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Algorithmic systems promise to make grading objective and individualize education. Instead of subjective preferences of teachers algorithms seemingly base their decisions about grading and allocating tasks on seemingly objective data. Yet, due to their nontransparent nature new forms of inequality are unwittingly introduced. Datasets and their algorithmic analysis are subject to algorithmic bias,… Read More »Algorithmic alchemy – socio-technical reproduction of social inequality in education

Challenge yourself and form an interdisciplinary team (nursing, medicine, medical ethics, health sciences, and design) to submit a project proposal for the first Digital Health Design Challenge of DHD Living Lab. Check out two inspiring cases of this year’s Healthathon on dhdll.ch and connect to likeminded people. Reach out to dhd.livinglab@zhdk.ch and… Read More »Digital Health Design Challenge «Decision Making in Healthcare» 

Healthcare chatbots can become an important tool to support and empower patients and increase efficiency in healthcare. To better understand how chatbots should be designed, the research team would like you to test a fictitious chatbot. The results will help them to better understand the potential of chatbots in healthcare as… Read More »Research study on the role of chatbots in healthcare

In the coming months, ZHAW digital will take a closer look at the field of Cybersecurity at Digital Futures Lab Blog and the joint event «Digital Futures: AI and Cybersecurity». What is the current situation in research, politics, industry and what can we as citizens do to be more resilient?… Read More »Cybersecurity: “What can happen, will happen”

The most extensive funds of the innovation program are used for structure calls. With these, DIZH supports long-term innovation structures with the aim of creating organizational forms that outlast DIZH. In a world that is constantly changing, flexible and future-oriented organizational forms are crucial to meeting the challenges of digitization.… Read More »Shaping the digital future together: Structure call now open

The article Learning from safety science: A way forward for studying cybersecurity incidents in organizations deals with the causes of cybersecurity incidents in organizations. Often, such incidents are attributed to isolated technical or human errors. But the authors argue that explaining such incidents in socio-technical systems is more like social… Read More »One wrong click and the company is broke?

The paper “Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones: A Scoping Literature Review” by Dr. Ning Wang, Nico Mutzner and Prof. Dr. Karl Blanchet was published in the current issue of the journal “Technogloy in Society”. Abstract des Papers: The use of drones (or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in urban areas has emerged… Read More »Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones: A Scoping Literature Review

This book explores the concept of public trust in health systems. In the context of recent events, including public response to interventions to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination uptake and the use of health data and digital health, this important book uses empirical evidence to address why public trust is… Read More »Book: «What Is Public Trust in the Health System? Insights into Health Data Use»Book:

Almost two-thirds of the Swiss population would like to have a digital twin. The digital image of a human body is likely to have a major impact on healthcare in the future and will become an issue in diagnosis and therapy, but also in prevention. The Digital Society Initiative (DSI),… Read More »Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine 

https://vimeo.com/865476620 The project aims to deepen the understanding of the Circle of Willis, an important vascular system in the brain. This is a network of blood vessels at the base of the brain that allows blood to be redirected in the event of an ischemic stroke. The project team is… Read More »Deep Brain Vessel Profiler: Treating strokes individually with Deep Learning