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Promoting synergies for sustainability through peer-to-peer sharing: an analysis of drivers and barriers

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ralph Hansmann

Peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing may foster sustainability synergistically by saving resources, reducing costs and promoting satisfaction of consumer needs and social connectivity. A survey of Swiss and Swedish consumers (N = 1522) was conducted to analyze drive ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2023

Towards Novel Evaluation Methods for Social Dialog Systems

Ekaterina Svikhnushina

Language has shaped human evolution and led to the desire to endow machines with language abilities. Recent advancements in natural language processing enable us to achieve this breakthrough in human-machine interaction. However, introducing conversational ...

EPFL2023

Designing Gamified Activities with Haptic-Enabled Tangible Robots for Therapy and Assistance

Arzu Güneysu Özgür

In this thesis, we contribute to the field of rehabilitation robotics by designing haptic-enabledtangible robot-based activities and exploring their added value for therapy and assistance.The research specifically focuses on the design and development of g ...

EPFL2021

Learning Graph Influence From Social Interactions

Ali H. Sayed, Virginia Bordignon, Augusto José Rabelo Almeida Santos

In social learning, agents form their opinions or beliefs about certain hypotheses by exchanging local information. This work considers the recent paradigm of weak graphs, where the network is partitioned into sending and receiving components, with the for ...

IEEE2020

Debunking Misinformation on the Web: Detection, Validation, and Visualisation

Thành Tâm Nguyên

Our modern society is struggling with an unprecedented amount of online misinformation, which does harm to democracy, economics, and cybersecurity. Journalism and politics have been impacted by misinformation on a global scale, with weakened public trust i ...

EPFL2019

Please Sign to Save... : How Online EnvironmentalPetitions Succeed

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Julia Proskurnia

Social media have become one of the key platforms to support the debate on climate change. In particular, Twitter allows easy information dissemination when running environmental campaigns. Yet, the dynamics of these campaigns on social platforms still rem ...

AAAI Press2016

Examining the effects of social media in co-located classrooms: A case study based on SpeakUp

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Adrian Christian Holzer, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos

The broad availability of mobile computing devices has prompted the apparition of social media applications that support teaching and learning. However, so far, there is conflicting evidence as to whether the benefits such applications provide in terms of ...

Springer International Publishing2016

OES Characterization of Steamers in a Nanosecond Pulsed SBDB Using N2 and Ar Transitions

Christoph Hollenstein, Peter Ott, Pénélope Leyland, Philip Peschke, Sami Goekce

The characterization of non-thermal homogeneous plasmas is possible using optical emission spectroscopy (OES), notably by estimating the reduced electric field. This method was applied to characterize streamers generated by a nanosecond pulsed surface diel ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

What Your Face Vlogs About: Expressions of Emotion and Big-Five Traits Impressions in YouTube

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

Social video sites where people share their opinions and feelings are increasing in popularity. The face is known to reveal important aspects of human psychological traits, so the understanding of how facial expressions relate to personal constructs is a r ...

2015

Social Interface and Interaction Design for Group Recommender Systems

Yu Chen

Group recommender systems suggest items of interest to a group of people. Traditionally, group recommenders provide recommendations by aggregation the group membersâ preferences. Nowadays, there is a trend of decentralized group recommendation process th ...

EPFL2015

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