Research Internship

ID 2410: Development of a Mobile Application for Meditation and Breathing Exercises

Project / Research Internship Background Breast cancer is a significantly effects the health and quality of life (QoL) of patients. Meditation, MBSR and Breathing Exercises have shown to improve the QoL of patients. We are currently implementing a mobile application in combination with a hardwa...

ID 2408: Voices on Conscious Machines: A Comprehensive Survey Analysis on Strong AI

Background This project investigates what people think about AI becoming more like humans. We're surveying a broad range of individuals to understand their opinions, focusing on topics like autonomy, consciousness, ethical, and moral concerns. Using qualitative insights, we aim to uncover patter...

ID 2406: Development of a Mobile Application for Assessing Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients

Project / Research Internship Background Breast cancer is a significantly effects the health and quality of life (QoL) of patients. Measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) aims to capture the perceived impact of the disease and its treatment on patients’ physical, emotional, and soc...

ID 2367: iOS App Development for “CARWatch – An Open-Source Framework for Improving Cortisol Awakening Response Sampling”

Implementation / Master's Project Many studies investigating the cortisol awakening response (CAR) suffer from a lack of precise and objective methods for assessing the awakening and saliva sampling times. Failure to correctly report times or to adhere to the study protocol, which is common in unsu...

ID 2362: AI-driven biomechanical golf swing analysis

Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Student Assistant The golf swing is arguably one of the most complex whole-body movements in sports . It requires significant physiological effort and precise neuromuscular control to accelerate the clubhead to more than 160 km/h in one-fifth of a second . Th...

ID 2361: AI-driven coaching for golf swing improvement

ID 2340: Approximate Inverse Optimal Control via Annealing and Warmstarts

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...

ID 2326: 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...

ID 2325: EmpkinS D03 – Contactless Measurement of Acute Stress from Macro 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 2308: Re-Identification for Polar Bears and Other Animals

Research Internship / Master Project / Master Thesis Re-Identification of individual animals is an important task for zoological institutions as well as observations in the wild. This serves the purpose of Animal Welfare, Conservation and Research. Impact/Motivation Help Biologists and Vete...