The newly launched DSI Community Sustainability aims to promote both sustainable digitalisation and digital sustainability. Co-leader Dr Mario Angst gives a brief insight into the work of the community. Sustainability and digitalisation represent two important and far-reaching social and technological transformation processes in our society. The DSI Community Sustainability aims… Read More »Introducing the DSI Community Sustainability
“Playful work”, combating forced marriage or education for the 60+ generation: the 18 applications approved in the 2nd project call in the innovation program of the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) use technologies and develop innovative applications to address human needs and values. With funding of… Read More »Innovative projects put people at the centre
https://youtu.be/r6zZtb0RyGs Together with Digital Shift, ZCCE organised a discussion evening on the topic of “Value of Web3” on 1 February. Almost 100 guests from the university landscape, tech community and start-up landscape in Zurich took part and discussed the potential of blockchain technologies. The experts were: Matthias Weissl, Co-Founder and… Read More »Event review “Value of Web3”
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?
Stroke DynamiX explores data-driven stroke management using machine-learning techniques in a consortium of statistics researchers, translational enablers, and clinical partners. We implement statistical tools to dynamically model stroke epidemiologically and predict real-time sepsis onset in the clinic. Core team: Dr. Georg Spinner, ZHAW Life Sciences und Facility Management Prof. Dr.… Read More »Stroke DynamiX
Design of an Algorithm-supported Toolkit for effective Information Management in Intensive Care The intensive care unit is a hectic environment where medical staff complain of critical overload from numerical values and curves displayed by various medical devices. To reduce the burden on clinical staff, this project aims to design user-centric… Read More »IC-DATIM
Project state closed Project start June 2023 Funding duration 24 months Universities involved UZH, PHZH Practice partner Volksschulamt Zürich In the digital transformation, there is a danger that disciplines will be forgotten. The team is pursuing the question of how a trading zone can be created in which actors from… Read More »Partners in a Trading Zone – Development of a trading zone between ethnology and computer science in the context of embroidery
Exhibition at Museum für Gestaltung Museum of the Future —17 Digital Experiments von 29. August 2025 bis 18. January 2026 August 29, 2025 – January 18, 2026 More information The project examines the potentials, areas of application and implementation possibilities around digitality for a forward-looking museum practice. Knowledge is being developed that will… Read More »The Museum of the Future
Project state closed Project start October 2023 Funding duration 24 months Universities involved ZHdK, ZHAW Practice partners Podcastschmiede Winterthur The most important outcome of the project is the development of a qualitative model designed to provide a holistic understanding of the design and use of podcasts and to establish a… Read More »Designing Podcasts