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Geoinformation Harvesting From Social Media Data: A community remote sensing approach

Devis Tuia

As unconventional sources of geoinformation, massive imagery and text messages from open platforms and social media form a temporally quasi-seamless, spatially multiperspective stream, but with unknown and diverse quality. Due to its complementarity to rem ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

OASE 108. Ups & Downs. Reception Histories in Architecture

Christophe van Gerrewey

What is good, less good, or bad architecture? This issue of OASE examines how shifting appreciations, for very diverse reasons, can function as a productive misunderstanding, and as a lever to advance architectural criticism and pry thinking about architec ...

nai0102021

La tête dans les étoiles ? Faire sens de l'engagement dans le projet de science participative SETI@home

Jérôme Baudry

De plus en plus de personnes participent à des projets de recherche via des plateformes de sciences participatives (citizen sciences) en ligne, dont les promesses d’éducation, de démocratisation et de production renouvelées des savoirs rencontreraient un p ...

2019

A Case Study on the Effect of Using an Anchored-Discussion Forum in a Programming Course

Jean-Philippe Pellet

In the context of a programming course taught to college freshmen, we give an account of the switch from a classical, Moodle-based discussion forum to MIT's NotaBene (NB) platform. One of the defining features of NB is to anchor each discussion thread to a ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

Building a Question-Answering Chatbot using Forum Data in the Semantic Space

Pierre Dillenbourg, Marc Laperrouza, Khalil Mrini

We build a conversational agent which knowledge base is an online forum for parents of autistic children. We collect about 35,000 threads totalling some 600,000 replies, and label 1% of them for usefulness using Amazon Mechanical Turk. We train a Random Fo ...

2018

Blending Digital and Face-to-Face Interaction Using a Co -Located Social MediaApp in Class

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Improving face-to-face (f2f) interaction in large classrooms is a challenging task as student participation can be hard to initiate. Thanks to the wide adoption of personal mobile devices, it is possible to blend digital and face-to-face interaction and in ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2018

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

Dynamics of MOOC Discussion Forums

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

In this integrated study of dynamics in MOOCs discussion forums, we analyze the interplay of temporal patterns, discussion content, and the social structure emerging from the communication using mixed methods. A special focus is on the yet under-explored a ...

2017

Integrating Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity: the current state of the field and future research directions

Wulfram Gerstner, Lu Chen

We summarize here the results presented and subsequent discussion from the meeting on Integrating Hebbian and Homeostatic Plasticity at the Royal Society in April 2016. We first outline the major themes and results presented at the meeting. We next provide ...

Royal Soc2017

Personalizing Product Rankings Using Collaborative Filtering on Opinion-Derived Topic Profiles

Boi Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat

Product review sites such as TripAdvisor, Yelp or Amazon provide a single, non personalized ranking of products. The sparse review data makes personalizing recommendations difficult. Topic Profile Collaborative Filtering exploits review texts to identify u ...

2015

SpeakUp in the Classroom: Anonymous Temporary Social Media for Better Interactions

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Student participation in class is an important aspect of the learning experience, and can provide valuable feedback for teachers. However, getting students to interact in large classrooms is challenging. This paper presents SpeakUp, a mobile temporary soci ...

2014

SpeakUp – A Mobile App Facilitating Audience Interaction

Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

A dynamic student-teacher interaction during class is an important part of the learning experience. However, in regular class settings and especially in large classrooms, it is a challenging task to encourage students to participate as they tend to be inti ...

2013

A :) Is Worth a Thousand Words: How People Attach Sentiment to Emoticons and Words in Tweets

Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Marina Boia

Emoticons are widely used to express positive or negative sentiment on Twitter. We report on a study with live users to determine whether emoticons are used to merely emphasize the sentiment of tweets, or whether they are the main elements carrying the sen ...

IEEE2013

A Hybrid Human Dynamics Model on Analyzing Hotspots in Social Networks

Zhixian Yan

The increasing development of social networks provides a unique source for analyzing human dynamics in the modern age. In this paper, we analyze the top-one Internet forum in China ("Tianya Club") and identify the statistical properties of hotspots, which ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2012

Anthropomorphic Language in Online Forums about Roomba, AIBO and the iPad

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

What encourages people to refer to a robot as if it was a living being? Is it because of the robot’s humanoid or animal-like shape, its movements or rather the kind of inter- action it enables? We aim to investigate robots’ characteristics that lead people ...

IEEE2012

An Event-Based Architecture to Manage Virtual Human Non-Verbal Communication in 3D Chatting Environment

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Junghyun Ahn, Stéphane Gobron, Quentin Silvestre

Non-verbal communication (NVC) makes up about two-thirds of all communication between two people or between one speaker and a group of listeners. However, this fundamental aspect of communicating is mostly omitted in 3D social forums or virtual world orien ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2012

Bridging the Gap Between Social Animal and Unsocial Machine: A Survey of Social Signal Processing

Alessandro Vinciarelli

Social Signal Processing is the research domain aimed at bridging the social intelligence gap between humans and machines. This paper is the first survey of the domain that jointly considers its three major aspects, namely, modeling, analysis, and synthesi ...

2012

Query-Driven Indexing for Scalable Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval

Karl Aberer, Martin Rajman, Vinh Toan Luu, Gleb Skobeltsyn

In this paper, we present a query-driven indexing/retrieval strategy for efficient full text retrieval from large document collections distributed within a structured P2P network. Our indexing strategy is based on two important properties: (1) the generate ...

2009

Synergies of different reputation systems: challenges and opportunities

Karl Aberer

Reputation is a well established means to determine trustworthiness in online systems in various contexts, e.g. online transactions, product recommendation, e-mail spam fighting, etc. However, typically these reputation systems are "closed" outside of the ...

IEEE Computer Society2009

Web Text Retrieval with a P2P Query-Driven Index

Karl Aberer, Martin Rajman, Vinh Toan Luu, Gleb Skobeltsyn

2007