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Promoting Mental Health: The Potential of Social Robots in Schools

The mental health of students is a central component of successful learning and healthy social and emotional development. How can a social robot support this? What tasks and roles can it take on to assist teachers? A research team at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) is exploring these questions. Social robots are becoming increasingly […]

Project MentalWords: Efficient collection of text data in a clinical environment and linguistic analyses

The MentalWordsproject is investigating what happens to linguistic expression when someone is affected by mental health problems. But first of all, it needs data. Important questions, less data Natural language processing (NLP) is increasingly being used to better understand mental health. This involves automatically analysing texts such as forum posts or conversation transcripts in order […]

Health Chart: A Swiss Compass for Your Personal Healthcare Journey

The Health Chart cross-disciplinary research project helps patients visualize their health journey. Initiated by BFH’s Institute of Patient-Centered Digital Health (PcDH) in collaboration with the Institute of Design Research (IDR) and Aware GmbH, it aims to present health histories in a way that is both medically meaningful and understandable by patients with limited health literacy […]