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While digitalization is making its way into many areas of everyday life, psychological research and the psychotherapeutic treatment of people with mental disorders are still largely based on analog methods. Although direct contact with patients and study participants is an essential part of the rese...

The Machine Learning and Data Analytics (MaD) Lab is pleased to announce that our latest paper “Behind the Machine’s Gaze: Neural Networks with Biologically-inspired Constraints Exhibit Human-like Visual Attention” is now published at Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)   Lin...

Are you feeling stressed? Then simply cool your face! In our latest study, just published in Nature Scientific Reports, we demonstrated that facial cooling stimulates vagal activity, leading to significantly lower biological responses to acute stress! This work results from an excellent, inter...

We are pleased to announce that our latest paper "xLength: Predicting Expected Ski Jump Length Shortly after Take-Off Using Deep Learning“ is now published at Sensors MDPI. With xLength we developed the first ski jump length prediction. Therefore, we analyzed 2523 ski jumps from 205 athletes on five...

Luca joined the lab in October 2022. He earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in medical engineering at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, specializing in medical imaging and data processing. During both his bachelor's degree and master's thesis at our lab, he worked on the classification of stress p...

Congratulations to MaD Dr. #20 Eva Dorschky, who successfully defended her PhD thesis. We thank Prof. Friedl de Groote (KU Leuven) for visiting FAU for the defense.

You want to spy on our research? You want to know more about radar-based biomonitoring with applications in medicine and psychology? Nothing easier than that! Our Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation CRC EmpkinS - Empathokinaesthetic Sensor Technology (Sonderforschun...

We are pleased to announce that our latest paper "Surface-Free Multi-Stroke Trajectory Reconstruction and Word Recognition Using an IMU-Enhanced Digital Pen" is now published at Sensors MDPI. The Paper is published open access: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/14/5347 We developed the first end-t...

We are very happy to announce that the app YogiTherapy was just published in the Google Play Store and Apple Store in English and German. YogiTherapy is an e-health application tailored to patients with ankylosing spondylitis, which is a systemic rheumatic disease affecting the spinal column and adj...