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This year at Scientifica we offered a workshop on how to fight stress at the workplace using new technologies, such as Virtual Reality and Machine Learning.

Michaela Benk participated in a panel on explainable AI at an event of European Data Protection Supervisor IPEN. More information can be found here.

At Gian Klainguti’s thought-provoking art intervention “Welcoming Sentient AI,” Michaela Benk, James B. Glattfelder, Julien Weissenberg and others discussed some of the ethical and social implications of the rapid progress of AI-based technologies. This event provided a unique platform to explore the profound impact that AI has and will have on various aspects of society,…
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How to ensure responsible digital stress management? Our new JMIR publication identifies specific requirements for an ethics-informed design. This work was a collaboration between Jasmine Kerr, Mara Nägelin, Michaela Benk, Florian Wangenheim, Eleonora Viganò and Andrea Ferrario.

Recently, Mara Nägelin and Erika Meins were interviewed by the Financial Times about our work on detecting stress based on how people type and click. The interview can be found here.

The latest ETH News covers our recent publications on detecting stress at the workplace, which showed that your movements with the computer mouse and the way you type provide more information about how stressed you are than your heart rate. The article can be found here.

And to what extent are they not only a solution but part of the problem? An interview with Lab Director Erika Meins and Die Mobiliar‘s head of HR Barbara Agoba on Swiss radio SRF.

Erika Meins and Jasmine Kerr presented the Lab’s work at the latest colloquium of ETHs Institute of Science, Technology and Policy. More information can be found here.

Using virtual reality to deliver HRV-biofeedback for stress management benefits cardiac activity and user experience! Read our publication in Computers in Human Behaviour to find out more: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107607 This work was a collaboration between Raphael Weibel, Jasmine Kerr, Mara Nägelin, Andrea Ferrari, Victor Schinazi, Roberto La Marca, Christoph Hölscher, and Florian Wangenheim.

Telematics, virtual or augmented reality to address societal challenges? Erika Meins illustrates opportunities and dark sides on the occasion of the award for the best Swiss annual report. Thank you to Hans-Peter Nehmer, Andreas Jäggi, Rafael Koch, Jiří Chmelik, Alexander Wagner, Amra Hrustanovic und HarbourClub – it was a pleasure to get together.