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Award

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

Publication in IEEE Access

The manuscript “Coping with Imbalanced Data in the Automated Detection of Reminiscence from Everyday Life Conversations of Older Adults” by Andrea Ferrario (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH and Chair of Technology Marketing, ETH) et al., has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access. The authors improve previous results on detection of reminiscence introducing a…
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Publication in the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME)

The manuscript “Design publicity of black box algorithms: a support to the epistemic and ethical justifications of medical AI systems” by Andrea Ferrario (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH and Chair of Technology Marketing, ETH), has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME). The author argues that a peculiar form of…
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Publication on Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

The manuscript “A Data-Driven Agent-Based Simulation to Predict Crime Patterns in an Urban Environment” by Raquel Rosés, Cristina Kadar, and Nick Malleson has been accepted for publication on Computers, Enviroment and Urban Systems. The publication stems from work that the first two authors conducted as PhD students of the Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH.

Stress during home office?

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.

Trust in the Digital Age

“What does a digital interaction need for people to trust it?” This is just one of the questions Lab Director Erika Meins discusses with Digital Ethics expert Cornelia Diethelm in the new video published in Mobiliar’s Annual Report. To view the video, head over to our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6791282212596662272

Jürg Schelldorfer (SwissRe): presentation at the Seminar on Machine Learning Applications and Society

Today, Michaela Benk and Andrea Ferrario (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH) had Jürg Schelldorfer (SwissRe) as a guest speaker in the seminar “Machine Learning Applications and Society: Interpretability, Explanations and Trust”. Jürg provided the audience with insightful considerations on the use of interpretable machine learning in reinsurance.

Michele Loi (University of Zurich): presentation at the Seminar on Machine LearningApplications and Society

Today, Michaela Benk and Andrea Ferrario (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH) had Michele Loi (University of Zurich) as a guest speaker in the seminar “Machine Learning Applications and Society: Interpretability, Explanations and Trust”. Michele shared his point of view on algorithmic fairness and the explainability of AI. He discussed the importance of the reasons…
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Trust in AI as the Key

An interview with Erika Meins on the relevance of trust for AI in Apropos, Mobiliar’s employee magazine, 1/2021.

Tim Miller (University of Melbourne): presentation at the Seminar on Machine Learning Applications and Society

Today, Michaela Benk and Andrea Ferrario (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH) had Tim Miller (University of Melbourne) as a guest speaker in the seminar “Machine Learning Applications and Society: Interpretability, Explanations and Trust”. Tim introduced a novel account of trust in human-AI interactions and discussed some of the most relevant challenges in explaining AI…
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