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Virtual Safety Assistant: An Efficient Tool for Ensuring Safety During Covid-19 Pandemic

Daniel Thalmann

Using intelligent virtual assistants for controlling employee population in workspaces is a research area that remains unexplored. This paper presents a novel application of virtual humans to enforce Covid-19 safety measures in a corporate workplace. For t ...
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

On the Effectiveness of Time Travel to Inject COVID-19 Alerts

Serge Vaudenay, Martin Vuagnoux

Digital contact tracing apps allow to alert people who have been in contact with people who may be contagious. The Google/Apple Exposure Notification (GAEN) system is based on Bluetooth proximity estimation. It has been adopted by many countries around the ...
Springer, Cham2021

Adaptation of Assistant Based Speech Recognition to New Domains and Its Acceptance by Air Traffic Controllers

Petr Motlicek, Mittul Singh

In air traffic control rooms, paper flight strips are more and more replaced by digital solutions. The digital systems, however, increase the workload for air traffic controllers: For instance, each voice-command must be manually inserted into the system b ...
2019

Building Blocks of Assistant Based Speech Recognition for Air Traffic Management Applications

Petr Motlicek, Mittul Singh

In air traffic control rooms around the world paper flight strips are replaced through different digital solutions. This enables other systems to access the instructed air traffic controller (ATCo) commands and use them for other purposes. Digital flight s ...
SESARJU2018

Semi-supervised Adaptation of Assistant Based Speech Recognition Models for different Approach Areas

Petr Motlicek, Mittul Singh

Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSPs) replace paper flight strips through different digital solutions. The instructed commands from an air traffic controller (ATCOs) are then available in computer readable form. However, those systems require manual cont ...
2018

Bring voice user interfaces to our offices

Frederike Dümbgen

Synopsis: Implement a new way of interacting with your computer via voice control instead of the mouse and keyboard. Level:BS, MS Description: Google Home and Amazon Alexa are quickly rev ...
2018

Supernumerary Robotic Arm for Three-Handed Surgical Application: Behavioral Study and Design of Human-Machine Interface

Elahe Abdi

In surgical to industrial manipulation, the operator needs assistance for tasks requiring more than two hands. Teamwork may be the source of errors and inefficiency, especially if the assistant is a novice or unfamiliar with the main operator. The need for ...
EPFL2017

In a demanding task, three-handed manipulation is preferred to two-handed manipulation

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Etienne Burdet, Elahe Abdi

Equipped with a third hand under their direct control, surgeons may be able to perform certain surgical interventions alone; this would reduce the need for a human assistant and related coordination difficulties. However, does human performance improve wit ...
Nature Publishing Group2016

Collaborative Control for a Robotic Wheelchair: Evaluation of Performance, Attention and Workload

Tom Edward Carlson

Powered wheelchair users often struggle to drive safely and effectively and in more critical cases can only get around when accompanied by an assistant. To address these issues, we propose a collaborative control mechanism that assists the user as and when ...
2012

Automatic vs. human question answering over multimedia meeting recordings

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Quan Le

Information access in meeting recordings can be assisted by meeting browsers, or can be fully automated following a question-answering (QA) approach. An information access task is defined, aiming at discriminating true vs. false parallel statements about f ...
2009

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