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Datafication of audiovisual archives: from practice mapping to a thinking model

Yuchen Yang

Purpose Recent archiving and curatorial practices took advantage of the advancement in digital technologies, creating immersive and interactive experiences to emphasize the plurality of memory materials, encourage personalized sense-making and extract, man ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2024

Fine Arts in Transition: An Operative Research and Teaching Approach between Analogue and Digital

Nicola Braghieri, Filippo Fanciotti

The volume collects the material produced for the exhibition 'The Sky in the Room' and a selection of scientific texts on the question of analogue continuity in digital transition. The contributions will be focused on verifying the operative method in teac ...

EPFL Press2024

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

Platform-mediated live musical performance in China: New social practices and urban cultural spaces

Mengke Zhang

This paper provides a non-Anglo-American geographical discussion of digitally mediated cultural activities. Taking China's live music industry as an entry point, we seek to theoretically and empirically understand the complex roles of digital technologies ...

2023

Is Your Time Well Spent Online?: Focusing on Quality Experiences Through a User-Centered Recommendation Algorithm and Simulation Model

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Rania Islambouli

Spending an uncontrolled quantity and quality of time on digital news and social media platforms can negatively influence mental health and decrease cognitive abilities. In this paper, we propose a sequential news recommendation system employing deep reinf ...

IEEE2022

Combating Online Scientific Misinformation

Panagiotis Smeros

The drastic shift towards digital communication in our mediasphere has caused a profound change in the production and consumption of information, which in turn has substantial implications on the social and political landscape. Misinformation, as a side ef ...

EPFL2022

OMiLAB: A Smart Innovation Environment for Digital Engineers

Dimitrios Kyritsis

This position paper introduces a Smart Innovation Environment for experimentation related to digital transformation projects, for the consolidation of a proposed "Digital Engineer" skill profile (with a business-oriented facet labelled as "Digital Innovato ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2021

Performance Evaluation of Objective Image Quality Metrics on Conventional and Learning-Based Compression Artifacts

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina, Evgeniy Upenik, Fernando Joaquim Leite Pereira

Lossy image compression is a popular, simple and effective solution to reduce the amount of data representing digital pictures. In most lossy compression methods, the reduced volume of data in bits is achieved at the expense of introducing visual artifacts ...

IEEE2021

Radical Intangibles: Materializing the Ephemeral

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Lillian Hibberd

New materialism considers that the world and its histories are produced by a range of material forces that extend from the physical and the biological to the psychological, social and cultural. In recognizing that heritage is not held in objects alone, new ...

2021

Demonstration of Roteco - the robotic teacher community: An informative, collaborative platform with a unique community ecosystem

Melissa Anne Skweres, Sophia Reyes Mury

Today the digital society in which we live requires the acquisition of new computer-related skills, such as computational thinking or coding skills, as well as cross-curricular skills, such as communication, collaboration and creativity. Preparing and insp ...

ACM2021

Technologizing Democracy or Democratizing Technology? A Layered-Architecture Perspective on Potentials and Challenges

Bryan Alexander Ford

While technology is often claimed to be “democratizing”, the technologizing of society has more often yielded undemocratic or even anti-democratic outcomes. Is technology fundamentally at odds with democracy, or is it merely a rich and infinitely-adaptable ...

University of Chicago Press2021

Pipeline Synthesis and Optimization from Branched Feedback Dataflow Programs

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Simone Casale Brunet, Anatoly Prihozhy

Large dataflow designs are a result of behavioral specification of modern complex digital systems and/or a result of unfolding and transforming looped and branched programs. Since deep-submicron silicon technology provides large amounts of available resour ...

SPRINGER2020

ICT Adoption in Executive Training for Development Blending Digital and Physical Communication and Awareness Channels

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia

Digital capacity building is a key policy for states to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper(1) presents one of the actions carried out by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in collaboration with the Swiss Federal ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

The Past, Present and Future of Digital Scholarship with Newspaper Collections

Maud Ehrmann, Giovanni Colavizza

Historical newspapers are of interest to many humanities scholars as sources of information and language closely tied to a particular time, social context and place. Digitised newspapers are also of interest to many data-driven researchers who seek large b ...

2019

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

Efficient Dynamic Optimisation Heuristics for Dataflow Pipelines

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Simone Casale Brunet, Anatoly Prihozhy

Large dataflow designs appear as a result of functional specification of modern complex digital systems and/ or a result of unfolding and behavioral transformation of looped and branched programs. Since deep-submicron silicon technology provides large amou ...

IEEE2018

The Intellectual Organisation of History

Giovanni Colavizza

A tradition of scholarship discusses the characteristics of different areas of knowledge, in particular after modern academia compartmentalized them into disciplines. The academic approach is often put to question: are there two or more cultures? Is an eve ...

EPFL2018

Narrative Recomposition in the Context of Digital Reading

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

In any creative process, the tools one uses have an immediate influence on the shape of the final artwork. However, while the digital revolution has redefined core values in most creative domains over the last few decades, its impact on literature remains ...

EPFL2017

Socioeconomic characterization of regions through the lens of individual financial transactions

Emanuele Massaro

People are increasingly leaving digital traces of their daily activities through interacting with their digital environment. Among these traces, financial transactions are of paramount interest since they provide a panoramic view of human life through the ...

2017

Testbed for subjective evaluation of omnidirectional visual content

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Evgeniy Upenik

Omnidirectional visual content is a form of representing graphical and cinematic media content which provides subjects with the ability to freely change the direction of view. Along with virtual reality, omnidirectional imaging is becoming a very important ...

IEEE2016