Category: Past Projects
Music Recommendation Database
Title: Music Recommendation Database Duration: One Semester Responsible TA: Nicolas Jones Goals: Creating a music recommender system. Setup a music database as a first step. Keywords: data collection, recommender systems Abstract: Recommender systems (RS) have started becoming popular to help users overcome the information overload problems on internet. Today’s trends of Web 2.0 and the emergence (…)
E-Commerce Shopping System for Mobile Viewers
Title: E-Commerce Shopping System for Mobile Viewers Duration: One Semester Responsible TA: Jiyong Zhang Goals: Design and implement a prototype e-commerce shopping website for mobile users. Keywords: e-commerce, interaction design, plugin development Abstract: Over the past few years there has been an exponential growth both in the number of mobile users. Mobile internet enables users (…)
Implementation of an interactive travel map
Title: Implementation of an interactive travel map Duration: One Semester Responsible TA: Li Chen Goals: Implement a prototype that could visualize the travel-related reviews Keywords: usability study, visual analytics, visualization Abstract: The most distinguishable feature of Web2.0 would be it simulates a platform where users could freely share their reviews, experiences and stories with others. (…)
Cultural influences on users’ disposition for decision accuracy and trust in e-commerce
Title: Cultural influences on users’ disposition for decision accuracy and trust in e-commerce Duration: One Semester Responsible TA: Li Chen Goals: The goal of this project is to design and implement a prototype vacation package recommendation system through blog articles that the users are interested. Keywords: qualitative user study design, statistical analysis Abstract: In recent (…)
A Vacation Package Recommendation System based on Word of Mouth Information
Title: A Vacation Package Recommendation System based on Word of Mouth Information Duration: One Semester Responsible TA: Jiyong Zhang Goals: The goal of this project is to design and implement a prototype vacation package recommendation system through blog articles that the users are interested.. Keywords: recommender systems Abstract: Over the past few years there has (…)
Recommender Systems’ survey and usability study
Title: Recommender Systems’ survey and usability study Duration: One Semester Responsible TA: Nicolas Jones Goals: The goal of this project is to study a number of recommender technologies and to find ways to improve them. Keywords: qualitative user study design, recommender systems, usability study Abstract: Wikipedia defines recommender system as “programs which attempt to predict (…)
Modelisation of users’ adaptive decision behaviour
Title: Modelisation of users’ adaptive decision behaviour Duration: One Semester Responsible TA: Nicolas Jones Goals: The goal of this project is to try and model user’s adaptive decision behaviour. Keywords: statistical analysis, user modelling Abstract: Many methods have been used to try and model user’s adaptive decision behaviors. Unfortunately, many of them suffer from problems. (…)
Recommender System in the EPFL framework
Title: Recommender System in the EPFL framework Duration: One Semester Responsible TA: Nicolas Jones Goals: The goal of this project is to design and implement a simple recommender system for EPFL users. Keywords: recommender systems Abstract: This project combines a little research and a real implementation. The first part focuses on finding a framework that (…)
Evaluation Baseline for Open-Domain Chatbots Based on Publicly Available Models and Apps
Duration: One Semester Lab: HCI/IC/EPFL Goals: Curate a benchmark dataset for testing novel evaluation metrics of conversational chatbots Assistant: Ekaterina Svikhnushina (ekaterina DOT svikhnushina AT epfl DOT ch) Student Name: Open Keywords: Dataset curation; conversational chatbots; natural language processing Abstract: Evaluation of conversational chatbots is an open research problem within the NLP community. Previous studies (…)
Conversational Question Generation with Emotional Regulation Strategy
Duration: One Semester Lab: HCI/IC/EPFL Goals: Build a conversational chatbot that generates questions with emotionally appropriate intents Assistant: Ekaterina Svikhnushina (ekaterina DOT svikhnushina AT epfl DOT ch) Student Name: Open Keywords: Question generation; conversational chatbots; natural language processing Abstract: Questions constitute over 60% of human conversations and appear a key conversation driver. Yet, only few (…)