Arnrich, Bert, Dr.

Bert Arnrich is a senior researcher at the Wearable Computing Laboratory of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His research on pervasive computing technologies is directed towards developing personal health assistants to pave the way for a pervasive, user-centered and preventive healthcare system. He is particularly interested in researching pervasive computing technologies to support mental health and well-being.
Bert Arnrich received the diploma in natural science informatics Dipl.-Inform. (MSc) from the University of Bielefeld (Germany) in 2001 and the doctor of engineering sciences Dr.-Ing. (PhD) in 2006. In his PhD time, his research was focused on medical data mining, machine learning and statistical modeling: in cooperation with a heart institute he developed a data mart system and investigated patterns of heart disease, patient’s response to treatment and real-time risk stratification. A list of publications from his PhD time is available here.

Research Projects

National and European research projects I'm involved in:

• Smart bed information and communication system for an advanced health care (Swiss CTI, starting soon)
• Micro-level behavior and team performance: A social signal processing approach to teamwork (Swiss NSF)
• MONARCA: Monitoring, treatment and prediction of bipolar disorder episodes (EU FP7)
• Profitex: Providing fire fighters with technology for excellent work safety (EU FP7)
• SEAT: Smart technologies for stress free air travel (EU FP6)

Videos

Video clips about our research on electronic stress assistants and pervasive technologies in airplane seats:

Media

Media coverage about our research on electronic stress assistants:

• ETH Life: "Electronic assistant to detect stress" (English)
• ETH Life: "Elektronischer Assistent schützt vor Stress" (German)
• Tagesanzeiger: "Sensoren aus Zürich sollen Burnout verhindern" (German)
• Financial Times Deutschland: "Mit Sensorsocken gegen den Burnout" (German)
• ETH Globe: "Stress lass nach" (German)
• Deutschland Radio Interview "Stress lass nach" (German)

Publications at ETH

Below please find my publications at ETH. If you have any question or request please feel free to contact me.

Editorials and Overview Articles

2011

• Mental health and the impact of ubiquitous technologies
  Bert Arnrich, Venet Osmani and Jakob Bardram
  (2011), in: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal
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• Sensor Fusion: Foundation and Applications
  Bert Arnrich, Cornelia Setz, Johannes Schumm and Gerhard Tröster
  chapter Design, implementation and evaluation of a multimodal sensor system integrated into an airplane seat, INTECH, 2011
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF URL ]

2010

• Pervasive Healthcare - Paving the Way for a Pervasive, User-Centered and Preventive Healthcare Model
  Bert Arnrich, Oscar Mayora, Jakob Bardram and Gerhard Tröster
  (2010), in: Methods of Information in Medicine, 49(67-73)
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI ]
• Pervasive or Ubiquitous Healthcare?
  Bert Arnrich, Oscar Mayora and Jakob Bardram
  (2010), in: Methods of Information in Medicine, 49(65-66)
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]

2007

• Wearable health and life-style assistants - technology in support of well-being
  Daniel Roggen, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  (2007), in: Eurescom Message(10-11)
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF URL ]

2006

• Life Style Management Using Wearable Computer
  Daniel Roggen, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: 4th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Pervasive Healthcare Applications (UbiHealth 2006), 2006
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF URL ]

Cognitive Load, Stress and Mental Health

2011

• A Wearable User Interface for Measuring Reaction Time
  Burcu Cinaz, Christian Vogt, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Ambient Intelligence, pages 41-50, 2011
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• Monitoring of Cognitive Functioning with Reaction Times using Wearable Devices
  Burcu Cinaz, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), pages 514-517, 2011
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF URL ]
• Monitoring of Mental Workload Levels during an Everyday Life Office-Work Scenario
  Burcu Cinaz, Bert Arnrich, Roberto La Marca and Gerhard Tröster
  (2011), in: Accepted for Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI ]

2010

• Discriminating Stress from Cognitive Load Using a Wearable EDA Device
  Cornelia Setz, Bert Arnrich, Johannes Schumm, Roberto La Marca, Gerhard Tröster and Ulrike Ehlert
  (2010), in: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 14:2(410-417)
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI URL ]
• Monitoring of Mental Workload Levels
  Burcu Cinaz, Roberto La Marca, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of IADIS eHealth Conference, pages 189-193, 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]
• Pervasive Technologies in Airplane Seats: Towards Safer and Stress-Free Air Travel
  Cornelia Setz, Johannes Schumm, Dominique Favre, Christian Liesen, Bert Arnrich, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  Video and accompanying paper for The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Helsinki, Finland, 2010
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• Self Organizing Maps for Affective State Detection
  Bert Arnrich, Cornelia Setz, Roberto La Marca, Gerhard Tröster and Ulrike Ehlert
  in: Machine Learning for Assistive Technologies, 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]
• Towards Continuous Monitoring of Mental Workload
  Burcu Cinaz, Roberto La Marca, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: 5th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Health and Wellness (UbiHealth 2010), 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]
• What does your chair know about your stress level?
  Bert Arnrich, Cornelia Setz, Roberto La Marca, Gerhard Tröster and Ulrike Ehlert
  (2010), in: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 14:2(207-214)
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI ]

2008

• Activity and emotion recognition to support early diagnosis of psychiatric diseases
  D. Tacconi, O. Mayora, Paul Lukowicz, Bert Arnrich, Cornelia Setz, Gerhard Tröster and C. Haring
  in: Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health), pages 100-102, 2008
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI ]

2007

• On the feasibility of using activity recognition and context aware interaction to support early diagnosis of bipolar disorder
  D. Tacconi, O. Mayora, Paul Lukowicz, Bert Arnrich, Gerhard Tröster and C. Haring
  in: Ubiwell Ubicomp Workshop, 2007
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]

Physiological Signal Processing

2011

• Quality Appraisal of an ECG Signal Measured in an Airplane Seat
  Johannes Schumm, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  (2011), in: Accepted for IEEE Pervasive Computing Journal
  [ BiBTeX RIS DOI ]
• Towards Long Term Monitoring of Electrodermal Activity in Daily Life
  Cornelia Setz, Franz Gravenhorst, Johannes Schumm, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  (2011), in: Accepted for Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI ]

2010

• Probabilistic Appraisal Of Unobtrusively Measured ECG Signals
  Johannes Schumm, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: ISSNIP Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference 2010, Vitoria, 2010
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• Towards Long Term Monitoring of Electrodermal Activity in Daily Life
  Cornelia Setz, Johannes Schumm, Martin Kusserow, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: 5th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Health and Wellness (UbiHealth 2010), 2010
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]
• Unobtrusive Physiological Monitoring in an Airplane Seat
  Johannes Schumm, Cornelia Setz, Marc Bächlin, Marcel Bächler, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  (2010), in: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 14:6(541-550)
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI URL ]

2009

• Automatic Signal Appraisal for Unobtrusive ECG Measurements
  Johannes Schumm, Sebastian Axmann, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the Biosignal Interpretation Conference, Yale University, 2009
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• Combining Worthless Sensor Data
  Cornelia Setz, Johannes Schumm, Claudia Lorenz, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Measuring Mobile Emotions Workshop at MobileHCI, 2009
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• Using Ensemble Classifier Systems for Handling Missing Data in Emotion Recognition from Physiology: One Step Towards a Practical System
  Cornelia Setz, Johannes Schumm, Claudia Lorenz, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII, pages 187-194, 2009
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI URL ]

2008

• Effect of movements on the electrodermal response after a startle event
  Johannes Schumm, Marc Bächlin, Cornelia Setz, Bert Arnrich, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  (2008), in: Methods of Information in Medicine, 47:3(186-191)
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• Effect of movements on the electrodermal response after a startle event
  Johannes Schumm, Marc Bächlin, Cornelia Setz, Bert Arnrich, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health), pages 315-318, 2008
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI URL ]

2007

• Monitoring passenger's breathing - a feasibility study
  Basem Dokhan, Cornelia Setz, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Swiss Society of Biomedical Engineering Annual Meeting, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2007
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF URL ]

Sports Applications

2011

• An IMU-based Sensor Network to Continuously Monitor Rowing Technique on the Water
  Bernd Tessendorf, Franz Gravenhorst, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2011), Adelaide, Australia, IEEE press, 2011
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• Analyzing Rowing Crews in Different Rowing Boats based on Angular Velocity Measurements with Gyroscopes
  Franz Gravenhorst, Bernd Tessendorf, Bert Arnrich, Camille Codoni and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport (IACSS 2011), Shanghai, China, 2011
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]

2010

• Recognizing Turns and Other Snowboarding Activities with a Gyroscope
  Thomas Holleczek, Jona Schoch, Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2010), Seoul, South Korea, pages 75-82, IEEE Computer Society, 2010
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2009

• Towards an Interactive Snowboarding Assistance System
  Thomas Holleczek, Christoph Zysset, Bert Arnrich, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2009), Linz, Austria, pages 147-148, IEEE Computer Society, 2009
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Social Signal Processing

2011

• Detecting Posture Mirroring in Social Interactions with Wearable Sensors
  Sebastian Feese, Bert Arnrich, Gerhard Tröster, Bertolt Meyer and Klaus Jonas
  in: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), pages 119-120, 2011
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• Discriminating Individually Considerate and Authoritarian Leaders by Speech Activity Cues
  Sebastian Feese, Amir Muaremi, Bert Arnrich, Gerhard Tröster, Bertolt Meyer and Klaus Jonas
  in: International Workshop on Social Behavioral Analysis and Behavioral Change (SBABC11), 2011
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF ]

Sitting Behavior

2010

• Design and Modeling of a Textile Pressure Sensor for Sitting Posture Classification
  Jan Meyer, Bert Arnrich, Johannes Schumm and Gerhard Tröster
  (2010), in: IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, 10:8(1391 - 1398)
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• What does your chair know about your stress level?
  Bert Arnrich, Cornelia Setz, Roberto La Marca, Gerhard Tröster and Ulrike Ehlert
  (2010), in: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 14:2(207-214)
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI ]

2009

• Unsupervised Monitoring of Sitting Behavior
  Bernd Tessendorf, Bert Arnrich, Johannes Schumm, Cornelia Setz and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of EMBC09, 2009
  [ BiBTeX RIS PDF DOI ]

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