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Paper Interface Design for Classroom Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Sébastien Cuendet, Quentin Bonnard

Designing computer systems for educational purpose is a difficult task. While many of them have been developed in the past, their use in classrooms is still scarce. We make the hypothesis that this is because those systems take into account the needs of in ...

2011

Contextual Spaces with Functional Skins as OpenSocial Extension

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Evgeny Bogdanov

Portability, flexibility and extensibility are essential features of social media platforms. When such Web platforms are able to take user's context into account, they provide better user experience and enhance the effectiveness of users' actions. In this ...

2011

FingerGlass: Efficient Multiscale Interaction on Multitouch Screens

Mark Pauly

Many tasks in graphical user interfaces require users to interact with elements at various levels of precision. We present FingerGlass, a bimanual technique designed to improve the precision of graphical tasks on multitouch screens. It enables users to qui ...

ACM2011

An ontology-based comparative anatomy information system

Introduction: This paper describes the design, implementation, and potential use of a comparative anatomy information system (CAIS) for querying on similarities and differences between homologous anatomical structures across species, the knowledge base it ...

2011

The Cloud Will Change Everything

James Richard Larus

Cloud computing is fast on its way to becoming a meaningless, oversold marketing slogan. In the midst of this hype, it is easy to overlook the fundamental change that is occurring. Computation, which used to be confined to the machine beside your desk, is ...

2011

An Integrated Framework for Improving the Quality and Reliability of Software Upgrades

Olivier Crameri

Despite major advances in the engineering of maintainable and robust software over the years, upgrading software remains a primitive and error-prone activity. In this dissertation, we argue that several problems with upgrading software are caused by a poor ...

EPFL2011

On-line unsupervised adaptation for face verification using Gaussian Mixture Models with multiple user models

Sébastien Marcel, Niklas Johansson

In this paper, we present an initial study of on-line unsupervised adaptation for face verification. To the authorsâ€™ knowledge this is the first study of this type. The key contributions consist of four test scenarios for the BANCA database as well as tw ...

Idiap2011

The Complementarity of Tangible and Paper Interfaces in Tabletop Environments for Collaborative Learning

Guillaume Zufferey

The current trend in Human-Computer Interaction aims at bridging the gap between the digital and the real world, exploring novel ways to engage users with computational devices. Computers take new forms that are better integrated into our environment and c ...

EPFL2010

User interaction with online geospatial systems

Jens Ingensand

User interaction with online geospatial systems is an inter-disciplinary research field that combines the two disciplines Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and geographic information sciences. In recent years online geospatial systems have been created for ...

EPFL2010

Virtual Human Control for Reaching Tasks

Damien Maupu

In the framework of virtual prototyping, a virtual human is a useful tool to evaluate what one can reach or see. However because engineers and industrial designers are not necessarily skilled animators, it is important to provide intuitive or high-level in ...

EPFL2010