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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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.
The Lab is developing a new holographic reality app for ETH’s education in data science. Andrea Ferrario (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH, Chair of Technology Marketing at MTEC ETH) and Stella Mühlhaus from afca showacased the app at the ETH Industry Day 2019.
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)
A new working paper by Andrea Ferrario (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH, Chair of Technology Marketing at MTEC ETH), Michele Loi and Eleonora Viganò (UZH, Digital Societies Initiative) titled “Transparency As Design Publicity: Explaining and Justifying Inscrutable Algorithms” is available on SSRN. The paper criticizes the modern approach to machine-learning model interpretability (with a focus…
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A new working paper by Andrea Ferrario (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH, Chair of Technology Marketing at MTEC ETH) and Roger Haemmerli (Swiss Mobiliar) titled “On Boosting: Theory and Applications” is available on SSRN. The Jupyter Notebook of the working paper is available at the GitHub repository of the of the Swiss Association of…
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The Organizing in the Era of Digital Technology 2019 conference took place from June 12 to 15 at the beautiful location of Monte Verità , above Ascona (Switzerland). Andrea Ferrario, from the Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH and the Technology Marketing Chair at MTEC ETH presented ‘Artificial Intelligence And Trust: An Incremental Model’. This…
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A column by Erika Meins on the link between chatbot Emma and the Lab’s new research focus.
An article on the possibilities and limitations of using novel data sources and machine learning to predict restaurants’ revenue growth (in “Er will doch nur spielen” a magazine published by Swiss Mobiliar).
Erika Meins from the Mobiliar Lab for Analytics and Dominik Balogh from Zurich police on how recent research supports police in preventing crime (in “Er will doch nur spielen” a magazine edited by Mobiliar) .
