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Nicolas Henchoz, Cédric Duchene, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves, Romain Simon Collaud, Yoann Pierre Douillet

Technology supporting meditation is a multimillion-dollar market that continues to grow. There is also strong academic interest to understand and improve the impact technology can have for the user experience of practitioners. However, little work investig ...

2023

ms3: A parser for MuseScore files, serving as data factory for annotated music corpora

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Johannes Hentschel

The Python library ms3 makes scores (symbolic representations of music) operational for computational approaches by representing their contents as sets of tabular files. Music scores represent relations between sounding events by graphical means. The Free ...

2023

Encoding and Decoding Narratives: Datafication and Alternative Access Models for Audiovisual Archives

Yuchen Yang

Situated in the intersection of audiovisual archives, computational methods, and immersive interactions, this work probes the increasingly important accessibility issues from a two-fold approach. Firstly, the work proposes an ontological data model to hand ...

ACM2023

Classification of patients with cardiac amyloidosis using machine learning models on Italian electronic clinical health records

Silvestro Micera

Amyloidosis refers to a range of medical conditions in which misshapen proteins accumulate in various organs and tissues, forming insoluble fibrils. Cardiac amyloidosis is frequently linked to the buildup of misfolded transthyretin (TTR) or immunoglobulin ...

IEEE2023

Plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: a field-test in a memory clinic

Aurélien Lathuilière, Sara Stampacchia

Background The key Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers are traditionally measured with techniques/exams that are either expensive (amyloid-positron emission tomography (PET) and tau-PET), invasive (cerebrospinal fluid A beta 42 and p-tau 181), or poorly sp ...

BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP2023

Vacancy segregation and intrinsic coordination defects at (111) twist grain boundaries in diamond

Carolina Baruffi

High radiation damage resistance has become increasingly important for applications of functional materials in harsh environments. The high radiation damage resistance diamond cubic carbon is a unique material which is considered for radiation environments ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

PopTouch: A Submillimeter Thick Dynamically Reconfigured Haptic Interface with Pressable Buttons

Herbert Shea, Amir Firouzeh, Ayana Mizutani

The interactions with touchscreens rely heavily on vision: The virtual buttons and virtual sliders on a touchscreen provide no mechanical sense of the object they seek to represent. This work presents PopTouch: a 500 mu m thick flexible haptic display that ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

E-Scan: Consuming Contextual Data with Model Plugins

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca

Extracting value and insights from increasingly heterogeneous data sources involves multiple systems combining and consuming the data. With multi-modal and context-rich data such as strings, text, videos, or images, the problem of standardizing the data mo ...

2023

Re-focusing explainability in medicine

Georg Michael Joachim Starke

Using artificial intelligence to improve patient care is a cutting-edge methodology, but its implementation in clinical routine has been limited due to significant concerns about understanding its behavior. One major barrier is the explainability dilemma a ...

2022

A Wearable Smart Glove and Its Application of Pose and Gesture Detection to Sign Language Classification

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes

Advances in soft sensors coupled with machine learning are enabling increasingly capable wearable systems. Since hand motion in particular can convey useful information for developing intuitive interfaces, glove-based systems can have a significant impact ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2022

EaRL: An Open-Source Software for Earthquake Risk, Loss and Lifecycle Assessment

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

Evaluating earthquake-induced losses, such as structural repair costs, downtime and casualties, is becoming a standard practice within the performance-based earthquake engineering framework. Nonetheless, this evaluation is a demanding task that requires de ...

2021

Wearable Haptic Interfaces for Telerobotics

Vivek Ramachandran

Telerobotics is the process by which human operators control the movement of robots to achieve specific tasks. However, conventional control interfaces, such as joysticks and remote controllers, are not intuitive to use for novice users. Training to use th ...

EPFL2021

Personalized Body-Machine Interfaces for Advanced Human-Robot Interaction

Matteo Macchini

Robotic systems are becoming more and more pervasive in modern industrial, scientific and personal activities through recent years and will play a fundamental role in the future society. Despite their increasing level of automation, teleoperation is still ...

EPFL2021

Application of virtual reality in neurosurgery: Patient missing. A systematic review

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin

Virtual reality (VR) technology had its earliest developments in the 1970s in the U.S. Air Force and has since evolved into a budding area of scientific research with many practical medical purposes. VR shows a high potential to benefit to learners and tra ...

2021

EaRL—Software for Earthquake Risk, Loss and Lifecycle Analysis

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

Performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) has become an increasingly popular framework to design, retrofit and manage structures. This probabilistic framework integrates data from the seismic hazard, structural response, damage fragility and damage c ...

2020

System and method for user data input to modify configurations

Semyon Malamud

A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computer system (100) for editing a configuration of a real-world object to optimize a future state of the real-world object. The configuration includes a plurality of potential states for the rea ...

2020

Insertion device for inserting deformable prosthesis into an eye

Diego Ghezzi, Charles-Henri Puncho Jérôme Vila

An insertion device (100; 100') for inserting a retinal prosthesis (200) into the eye of a patient comprises: a handle portion (1; 1') arranged to be grasped by a user of the insertion device (100; 100'), a cannula element (12; 12') arranged to be inserted ...

2020

Wearable and Self-Aware Machine Learning System for Online Cognitive Workload Monitoring and Drone Control

Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola

The use of robots in search and rescue is gaining particular interest, but singular skills are required to ensure efficient deployments in real missions. To face this problem, there is a need to develop more intuitive control interfaces. Moreover, to ensur ...

EPFL2020

Multidisciplinary Approach to Treat Erectile Dysfunction

Mikaël Nils Sturny

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a widespread disease affecting approximately 20% of men. With a rising incidence due to the global ageing of the world population, it is estimated that over 322 million patients will be affected in 2025. While not being a lifet ...

EPFL2020

Wearable Technologies for Embodied Human-Robot Interaction

Carine Rognon

Robotic teleoperation is fundamental to augment the resilience, precision, and force of robots with the cognition of the operator. However, current interfaces, such as joysticks and remote controllers, are often complicated to handle since they require cog ...

EPFL2019