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Designing Gamified Activities with Haptic-Enabled Tangible Robots for Therapy and Assistance

In this thesis, we contribute to the field of rehabilitation robotics by designing haptic-enabled tangible robot-based activities and exploring their added value for therapy and assistance. The research specifically focuses on the design and development of ...

EPFL2021

Learning Graph Influence From Social Interactions

Ali H. Sayed, Virginia Bordignon, Augusto José Rabelo Almeida Santos

In social learning, agents form their opinions or beliefs about certain hypotheses by exchanging local information. This work considers the recent paradigm of weak graphs, where the network is partitioned into sending and receiving components, with the for ...

IEEE2020

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Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Julia Proskurnia

Social media have become one of the key platforms to support the debate on climate change. In particular, Twitter allows easy information dissemination when running environmental campaigns. Yet, the dynamics of these campaigns on social platforms still rem ...

AAAI Press2016

Examining the effects of social media in co-located classrooms: A case study based on SpeakUp

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Adrian Christian Holzer, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos

The broad availability of mobile computing devices has prompted the apparition of social media applications that support teaching and learning. However, so far, there is conflicting evidence as to whether the benefits such applications provide in terms of ...

Springer International Publishing2016

Mining Conversational Social Video

Joan Isaac Biel Tres

The ubiquity of social media in our daily life, the intense user participation, and the explosion of multimedia content have generated an extraordinary interest from computer and social scientists to investigate the traces left by users to understand human ...

EPFL2013

The YouTube Lens: Crowdsourced Personality Impressions and Audiovisual Analysis of Vlogs

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

Despite an increasing interest in understanding human perception in social media through the automatic analysis of users' personality, existing attempts have explored user profiles and text blog data only. We approach the study of personality impressions i ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

VlogSense: Conversational Behavior and Social Attention in YouTube

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

We introduce the automatic analysis of conversational vlogs (VlogSense, for short) as a new research domain in social media. Conversational vlogs are inherently multimodal, depict natural behavior, and are suitable for large-scale analysis. Given their div ...

2011

Automatic Role Recognition in Multiparty Recordings: Using Social Affiliation Networks for Feature Extraction

Sarah Favre, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Automatic analysis of social interactions attracts increasing attention in the multimedia community. This paper considers one of the most important aspects of the problem, namely the roles played by individuals interacting in different settings. In particu ...

2009