The newly launched DSI Community Sustainability aims to promote both sustainable digitalisation and digital sustainability. Co-leader Dr Mario Angst gives a brief insight into the work of the community. Sustainability and digitalisation represent two important and far-reaching social and technological transformation processes in our society. The DSI Community Sustainability aims… Read More »Introducing the DSI Community Sustainability
“Playful work”, combating forced marriage or education for the 60+ generation: the 18 applications approved in the 2nd project call in the innovation program of the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) use technologies and develop innovative applications to address human needs and values. With funding of… Read More »Innovative projects put people at the centre
A video game aims to help refugee Ukrainian children and teens in Zurich discover the city in a familiar setting. The interactive project was launched by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) together with Blindflug Studios. War and destruction mean a sudden loss of familiar things, especially for… Read More »Video game “Where Am I?” lets Ukrainian children explore Zurich
We all make mistakes: we are human after all. But what about machines? As they are programmed by humans, they are also prone to errors. In the case of automatic text generation, researchers from the Center of Artificial Intelligence (CAI) developed a new way of proof checking the various systems – fully… Read More »How well do chatbots or AI translators perform?
Stroke DynamiX explores data-driven stroke management using machine-learning techniques in a consortium of statistics researchers, translational enablers, and clinical partners. We implement statistical tools to dynamically model stroke epidemiologically and predict real-time sepsis onset in the clinic. Core team: Dr. Georg Spinner, ZHAW Life Sciences und Facility Management Prof. Dr.… Read More »Stroke DynamiX
Design of an Algorithm-supported Toolkit for effective Information Management in Intensive Care The intensive care unit is a hectic environment where medical staff complain of critical overload from numerical values and curves displayed by various medical devices. To reduce the burden on clinical staff, this project aims to design user-centric… Read More »IC-DATIM
In the digital transformation, there is a danger that disciplines will be forgotten. We are pursuing the question of how a trading zone can be created in which actors from the disciplines of anthropology and computer science meet and work on joint, transdisciplinary products, including teaching units and further training… Read More »Partners in a Trading Zone – Development of a trading zone between ethnology and computer science in the context of embroidery
Exhibition at Museum für Gestaltung Museum of the Future —17 Digital Experiments von 29. August 2025 bis 18. January 2026 August 29, 2025 – January 18, 2026 More information The project examines the potentials, areas of application and implementation possibilities around digitality for a forward-looking museum practice. Knowledge is being developed that will… Read More »The Museum of the Future
This project is the first to combine media dramaturgical analyses of German-language podcasts with the media-psychological motives of individual listeners: “Story Design for Podcasts”. The result: a practical handbook, a conference, workshops for creative professionals in the field of podcasting. Core team: Hans Knobloch, ZHdK Departement Design Caroline Feder, ZHdK Departement… Read More »Designing Podcasts
To the website of PATT The recognition of complex layouts and manuscripts, among others by ATR, is far advanced. Today, their processing in research and memory institutions is on the verge of a quantum leap. The project establishes an expert group and a teaching module on new working methods. In… Read More »Potentials of Advanced Text Technologies: Machine Learning-based Text Recognition (PATT)