Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez recently presented the civique.org platform in local and international events.
A new EPFL course offers students the opportunity to learn more about how new technologies can be used by humanitarian organizations. The students critically assessed new information-sharing methods by conducting a real-life exercise using the app Civique, which was developed by the Idiap Research Institute, an EPFL partner institution.
The work by R. Hu, J.-M. Odobez, and D. Gatica-Perez on extraction of Maya hieroglyph strokes was covered by Horizons Magazine, the scientific magazine of the SNSF and the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.
The results of a mobile survey on street harrassment in Lausanne were presented yesterday by the City's Observatory of Security.
Idiap researchers presented tools for analysis and visualization of ancient Maya hieroglyphs at the EPFL Open Days 2016 in Lausanne.
Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez presented work on computational analysis of job interviews and online video resumes.
Darshan Santani presented the Youth@Night project at Workshop on Social Media and Public Security
The SenseCityVity project was presented at Mexico City's First International Conference on Creative Cities.
Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez discussed the value of geo-localized social media as a new urban data source at the Swiss Days of Official Statistics, Neuchatel, Sep. 15-16, 2016. He illustrated this emerging trend with the Youth@Night project and other recent work.
Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez gave a keynote talk on "Civic Multimedia, Crowdsourcing, and the Public Good" at the 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) in Bucharest, June 16, 2016.
Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez introduced the SenseCityVity project in an invited talk at the University of Lausanne Seminar on Practices of Digital Humanities on May 25, 2016
Darshan Santani presented the SenseCityVity project at the Tech4Dev International Conference held at EPFL on May 2-4 2015.
Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez was mentioned in The New York Times in connection with a new crowdfunded project on mobile sensing in the US.
The SenseCityVity project on mobile crowdsourcing, urban perception, and collective action was featured on EPFL Flash.
The SenseCityVity project was presented at the Essential Talks Series organized by the EPFL Center for Cooperation and Development on March 3 2016.
The SenseCityVity project (Idiap-IPICYT) was featured on Mexican TV news.
Collaborative research in Mexico by the Social Computing Group at Idiap engages citizens as factors of social change and expands to several cities.
The SenseCityVity project was presented during the The Second Symposium on Youth Research organized by the Youth Institute of Guanajuato (INJUG) in Mexico.
Our colleagues Hector Gomez and Victor Islas (Iberoamerican University & ITSI) present an overview of their initiative with students in Leon City, Mexico.
The MAAYA project was featured in local Swiss radio and TV news.
Algorithms for recognition of Maya glyphs ease the job of deciphering these complex symbols.
Research by the Social Computing Group on analysis of soft skills in job interviews was featured in Bilan, the premier Swiss business magazine.
Marianne Schmid Mast (UNIL) talks about Social Sensing for Psychology and some of the UBImpressed research on HRZone, the popular website for Human Resources professionals:
Ubicomp/ISWC, the two premier venues on ubiquitous and wearable computing, were jointly held in Osaka, Japan, September 7-11, 2015, with an attendance record of over 860 attendees.
The UBImpressed project took part in the HR-Conference Romand, organized at the University of Lausanne, September 8, 2015. Prof. Marianne Schmid Mast and Dr. Denise Frauendorfer co-organized the workshop "Novel technologies to measure verbal and non-verbal behavior", in which social sensing technologies were introduced and demonstrated.
The SenseCityVity and MCSC projects were presented by Salvador Ruiz-Correa (Co-PI of the projects) at the Third Meeting of Observatories for Tourism in Guanajuato City, Mexico, on September 7-8. The meeting was co-organized by the National Ministry of Tourism (SECTUR) and the State Ministry of Tourism of Guanajuato.
Driving in Nairobi is often akin to navigating an obstacle course. Residents can now do something about it thanks to an app developed with EPFL.
The SenseCityVity project was presented by Dr. Salvador Ruiz-Correa at IPLANEG (Institute of Planning, Guanajuato State, Mexico.)
The SenseCityVity project was featured in CONACYT News (Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology).
Laurent Nguyen received the PhD degree from EPFL on May 29th 2015 after the public defense of his doctoral dissertation entitled: "Computational Analysis of Behavior in Employment Interviews and Video Resumes".
Civique: Engaging Citizens in Local Action
