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The rapid advancement of GenAI poses significant questions for the future of higher education: Is GenAI a threat to traditional teaching, or is it an unprecedented opportunity to revolutionize education, fostering equality, accessibility, and enhanced efficacy? Alexandra Jansky, leader of the innovation and digital education team at UZH and member… Read More »Listening recommendation: Setting Sails – Navigating AI in Higher Education

The BRIDGE Lab is a structural vessel funded by the UZH Digital Society Initiative (DSI). It offers a collaborative platform to promote research and innovation across sectors and cultures, and to bring together academia with industry and policy makers with the aim to better understand how to obtain societal acceptance of disruptive technologies, among others. The… Read More »The BRIDGE Lab: expert survey on social acceptance of urban drones

Cruciate ligament injuries are among the most common injuries in sport. Researchers at the ZHAW and ZHdK have developed the ExerUp game in collaboration with a practice partner to help people return to their previous level of activity in addition to physiotherapy. A movement-based game is designed to support injured… Read More »Game helps with the rehabilitation of cruciate ligament ruptures

https://vimeo.com/888754201 The 2023 plenary meeting focussed on education in the digital transformation. The Coordination Committee Education Program, together with the Management Board and the management office, invited participants to get to know the education funding programs and exchange ideas about education, bits and bites. The annual plenary assembly provides space… Read More »Education, bits and bites. DIZH plenary meeting 2023

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?