The “Spatial Sustainable Finance” project by the ZHAW School of Management and Law, the ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, and the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich has been awarded the Geospatial World Excellence Award 2025 for Environmental and Social Impact. Peter Schwendner from the… Read More »Geospatial World Excellence Award 2025
Resource Activation for Teachers’ Well-being with Timely, Needs-Based Support Teaching is a highly stressful profession. This project aims to develop a scalable smartphone app using Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAI) to enhance teachers’ well-being by activating resources. It will assess both effectiveness and implementation, with a user-centered and evidence-based design ensuring… Read More »REACT
In his article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Roland Meyer analyzes how right-wing extremists and tech companies use generative AI to package ideological messages in familiar, seemingly harmless visual styles, e.g. in the style of Studio Ghibli. He warns of the political power of these aesthetics and criticizes the exploitative… Read More »The language of digital fascism. Roland Meyer on AI, aesthetics and ideology
A recent study by the University of Zurich shows that people are more concerned about the immediate risks of artificial intelligence, such as job loss or discrimination, than about speculative future scenarios in which AI threatens humanity. Three online experiments with over 10,000 participants from the USA and the UK… Read More »How people perceive AI risks: New study by the University of Zurich
The University of Zurich is currently conducting the FIDO (Fatigue Investigation using Digital Outcomes) study and is looking for healthy participants aged between 18 and 65. The aim of the study is to find out how smartphones and wearables can be used to measure fatigue and remotely monitor health status,… Read More »Participants wanted for health study
How we minimize interruptions and improve focus at work A new message pops up all the time, a call is pending or someone “just has a quick question”. Many people are familiar with this from their day-to-day work. But what do all these interruptions actually do to our concentration? In… Read More »New podcast episode: Flow instead of frustration
In the second DSI Insights of the year, Sarah Summers, Director of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI), explains why predictive policing with artificial intelligence (AI) is a challenge for the justice system. AI-supported systems analyze large amounts of data to predict potential crime scenes or perpetrators. The aim is to… Read More »Police work with AI – a challenge for the justice system
Inclusive Digital Citizen Science: a technology-driven applied linguistics project within a disability studies framework The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires signatories to ensure the full participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society. Digital citizen science, as an emerging participatory methodology… Read More »DigInCiteS
Leveraging large language models to unlock and synthesize the expanding volume of medical research The overwhelming volume of published research hampers evidence-based medicine. The project team aims to develop MedLitGrasp, an online tool for researchers and clinicians, that uses large language models to automatically synthesize large volumes of biomarker data… Read More »MedLitGrasp
Empowering stakeholders in school education for digitality The EnablEd project investigates how school staff can be empowered to help shape the digital transformation. It uses a range of different methods to determine the conditions for success in school staff development and thus develops an empowerment model that supports school leaders… Read More »EnablEd