UN special Rapporteur Mama Fatima Singhateh and Nouf Al Anezi from the UN Human Rights office visited the ETH AI Center yesterday. During their visit they discussed opportunities and risks of AI for society with Dr. Jennifer Wadsworth, PhD, Prof. Giorgia Ramponi, Prof. Inge K Herrmann, Dr. Rita Sevastjanova, Prof. Peter G. Kirchschläger, Adrian Notz and our Lab director Dr. Erika Meins.
The ETH News about our research on stress at the workplace received a large amount of coverage in national and international media this year. The coverage includes interviews and articles in a variety of media outlets including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Bayern 2, SWR 2, ARD (at 1:30 min), ZDF,…
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Technology can indeed help against stress. In our new study, we show that a virtual reality-supported biofeedback intervention programme can improve indicators of stress and comes with good user experience. Is this the future of stress management? Read the full article here. This research was a collaboration between Jasmine Kerr, Raphael Weibel, Mara Nägelin, Dr. Andrea Ferrario, Prof. Victor Schinazi, Dr. Roberto La…
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Recently, Mara Nägelin and Raphaël Weibel were interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about their work on detecting stress at the workplace. The article can be found here.
This year at Scientifica we offered a workshop on how to fight stress at the workplace using new technologies, such as Virtual Reality and Machine Learning.
Michaela Benk participated in a panel on explainable AI at an event of European Data Protection Supervisor IPEN. More information can be found here.
At Gian Klainguti’s thought-provoking art intervention “Welcoming Sentient AI,” Michaela Benk, James B. Glattfelder, Julien Weissenberg and others discussed some of the ethical and social implications of the rapid progress of AI-based technologies. This event provided a unique platform to explore the profound impact that AI has and will have on various aspects of society,…
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How to ensure responsible digital stress management? Our new JMIR publication identifies specific requirements for an ethics-informed design. This work was a collaboration between Jasmine Kerr, Mara Nägelin, Michaela Benk, Florian Wangenheim, Eleonora Viganò and Andrea Ferrario.
Recently, Mara Nägelin and Erika Meins were interviewed by the Financial Times about our work on detecting stress based on how people type and click. The interview can be found here.
The latest ETH News covers our recent publications on detecting stress at the workplace, which showed that your movements with the computer mouse and the way you type provide more information about how stressed you are than your heart rate. The article can be found here.
