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From 29-30 April, our EmpkinS PIs met for a two-day retreat at the Diözesanhaus conference centre in Vierzehnheiligen near Bad Staffelstein to present the current status of their sub-projects as well as their plans for the next CRC funding period and joint work packages. The pleasant working atmosph...

The Mobilize Center is based at Stanford University and is a Biomedical Technology Resource Center (BTRC) funded through the NIH. The Mobilize Center was created with the vision of enabling the research community to use mobile technology, such as 2-D video and wearable sensors, and other large-scale...

New publication online! The latest research article, “Machine learning-based detection of acute psychosocial stress from body posture and movements” by Robert Richer, Veronika Koch, Luca Abel, Felicitas Hauck, Miriam Kurz, Veronika Ringgold, Victoria Müller, Arne Küderle, Lena Schindler-Gmelch, Björ...

We are pleased to announce that Vanessa Wirth, on behalf of her co-authors, won the Digital Rheumatology Research Award 2024 for the paper "ShaRPy: Shape Reconstruction and Hand Pose Estimation from RGB-D with Uncertainty", previously published at IEEE/CVF ICCVW. Among all nominations, this award i...

From the 11th to the 15th of March, scientists from all across our CRC participated in the second EmpkinS IRTG Winter School in St.-Peter-Ording! Organized by a team of young researchers, the EmpkinS IRTG Winter School provided workshops on scientific writing by Dr. Anna-Maria Liphardt and Media ...

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Vossiek was elected (at rank 1) in the DFG review board election 2023 (for the term 2024 - 2028) for the review board: 4.42 Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, subject: 4.42-02 Communication Technology and Networks, Microwave Technology and Photonic Systems, Sign...

You have to go to work but your child is not well enough to go to school or daycare? Not a problem for us – we have the KidsBox! The KidsBox is a mobile playroom for children that offers parents the option of working at their usual workplace while their children can play in the same room. This al...

Dear EmpkinS team, dear colleagues and dear business partners, we wish you a happy new year and much success and good luck for 2024. We look forward to continuing the good cooperation from last year and reaching new milestones with the CRC. Thank you for your commitment and your achievements.

Nikita Shanin won the 2nd Prize at the Four-Minute-Thesis (4MT) Competition organized by the IEEE Communications Society. The 4MT Competition challenged PhD students to explain their research topic to a broad non-specialist audience in just 4 minutes. In the preliminary round of the competition, the...

On Wednesday, October 11, 2023, the inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun took place at the International Forum. The theme of the well-attended inaugural lecture by Professor Dr. Matthias Braun, who has been Chair of (Social) Ethics since October 2022, was "Vulnerable Bodies. Critique of ...