Sabine Dani

Together with Swiss universities and industry partners, the ZHAW is researching how hospitals can implement the digital transformation.

Modern forms of organization, digital technologies such as virtual reality or artificial intelligence, and the networking of processes and data can turn the hospital into an intelligent system and increase quality and efficiency. For three and a half years, a consortium led by the ZHAW is researching how this transformation to the hospital of the future can be implemented – together with four other research partners, around 20 hospitals and 24 industry partners. The research project “Smart Hospital – Integrated Framework, Tools & Solutions” (SHIFT) will run until June 2025. It has a total budget of 5.7 million Swiss francs and is supported as a flagship project by Innosuisse, the Swiss agency for innovation promotion.

On November 10, the results of this year’s DSI Strategy Lab were presented at DSI. These met with lively interest: over 120 people followed the presentation of the position paper “A Legal Framework for Artificial Intelligence”.

On Monday, 29.11.21, we will present the position paper in Bern. As part of the Parldigi MasterClass, we get the opportunity to present our work to digital-savvy parliamentarians. This last MasterClass 2021 is open to the public and will be streamed live from 10.15 am.

Jürg Meierhofer, Christoph Heitz, and Frank Hannich won the Best Paper Award in the Service Science category at the Naples Forum on Service 2021 for their paper on optimising service value creation with smart, connected products. The paper was written as part of a DIZH Fellowship.

The paper describes a novel quantitative model for the design of the service interactions in the life cycle of customers using smart connected products – typically in industrial environments, i.e., in Industry 4.0 context – with the goal of optimising mutual service value creation for both the customer and the provider.

The UZH DSI Excellence Program for PhD students, a complementary curriculum to the doctorate in the respective field of study, is entering its third year. As every year, scholarships are offered to applicants with very good academic performance and interest in research on the impact of digitalization on society. We invite all interested applicants to apply for the DSI Excellence Program (start: September 2022) via the DSI website from 1 December 2021.

The DIZH Fellowships are awarded to outstanding ZHAW researchers who would like to work in a research cluster on cross-university and interdisciplinary digital transformation projects. In 2020 and 2021, a total of 27 fellows had already started their fellowships. This was the third call.

At the Swiss Digitaltag, ZHAW presented five projects on artificial intelligence, including the new robot bar. The event took place in the “Nüü”, the new event location of ZHAW digital. Artificial intelligence has many faces. To experience the diverse applications of the technology, ZHAW invited people to marvel and discuss… Read More »Artificial intelligence to touch with drinks from the robot bar

Algorithms can assess a person’s creditworthiness or filter people in the application process who are particularly well suited for a job. Does that make such processes fairer? Or does automatic selection tend to lead to social injustice? Corinna Hertweck from the ZHAW School of Engineering will present a project on this topic at the Swiss Digitaltag.

DSI Infrastructures & Labs are shareable infrastructures or structural vessels for generating collaborative settings for research – always with a reference to digital transformation. “The Future of Work Virtual Reality Lab” is such a vessel. It invites broad academic participation and collaboration with practitioners across different sectors and industries and… Read More »The Future of Work Virtual Reality Lab