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Secure Interface Design Leveraging Hardware/Software Support

Computer systems rely heavily on abstraction to manage the exponential growth of complexity across hardware and software. Due to practical considerations of compatibility between components of these complex systems across generations, developers have favou ...

EPFL2024

The Current State of the OBI DICT Project: A Bilingual e-Dictionary of Oracle-Bone Inscriptions with AI Image Recognition

This article reports on the current state of the OBI DICT project, a bilingual e-dictionary of oracle-bone inscriptions (OBI), incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) image recognition technology. It first provides a brief overview of the development of ...

Buro Van Die Wat2024

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

Towards Novel Evaluation Methods for Social Dialog Systems

Ekaterina Svikhnushina

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

Human Interactive Robotic Surfaces for Physical Immersion

Fabio Zuliani

Computers have long been augmenting human capabilities and communication, and with emerging technologies, physical immersion in virtual worlds is now attainable. These advancements push the boundaries of human potential, allowing designers, architects, eng ...

EPFL2023

DRONE GAME THAT HIGHLIGHTS ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS OF DESIGN DECISIONS

Siara Ruth Isaac, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Gianni Lodetti, Barbara Bruno

This paper reports on the development of a brief scenario-based challenge to prompt engineering students’ reflection about the broader impacts of their design decisions, and thereby increase their ethical sensitivity and motivation. The game scenario asks ...

CDIO conference proceedings2023

Adapting Haptic Feedback for Guided Meditation

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

Prompting Large Language Models to Power Educational Chatbots

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah, Fanny Kim-Lan Lasne

The recent rise in both popularity and performance of large language models has garnered considerable interest regarding their applicability to education. Technologies like ChatGPT, which can engage in human-like dialog, have already disrupted educational ...

Springer2023

The Case for Performance Interfaces for Hardware Accelerators

George Candea, Aikaterini Argyraki, Rishabh Ramesh Iyer, Jiacheng Ma

While systems designers are increasingly turning to hardware accelerators for performance gains, realizing these gains is painstaking and error-prone. It can take several person-months to determine if a given accelerator is a good fit for a given piece of ...

2023

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

Experiencing virtual geographic environment in urban 3D participatory e-planning: A user perspective

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

The adoption of technology in urban participatory planning with tools such as Virtual Geographic Environments (VGE) promises a broader engagement of urban dwellers, which should ultimately lead to the creation of better cities. However, the authorities and ...

ELSEVIER2022

An Exploratory Study of Reactions to Bot Comments on GitHub

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah, Xinyang Lu

The widespread use of bots to support software development makes social coding platforms such as GitHub a particularly rich source of data for the study of human-bot interaction. Software development bots are used to automate repetitive tasks, interacting ...

ACM2022

Questioning Wizard of Oz: Effects of Revealing the Wizard behind the Robot

Pierre Dillenbourg, Pierre Pravin Oppliger, Jauwairia Nasir, Barbara Bruno

Wizard of Oz, a very commonly employed technique in human-robot interaction, faces the criticism of being deceptive as the humans interacting with the robot are told, if at all, only at the end of their interaction that there was in fact a human behind the ...

IEEE2022

Interactive Digital Engagement With Visual Artworks and Cultural Artefacts Enhances User Aesthetic Experiences in the Laboratory and Museum

Martin Vetterli, Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz, Christine Mohr, Pierre Gabioud

Digital technologies reshape the way we interact with our environment, including with artworks. Advanced computational imaging solutions allow having extremely high-resolution digital reproductions of artworks outside museums, presumably increasing artwork ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2022

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

Performance Interfaces for Network Functions

George Candea, Aikaterini Argyraki, Rishabh Ramesh Iyer

Modern programmers routinely use third-party code, and infrastructure operators deploy software they did not write. This would not be possible without semantic interfaces---documentation, header files, specifications---that succinctly describe what that th ...

USENIX Association2022

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

Pierre Dillenbourg, Ana Paiva, 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

Dynamic Personalized Ranking

Jérémie Rappaz

Personalized ranking methods are at the core of many systems that learn to produce recommendations from user feedbacks. Their primary objective is to identify relevant items from very large vocabularies and to assist users in discovering new content. These ...

EPFL2022

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

User Expectations of Conversational Chatbots Based on Online Reviews

Pearl Pu Faltings, Ekaterina Svikhnushina, Alexandru Placinta

Open-domain chatbots that can engage in a conversation on any topic received significant attention in the last several years, which opened opportunities for studying user interaction with them. Drawing from reviews of chatbots posted on Google Play, we exp ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021