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A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Conversational Agents in Digital Education

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EPFL2023

Explore, engage, empower: methodological insights into a transformative mixed methods study tackling the COVID-19 lockdown

Vincent Kaufmann, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Anna Pagani, Garance Clément, Laurie Daffe, Melissa Pang, Ulrike Vilsmaier

Action-oriented, transformative, and transdisciplinary approaches are increasingly heralded as promising tools that enable researchers not only to produce new knowledge about a situation, but also to actively engage in tackling it; however, such approaches ...

2022

A review of cybersickness in head‐mounted displays: raising attention to individual susceptibility

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Cybersickness still poses a significant challenge to the widespread usage of virtual reality, leading to different levels of dis- comfort and potentially breaking the immersive experience. Researchers have attempted to discover the possible fundamental cau ...

2022

Roadmap on Machine learning in electronic structure

Michele Ceriotti, Jigyasa Nigam, Andrea Grisafi, Max David Veit

In recent years, we have been witnessing a paradigm shift in computational materials science. In fact, traditional methods, mostly developed in the second half of the XXth century, are being complemented, extended, and sometimes even completely replaced by ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Detecting submesoscale cold filaments in a basin-scale gyre in large, deep Lake Geneva (Switzerland/France)

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Seyed Mahmood Hamze Ziabari, Amir Mehdi Razmi

Submesoscale filaments are a well-documented feature of oceanic flow fields. Based on the analysis of high-resolution 3D numerical simulations, field observations and remote sensing imagery, this study, carried out in Lake Geneva, Western Europe's largest ...

2022

The Birth of a New Field: Memristive Sensors. A Review

Sandro Carrara

Over the last 11 years, the field of Memristive Sensors abruptly emerged in literature. The present review paper has the aim to acknowledge such an exciting new field of research as well as to critically review its most significant outcomes. As usual in sc ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

The emotional entanglements of smartphones "in the field": on social positioning, power relations, and research ethics

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

Despite human geographers’ growing recognition of the need to explore how digital technologies are increasingly co‐producing geographies, the methodological implications of such forms of data production are rarely discussed. This paper explores how smartph ...

2020

The Open Innovation in Science research field: a collaborative conceptualisation approach

Marc Gruber, Christopher Tucci, Marcellus Bogers

Openness and collaboration in scientific research are attracting increasing attention from scholars and practitioners alike. However, a common understanding of these phenomena is hindered by disciplinary boundaries and disconnected research streams. We lin ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

Dealing with Daily Rhythms: Families’ Strategies to Tackle Chronic Time Pressure

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Philippe Gerber

As suggested by the conservation of resources theory, in contemporary societies time is considered as a limited resource in the same way as money and energy. In the current paper, a novel daily rhythm approach related to motility is presented, in order to ...

2020

The Hidden Complexity of Distributed Systems

Karolos Antoniadis

The field of distributed computing has a long history, of more than fifty years. During that time, our understanding of the field has improved immensely and a certain body of folklore beliefs has formed. However, such folklore beliefs are not necessarily a ...

EPFL2020