Bächlin, Marc

With main interests in control engineering, robotics, signal processing and biomedical engineering Marc Bächlin studied electrical engineering and information technology at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, from which he received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree (with honors) in April 2006.
After one exchange semester at the National University of Singapore (NUS) he did his semester thesis ("Kraftgeregeltes Greifen und Tragen eines schweren Objekts mit Hilfe von zwei Roboterarmen") at the Fraunhofer IITB. One part of his semester thesis is filed as patent: (Deutsche Patentanmeldung: 10 2005 032 502).
With the diploma thesis “Standard and Personalised Segmentation of ECG Data” at the Philips Research Laboratories in Aachen, supervised by Prof. O. Dössel from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering Marc Bächlin finished his studies in Karlsruhe.
Since May 2006 he is working toward the Ph.D. degree in the Wearable Computing Group of the Electronics Laboratory with the research focus on healthcare and sports applications of wearable computing.

Research Interests

• Context/activity awareness and wearable computing
• Healthcare applications of wearable computing
• Multi sensor fusion
• Signal processing
• Adaptive intelligent systems
• Robotics

Projects

Teaching

Lectures

• Assistant for Wearable Systems 1 (Winter semester 06/07 & 07/08)

Semester Theses

• Long-Term Eye Movement Analysis Using Wearable Electrooculography; Michael Hardegger (SS2009)
• Swim style evaluation from body-worn sensors; Urban Suppiger (WS2008)
• Uninterrupting user interfaces for body-worn swim devices; Andrea Moroni Stampa (WS2008)
• Automatic parameter extraction methods for athlete swimming; Dominik Breu, Jürg Germann (SS2008)
• Nokia Internet Tablet based context aware computing platform; Samuel Welten, Pascal Sachs (WS2007)
• Miniature motion sensors with Bluetooth; Mario Schweizer (SS2007)
• Miniature pocket-worn motion sensor w/ DCF77 clock; Florian Betschart (SS2007)

Master Theses

• Personen- und Tätigkeitsunterscheidung anhand von Gehdaten; Stefan Berg (WS07/08)
• Physiological Sensing in a Seat Environmente; Marcel Bächler (WS07/08)

Publications

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2010

• A Wearable System to Assist Walking of Parkinson's Disease Patients
  Marc Bächlin, Meir Plotnik, Daniel Roggen, Nir Giladi, Jeffrey M Hausdorff and Gerhard Tröster
  (2010), in: Methods of Information in Medicine, 49:1(88-95)
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• An educational and research kit for activity and context recognition from on-body sensors
  Daniel Roggen, Marc Bächlin, Johannes Schumm, Thomas Holleczek, Clemens Lombriser, Lars Widmer, Dennis Majoe, Jürg Gutknecht and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Accepted for the International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2010), 2010
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• Der Einsatz eines psychophysiologischen Monitorings am Beispiel eines Weltklasse-Skispringers – ein Fallbeispiel
  Hanspeter Gubelmann, Simon Ammann, Marc Bächlin and Martin Kusserow
  in: 42. asp-Jahrestagung, Salzburg, 2010
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• Ski jump analysis of an Olympic champion with wearable acceleration sensors
  Marc Bächlin, Martin Kusserow, Hanspeter Gubelmann and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Accepted for Proc. of the 14th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2010), 2010
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• 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)
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• Wearable assistant for load monitoring: recognition of on-body load placement from gait alterations
  Marco Benocci, Marc Bächlin, Elisabetta Farella, Daniel Roggen, Luca Benini and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2010
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• Wearable assistant for Parkinson's disease patients with the freezing of gait symptom
  Marc Bächlin, Meir Plotnik, Daniel Roggen, Inbal Maidan, Jeffrey M Hausdorff, Nir Giladi and Gerhard Tröster
  (2010), in: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 14:2(436 - 446)
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2009

• A wearable system towards pervasive healthcare: Case study on Parkinson’s disease patients
  Marc Bächlin
  Talk at the International Workshop on Physiological Networks: Theory, Implementation and Application, 2009
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• Automated biofeedback assistance for freezing of gait in patients with Parkinson's disease
  Meir Plotnik, Marc Bächlin, Inbal Maidan, Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Tröster, Nir Giladi and Jeffrey M Hausdorff
  in: Proceedings of the International Society for Posture and Gait Research (ISPGR), Bologna, Italy, 2009
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• Automated treatment of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease using a wearable device that automatically detects freezing
  Meir Plotnik, Marc Bächlin, Daniel Roggen, Noit Inbar, Inbal Maidan, Talia Herman, Marina Brozgol, Eliya Shaviv, Gerhard Tröster and Jeffrey M Hausdorff
  in: Annual meeting of the Israeli Neurological Society, Israel, pages 63, 2009
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• Non-interrupting user interfaces for electronic body-worn swim devices
  Kilian Förster, Marc Bächlin and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2009), 2009
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• Online Detection of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease Patients: A Performance Characterization
  Marc Bächlin, Daniel Roggen, Meir Plotnik, Jeffrey M Hausdorff, Nir Giladi and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Body Area Networks, 2009
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• Parkinson patients' perspective on context aware wearable technology for auditive assistance
  Marc Bächlin, Meir Plotnik, Daniel Roggen, Noit Inbar, Nir Giladi, Jeffrey M Hausdorff and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2009
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• Pervasive computing in swimming: A model describing acceleration data of body worn sensors in crawl swimming
  Marc Bächlin and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications 2009, 2009
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• Potentials of enhanced context awareness in wearable assistants for Parkinson’s disease patients with freezing of gait syndrome
  Marc Bächlin, Daniel Roggen, Meir Plotnik, Noit Inbar, Inbal Maidan, Talia Herman, Marina Brozgol, Eliya Shaviv, Nir Giladi, Jeffrey M Hausdorff and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), pages 123-130, 2009
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• Quantifying Gait Similarity: User Authentication and Real-World Challenge
  Marc Bächlin, Johannes Schumm, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Advances in Biometrics, Third International Conference, ICB 2009, Alghero, Italy, June 2009. Proceedings, pages 1040-1049, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009
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• SwimMaster: A wearable assistant for swimmer
  Marc Bächlin, Kilian Förster and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Ubicomp '09: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing, Orlando, Florida, USA, pages 215-224, ACM, 2009
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2008

• An automatic parameter extraction method for the 7x50m Stroke Efficiency Test
  Marc Bächlin, Kilian Förster, Johannes Schumm, Dominik Breu, Jürg Germann and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, pages 442-447, IEEE Conference Publications Management Group, 2008
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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
  (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
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2007

• Adaptation and learning: Towards applications in wearable computing
  Oliver Amft, Marc Bächlin, Andreas Bulling, Martin Rumo, Johannes Schumm, Cornelia Setz, Thomas Stiefmeier, Bert Arnrich, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  ETZ Zurich, 2007
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• Context-aware platform for long-term life style management and medical signal analysis
  Marc Bächlin, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 2nd SENSATION International Conference, Chania, Greece, 2007
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