“Today’s challenges call for human-centered approaches”

Head of the Social Computing research group, Daniel Gatica-Perez has contributed to Idiap’s vision of Artificial Intelligence for Society since 2002. Last ...

Impact Paper Award to Social Computing Group

The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2020 presented its 10-Year Impact Award to a paper on mobile data analysis by the Social ...

Towards Increasing Diversity in Datasets

Citizens and communities can support the creation of research resources that are more diverse and relevant to the public.

AIDA – The International AI Doctoral Academy has been launched

A new pan-European doctoral academy has the ambition to become a reference in AI education.

Ten-Year Impact Award in Ubiquitous Computing given to paper by USA-Switzerland research team

The ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) presented a 10-Year Impact Award to a paper on smartphone sensing ...

Daniel Gatica-Perez receives ACM ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Award 2022

The award was presented at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction in Bengaluru, India, on November 9, 2022.

How the Swiss fared under partial lockdown

A joint study by Idiap Research Institute, EPFL, and the University of Lausanne’s Institute of Psychology has provided us with a unique snapshot of how Swiss ...

AI for medias: less fake news, more ethics

The European project AI4MEDIA will start in September and gather 30 partners. Idiap and HES-SO Valais-Wallis are part of it. Researchers and media actors want ...

Citizen science explores the aftermaths of the COVID-19 lockdown

A nationwide study aims to understand the emotional effects of the lockdown on Swiss residents and what steps they are taking to cope with it. Thanks to an app ...

Idiap among the representatives of Swiss innovation in Spain

The Embassy of Switzerland in Spain is organizing each year a Swiss Innovation Night. This year was under the title "Impact of Artificial Intelligence in ...