Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021INFO011.
Personal computing systems like e.g., laptop, smartphone, and smartwatches are nowadays ubiquitous in people's everyday life. People use such systems not only for communicating or searching for information, but also as digital companions, able to track and support their daily activities such as sleep, food intake, physical exercise and even work. Sensors embedded in personal computing systems...
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In: Transportation, 2015, vol. 42, no. 3, p. 449-469
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In: International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2015, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 183-208
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In: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2016, vol. 23, no. 5, p. 916-923
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In: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021, vol. 18, no. 5, p. 15 p
Background: The pervasiveness of smartphones has raised concerns about an increase in the prevalence of problematic smartphone use (PSU), which depends on a set of psychological and behavioral risk factors. Previous research has yielded mixed results on factors predicting PSU, including social anxiety and trust. In particular, the role of trust remained largely unexplored. In the present study,...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO006.
Web applications are traditionally designed having in mind a server-centric architecture, whereby the whole persistent data, dynamic state and logic of the application are stored and running on a Web server. The clients running in the Web browsers traditionally render only pre-computed views fetched from the server. Nowadays this centralized approach does not fit well with the kind of...
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In: Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, no. 9, p. 2674
The present urban transportation system, mostly tailored for cars, has long shown its limitations. In many urban areas, public transportation and soft mobility would be able to effectively satisfy many travel needs. However, they tend to be neglected, due to a deep-rooted car dependency. How can we encourage people to make sustainable mobility choices, reducing car use and the related CO 2...
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Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole de Travail Social, 2019.
Ce travail de recherche vise à analyser comment l’artefact Smartphone devient un instrument de socialisation pour les jeunes adolescent∙e∙s placé∙e∙s en institution. Cette thématique a été choisie en raison de son actualité et des questionnements qu’elle soulève dans les institutions sociales. Le cadre théorique articule trois concepts : le Smartphone, la genèse...
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In: Brain and Behavior, 2019, no. 9, p. 1-21
Introduction: Reward and stress are important determinants of motivated behaviors. Striatal regions play a crucial role in both motivation and hedonic processes. So far, little is known on how cognitive effort interacts with stress to modulate reward processes. This study examines how cognitive effort (load) interacts with an unpredictable acute stressor (threat-of-shock) to modulate motivational...
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In: International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2014, vol. 128, no. 4, p. 615-620
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