Quentin Meteier

A norovirus outbreak happened in France and was caused by raw shellfish and oysters. Switzerland, Sweden, Italy and the Netherlands have all also reported outbreaks linked to live oysters from France. Symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting and incubation times, are consistent with norovirus or other enteric virus infections.

The number of people in France who have become ill after eating contaminated raw shellfish has jumped to more than 1,000. The outbreak has spurred international product recalls and many medias have talked about the Norovirus epidemic.

Social media services such as Twitter are valuable sources of information for surveillance systems. A digital syndromic surveillance system has several advantages including its ability to overcome the problem of time delay in traditional surveillance systems.

In this project, a Twitter-based data analysis system was developed to analyze the textual content of a set of tweets and see if there are any evidence of the Norovirus outbreak in France or Switzerland.

Création d'un scénario pour simulateur de conduite semi-autonome

L’automatisation des véhicules engendre encore des accidents de route lors des tests. C’est pourquoi l’institut HumanTech, en collaboration avec l’He-Arc, l’Université de Fribourg et l'EPFL+ECAL Lab, a lancé le projet AdVitam afin d’étudier les situations critiques pouvant mettre en danger les utilisateurs d’une voiture intelligente de niveau 2, ou véhicule semi-autonome, et donc, à l’aide d’un simulateur de conduite, de minimiser les accidents. Ainsi, des scénarios de conduite sont nécessaires dans l’intention d’étudier ces situations à risque dans le simulateur. Par conséquent, ce projet de semestre a été élaboré dans le but de concevoir un scénario possible de conduite dans un moteur 3D et de réaliser des tests avec des utilisateurs dans le simulateur de conduite.

AdVitam stands for Adaptive Driver-Vehicle InTerAction to Make future driving safer. It is a 3 years (2018-2021) research project co-funded by Hasler Fundation. AdVitam explores how human-vehicle interface (HVI) can be designed at different level of attention in shared control driving to keep the driver at the optimum cognitive load and to fully support the potential of semi-automated driving.