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Virtual Reality (VR) learning exercises are recognized to boost motivation of students and to be highly scalable. In Central Tanzania, Helvetas and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) conducted a pilot study with electrical engineering students at two government vocational training schools. Helvetas is a practice partner in the… Read More »Virtual reality as a learning venue for basic vocational training – pilot test with students in Tanzania

Have a look behind the shiny surfaces of the smartphone industry. The video gives an impression of the Kamituga | Digital Gold project, which was shown as part of the Planet Digital exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich. More information: www.digital-gold.ch www.immersive-arts.ch

DSI Infrastructures & Labs are jointly usable infrastructures or structural vessels that are intended to generate collaborative settings for research – naturally always with reference to the digital transformation. Synergies and new forms of cooperation are to be made possible from the bundling of existing competences and people. We are… Read More »DSI Infrastructure & Lab

DSI LECTURE SERIES 2022 Over the past three months, we have intensively studied the future of the world of work: We have learned, for example, that a healthy dose of humour never hurts in everyday working life. We now know what challenges food delivery workers on bicycles have to deal… Read More »The Future of Work

On Thursday, 30 June 2022 at 4:30 pm, the Immersive Arts Space invites you to a book vernissage [more]. Christoph N. Vogel’s publication CONFLICT MINERALS INC will be presented. The vernissage will take place in the Immersive Arts Space and is part of a collaboration with the Geographical Institute of… Read More »Kamituga / Digital Gold

From gaming to governance: four projects have been approved in the innovation program of the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH). In close cooperation with practitioners, digital solutions can contribute to dealing with emergencies as a result of the war against Ukraine. In various respects, the war… Read More »DIZH funds four projects to deal with emergencies as a result of the war against Ukraine

On June 8 and 9, 48 researchers met for the first European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF’22) at the premises of the Digital Society Initiative. This research field revolves around the question of how fairness can be understood and evaluated in the age of algorithms. As such research often focuses… Read More »EWAF’22 @Digital Society Initiativ