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/

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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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).

Mobiliar’s annual report 2019 highlights some of the Lab’s work. Included is a special focus related to trust in research and algorithms.

A column by Erika Meins on the relevance of lifelong learning and Data Science.

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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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.

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

A new paper of Cristina Kadar (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics) together with NYU and the University of Cambridge on understanding crime concentrations has been accepted at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/7304

Andrea Ferrario (Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH and Chair of Technology Marketing, ETH), Michele Loi and Eleonora Viganò (University of Zurich), have co-authored a paper which was recently published in Philosophy & Technology. They introduced a novel incremental model of trust in human-human and human- AI interactions and tested it in an example of societal…
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