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Nicolas Jones

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Research Assistant
Coming from Switzerland
Working at EPFL

Bio

Born in Switzerland, half Swiss, half English, Nicolas Jones obtained his master's degree in Computer Science in 2005 at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. In parallel with his studies he co-created an Internet Services company, were he pursued his interest for modern and novel interaction mechanisms. He performed his master thesis at IBM Zürich Research Laboratory, in the Systems' group, working on a Sensor Networks & Edge Server Software project. He is currently carrying out his PhD in the Human Computer Interaction's Group at EPFL under the supervision of Dr. P. Pu. Working on multiple topics regarding Recommender Systems, the primary focus is on user issues in entertainment recommender systems (i.e. music, movies.) which lead to the acceptance and adoption of the system, and the impact of implicit and explicit preference elicitation techniques.

Interests: Intelligent Interfaces, thinking out of the box, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Interface Design, Recommender Systems, Collaborative Filtering, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Sociology, New Technologies, Internet., Music (funk/jazz/electro).

Conference(s) attended:
Lift08  

Links

    Blog: http://grpupc1.epfl.ch/~jones/blog/
    Website: http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=tab_pro

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