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Bernhard Seidl
be.seidl@tum.de
Nancy Abdelmalak
nancy.abdelmalak@tum.de

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"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." - Mother Theresa

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Alex needs to feel 'belonging' and 'relatedness'; it is a basic human need according to Maslow's Rewired Hierarchy of Needs (13)