Empathic Labs
Empathic Labs is a community of researchers, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts who share our belief that the future lies in empathy. Our mission is to tackle society problems by integrating empathic machines into daily use through a multidisciplinary approach with the help of our partners.
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Empathic System to Reduce Stress and Control Productivity in Occupational Health Master project
17.05.2021Our empathic system is a system that provides multiple scientifically proven techniques for stress reducing and productivity increase for users in occupational health sector. The main objective of this system is to allow the users to use the provided techniques in multiple situations (i.e. car, office, remote work) in a way that almost all users can benefit from them without being limited to have some extra stuff in order to practice them. Our proposed system is divided into two main compo...
More informationStudent(s): Hassan BalhasSupervisor(s): Karl Daher, Melhem El Helou
Deep understanding of written user query Semester project
10.06.2020More informationThis project lies in the context of a collaboration between the HumanTech Institute and Kare Knowledgeware. Kare’s product is an automated knowledge retrieval conversational tool. The goal of the collaboration is to enhance the customer experience by adding empathy into the system. Empathy is possible by following two steps, first understanding the user intention, and second answering him accordingly.
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Student(s): Samuel TorcheSupervisor(s): Jacky Casas,Elena Mugellini
Cyberbullying and Social Networks Semester project
08.06.2020More informationSocial networks, and digital communication in general, have evolved at an impressive speed in recent years. They have enabled everyone to stay in constant contact with family members, co-workers or classmates. This technological progress has also brought with it a number of disadvantages, one of them being cyberbullying.
Cyberbullying, which is simply bullying that occurs on digital devices, is primarily directed at teens. In ...
Student(s): Charles PerriardSupervisor(s): Jacky Casas,Omar Abou Khaled
Multilingual Appointment Chatbot Semester project
15.05.2020More informationMultilingual Appointment Chatbot is a project in collaboration with a Swiss startup called Deeplink specialized in chatbot technologies. For one of their customers, Deeplink requires a chatbot being able to detect if there is a time and a date in a text message sent by a human to the bot and to respond with a proper answer. This chatbot will be used in order to take appointment with customers.
The goal of the project is to com...
Student(s): Luke Perrottet
Movie Dialog bot Semester project
15.05.2020Nombreux sont les bots qui lorsqu’ils ne comprennent pas l’utilisateur (la phrase, l’intention) répondent par la phrase bateau “Could you rephrase, I don’t understand”. Cela peut vite deve- nir ennuyant pour l’utilisateur.
More informationC’est là qu’intervient l’idée folle du projet Movie Dialog Bot. Afin de garder l’utilisateur captivé, le bot doit lui répondre par un me...
Student(s): Nicolas Crausaz
Détection des émotions via les micro-expressions pour réduire le stress Master project
30.09.2019L'objectif du projet est de détecter les émotions induites par le stress à travers les micro-expressions révélées par le visage humain, dans le but de réduire le stress dans la vie quotidienne. Par ailleurs, cette étude développe un logiciel informatique capable de réagir en fonction de l'état affectif de l'utilis...
More informationStudent(s): Wendy Mikhael El Murr
Chat conversation analysis Bachelor project
02.09.2019Privacy is a widely publicized topic. Personal data are scattered everywhere, often in possession of big companies like Google and Facebook. Messaging applications are particularly affected as we communicate on a daily basis with our loved ones through these applications.
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The main objective is to develop a tool that will allow an user to fetch the important data from his conversations, like the locations mentioned, the list of people with whom the person discusses the most, the ...Student(s): Samuel Torche
Détection des émotions cachées Internship project
30.08.2019Le but de ce projet est de mettre en place un système capable de détecter le langage du haut du corps, afin de détecter et de reconnaître les émotions cachées.
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Influence of empathical machines on stress Master project
06.05.2019Le stress et les émotions sont étroitement liés car le stress négatif se manifeste par des émotions négatives et le stress positif par des émotions positives. De nos jours, certaines machines sont capables de comprendre leur utilisateur, par exemple elles sont capables de reconnaître que l’utilisateur est stressé, et peuvent faire preuve d’empathie, par exemple aider...
More informationStudent(s): Mathias Fuchs
Chatbot pour lutter contre les frénésies alimentaires Internship project
04.09.2018More informationIl s’agit d’un chatbot qui vise à aider les personnes qui souffrent d’un trouble de comportement alimentaire (TCA). L’application se chargera d’interroger d’utilisateur afin de sauvegarder les détails de chaque crise dans une base de données, de proposer des stratégies de prévention adéquates ainsi que de rester à l’écoute de l’utilisateur en cas de problème.
Student(s): Zahi Alchemaly
Nutribot: a chatbot that tracks and analyzes your food intake Internship project
10.09.2017More informationLe but de ce stage était de concevoir puis développer un chatbot qui joue le rôle d’un compagnon nutritionnel. Le bot doit récolter des données sur le contenu des repas des utilisateurs (sous forme de texte dans un premier temps et d’image par la suite) et les stocker pour ensuite en retirer de la valeur pour l’utilisateur.
Student(s): Hugo Belhomme
Maester Luwin: the chatbot related to the Game of Thrones world Bachelor project
14.07.2017The goal of this project is to explore the current state of the art of conversational agents, and then to proceed to
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the conception and implementation of a textual, english speaking, chatbot based on the Game of Thrones TV show.Student(s): Leonardo Genini