an interactive surface that can render a multi-touch vibrotactile stimulus using piezoelectric actuators. The signals th ...

2021

This post describes the impresso application architecture and processing in a nutshell. The text was published in October 2020 in issue number 16 of the EuropeanaTech Insights dedicated to digitized newspapers and edited by Gregory Markus and Clemens Neude ...

EuropeanaTech Insights2020

Welcome to the post analogical condition: Il Conversation Pit

Boris Hamzeian, Filippo Fanciotti, Giovanni Glorialanza

Welcome to the post-analog condition* è un archivio digitale che il Circolo del Design costruisce in tempo reale per innescare e stimolare una riflessione condivisa in relazione alla pandemia causata dal Covid-19 in tutto il mondo. I protagonisti del mondo ...

2020

Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives

Maud Ehrmann, Giovanni Colavizza

The promise of digitization of historical archives lies in their indexation at the level of contents. Unfortunately, this kind of indexation does not scale, if done manually. In this article we present a method to bootstrap the deployment of a content-base ...

2019

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