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Entries by Mascha Kurpicz-Briki

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

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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 […]

SmartSDM: The use of digital tools and wearables for people with severe mental illnesses

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A BFH research project has investigated how digital tools and wearable devices are used by people with severe mental illness. Digital transformation and severe mental health problems People with severe mental illnesses such as psychosis or severe depression have hardly benefited from advances in digital healthcare to date. While numerous apps and online services have […]

BFH Applied Machine Intelligence at ACL 2025

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The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) took place from July 27 to August 1, 2025, at the Austria Center Vienna. ACL is the world’s leading conference in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), bringing together researchers from academia and industry to present the latest advances […]

Therapy Meets Metrics: How KPIs Make Success Visible in Blended Psychotherapy

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In an interdisciplinary collaboration between the start-up YLAH and the Departments of Engineering and Computer Science as well as Health Science at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, KPI-based metrics in blended therapy were investigated. Context Blended Psychotherapy, the combination of digital and analog therapy elements, is gaining increasing importance. But how can the success […]

Active Sourcing Tools in Switzerland: Between Efficiency and Fairness

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Large Swiss companies are increasingly relying on digital tools in recruiting – from LinkedIn Recruiter to ChatGPT. But how effective are these tools really? Caroline Straub and Mascha Kurpicz-Briki have investigated how widespread active sourcing tools are, where their strengths lie, and what role unconscious biases play in digital recruiting. You’ve researched the human-centered aspects […]

Threat, liberation and relationship – how AI is portrayed in films

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Over the last few decades, there have been numerous films dedicated to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI). But how has it been portrayed? Our specialist, Mascha Kurpicz-Briki, describes the most common interpretations. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a central theme in the film industry in recent decades. From early science fiction classics to modern […]