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A Canvas for the Ethical Design of Learning Experiences with Digital Tools

Denis Gillet, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Adrian Christian Holzer, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Pascal Felber

The use of digital tools has drastically increased in engineering education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These tools generate important ethical issues, in particular in terms of privacy and fairness. However, very few teacher training programmes ...

2022

Living Without a Car : A Canada-France Comparative Outlook

Dominic Villeneuve

This research explores the links between social exclusion, car dependence and public policies for members of non-motorized households who are potentially socially excluded. It is at the crossroads of urban sociology, public policy and transport geography. ...

EPFL2017

Geneva's philanthropists around 1900: a field made of distinctive but interconnected social groups

Thomas David

This article analyses the social profile of Geneva's philanthropists around 1900. It shows that, contrary to what the literature on philanthropy argues, philanthropists belonged to varied social groups defined by diverse forms of capital (economic, social ...

Cambridge Univ Press2016

Its not that I dont care, I just dont care very much: confounding between attribute non-attendance and taste heterogeneity

Amanda Blomberg Stathopoulos

With the growing interest in the topic of attribute non-attendance, there is now widespread use of latent class (LC) structures aimed at capturing such behaviour, across a number of different fields. Specifically, these studies rely on a confirmatory LC mo ...

Springer2013

Big Brother Knows Your Friends: on Privacy of Social Communities in Pervasive Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Imad Aad, Igor Bilogrevic, Murtuza Jadliwala, Valtteri Niemi, Laurent Bindschaedler

Wireless network operators increasingly deploy WiFi hotspots and low-power, low-range base stations in order to satisfy users' growing demands for context-aware services and performance. In addition to providing better service, such capillary infrastructur ...

2012

Public Urban Transport, Mobility Patterns and Social Exclusion : The Case of Santiago de Chile

Regina Witter

What are the social impacts of a new, less efficient public transport system in a city that is known for its inequality concerning access to daily activities and participation in urban life? More precisely, what are the implications of a re-regulated trans ...

EPFL2012

En quête d'habitat : choix résidentiels et différenciation des modes de vie familiaux en Suisse

Marie-Paule Thomas

This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

EPFL2011

Politiques de transport et inégalités sociales d'accès. Analyse comparative de huit agglomérations européennes

Vincent Kaufmann, Christophe Jemelin, Julie Barbey Horvath

Le présent rapport se décompose en quatre parties principales. Une première partie expose le dispositif et la méthodologie comparative retenue, soit le choix des agglomérations et leur description et l’ensemble de la démarche comparative retenue, au plan d ...

2007

International perspectives on engaging the public in neuroethics

Pierre Magistretti

With an ever-increasing understanding of the brain mechanisms associated with core human attributes and values, there is an increasing public interest in the results of neuroscience research and the ways in which that new knowledge will be used. Here, we p ...

2005