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Bridging Science, Technology & Society (STS), electronic waste and research through design: the case of the Agbogbloshie landfill, Ghana

This contribution situates the potential of combining Science, Technology & Society (STS) with critical and sustainable design methodologies in order to enhance media literacy in contexts of technological inequalities and electronic waste in Ghana. Gravita ...

2023

Arts and design strategies to address climate emergency and action: the case of electronic waste in Accra, Ghana

This contribution situates the role of public media art, critical making and reappropriation techniques as sociopolitical vehicles for enhancing climate actions and awareness in contexts of technological inequalities and electronic waste in Accra, Ghana. O ...

2023

Technologizing Democracy or Democratizing Technology? A Layered-Architecture Perspective on Potentials and Challenges

Bryan Alexander Ford

While technology is often claimed to be “democratizing”, the technologizing of society has more often yielded undemocratic or even anti-democratic outcomes. Is technology fundamentally at odds with democracy, or is it merely a rich and infinitely-adaptable ...

University of Chicago Press2021

A Comparison of Social Robot to Tablet and Teacher in a New Script Learning Context

Pierre Dillenbourg, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

This research occurred in a special context where Kazakhstan's recent decision to switch from Cyrillic to the Latin-based alphabet has resulted in challenges connected to teaching literacy, addressing a rare combination of research hypotheses and technical ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Model testing beyond the scope of International Standards: an outlook.

François Avellan, Loïc Andolfatto

The roles of hydropower plants within the energy system has been evolving during the last two decades. The potential to provide ancillary services to the grid is often harnessed, leading to a major change in hydropower plants operations. Ancillary services ...

2018

Precision global health in the digital age

Marcel Salathé, Idris Guessous, Gérard Escher

Precision global health is an approach similar to precision medicine, which facilitates, through innovation and technology, better targeting of public health interventions on a global scale, for the purpose of maximising their effectiveness and relevance. ...

EMH Swiss Medical Publishers, Ltd.2017

The References of References: Enriching Library Catalogs via Domain-Specific Reference Mining

Frédéric Kaplan, Matteo Romanello, Giovanni Colavizza

The advent of large-scale citation services has greatly impacted the retrieval of scientific information for several domains of research. The Humanities have largely remained outside of this shift despite their increasing reliance on digital means for info ...

2016

Two lectures about representing scientific communities by data visualization

Dario Rodighiero

These lectures present a research that investigates the representation of communities, and the way to foster their understanding by different audiences. Communities are complex multidimensional entities intrinsically difficult to represent synthetically ...

2016

Livret "La Sensi à l'information Literacy"

Aurore Fanny Granval, Noémi Valérie Suzanne Cobolet

Prenez la route avec nous pour découvrir l'Information Literacy. En suivant ce parcours de sensibilisation, vous découvrirez les différents enjeux liés à la maîtrise de l'information. ...

2015

Integrating an online information literacy module in all students' curriculum: teaching across the disciplines in a technical university

Raphaël Grolimund, Caroline Salamin

The EPFL Library recently took part in the creation of a new educational offer, called Global Issues, targeting 1st year Bachelor students across all disciplines taught at EPFL, which represents 1,600 people. This course is a multidisciplinary approach of ...

2014

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