Project state closed Project start March 2024 Funding duration 18 months Universities involved UZH, ZHAW, ZHdK Practice partners Comedian Frank Richter, Catta Funding amount DIZH CHF 37’242 The digital transformation, particularly in relation to artificial intelligence (AI), is a complex and often polarizing topic that poses significant challenges for science… Read More »SciComm meets Comedy
Project state closed Project start April 2024 Funding duration 18 months Universities involved ZHAW, ZHdK Practice partners Kantonsspital Winterthur, VAMED Rehazentrum Zürich ExerUp Portal provides information on exergames and their potential in the areas of health, training and therapy. The platform is aimed at interested parties from research, practice and… Read More »Exergames for Health – Bringing digital and motivating forms of therapy and training to the clinic and public
Researchers from the University of Zurich have been honoured with the UZH Postdoc Team Award for developing an innovative smartwatch application and companion app called MindfulPacer to help Long Covid sufferers manage their symptoms. The researchers, André Meyer-Baron and Carlo Cervia-Hasler, met at a DIZH networking event in November 2022… Read More »A Smartwatch App to Tackle Long Covid
MindfulPacer MindfulPacer is an innovative platform made up of a smartwatch application and a smartphone app. The platform helps people affected by Long Covid manage their symptoms by providing them with real-time data related to their physical activity. The research prototype is now to be made publicly available and, in… Read More »Growing a public self-sustaining community for Activity Pacing and Long Covid patients
Project state closed Project start January 2024 Funding duration 10 months Universities involved UZH Practice partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 49’419 From downloading to upcycling – this is based on the clever idea of science to create added value for society with existing user data. By donating data to research,… Read More »Data Donation Day
Project state closed Project start June 2023 Funding duration 12 months Universities involved ZHAW, ZHdK Practice partners – The project will develop a platform that focuses on Augmented Reality (AR) Patterns and aims to improve collaboration between UX designers and software developers. The goal is to create and operate a… Read More »Community Platform to Promote AR Patterns
Project state closed Project start January 2024 Funding duration 18 months Universities involved UZH Practice partners Verein Parldigi Funding amount DIZH CHF 24’967 The core of the Digital MasterClass Canton Zurich consisted of five continuing education events for members of the Zurich Cantonal Council. The following events were held on… Read More »Digital MasterClass Canton of Zurich
Project state closed Project start February 2024 Funding duration 12 months Universities involved UZH, ZHAW Practice partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 50’085 HackEOn – Pixels for the planet This hackathon event gives participants all means to capitalize on the application of Earth Observation data for the sustainable management of natural… Read More »HackEOn: hacking satellite data for sustainable resource management
In the current podcast episode, we take an exclusive look at ChaLL, the prototype of a language-based chatbot that enables students to improve their language skills. Manuela Hürlimann from the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at the ZHAW provides insights into the development of the bot and explains why such a… Read More »Learning languages the easy way