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?
The position should be filled by 1 February 2024. The professorship will be established as a joint assistant professorship between the University of Zurich (UZH) and Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). After six years and upon a successful evaluation, the professorship is to be made permanent. The successful candidate’s… Read More »DIZH professorship in Digital Cultures and Arts
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making headlines recently. AI tools that can create text or images (e.g., ChatGTP or Dall-E) are on the rise. Felix Schmitt-Koopmann asked himself how AI could automatically detect mathematical formulae in a text and ultimately help visually impaired people. He created the new database “FormulaNet” to… Read More »New database helps AI recognize mathematical formulae
The DSI Community Education, newly launched in 2023, is dedicated to research in the field of learning and teaching with digital media and in digital environments. Are you interested in becoming part of the new community? Share your ideas, wishes and perceived challenges with the community through a short survey… Read More »Invitation to survey and kick-off of DSI Community Education
“Interdisciplinary” is a word that everyone uses, when asked how science projects should ideally take place. The ZHAW Datalab, one of the first Data Science labs in Europe, embodies exactly this notion. The 2023 symposium not only showcased successful examples, but it also highlighted the goals of the Datalab: it… Read More »10 years ZHAW Datalab
This year, the “Digital Futures Fund” (DFF) projects have their focus not only on digitalisation but also on sustainability. Thirteen projects start the new year with a funding by ZHAW digital. Since 2020, innovative digitalisation projects by ZHAW employees have been funded by the DFF with up to CHF 20,000.… Read More »Digital & sustainable: new year, new DFF projects
https://youtu.be/14CgUbqX1aY David Lätsch holds a doctorate in psychology and works as a researcher and lecturer in the field of social work at the ZHAW. In the project “Predictive Chance Modelling” he researched a new approach in child protection together with the Office for Youth and Career Guidance. The aim was… Read More »Algorithms in child protection – useful or risky?
Brigitte Rohner is innovation manager and project leader of LINA. LINA aims to provide the operational basis of a real and virtual infrastructure for research, development and safe testing of autonomous systems in the Canton of Zurich in an internationally unique test setup. In an interview with INNOVATION ZURICH, Brigitte… Read More »What is behind LINA?
https://vimeo.com/787655511 The production of research data is often publicly funded; this makes it a kind of common good. If data is used by further researchers or made available to a broad public, it must be anonymised. As a result, they can only be used to a limited extent. Moreover, with… Read More »Research data in a digital society: practical, ethical and legal challenges