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SenseCityVity program concludes its first year
by admin — last modified Mar 16, 2017 05:06 PM

After a year of work, the results of the SenseCityVity project were presented at the Don Quixote Iconographic Museum by the team lead by Dr. Salvador Ruiz Correa.

SenseCityVity+ starts today
by admin — last modified Mar 16, 2017 05:06 PM

SenseCityVity+, the new phase of the SenseCityVity project, has started today under the support of EPFL Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV).

SenseCityVity at DigitalPolis, Paris
by admin — last modified Mar 16, 2017 05:06 PM

Daniel Gatica-Perez discussed the work done in the SenseCityVity project at the DigitalPolis Symposium in Paris, France, Jan 29-31, 2015. The symposium gathered a multidisciplinary audience developing theoretical and technical approaches to understand digital cities.

Cracking the code of the unspoken language
by spano — last modified Mar 16, 2017 05:04 PM

The NOVICOM project, led by Oya Aran as Marie Curie Research Fellow and Daniel Gatica-Perez as Scientist in Charge, was featured today as a Project Story on the European Commission Horizon 2020 website. Oya is currently a SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow at the Social Computing Group at Idiap.

SenseCityVity: Mobile sensing, urban awareness, and collective action in Mexico
by spano — last modified Mar 16, 2017 05:04 PM

SenseCityVity is a Switzerland-Mexico collaborative project between Idiap Research Institute and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), and the National Center for Supercomputing of the Instituto Potosino de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CNS-IPICYT), supported by EPFL's Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV).

SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship awarded to Edgar Roman-Rangel
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Edgar Roman-Rangel (former PhD student at the Social Computing Group at Idiap and EPFL, and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva) has been awarded a SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship. His project, on the area of computational archaeology, is entitled "Tepalcatl: Automatic Categorization of Potsherds". The project starts on April 1, 2014 and will be conducted at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

ISWC/Ubicomp 2013 featured in Radio Television Switzerland.
by spano — last modified Mar 16, 2017 05:06 PM

The International Symposium of Wearable Computers (ISWC) and the International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) were held in Zurich, September 8-12 2013, and featured by Radio Television Switzerland (SRF, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen).

ISWC/Ubicomp 2013 featured in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
by spano — last modified Mar 16, 2017 05:04 PM

The International Symposium of Wearable Computers (ISWC) and the International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) were held in Zurich, September 8-12 2013, and featured by NZZ, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Dinesh Babu Jayagopi to join IIIT Bangalore as Assistant Professor.
by spano — last modified Mar 16, 2017 05:03 PM

Idiap Research Institute would like to congratulate Dinesh Babu Jayagopi who will join end of this year as an Assistant Professor at IIIT Bangalore. Between 2007 and 2011 he finished his Phd at Idiap, specialized in the field of Social Computing. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher at Idiap.

Joan-Isaac Biel Tres received EPFL PhD title
by spano — last modified Mar 16, 2017 05:03 PM

On June 28, 2013, Joan-Isaac Biel Tres made the public defense of his PhD thesis entitled "Mining Conversational Social Video". He received the EPFL diploma from his doctoral advisor (Daniel Gatica-Perez.)

Social computing research featured in Swiss National TV
by spano — last modified Mar 16, 2017 05:04 PM

The collaboration between Idiap's Social Computing Group and the Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Neuchatel on analysis of nonverbal behavior in job interviews was featured in Radiotelevisione Svizzera (RSI) scientific program "Il giardino di Albert", aired on 26.05.2013.