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Contextual design

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PORTUGAL Lessons

The environment is a space that surrounds, encloses, encircles. The object is a thing that limits a place and a point of view. To think of architecture as an “environmental object” means to question this dynamic of separation and imagine a discipline that ...

PARK Books2019

Applications of Approximate Learning and Inference for Probabilistic Models

Young Jun Ko

We develop approximate inference and learning methods for facilitating the use of probabilistic modeling techniques motivated by applications in two different areas. First, we consider the ill-posed inverse problem of recovering an image from an underdeter ...

EPFL2017

Collaborative Recurrent Neural Networks for Dynamic Recommender Systems

Matthias Grossglauser, Lucas Maystre, Young Jun Ko

Modern technologies enable us to record sequences of online user activity at an unprecedented scale. Although such activity logs are abundantly available, most approaches to recommender systems are based on the rating-prediction paradigm, ignoring temporal ...

2016

Driving a BCI Wheelchair: A Patient Case Study

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Tom Edward Carlson, Guillaume Monnard

Our brain-actuated wheelchair uses shared control to couple the user input with the contextual information about the surroundings in order to perform natural manoeuvres both safely and efficiently. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of using our ...

2012

Open Support Platform for Environmental Research (OSPER)-tools for the discovery and exploitation of environmental data

Karl Aberer, Michael Lehning, Alexis Berne, Anthony Christopher Davison, Marc Parlange, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Juliette Ferial Blanchet, Danny Eddy Scipion Castillo, Robert Gwadera

The Open Support Platform for Environmental Research (OSPER) has been launched to take forward key data management components developed under the Swiss Experiment platform project to achieve improved usability and a wider scope. With this project, we aim t ...

American Geophysical Union (AGU)2012

People-Centric Mobile Sensing with a Pragmatic Twist: from Behavioral Data Points to Active User Involvement

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Mobile phones have recently been used to collect large-scale continuous data about human behavior. This people centric sensing paradigm is useful not only from a scientific point of view: Contextual user data has pragmatic value, too. Individuals whose dat ...

2011

Learning User Habits for Semi-Autonomous Navigation Using Low Throughput Interfaces

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Roland Siegwart, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Xavier Perrin

This paper presents a semi-autonomous navigation strategy aimed at the control of assistive devices (e.g. intelligent wheelchair) using low throughput interfaces. A mobile robot proposes the most probable action, as analyzed from the environment, to a huma ...

2011

Adaptation en temps réel pour une meilleure qualité d'expérience en réalité augmentée

Damien Perritaz

In the framework of mobile augmented reality, a video stream is sent to the user with the help of a wireless communication link. To guarantee an efficient transmission, the video stream rate is controlled by adapting the encoding parameters such as to foll ...

EPFL2010

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