För­der­bei­spiel 2026

Mela­nie Baum­gart­ner

Feel It, Name It | Bodi­ly Sen­sa­ti­on Map­ping – A Sca­lable VR Appli­ca­ti­on for Acces­si­ble Men­tal Health­ca­re

Ein VR-basier­tes, kör­per­ori­en­tier­tes Tool soll Men­schen dabei hel­fen, Emo­tio­nen bes­ser wahr­zu­neh­men, zu benen­nen und zu regu­lie­ren – als zugäng­li­che Ergän­zung in der psy­chi­schen Gesund­heits­ver­sor­gung.

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Emo­ti­on reco­gni­ti­on and regu­la­ti­on are core mecha­nisms of human func­tio­ning and men­tal health: Indi­vi­du­als need to be capa­ble of sens­ing, label­ling, and adjus­ting their emo­tio­nal sta­tes to act adap­tively in work, fami­ly, and cli­ni­cal con­texts (Dama­sio, 1999; Khal­sa et al., 2018; Pau­lus & Stein, 2010). In Swiss cli­ni­cal and working popu­la­ti­ons, inclu­ding indi­vi­du­als with burn­out or stress-rela­ted sym­ptoms, pati­ents with anxie­ty and depres­si­ve dis­or­ders, autis­tic adults, and incre­asing­ly also health pro­fes­sio­nals, this core capa­ci­ty is often dys­re­gu­la­ted: emo­ti­ons can be expe­ri­en­ced pri­ma­ri­ly as dif­fu­se bodi­ly sen­sa­ti­ons (e.g. “pres­su­re on the chest,” “tight throat”) that are dif­fi­cult to iden­ti­fy, express and regu­la­te (Bar­kow et al., 2004; Num­men­maa et al., 2014; Bird & Cook, 2013). Such “bodi­ly but word­less” emo­ti­ons are relia­bly lin­ked to hig­her exhaus­ti­on, cyni­cism and redu­ced effi­ca­cy at work (Cohen et al., 2023).
 
At the same time, the Swiss men­tal-health sys­tem shows struc­tu­ral fric­tions: 26 can­to­nal sys­tems work wit­hout a coor­di­na­ted step­ped-care model, access varies by resi­dence, and cur­rent finan­cing still pri­vi­le­ges inpa­ti­ent set­tings over fle­xi­ble out­pa­ti­ent or inter­me­dia­te for­mats (Stulz et al., 2023; Rich­ter et al., 2025; Sto­cker et al., 2016). This pro­du­ces what fede­ral reports call” unde­r­use for sever­ely ill peo­p­le and ove­r­use for mild­ly ill ones” (Rich­ter et al., 2025). Digi­tal, self-gui­ded inter­ven­ti­ons are an inno­va­ti­ve and alter­na­ti­ve way to enhan­ce access “bet­ween” the­ra­pist ses­si­ons for peo­p­le who live with limi­t­ed finan­cial resour­ces, time­ly fle­xi­bi­li­ty, worry about pri­va­cy and stig­ma, or mobi­li­ty. Yet most com­mer­cial men­tal-health pro­ducts remain com­ple­te­ly the­ra­pist-depen­dent and do not pro­vi­de embo­di­ed, non-ver­bal ways to enga­ge with emo­ti­ons and regu­la­ti­on (Cas­tro et al., 2024). Bodi­ly Sen­sa­ti­on Map­ping (BSM) is a new, pro­mi­sing alter­na­ti­ve. It builds on robust evi­dence that emo­ti­ons are felt in distinct, cross-cul­tu­ral body pat­terns (Num­men­maa et al., 2014). BMS is fur­ther­mo­re pro­mi­sing becau­se it offers a non-ver­bal, embo­di­ed rou­te into emo­ti­on work and the­r­e­fo­re does not rely sole­ly on talk-based the­ra­py or high verbal/emotional liter­acy. What is still lack­ing, howe­ver, is (i) the inclu­si­on of a third, cli­ni­cal­ly sali­ent axis cap­tu­ring constriction/pressure (the voca­bu­la­ry pati­ents actual­ly use in anxie­ty, trau­ma, and stress con­texts (Aus­tin et al., 2006; Schlos­berg, 1954)) and (ii) an embo­di­ed Vir­tu­al Rea­li­ty (VR) imple­men­ta­ti­on that allows indi­vi­du­als to inha­bit a full-body ava­tar and “paint” felt sen­sa­ti­ons in 3D. The pro­po­sed pro­ject pro­vi­des this exten­si­on: a three-axis, VR-based BSM cou­pled with real-time EMG/HRV so that it can be used auto­no­mously by clients/patients and, at the same time, ser­ve as an inno­va­ti­ve, stan­dar­di­zed add-on for psy­cho­the­ra­pists working with body-ori­en­ted methods. In doing so, we trans­la­te a pro­mi­sing but the­ra­pist-depen­dent con­cept into a sca­lable, tech­no­lo­gy-sup­port­ed inter­ven­ti­on.

die arbei­ten im 2026

Die fol­gen­den Bei­spie­le geben Ein­blick in die Band­brei­te bis­her unter­stütz­ter Vor­ha­ben. Von Arbeits- und Orga­ni­sa­ti­ons­psy­cho­lo­gie über Cyber Risks bis zu Inno­va­ti­on, Cle­an­tech und Wis­sens­s­pill­overs: Die För­der­bei­spie­le ver­deut­li­chen, wie viel­sei­tig die unter­stütz­ten The­men sind. 

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Nils Löwha­gen

Bey­ond Clas­si­cal Limits: Quan­tum as an Emer­ging Tech­no­lo­gy in Ope­ra­ti­ons Manage­ment

Wie und wann Quan­ten­tech­no­lo­gien von wis­sen­schaft­li­cher Visi­on zu prak­ti­schem Mehr­wert in Unter­neh­men, Manage­ment und Poli­tik wer­den kön­nen.

Joseph Ollier

Fron­tiers in AI: From Gene­ra­ti­ve to Agen­tic Recom­men­der Sys­tems

Die For­schung unter­sucht, wie agen­ti­sche KI-Emp­feh­lungs­sys­te­me Ent­schei­dun­gen nicht nur unter­stüt­zen, son­dern auch eigen­stän­dig in rea­le Hand­lun­gen über­füh­ren kön­nen.

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Mela­nie Baum­gart­ner

Feel It, Name It | Bodi­ly Sen­sa­ti­on Map­ping – A Sca­lable VR Appli­ca­ti­on for Acces­si­ble Men­tal Health­ca­re

Ein VR-basier­tes, kör­per­ori­en­tier­tes Tool soll Men­schen dabei hel­fen, Emo­tio­nen bes­ser wahr­zu­neh­men, zu benen­nen und zu regu­lie­ren – als zugäng­li­che Ergän­zung in der psy­chi­schen Gesund­heits­ver­sor­gung.

Mau­ri­zio Danie­le

A Uni­fied Frame­work for Real-Time Macroe­co­no­mic Reana­ly­sis and Fore­cas­ting via Pro­ba­bi­li­stic Graph Neu­ral Net­works

Das Pro­jekt ent­wi­ckelt ein neu­es, graph­ba­sier­tes KI-Modell, um wirt­schaft­li­che Ent­wick­lun­gen in Echt­zeit kon­sis­ten­ter, genau­er und mit Unsi­cher­hei­ten pro­gnos­ti­zie­ren zu kön­nen.

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Über Uns

Tra­di­ti­on mit Zukunft

SMC‑S steht in einer lan­gen Tra­di­ti­on: Aus einer 1929 gegrün­de­ten Initia­ti­ve zur Stär­kung betriebs­wis­sen­schaft­li­cher Kom­pe­ten­zen an der ETH Zürich ist eine Orga­ni­sa­ti­on ent­stan­den, die bis heu­te For­schung, Aus­bil­dung und Wis­sens­trans­fer för­dert. Heu­te ver­ste­hen wir uns als akti­ve Platt­form für Aus­tausch, För­de­rung und ver­ant­wor­tungs­vol­les Unter­neh­mer­tum. 

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