Strengthening the AI generation: Promoting digital self-protection for teenagers and young adults Despite data protection concerns, many young people carelessly share personal data online, which is known as the data protection paradox. The project aims to resolve the data protection paradox by activating personal involvement. Teaching materials are being developed… Read More »AI-Strong
A growing body of research in psychology and sociology has shown that profound dissatisfaction with body image is an increasingly pressing problem among young people, partly due to media exposure, which is expected to worsen with AI-generated idealised bodies. In UnRealBody, we will develop an intervention to inoculate young people… Read More »UnRealBody: Inoculating Young People Against Harm from Unrealistic AI-Based Body Images
“TRUST-RAD” project aims to add trust layers to radiology AI assistant tools, as depicted in the figure below. To improve trustworthiness, the aim is to (i) develop models that allow the radiology AI tool to generate content that is not only precise but also highly relevant, reducing the risk of errors and… Read More »TRUST-RAD: Trustworthy Medical AI Assistant Tools for Radiology
The project develops, tests and publishes an interactive online tool including a learning environment to strengthen digital resilience in young people by promoting their AI and deepfake skills. It integrates elements of source criticism, storytelling and science communication to improve critical thinking skills and media literacy. Image created by OpenAI’s… Read More »Digital resilience: tool for AI and deepfake skills among young people
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a disruptive technology that brings with it great opportunities, but also risks for the media and the formation of public opinion. For example, AI could contribute to improving the quality of news, be used to combat disinformation, underline the importance of journalism for citizens, and enable… Read More »AI literacy in Swiss journalism – How to strengthen the digital resilience of journalism and audiences
The project aims to develop an automated monitoring tool that makes comparative trend analyses of public debates in the education sector accessible to stakeholders and thus enables more differentiated debates. The aim is to contribute to greater transparency in education policy discourse, developments and decisions. Core team Prof. Dr. Barbara… Read More »Educational Policy Transparency Interface
The project aims to promote digital literacy in an academic context with the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI). It supports students and teaching staff in developing skills in the use of digital tools and AI technologies for academic work and writing. Core team Dr. Christian Rapp, ZHAW School of Management and… Read More »Technological support for scientific work, writing and thinking in the age of AI: conceptualization, technology integration and didactics
In an ICU, time-efficient retrieval, precise understanding, and following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are critical for ensuring optimal treatment and patient safety. To address this, we develop a multi-lingual, user-tailored, and AI-powered dialogue system over SOP documents which is seamlessly integrated with medical semantic taxonomies. Core team Dr. Ahmad Aghaebrahimian,… Read More »Advancing Information Accessibility in Hospitals Employing Large Language Models
Bridging Orthopedics through Digital Mirroring MedTwins Agil.IT will leverage cloud services to create a Trusted Research Environment connecting the hospital IT system with scalable IT resources. This agile environment will pave the way for cloud usage in the R&D process of clinical AI and accelerate the translation of digital technology… Read More »MedTwins Agil.IT
The project promotes the quality of discourse in the digital space by empowering people methodically and digitally using a browser extension to react constructively to hate speech as online street workers and to de-escalate escalations. The extension assists in recognizing and processing hate speech. Core team Judith Bühler, ZHAW School… Read More »Social influencer