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Towards Novel Evaluation Methods for Social Dialog Systems

Language has shaped human evolution and led to the desire to endow machines with language abilities. Recent advancements in natural language processing enable us to achieve this breakthrough in human-machine interaction. However, introducing conversational ...

EPFL2023

A biohybrid interaction framework for the integration of robots in animal societies

Francesco Mondada, Vaios Papaspyros, Daniel Burnier, Raphael Cherfan

The collective behavior of animals has been traditionally studied through observation, quantitative models of behavior, and devices of low intelligence. Nowadays, the advancements in the field of robotics allow for closed-loop experiments that occur in rea ...

2023

The Metaverse as a Virtual Model of Platform Urbanism: Its Converging AIoT, XReality, Neurotech, and Nanobiotech and Their Applications, Challenges, and Risks

Simon Elias Bibri

With their exponentially rising computational power, digital platforms are heralding a new era of hybrid intelligence. There has recently been much enthusiasm and hype that the Metaverse has the potential to unlock hybrid intelligence. This is premised on ...

MDPI2023

Challenges and approaches in bridging the biomimicry gap in biohybrid systems of fish and robots

Vaios Papaspyros

As the field of ethology advances, especially over the past two decades, the role of animal-robot interaction tools has increasingly become essential. This importance arises from the need for controlled, repetitive, repeatable, and long-duration experiment ...

EPFL2023

Focus on People: Five Qestions from Human-Centered Computing

Daniel Gatica-Perez

A substantial body of research in multimodal interaction has studied how people naturally interact -face-to-face and through machinesand developed technology to analyze, support, and extend such forms of interaction. The talk will share personal experience ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2022

Do Children Adapt Their Perspective to a Robot When They Fail to Complete a Task?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Elmira Yadollahi

Spatial understanding and communication are essential skills in human interaction. An adequate understanding of others' spatial perspectives can increase the quality of the interaction, both perceptually and cognitively. In this paper, we take the first st ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2022

Deep Learning Methods for Socially-Aware Human Trajectory Forecasting

Parth Ashit Kothari

The ability to forecast human motion, called ``human trajectory forecasting", is a critical requirement for mobility applications such as autonomous driving and robot navigation. Humans plan their path taking into account what might happen in the future. S ...

EPFL2022

Nuclei with Up to A=6 Nucleons with Artificial Neural Network Wave Functions

Giuseppe Carleo

The ground-breaking works of Weinberg have opened the way to calculations of atomic nuclei that are based on systematically improvable Hamiltonians. Solving the associated many-body Schrodinger equation involves non-trivial difficulties, due to the non-per ...

SPRINGER WIEN2022

The Gaze Dialogue Model: Nonverbal Communication in HHI and HRI

Aude Billard, José Santos-Victor, Nuno Ricardo Ferreira Duarte

When humans interact with each other, eye gaze movements have to support motor control as well as communication. On the one hand, we need to fixate the task goal to retrieve visual information required for safe and precise action-execution. On the other ha ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Safety-Compliant Generative Adversarial Networks for Human Trajectory Forecasting

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Parth Ashit Kothari

Human trajectory forecasting in crowds presents the challenges of modelling social interactions and outputting collision-free multimodal distribution. Following the success of Social Generative Adversarial Networks (SGAN), recent works propose various GAN- ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Generating macrocyclic inhibitors of protein-protein interactions

Gontran Sangouard

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play important roles in many diseases and their modulation is an attractive strategy for developing new therapeutics. However, the relatively large and often flat binding surfaces of PPIs makes the development of inhibit ...

EPFL2022

Control Strategies for Lower-limb Exoskeletons: from Full Mobilization to Assistance of Balance

Romain Pierre François Baud

Bipedal locomotion is a remarkable feature of humans. This skill is necessary for the activities of daily living. Unfortunately, many people only partially benefit from it or miss it entirely because of a disability. This may result in a slower gait, less ...

EPFL2020

Peripersonal space (PPS) as a multisensory interface between the individual and the environment, defining the space of the self

Andrea Serino

Our brain has developed a specific system to represent the space closely surrounding the body, termed pen personal space (PPS). This space has a key functional role as it is where all physical interactions with objects in the environment occur. Here I desc ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Learning How to Write with a Social Robot

Shruti Chandra

Learning handwriting is one of the main occupations for children in primary education. It is a complex skill that has been associated with children’s learning and development. Poor handwriting skills affect children negatively concerning their academic per ...

EPFL2019

Discovering Interaction Patterns in Online Learning Environments : A Learning Analytics Research

Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

The increasing amount of data collected in online learning environments provides unique opportunities to better understand the learning processes in different educational settings. Learning analytics research aims at understanding and optimizing learning a ...

EPFL2018

Social Interaction and the City: The Effect of Space on the Reduction of Entropy

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

How can individual acts amount to coherent systems of interaction? In this paper, we attempt to answer this key question by suggesting that there is a place for cities in the way we coordinate seemingly chaotic decisions. We look into the elementary proces ...

2017

Rapport with Virtual Agents: What do Human Social Cues and Personality Explain?

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Rapport has been recognized as an important aspect of relationship building. While rapport in the context of human-human interaction has been widely studied, how it can be established and maintained in human-agent interaction has been studied only recently ...

2017

Social Interface and Interaction Design for Group Recommender Systems

Yu Chen

Group recommender systems suggest items of interest to a group of people. Traditionally, group recommenders provide recommendations by aggregation the group membersâ preferences. Nowadays, there is a trend of decentralized group recommendation process th ...

EPFL2015

Increasing Pt selectivity to vinylaniline by alloying with Zn via reactive metal-support interaction

Lioubov Kiwi, Charline Berguerand, Artur Elterovich Yarulin

The promoting effect of Zn on Pt-based catalyst was studied for the liquid-phase hydrogenation of 3-nitrostyrene (3-NS). The monodispersed Pt nanoparticles (ca. 2.3 nm) supported on ZnO catalyzed the target 3-vinylaniline (3-VA) formation (S3-VA = 97% at X ...

Elsevier2015

Let Your Body Speak: Communicative Cue Extraction on Natural Interaction Using RGBD Data

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Employment interviews are relevant scenarios for the study of social interaction. In this setting, social skills play an important role, even though the interactions between potential employers and candidates are often limited. One fundamental aspect of so ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015