Category: News

Publication in Psychoneuroendocrinology

The manuscript “The effects of acute work stress and appraisal on psychobiological stress responses in a group office environment” by the Jasmine Kerr, Mara Nägelin, Raphael Weibel and Andrea Ferrario (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH and Chair of Technology Marketing, ETH), has been accepted for publication in Psychoneuroendocrinology. The lab team collaborated with co-authors…
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When and Where Does Crime Arise in Cities?

Cristina Kadar’s (former PhD-Student of the Mobiliar Lab for Analytics) work was recently featured in ETH News. In collaboration with researchers from NYU and the University of Cambridge she investigated the use of mobility data to predict crime in cities. https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2020/07/Uncovering-crime-patterns-using-location-data.html

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/

[Swiss]CHI 2020 Virtual Conference

Andrea Ferrario (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH and Chair of Technology Marketing, ETH) presented the paper “ALEEDSA: Augmented Reality for Interactive Machine Learning” coauthored with Raphael Weibel and Stefan Feuerriegel at the [Swiss]CHI 2020 Virtual Conference (Day 1). The program of the conference can be accessed at: https://swisschi.acm.org/swisschi-2020/. The Youtube live-streams of the conference…
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Publication in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)

Raquel Rosés (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH and Chair of Information Management, ETH), Cristina Kadar, Charlotte Gerritsen, Chris Rouly have co-authored a paper with title “Simulating Offender Mobility: Modeling Activity Nodes from Large-Scale Human Activity Data”, which will appear in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).

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.

NLP and Machine Learning: Classical, Modern and Contemporary Approaches

A new working paper by Andrea Ferrario and Mara Nägelin (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH, Chair of Technology Marketing at MTEC ETH) titled “The Art of Natural Language Processing: Classical, Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Text Document Classification” is available on SSRN. The Jupyter Notebooks of the working paper are available at the GitHub repository of the Swiss Association…
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Manuscript accepted for CHI 2020

The manuscript on innovative human-computer interfaces “ALEEDSA: Augmented Reality for Interactive Machine Learning” by Andrea Ferrario, Raphael Weibel and Stefan Feuerriegel has been accepted for the CHI 2020 Conference, which will take place in Honolulu, USA.

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