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Findings on Conversational AI for SMEs Published in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems

Can SMEs keep up to date with technological developments in AI? In the new paper in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, Hannes Kunstmann, Joseph Ollier, Joel Persson, and Florian von Wangenheim explore how SMEs can successfully leverage developments in Conversational AI in interactions with real customers in the field. The paper contributes to the developing…
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Open PhD Position in Conversational AI for Customer and Employee Interactions

Want to collaborate with us on the topic of Conversational AI? 🦾 The Chair of Technology Marketing at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zürich is advertising a new PhD position, with the exciting chance to work alongside two research groups at the chair: and Center for AI Value. During the PhD, the…
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MTEC Foundation Awards Funding to Two Projects at ETH Zurich’s Mobiliar Lab for Analytics

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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“Compose and Fuse” Accepted at ICLR 2026

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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Reducing Digital Fatigue Through Better Design of Virtual Collaboration

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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Empathy Creatures Wins Social Impact Media Art Award for XR

Mélodie Mousset’s Empathy Creatures has been awarded the Social Impact Media Art Award for XR at SIMA 2026. The project was recognized among this year’s winners for its contribution to impact-driven storytelling through immersive media. Congratulations to all collaborators and contributors involved in the project. More information about the SIMA 2026 winners can be found…
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Paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Learning from Time Series for Health (TS4H)

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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Google PhD Summit 2025 in Warsaw

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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Swiss {ai} Weeks with CTRL+ALT+RELAX Exhibition

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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VRxBioRelax Showcased at IEEE Telepresence 2025

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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