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Background: The effects of excessive social media use remain a relatively underexplored area. Given how common and frequent smartphone use has become, this topic is currently a relevant research field. Among other things, it raises the question of whether frequent soci...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Research Internship / Project
The reverse engineering of human movements. Inverse Optimal Control, also called Inverse Reinforcement Learning, is used to find a cost function that is related to a certain movement. For human movement, the exact cost function is unknown. Current Inverse Optimal Contr...
