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Using mobile data to model the drinking habits of Swiss youth

Researchers from Idiap Research Institute have carried out a study using smartphone data from young Swiss people to better understand the circumstances in ...

Collaboration with Mexico at First National Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation

The Urbis project, which is a collaboration on citizen participation and mobile crowdsourcing between IPICYT Mexico and Idiap, was presented at the First ...

AI and diversity: the whole world is not yet represented

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group) talks about social media, machine learning, and diversity with Amenaza Roboto, the new platform for science ...

Children education project supported by SenseCityVity at the World Water Forum 2018

Supported by the SenseCityVity research team in Mexico and Switzerland in 2017, the project "Education for Water Protection in Colombia" will participate at ...

Modeling human behavior with Airbnb

Researchers at Idiap and EPFL have been working with psychologists to understand how people form first impressions from photos. They focused on how people ...

What does Instagram reveal about food consumption in Switzerland?

The work by Trung Phan and Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group) on analysis of Instagram patterns of food consumption in Switzerland was covered in ...

2017 Idiap Awards for James Newling and Gulcan Can

Idiap is proud to award James Newling and Gulcan Can for their outstanding work.

Civic Media, Mobile Crowdsourcing, and the Public Good: A Framework for Urban Data Science.

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group) gave a talk about his work in Latin America and Switzerland at the First European Seminar on Urban Data ...

On November 27 ,2017, Gulcan Can successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled 'Visual Analysis of Maya Glyphs via Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning'

This thesis presents visual analysis methods for complex ancient Maya writings, specifically a promising crowdsourcing approach to build a large glyph dataset, ...

Creating links between innovation in healthcare and customers

The SWISKO project, in which Idiap's Social Computing Group participates in collaboration with DomoSafety SA, the University of Bern, La Source School of ...