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An ecologically-controlled exoskeleton can improve balance recovery after slippage

The evolution to bipedalism forced humans to develop suitable strategies for dynamically controlling their balance, ensuring stability, and preventing falling. The natural aging process and traumatic events such as lower-limb loss can alter the human abili ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Einsatz von Nichtmarktstrategien durch oeffentliche Unternehmen gegenueber dem Staat

Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

Public enterprises operate in the area between the opposing poles of state and market. On the one hand they must meet a wide range of political expectations, and on the other they must fulfil commercial efficiency criteria. This dissertation addresses how ...

EPFL2017

Virus transfer at the skin-liquid interface

Tamar Kohn, Timothy R. Julian

Understanding virus transfer between liquid and skin is necessary to estimate transmission during water-related activities. In the present study, we modeled virus transfer from liquid-to-skin and skin-to-liquid. Specifically, we performed human subject stu ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinarity : insights from human-centric building research at EPFL

Marilyne Andersen

Interdisciplinarity has become an inherent component of most research and education developments nowadays. It brings with it new challenges, from how to share a common language to how to avoid becoming generalists, as well as new opportunities in solving m ...

2017

Urbaniser la campagne

Marlène Audrey Bertille Leroux

The primary goal of this research is to undertake an analytical study addressing the urbanisation of rural areas as a major territorial, environmental and cultural challenge. The new relations that have developed between urban and rural areas clearly signa ...

EPFL2017

Safe and Efficient Deployment of Data-Parallelisable Applications on Many-Core Platforms: Theory and Practice

Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Alena Simalatsar, Stefanos Skalistis

The safe and, at the same time, efficient deployment of parallelisable applications on many-core platforms is a challenging task. Theoretical Models of Computation (MoC) require the realistic estimation of task Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET ...

2017

Reflection: A Socratic approach

Reflection is a fuzzy concept. In this article we reveal the paradoxes involved in studying the nature of reflection. Whereas some scholars emphasize its discursive nature, we go further and underline its resemblance to the self-biased dialogue Socrates ha ...

Sage Publications Ltd2017

When does a volume of a bundle achieve saturation? A microstructure informed tractography study

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Gabriel Girard, David Paul Roger Romascano, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Maxime Descoteaux

Volumetric analysis of bundles derived from tractography is a popular statistical measure used in neurological disorder studies. Recent research performed by Gauvin shows that different bundles saturate with different tractography parameters, however, to a ...

2017

Interactive Locomotion of Mechanically Coupled Bipedal Agents: Modeling and Experiments

Auke Ijspeert, Jessica Lanini

This paper investigates the interactive locomotion for physically coupled bipedal agents using a human-human object carrying experiment and a simple mathematical model. The model is based on the Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum (SLIP) and on the assumption ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2017

Child-Robot Spatial Arrangement in a Learning by Teaching Activity

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Alexis David Jacq, Ana Paiva

In this paper, we present an experiment in the context of a child-robot interaction where we study the influence of the child-robot spatial arrangement on the child’s focus of attention and the perception of the robot’s performance. In the “Co-Writer learn ...

Ieee2016

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