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Informatique: Programme 2009

Président : Prof. Jacques Savoy, Université de Neuchâtel

Usability Engineering

  • Organisateur(s) : Prof. M. Courant (Université de Fribourg), Prof. D. Lalanne (Université de Fribourg)
  • Enseignant(s) : Prof. J. Nielsen, Prof. D. Norman, Prof. F. Patterno, Prof. K. Hornbaek, Prof. A.-M. Berardi
  • Public visé : doctorants, post-doc.
  • 5 jours, 28 heures - Nendaz, 26-30.1.2009

Usability engineering provides methods to study user’s needs and tasks, methodologies for supporting design processes, through scenario, mockups, etc., and user evaluations methods and usability techniques in order to assess interactive systems.
The major goal of this school is to brush a state-of-the-art of standard methods and tools supporting the usability engineering lifecycle, to introduce related topics such as accessibility and user adaptation and how they integrate with usability issues, and finally how this lifecycle can be applied to everyday interaction technologies like the web, and to novel interaction techniques carried by domains such as ubiquitous or multimodal computing.

 

Challenges in Serious Games

  • Organisateur(s) : Prof. D. Thalmann (EPFL), Prof. N. Magnenat-Thalmann (MIRALab, Université de Genève), Prof. R. Boulic (EPFL)
  • Enseignant(s) : Prof. D. Thalmann (EPFL), Prof. N. Magnenat-Thalmann (MIRALab, Université de Genève), M. J. Maim (EPFL), Mme B. Yersin (EPFL), Prof. R. J. Stone (University of Birmingham), Prof. H. Jenkins (MIT (USA)), Prof. B. Herbelin (University of Aarlborg (DK))
  • Public visé : diplômés, doctorants, post-doc.
  • 2 jours, 16 heures - EPFL - 01.10.2009-31.10.2009

Games have the potential to transform the way we educate and train people at all levels. The “serious games” concept features the use of interactive games technology within non-entertainment sectors. Designing effective, engaging serious games requires theoretical understanding of learning, cognition, emotion, and play. There is substantial interest in serious games for education, professional training, healthcare, advertising, cultural heritage, safety procedures, etc. This seminar will be dedicated to the game technology behind serious games including graphics, animation, A.I. It will also focus on the applications with case studies like Digital Ocean or Games for Health.

 

Future Internet of 3D Web

  • Organisateur(s) : Prof. N. Magnenat-Thalmann (MIRALab, Université de Genève), Prof. D. Thalmann (EPFL), Dr G. Papagiannakis (MIRALab-CUI, Université de Genève)
  • Enseignant(s) : Prof. N. Magnenat-Thalmann (MIRALab, Université de Genève), Dr G. Papagiannakis (MIRALab-CUI, Université de Genève), Prof. D. Thalmann (EPFL), Prof. D. Fellner (Frauenhofer Institute, Darmstadt (D)), Dr P. Daras (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Athens)
  • Public visé : diplômés, doctorants, post-doc.
  • 2 jours, 12 heures - mars 2009

Recent research challenges have been identified in order to define the Future Internet of 3D Web in a worldwide perspective. 3D Web contains three aspects: 3D content, interface and networking. The target outcome of such a challenge has been envisaged to lead to: “Novel networking schemes incorporating content capabilities within the network. 3D web aims at offering real-time natural interaction, ubiquitous connectivity capabilities so as to support seamless and creative collaboration”.
Workshop topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Research topics:
o Networks for 3D augmented worlds
o Platforms and middleware for 3D networked applications
o Real time and interactive networked media in mobile mixed reality
o 3D multimodal interactions
o Measure and track user experiences
o Create cooperative and participative media
o Emotional interaction and communication
o Adaptation of 3D content
o Adaptation of animations
o Mobility and multimodality
o Social networking
o User generated 3D content and search
o Rich 3D media communities and multimedia
This workshop will be related to the research done in the framework of the EU project INTERMEDIA in which both University of Geneva (coordinator) and EPFL are taking part. Several PhDs are participating in this research in both institutions.

 

Multivariate Data Analysis : Graphical Exploration and Modeling Using R

  • Organisateur(s) : Prof. J. Savoy (Université de Neuchâtel), Prof. E. Wehrli (Université de Genève), Prof. M. Rajman (EPFL)
  • Enseignant(s) : Prof. R. Baayen (University of Alberta (CAN))
  • Public visé : doctorants
  • 1 jour, 6 heures - Neuchâtel - 01.05.2009-31.05.2009

Quantitative Computation Linguistics
Due to the growing amount of textual data available on the Web, we need to develop automatic processing tools to be able to extract pertinent information and relations from them. This seminar will present some statistical tools (based on the R or S language) to handle and process linguistic data.
Content:
Introduction to R and its use with linguistics data with more focused topics on:
- mixed-effects multiple regression modeling
- working with data visualization
- generalized additive models
R.H. Baayen: Analysis Linguistics Data. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

 

Programming Multicore Computers

  • Organisateur(s) : Dr P. Leone (Université de Genève), Prof. B. Chopard (Université de Genève), Prof. P. Felber (Université de Neuchâtel), Prof. M. Rajman (EPFL), Prof. M. Tomassini (Université de Lausanne)
  • Enseignant(s) : Prof. R. Guerraoui (EPFL), Prof. N. Shavit
  • Public visé : doctorants, post-doc.
  • 2 jours, 12 heures - UNIGE/EPFL - 01.09.2009-30.09.2009

The computer industry is undergoing a paradigm shift with the advent of multicore computers.
This fundamental change in the processor architecture will require a fundamental change in how we program in order to fully exploit the combined computing power of these many cores.
There are very few reference books addressing how to program multicore machines. This seminar aims at introducing the fundamental concepts of multicore programming and at giving guidelines on how to program them efficiently. The seminar will cover both theory and practice of multicore programming.

 

What Middleware Support for Mobile Ad Hoc Applications ?

  • Organisateur(s) : Prof. B. Garbinato (Université de Lausanne)
  • Enseignant(s) : Prof. B. Garbinato (Université de Lausanne), Prof. R. Baldoni (Università di Roma), Prof. P. Eugster (Purdue University (USA))
  • Public visé : doctorants, post-doc.
  • 1 jour, 8 heures - Lausanne - 01.06.2009-30.06.2009

Over the past decade, we observed impressive scientific, technological and experimental advances in the area of wireless ad hoc networks. Although this technology is considered one of the main enablers for future applications, there is today a lack of appropriate middleware abstractions that adequately address the requirement of such challenging environments. Yet, middleware is a critical component when it comes to leverage the development of a wide range of applications for the ad hoc infrastructure. These range from so-called mobile and ubiquitous applications to peer-to-peer applications.
The challenges of building middleware for mobile ad hoc environments, are considerable, because the diversity of infrastructures and application requirements tends to encourage the development of dedicated middleware solutions that are hard to re-use in different contexts. Furthermore, to build successful middleware for mobile ad hoc setting requires complementary expertise in the area of distributed systems, networks, algorithms, programming languages, software engineering, and application development.
This seminar will offer an overview on recent results, and on open problems yet, when it comes to offer middleware support for building mobile ad hoc applications. Students attending this seminar will gain a comprehensive introduction to the main fundamental problems, technologies, and paradigms in this research area.

 

Dynamic Complex Networks

  • Organisateur(s) : Prof. B. Hirsbrunner (Université de Fribourg), Prof. M. Courant (Université de Fribourg), Prof. M. Tomassini (Université de Lausanne)
  • Enseignant(s) : Prof. G. Caldarelli (Université "La Sapienza", Rome), Prof. A. Arenas (Université de Taragone (E)), Prof. R. Pastor-Satorras (Université polytechnique de Catalogne, Barcelone), Prof. A. Gog (University of Cluj-Napoca (Roumanie))
  • Public visé : doctorants, post-doc., toutes catŽgories dÕenseignants
  • 2 jours, 17 heures - Fribourg - 01.06.2009-30.06.2009

Complex networks, and more generally complex systems, are pervasive in today’s science and technology. They include examples like the Internet, the WWW, peer-to-peer, sensor and ad-hoc networks, as well as biological or social networks. This 2 day seminar aims at bringing together researchers from theoretical computer science, distributed computing and bio-inspired computing around a state of the art about ongoing work in the field of dynamic complex communication networks, and a presentation of its vision and major challenges for the future. The focus will be put on robustness, adaptation and evolution in these networks.
The workshop will be organized in a 1 Ú day of tutorial by leaders in the domain, and a Ú day of workshop session in which local researchers in the field, including PhD students, will have the opportunity to present their work and exchange ideas about it.