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Nicolas Henchoz

Depuis 2007

Fondateur et directeur de l'EPFL ECAL Lab.

Quelques projets marquants:

Sunny Memorie avec l'ECAL, l'ENSCI-Les Ateliers (Paris), le Royal College of Arts (Londres), le California College of the Arts (San Francisco)

Give Me More (Réalité Augmentée)

Hidden Carbon (Matériaux composites, avec l'ECAL etl'ENSCI-Les Ateliers (Paris)

Cours postgrade: certificate of Advanced Studies en Réalité Augmentée

Depuis oct. 2000

Adjoint du Président de l'EPFL pour la communication

1998-2000

Présentateur et chef d'édition du Journal Télévisé /Télévision suisse romande

1994-2000

Journaliste-reporter, Télévision Suisse romande

1994-2000

Fondateur et directeur de ICAT (Institut pour la communication et l'analyse de Technologies )

1991-2000

Journaliste scientifique au Journal de Genève (formation professionnelle RP)

1986-1991

Etudes et diplôme d'ingénieur en sciences des matériaux, EPFL. Prix Matériaux 91

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Biography

Depuis 2007

Fondateur et directeur de l'EPFL ECAL Lab.

Quelques projets marquants:

Sunny Memorie avec l'ECAL, l'ENSCI-Les Ateliers (Paris), le Royal College of Arts (Londres), le California College of the Arts (San Francisco)

Give Me More (Réalité Augmentée)

Hidden Carbon (Matériaux composites, avec l'ECAL etl'ENSCI-Les Ateliers (Paris)

Cours postgrade: certificate of Advanced Studies en Réalité Augmentée

Depuis oct. 2000

Adjoint du Président de l'EPFL pour la communication

1998-2000

Présentateur et chef d'édition du Journal Télévisé /Télévision suisse romande

1994-2000

Journaliste-reporter, Télévision Suisse romande

1994-2000

Fondateur et directeur de ICAT (Institut pour la communication et l'analyse de Technologies )

1991-2000

Journaliste scientifique au Journal de Genève (formation professionnelle RP)

1986-1991

Etudes et diplôme d'ingénieur en sciences des matériaux, EPFL. Prix Matériaux 91

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Design

A design is a concept of either an object, a process, or a system that is specific and, in most cases, detailed. Design refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, though it is sometimes used to refer to the nature of something. The verb to design expresses the process of developing a design. In some cases, the direct construction of an object without an explicit prior plan may also be considered to be a design (such as in some artwork and craftwork).

Toward Automatic Typography Analysis: Serif Classification and Font Similarities

Mathieu Salzmann, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Romain Simon Collaud, Syed Talal Wasim

Whether a document is of historical or contemporary significance, typography plays a crucial role in its composition. From the early days of modern printing, typographic techniques have evolved and transformed, resulting in changes to the features of typography. By analyzing these features, we can gain insights into specific time periods, geographical locations, and messages conveyed through typography. Therefore, in this paper, we aim to investigate the feasibility of training a model to classify serif typeswithout knowledge of the font and character. We also investigate how to train a vectorial-based image model able to group together fonts with similar features. Specifically, we compare the use of state-of-theart image classification methods, such as the EfficientNet-B2 and the Vision Transformer Base model with different patch sizes, and the state-of-the-art fine-grained image classification method, TransFG, on the serif classification task. We also evaluate the use of the DeepSVG model to learn to group fonts with similar features. Our investigation reveals that fine-grained image classification methods are better suited for the serif classification tasks and that leveraging the character labels helps to learn more meaningful font similarities.

2024

Designing for Intimate Wellbeing: Aidee, a Qualitative Approach To Urine Home Monitoring

Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Clare Groves, Margherita Motta

Despite the widespread use of self-tracking technologies for promoting personal wellbeing, there is limited research on the monitoring of intimate data, particularly urine. To shed light on the design possibilities within this unexplored domain we designed Aidee, a prototype system composed of an app and interactive device that assists users in performing urine monitoring through qualitative data expression and ambient physicalization. To evaluate our prototype we conducted an exploratory between-subjects study involving 54 participants. Our findings indicate user acceptance for qualitative data expressions in the domain of personal wellbeing. Moreover, our study underscores that the combination of an app and interactive device helped people in consulting their urine analysis results with serenity and in experiencing feelings of support and companionship. With this paper we discuss the opportunities and challenges for designing monitoring experiences to promote intimate wellbeing by combining innovative ways of representation and interaction with data.

2024

Designing self-tracking experiences: A qualitative study of the perceptions of barriers and facilitators to adopting digital health technology for automatic urine analysis at home

Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Clare Groves, Margherita Motta, Andrea Regula Schneider

Self-tracking technologies open new doors to previously unimaginable scenarios. The diagnosis of diseases years in advance, or supporting the health of astronauts on missions to Mars are just some of many example applications. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a wide range of self-monitoring protocols emerged, revealing opportunities but also challenges including difficulties in understanding how to self-use monitoring systems, struggling to recognize the benefit of such systems and a high likelihood of abandonment. In this paper, we explore the role that design plays in the creation of a user experience of self-tracking, with a focus on urine analysis at home. We investigate adoption factors and forms of data expression to overcome the presented challenges. By combining insights from related work, semi-structured interviews and indicative user-tests, we show the potential of pairing a traditional numerical data representation (data quantification) with a qualitative expression of the data (data qualification). Indeed, qualitative expressions have the potential to convey the complexity of the phenomena tracked, enabling deep meaning-making and emotional connection to personal data. At the same time, we also identify issues with this approach, which can require a longer learning curve and lead to rejection by users more accustomed to traditional, numerical approaches. Based on the results, several recommendations have been converted into an experimental proposition, which also presents future plans for the continuation of the project. This article presents the first fundamental step in creating a meaningful experience of self-tracking, taking into consideration the needs and expectations of future users.

2023

MGT-406: Design in innovation: creation for adoption

Challenges in health, environment or media show how adoption is critical for innovation. The course delves into design methodologies to rethink innovation from a human point of view. Creativity, trans

DH-411: Design research for digital innovation

How can we turn digital technologies and data into meaningful user experiences? How can we face societal issues raised by digital evolution? This course proposes an immersion in design research, user