We are proud to announce that the MTEC Foundation has awarded funding to two standout projects within Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH Zurich (Chair of Technology Marketing). 🏆 These grants highlight D-MTEC’s mission to ensure technology serves human well-being and autonomy: Congratulations to the awardees and a special thanks to Professor Florian Wangenheim for…
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Our PhD student Aydin has co-authored the paper “Compose and Fuse: Revisiting the Foundational Bottlenecks in Multimodal Reasoning,” which has been accepted at #ICLR2026. The paper, led by first authors Yucheng Wang and Yifan Hou and co-authored with Mubashara Akhtar and Mrinmaya Sachan, takes a systematic look at how Multimodal Large Language Models integrate signals…
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Digital fatigue, monotony and a cluttered screen of open tabs remain the everyday reality of many virtual exchanges and meetings. But what does it take to design online formats in which participants feel genuinely addressed, cognitively supported and motivated to contribute actively? In our recent contribution to HANDELSZEITUNG, our PhD candidate and researcher Melanie Baumgartner…
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Happy to share that the paper RAxSS: Retrieval-Augmented Sparse Sampling for Explainable Variable-Length Medical Time Series Classification has been accepted to the Learning from Time Series for Health (TS4H) workshop at NeurIPS 2025 as a joint effort by Aydin Javadov and co-authors. They introduce a lightweight, retrieval-augmented convex aggregation approach for clinical time series. Evaluated…
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Our PhD student Aydin attended the Google PhD Summit 2025 in Warsaw, which was an exclusive event bringing together talented PhD researchers from across Europe and Google’s leading scientists and engineers! It was a great opportunity for valuable networking with Googlers and fellow PhD students, and for gaining insights into the latest developments in AI…
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How is AI shaping the way we work? During Swiss {ai} Weeks, the exhibition CTRL+ALT+RELAX invites you to explore how new technologies influence your daily work life. – Join a guided tour– Try out interactive applications, for example, how conscious breathing impacts your brain activity and heart rate– Participate in a workshop with your team…
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At this year’s IEEE Telepresence conference in Leiden, the Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH Zurich and Delsys Europe joined forces to showcase VRxBioRelax — an open-source application that combines immersive virtual reality with real-time EMG biofeedback using Delsys Trigno Avanti sensors and the Delsys Python API. The project explores how physiological signals can make…
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Would you want transparent explanations about how your data is used in personalised healthcare services? Most people say yes, but in practice, these explanations only increase privacy concerns — a phenomenon termed the Personalisation–Privacy paradox. In our new paper, authored by Dr. Joseph Ollier in collaboration with Dr. Marcia Nißen and Dr. Prof. Florian von…
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Last week, Rayna Ney from Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH Zurich (ETH Zürich) gave a talk at the Media Informatics Group (LMU). Titled “Emotion, Cognition, and Immersive Technologies: Towards Adaptive Interventions for Mental Wellness,” her talk explored how we can support user mental wellbeing in contexts such as VR and how this can translate…
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Our PhD candidate and researcher Melanie Baumgartner joined XR4Rehab alongside Delsys to demo VRxBioRelax —a real-time EMG biofeedback experience that brings embodiment and cognition into sharp focus. By streaming trapezius signals from Delsys Trigno® Avanti sensors into a VR landscape, participants can literally see and steer the interplay of muscle tension and progressive relaxation, stress,…
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