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Staying home for nightlife
It’s not just the coronavirus that’s making young people spend their evenings at home. When they are not under the watchful eyes of parents, home can be a place of autonomy and intimacy.
An award for a research paper focusing on drinking hashtags and images
Idiap’s Social Computing Group received a paper award at Pervasive Health 2019. Their research focused on drinking practices pictured on Instagram and classified thanks to hashtags, images, and artificial intelligence.
Idiap among the representatives of Swiss innovation in Spain
The Embassy of Switzerland in Spain is organizing each year a Swiss Innovation Night. This year was under the title "Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Society". Our institute was among the representatives to share its research.
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 which they are most likely to drink. A computer model developed based on Artificial Intelligence can estimate, with over 75% accuracy, whether alcohol was consumed on a given weekend night.
Dusk2Dawn featured on Swiss news
Florian Labhart (Social Computing Group) presented some of the work in the Dusk2Dawn project at the Idiap Innovation Day 2018 and was covered by Swiss press at Le Nouvelliste.