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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.

And to what extent are they not only a solution but part of the problem? An interview with Lab Director Erika Meins and Die Mobiliar‘s head of HR Barbara Agoba on Swiss radio SRF.

Erika Meins and Jasmine Kerr presented the Lab’s work at the latest colloquium of ETHs Institute of Science, Technology and Policy. More information can be found here.

Using virtual reality to deliver HRV-biofeedback for stress management benefits cardiac activity and user experience! Read our publication in Computers in Human Behaviour to find out more: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107607 This work was a collaboration between Raphael Weibel, Jasmine Kerr, Mara Nägelin, Andrea Ferrari, Victor Schinazi, Roberto La Marca, Christoph Hölscher, and Florian Wangenheim.

Telematics, virtual or augmented reality to address societal challenges? Erika Meins illustrates opportunities and dark sides on the occasion of the award for the best Swiss annual report. Thank you to Hans-Peter Nehmer, Andreas Jäggi, Rafael Koch, Jiří Chmelik, Alexander Wagner, Amra Hrustanovic und HarbourClub – it was a pleasure to get together.

Our presentation “Data Science zum Anfassen” from this year’s Scientifica at ETH Zürich is now online! Our researchers Michaela Benk and Mara Nägelin talk about how augmented reality technology can help make data science more tangible. Watch the recording here (in German):https://scientifica.ch/en/event/data-science-zum-anfassen/

Visitors of ETH Zürich tried out our VR-based method for stress management. A big thank you to digitalswitzerland D-MTEC ETH Zurich Die Mobiliar Florian Knapp Christoph Elhardt Raphael Weibel Jasmine Kerr Andrea Ferrario Nadine Elmer Miriam Kälin Photos: ETH Zürich / Sebastian Wagner-Vierhaus

Our team member Jasmine Kerr won a poster prize at the WASAD 2021 congress in Vienna for our research on “Heart rate variability biofeedback for stress management supported by virtual reality and wearable technology”. Congratulations to Jasmine Kerr, Raphael Weibel, Mara Nägelin, Victor Schinazi, Andrea Ferrario, Urs Nater, Roberto LaMarca, Christoph Hölscher and Florian Wangenheim for this recognition! https://www.wasad2021.org/congress-information/travel-grants.html

Drawing on the results from our project “Digital Stress Interventions” Lab Director Erika Meins gives tips on how to manage stress while working from home.