Author: Raphael Weibel

Do’s and Don’ts of Chatbot Design

Erika Meins holds a Webinar on the “Do’s and Don’ts of Chatbot Design” hosted by the Swiss Service Association. https://skdv.ch/event/9-skdv-service-forum/

Trust in Research and Algorithms

Mobiliar’s annual report 2019 highlights some of the Lab’s work. Included is a special focus related to trust in research and algorithms.

Do you speak AI?

A column by Erika Meins on the relevance of lifelong learning and Data Science.

ETH Grant awarded

Kicking off the new year with good news! The Lab and the Chair of Technology Marketing received approval for their ETH Grant application to fund the project: “Personalized virtual reality interventions to reduce office-related stress”. This grant covers a PhD position of a duration of 3 years and project-related material costs. https://ethz.ch/en/research/research-promotion/eth-internal-programmes/eth-grants.html

Crime Patterns in Large Cities

A new paper of Cristina Kadar (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics) together with NYU and the University of Cambridge on understanding crime concentrations has been accepted at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/7304

Digital Festival Zurich 2019

What are the “Dos and Don’ts” when designing Digital Interactions? This was the content of the presentation Erika Meins (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics) held at the Digital Festival Zurich (https://digitalfestival.ch/sessions/healths-digital-future). Photos courtesy of ETH Zurich / Andreas Eggenberger

HackZurich 2019

Every year, HackZurich invites programmers and other people with technical backgrounds to participate to the biggest hackaton in Europe. This year, Raphael Weibel (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics) participated for the fourth time. Together with two computer science students from ETH Zurich as well as an Italian UI/UX designer and developer, they successfully tackled a sustainability…
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Mixed Reality Laboratory Lecture at ETH

This semester, Raphael Weibel and Andrea Ferrario represent the Lab to host a challenge in the Mixed Reality Laboratory lecture at the ETH computer science department (D-INFK). Students use holographic reality to augment machine learning problems solving.

Publication in Nature Scientific Reports

Raphael Weibel (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH) and Victor Schinazi (a close collaborator of the Lab), have co-authored a paper with other researchers, which was recently published in Nature Scientific Reports. They examined how neighborhood environments influence immediate stress and emotion, by simulating neighborhoods in virtual reality. More information can be found on (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45876-8)

Ask Emma!

A column by Erika Meins on the link between chatbot Emma and the Lab’s new research focus.