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| 2023 |
| 08.01: Interview at Le Temps: L'intelligence artificielle, pour quoi faire? |
| 2022 |
| 28.11: We organized the first AI4Media Junior Fellow Day |
| 23.11: We taught a short AIDA course on An Introduction to Trustworthy Machine Learning |
| 22.11: Our annual DH Madness event at EPFL |
| 14.11: Andrea Bontempelli joins our group as a visiting PhD student from U. Trento |
| 11.11: Invited talk at IIIT Bangalore Silver Jubilee Lecture Series |
| 09.11: Honored to receive the ACM ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Award 2022 |
| 08.11: Keynote at ACM ICMI 2022 |
| 01.10: Welcome to Ravinithesh Annapureddy as new doctoral student in our group |
| 01.10: Congratulations to our new graduates of the EPFL Master in Digital Humanities: Magistrale 2022 |
| 16.09: Welcome to the new students in the EPFL Master's Program in Digital Humanities |
| 14.09: Our StressSense paper received the ACM Ubicomp 2022 Ten-Year Impact Award |
| 13.09: Panel on Social Innovation and AI Development in Europe at the German-American Institute, Tuebigen |
| 01.09: Welcome to Victor Bros as new doctoral student in our group |
| 17.05: Our work on the Swiss Corona Citizen Science project is published at Humanities and Social Sciences Communications |
| 01.04: Welcome to Emma Bouton-Bessac as member of our group |
| 01.04: Exhibit starts at Musee de la Main in Lausanne: Intelligence artificielle. Nos reflets dans la machine |
| 2021 |
| 16.12: Attending the CLAIRE Workshop on AI for Future Healthcare |
| 18.11: Our first DH Madness event at EPFL |
| 12.11: Invited online lecture at the JST CREST on Symbiotic Interaction Area |
| 03.11: The International AI Doctoral Academy is launched today: AIDA |
| 01.11: Dr. Benoit Masse leaves the group to continue his career in France. All the best! |
| 01.11: New UNIL-EPFL CLIMACT Center project starts today |
| 20.10: Organized ACM Int. Workshop on Multimedia Computing for Urban Data: UrbanMM 2021 |
| 18.10: Invited Talks at ICCV and ICMI workhsops: Towards Increasing Diversity in Datasets |
| 02.10: Congratulations to our new graduates of the EPFL Master in Digital Humanities: Magistrale 2021 |
| 21.09: Dialog on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Diversity: WeNet project |
| 17.09: Welcome to the new students in the EPFL Master's Program in Digital Humanities |
| 25.06: Online talk on People & News at the AI4Media Workshop on Human and Society-centered AI |
| 23.06: Congratulations to Jessica Pidoux for defending her PhD thesis |
| 21.06: Online talk on mobile sensing and eating routines at the Snack Hub Seminar, University of Wageningen |
| 20.05: Dusk2Dawn final workshop: Young People's Nightlife: Perspectives from social computing, human geography, and alcohol research |
| 04.05: Online talk on Sensing Nightlife at University of Lleida |
| 28.04: Our work on the Dusk2Dawn project featuring Dr. Florian Labhart on Le Nouvelliste |
| 26.03: Workshop at EPFL on AI & Equality: A Human Rights Toolbox |
| 09.02: Online talk on Cites, Citizens, and Data at UNIL Semaine de la Digitalisation |
| 2020 |
| 23.11: Ten-Year Impact Paper Award at MUM: Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia |
| 09.11: The pandemic's impact on people's aspirations, from our Swiss Citizen Science project, on 24 Heures |
| 03.10: Congratulations to our new graduates of the EPFL Master in Digital Humanities |
| 24.09: The Trust Over Time project at the Initiative for Media Innovation Annual Event |
| 22.09: Wearables that claim to understand emotions? Discussion on Swiss public radio (RTS) |
| 02.09: Here are the latest findings of the Corona Citizen Science project |
| 01.09: New EC H2020 AI4Media project starts today |
| 01.09: New EC H2020 ICARUS project starts today |
| 31.08: Dr. Skanda Muralidhar leaves the group to take a new position at Electronic Arts. All the best! |
| 25.06: How citizen science can help labeling Mars rover images: discussion in Le Temps |
| 23.06: Congratulations to Lakmal Meegahapola for passing his PhD candidacy exam |
| 23.06: Here are the first findings of the Corona Citizen Science project |
| 01.06: New project with UNIL and IMD colleagues supported by the E4S program starts today |
| 15.05: Congratulations to Sina Sajadmanesh for passing his PhD candidacy exam |
| 07.05: Congratulations to Trung Phan for defending his PhD thesis |
| 22.04: Swiss residents can take part in the Corona Citizen Science Challenge using the Civique mobile platform |
| 14.04: New project with EPFL and UNIL colleagues: Corona Citizen Science |
| 11.02: Talk on Cites, Citizens, and Data at UNIL Semaine de la Digitalisation |
| 2019 |
| 01.12: New SNSF SPARK project (with UNIL) starts today |
| 15.11: Keynote at Study Week on Digital Humanities organized by Science et Jeunesse / Schweizer Jugend Forscht |
| 09.11: Debate on Swiss Public Radio (RTS) for the series Au Temps du Numerique |
| 07.11: Presentation of cross-disciplinary research projects supported by UNIL-EPFL CROSS program |
| 05.10: Congratulations to the first graduates of the EPFL Master's Program in Digital Humanities |
| 01.10: New project supported by the Initiative for Media Innovation (IMI) starts today |
| 15.09: Quizzing the public about social media research at EPFL 50th anniversary |
| 14.09: Discussing social media phenomena on Swiss TV : Radio Television Suisse |
| 10.09: Keynote: Sensing Nightlife at Ubicomp AppLens Workshop |
| 01.08: Dr. Laurent Nguyen leaves the group to take a new position at EyeWare. All the best! |
| 23.07: Our work featured in Italian media: La Stampa |
| 22.07: Our work featured in Swiss media: La Liberte |
| 24.06: Lakmal Meegahapola starts as PhD student. Welcome! |
| 06.06: Talk about AI for social good at Swiss Innovation Night, Madrid |
| 03.06: Lecture on Social Media, Cities, and Citizens at Summer School on Digital Communication and Digital Humanities |
| 22.05: Our group received a Honorable Mention Paper Award at Pervasive Health 2019 |
| 16.05: Talk: Ubiquitous Computing for People at Work at UNIL Organizational Behavior Brownbag Seminar |
| 15.05: Sina Sajadmanesh starts as PhD student. Welcome! |
| 14.05: Talk about urban crowdsourcing at GIScience Colloquium of the University of Zurich |
| 20.03: Participating at Interdisciplinary Workshop on Analysis of Multi-Scale Health Dynamics Collegium Helveticum Zurich |
| 15.03: Interview on diversity, biases, and machine learning in Spanish media: La Vanguardia |
| 14.03: Interview on Radio Suisse Romande about Digital Lives project |
| 01.03: New Innosuisse ADVANCE project starts today |
| 01.03: Dr. Benoit Masse starts as postdoctoral researcher. Welcome! |
| 14.02: Panel on Citizen Participation and Digital Humanities at Palau Macaya Barcelona |
| 12.02: Talk on Cites, Citizens, and Data at Semaine de la Digitalisation |
| 01.02: New LOIS project on Cross-Disciplinary Research on Science and Society (with UNIL) starts today |
| 28.01: Talk on Perceiving the City with Crowds and AI at Applied Machine Learning Days |
| 25.01: Talk on Computing with People at Work at TechnoArk Conference |
| 09.01: Keynote: Cities in the Global South and Multimedia at International Conference on Multimedia Modeling |
| 01.01: New European WeNet FET project (with University of Trento and a large consortium) starts today |
| 2018 |
| 12.12: Our work featured in Ces romandes qui inventent le future, at Bilan Magazine |
| 11.12: Our new SNSF project featured in Les dossiers de l'Universite de Neuchatel |
| 04.12: Talk: mobile crowdsensing and public participation at FORS Methods and Research Meetings Series |
| 01.12: New SNSF Digital Lives project (with University and Neuchatel and University and Lausanne) starts today |
| 30.11: Skanda Muralidhar sucessfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations! |
| 21.11: Talk: mobile crowdsourcing to understand real-life eating patterns at Public Health and Nutrition Conference, Brussels |
| 24.10: Talk: mobile crowdsourcing for social good at DataThink Lausanne |
| 16.10: Coverage of our work on mobile sensing, youth, and nightlife on Swiss news: 24 heures and Le Matin |
| 16.10: Our work on mobile sensing, youth, and nightlife on EPFL News |
| 30.08: Coverage of Idiap Innovation Day by Le Temps |
| 29.08: Talk at Idiap Innovation Day: Talk video |
| 05.07: Talk about Dusk2Dawn project at AAAI HCOMP Workshop |
| 28.06: Keynote: Crowdsourcing the Campus, the City, and Beyond at International Conference on Movement and Computing |
| 27.06: Talk about SenseCityVity in Genoa at Italian Institute of Technology |
| 18.06: Interview on AI and diversity with Amenaza Roboto |
| 31.05: Dr. Rui Hu leaves the group to take a new position at IBM Research. All the best! |
| 15.05: Article about the UBImpressed project at Eurhodip Magazine |
| 01.04: New InnoSuisse project (with UNIL and VimaLink) starts today |
| 11.03: Keynote: Crowdsensing the Campus and the City at ACM IUI SymCollab Workshop |
| 09.03: Talk on Ubiquitous First Impressions at Seikei University |
| 07.03: Talk on Mobile Crowdsensing at Nagoya University |
| 12.02: Our work on Airbnb home ambiance featured on ACM TechNews |
| 09.02: Our work on ambiance recognition on Airbnb photos featured on EPFL News |
| 01.02: Dr. Gulcan Can leaves the group to take a new position at Nomoko. All the best! |
| 29.01: Talk on machine learning, video, and recruitment at Digitization of HR |
| 2017 |
| 20.12: Our work on Swiss Instagram and food consumption featured at PCTipp Magazine |
| 13.12: Talk on Civic Media and Crowdsourcing at the University of Trento |
| 04.12: Talk in Amsterdam at the European Seminar on Urban Data Science |
| 20.11: The Swisko project featured at Aide et Soins Magazine |
| 02.11: Short course on Smartphones and Social Sensing for Psychological Science at the University of Zurich |
| 10.10: I was awarded the 2017 Community Service Award at ACM ICMI |
| 25.09: Gulcan Can sucessfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations! |
| 19.09: Launch of the new EPFL master program on Digital Humanities |
| 04.09: Talk on ambiance recognition at the SSP Symposium on New Technologies for Studying Everyday Life |
| 31.08: Talk on Civic Media and Crowdsourcing at ACM RecSys Workshop on Recommender Systems for Citizens |
| 25.08: Talk on the Civique platform at Eco-Villages Forum, Les Diablerets. Online talk here |
| 01.08: New SNSF Dusk2Dawn project (with LaTrobe University and University of Zurich) starts today |
| 20.06: Talk on Images, Tags & Interpretable Machine Learning at UNIL seminar on Cognitive Delegation to Machines |
| 15.05: New DCrowdLens Hasler project starts today |
| 12.05: Mobile crowsourcing as a teaching tool: the Civique platform on EPFL News |
| 11.05: Talk about the Civique platform at the Carnotzet Scientifiques |
| 01.03: New EPFL-CODEV PCWO project with partners in Mexico and Colombia starts today |
| 27.02: Work on the MAAYA project on SNSF Horizons Magazine |
| 01.02: New EPFL-UNIL project, Cross-Disciplinary Research on Science and Society: Multimodal Linguistic Crowdsourcing |
| 15.01: Radio Television Suisse (RTS) examines the street harassment phenomenon in Lausanne (Civique platform): Video coverage |
| 2016 |
| 19.12: Presentation of study on street harassment by the City of Lausanne, enabled by the Civique platform: Report and media coverage |
| 01.12: Presentation of Youth@Night at event organized by the City of Lausanne: Nightlife Forum |
| 18.11: Talk: Looking at Maya Hieroglyphs at Workshop on Historical Document Analysis |
| 16.11: Talk: Computing for and with People at L'Innovation en Question, Techno-Pole Sierre |
| 15.11: Talk at the Geneva Urban Data Design Day |
| 10.11: Workshop on High-skilled Migration, Diasporas, and Digital Technologies |
| 02.11: I joined the Editorial Board of the new PACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies IMWUT |
| 10.10: Talk on job interview analysis at Radboud University Nijmegen |
| 09.10: Talk on job interview and video resume analytics at ECCV ChaLearn Workshop on Apparent Personality Recognition |
| 04.10: Youth@Night project presented at Workshop on Social Media and Public Security |
| 23.09: SenseCityVity project presented at Poder Hacer: Int. Conference on Creative Cities |
| 20.09: Darshan Santani defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations! |
| 16.09: Talk about Swiss geo-localized social media at Swiss Days of Official Statistics |
| 01.09: Overview of the social computing group at Idiap Innovation Day |
| 16.06: Talk about Civic Multimedia at CBMI: Content-based Multimedia Indexing Workshop |
| 25.05: Talk about Mobile Crowdsourcing and Urban Perception at UNIL Seminar: Pratiques des Humanites Digitales |
| 02.05: SenseCityVity project presented at Tech4Dev International Conference |
| 06.04: Talk about Civic Multimedia at CICESE Mexico |
| 22.03: Mention: the value of mobile sensing in The New York Times |
| 03.03: Talk about SenseCityVity project at Essential Talks Series, CODEV@EPFL |
| 04.02: SenseCityVity featured on Mexican TV news: Noticias Mexico al Dia |
| 02.02: SenseCityVity expands work in Mexico: CONACYT News |
| 01.01: Trung Phan starts his doctoral studies. Welcome! |
| 2015 |
| 13.12: Talk: Looking at Hieroglyphs at European Web Maya Conference: The Maya in a Digital World |
| 03.12: Talk: Looking at Cities in Mexico with Crowds at ACM DEV |
| 13.11: Talk: Impressions and Behavior in Social Video at ICMI ASSP4MI Workshop |
| 04.11: TV interview about the MAAYA project on La Tele |
| 03.11: Coverage of our Maya codex research on NZZ - Neue Zurcher Zeitung |
| 03.11: Coverage of our Maya codex research on Le Temps |
| 02.11: Rui Hu and the MAAYA project are featured on EPFL News |
| 20.10: Talk about conversational social video at Autumn School on Humans and Technology, Netherlands |
| 14.10: Our work on behavioral analysis of job interviews featured at Bilan Magazine |
| 14.09: Talk on behavioral analysis of job interviews at NTT Communication Science Labs Japan |
| 11.09: Thanks to Kenji Mase, Marc Langheinrich and all the team in Osaka for a great conference and a new attendance record at Ubicomp/ISWC 2015 |
| 31.08: Two lectures on social media, crowdsourcing, and behavioral analysis in Paris at SMART LABEX School |
| 28.08: Darshan Santani's work on mobile crowdsourcing of road conditions in Kenya was covered on EPFL News |
| 10.07: Coverage (in Spanish) of SenseCityVity project on CONACYT News |
| 01.07: New project supported by Loterie Romande |
| 08.05: Best wishes to Dr. Trinh-Minh-Tri Do in his new career as Data Scientist at Gianty |
| 10.04: TV coverage of the Social Computing Group on Canal 9 Valais |
| 02.04: Special Session on Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition for Archaeological Research at CAA 2015 |
| 18.02: Laurent Nguyen defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations! |
| 05.02: Funding for new phase of SenseCityVity project granted by EPFL CODEV |
| 30.01: Talk in Paris about crowdsourcing impressions for whole cities at Digital Polis: Soundcloud audio |
| 2014 |
| 01.12: Skanda Muralidhar joins our group as PhD student. Welcome! |
| 28.11: Talk about SenseCityVity project at Symposium PI on Art in Technology |
| 19.11: New project supported by EPFL-UNIL CROSS program: Collaborative Research on Science and Society |
| 16.11: Talk about social inference at ICMI 2014 Workshop on Multi-Party Real-World Human-Robot Interaction |
| 04.11: Coverage of SenseCityVity project by the Embassy of Mexico in Switzerland |
| 30.10: Talk about SenseCityVity project at EPFL CODEV Seed Money Conference |
| 27.10: Cracking the code of the unspoken language: news article on EC H2020 Project Stories |
| 23.10: Talk about MAAYA project at University of Lausanne Laboratory of Digital Cultures and Humanities |
| 14.10: Talk about SenseCityVity project at Telefonica Research |
| 24.09: Theme Issue on ISWC 2013 has been published at Personal and Ubiquitous Computing |
| 12.09: Talk about behavior in social video at HBU 2014: Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding |
| 10.07: Congratulations to Alvaro Marcos who has started working at Bosch Automotive Technology |
| 09.07: Talk about MAAYA project at DH'14: Digital Humanities Conference |
| 24.06: Talk at LT-Innovate Language Technologies Summit |
| 20.06: Darshan Santani won the Best Student Entry at the Data Challenge of the ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci) |
| 17.06: Alvaro Marcos received the PhD title at the University of Alcala. Congratulations! |
| 16.06: Best wishes to Darshan Santani, who starts a summer internship at IBM Research Africa |
| 09.05: Our work on Twitter in Africa covered in ACM TechNews and The Economist |
| 30.04: Our work on studying African cities with Twitter is on EPFL news |
| 16.03: Wearables are here to stay: ISWC 2013 @ IEEE Pervasive Magazine |
| 21.02: New EPFL graduate course on Computational Social Media starts today. The course blog is here |
| 17.02: New project (SenseCityVity) starts in collaboration with colleagues in Mexico. A video is here |
| 27.01: Kate Farrahi (former PhD student in our group) starts as Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Congratulations! |
| 17.01: Our research on personality analysis of YouTube video bloggers featured (in german) in Computerworld.ch |
| 02.01: New UBImpressed project (funded by SNSF) starts today |
| 02.01: New Youth@Night project (funded by SNSF) starts today |
| 2013 |
| 11.12: Alvaro Marcos got a prototype of the new Kinect 2.0 for Windows as part of Microsoft's Developer Kit Program |
| 09.12: Congratulations to Paco Roman Rangel (U. Geneva, former PhD student in our group) for getting a SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship! |
| 02.12: Interview in La Vanguardia (Spain): On the screen, gestures reach us better than text (Correction: Our research is funded by the Swiss NSF, not the US NSF) |
| 29.11: Mobile Data Challenge Special Issue published at Pervasive and Mobile Computing |
| 27.11: Thanks to Samsung Research America for donating a batch of new Tizen smartphones |
| 25.10: Conference over: big thanks to General and Program Co-Chairs at ACM International Conference on Multimedia |
| 22.10: Talk at ACM Int. Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia |
| 17.10: Final event: Swiss National Center of Competence in Research NCCR IM2 |
| 09.10: Talk at Pierre & Marie Curie University of Paris |
| 02.10: Dinesh Jayagopi leaves our group to start as Assistant Professor at IIIT Bangalore. Congratulations! |
| 01.10: IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Special Section on Social Media as Sensors was published. Intro here |
| 01.10: New project funded by CTI: DomoCare |
| 29.09: Interview: Big Data for event prediction: Les Echos (France) |
| 25.09: New project funded by SNSF: Youth@Night |
| 23.09: Gulcan Can joins our group as PhD student. Welcome! |
| 13.09: Ubicomp/ISWC 2013 featured in Swiss media (in german) SRF: Radio Television Switzerland |
| 13.09: Ubicomp/ISWC 2013 featured in Swiss media (in german) NZZ: Neue Zuercher Zeitung |
| 10.09: Rui Hu joins our group as postdoctoral researcher. Welcome! |
| 02.09: Aleksandra Cerekovic joins our group as visiting postdoctoral researcher. Welcome back! |
| 08.08: Our research on Foursquare languages and venues in Switzerland featured (in german) at Computerworld.ch |
| 12.07: New project funded by SNSF: UBImpressed |
| 11.07: Talk at Computational Personality Recognition Workshop @ ICWSM |
| 28.06: Joan-Isaac Biel received the EPFL PhD title at his public thesis defense. Congratulations! |
| 21.06: Darshan Santani defended his PhD proposal. Congratulations! |
| 07.06: I have joined LaDHUL, the Culture and Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Lausanne |
| 06.06: Attending the first European MOOC summit at EPFL |
| 01.06: Our new project on Maya hieroglyphic analysis starts today: MAAYA website |
| 27.05: Our research on behavioral analysis of job interviews was featured on Swiss National TV |
| 16.05: Joan-Isaac Biel defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations! |
| 01.04: I have joined the EPFL Center for Digital Education whose focus is MOOCs |
| 01.03: Dayra Sanchez Cortes received the EPFL PhD title at her public thesis defense. Congratulations! |
| 27.02: Paco Roman Rangel received the EPFL PhD title at his public thesis defense. Congratulations! |
| 19.02: Lecture at iCareNet Marie Curie Network Winter School |
| 10.01: Dayra Sanchez Cortes defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations! |
| 2012 |
| 07.12: Talk at SocInfo, FuturICT FET Flagship Meeting |
| 06.12: Best Paper Award Nomination for Eric Malmi et al. at MUM - 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia |
| 28.11: Paco Roman Rangel defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations! |
| 06.11: Talk at University of Zurich, Department of Geography, GIScience Colloquium |
| 25.10: Outstanding Paper Award for Dinesh Jayagopi et al. at ICMI - ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction |
| 15.10: Joan-Isaac Biel is back from internships at HP Labs and Yahoo! Research |
| 09.10: New project funded by SNSF: MAAYA |
| 08.10: Paco Roman Rangel is back from his internship at Microsoft Research Asia |
| 01.10: Interview at University of Chile's BITS Magazine |
| 25.09: Talk at EC International Workshop in Search Computing |
| 20.09: Workshop in Neuchatel on Sensing and Analyzing Organizational Behavior |
| 19.09: Aleksandra Cerekovic joins the group as a visiting postdoctoral researcher. |
| 17.09: Alvaro Marcos is back in the group as a visiting PhD student. |
| 14.09: Talk at TEDx Martigny |
| 10.09: Course at Summer School on Social Media Modeling and Search |
| 28.08: StressSense was featured in ACM TechNews |
| 16.08: StressSense-SONVB work was featured in New Scientist |
| 10.08: IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Special Issue on Learning Semantics from Multimedia Web Resources was published. Intro here |
| 01.08: First post. |