Project

ID 2514: EmpkinS D02: Depression Detection from body movement data

Research Project Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders, significantly reducing an individual’s quality of life. Psychologists use various methods to detect and assess depression, such as analysing facial expressions, speech patterns, and head movements. In this research, our ...

ID 2518: Automated assessment of transcultural skills in therapeutic responses using LLMs

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Background: Transcultural competence is a crucial factor for the success of psychotherapy. It describes the ability of therapists to work effectively with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. Currently, this competence is often meas...

ID 2516: Improve IMU-Based Handwriting Recognition with Data Generation

Background Our model recognizes handwritten words and sentences character by character, classifying each time-series sequence frame into a specific character/symbol category (https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20954) while the performance of the approach is still limited by the dataset. Data Generation is ...

ID 2512: Various Topics for Machine Learning and (Web) App Development in Health Psychology

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project The aim of our research is to explore the potential of digital technologies in psychological research to better understand human psychology and behavior. Many psychological research areas still rely on “traditional” methods, such as labor...

ID 2511: Contactless Measurement of Acute Stress from Body Posture and Movements

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project The observation of body posture and movements is a promising extension to the established biopsychological markers for stress measurement, such as self-reports, saliva, or blood samples. Body posture and movements provide additional infor...

ID 2510: Video-based digital biomarker extraction framework for psychological research

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Psychological assessments often rely on subjective measures such as self-reports and interviews. However, recent advancements in computer vision and machine learning enable the extraction of objective biomarkers from video data, such as f...

ID 2454: Sensor-based Measurement of Fear Avoidance in Chronic Primary Lower Back Pain during Standardized Movement Tasks

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Fear avoidance (FA) beliefs (i.e. movements may lead to pain/injury) motivate patients with chronic primary low back pain (CPLBP) to avoid physical activity and may thereby contribute to the maintenance of pain and disability. Patients’ c...

ID 2451: Developing an Open-Source Platform for Gaze Research

This project aims to develop an open-source online platform in the domain of gaze and eye-tracking research. The platform will be hosted on GitBook/GitHub, enabling robust version control and collaboration. A key focus will be establishing interoperability standards. Additionally, the project will i...

ID 2446: EmpkinS C01: Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Movement Analysis and Control

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Earliest project/thesis start in May 2025! The real-time control and analysis of human poses and movements has long been a complex problem in fields like computer vision and machine learning. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have...

ID 2431: EmpkinS D03 – Contactless Measurement of Acute Stress from Micro Movements

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Acute stress reliably activates, among other pathways, the sympathetic nervous system, leading to changes in heart rate (variability) (HR and HRV), respiration, pre-ejection period (PEP), and electrodermal activity (EDA). So far, these pa...