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
The Digital Council is a committee of experts and promotes the digital transformation at ZHdK. It initiates and supports strategic projects in the area of digitalisation and advises the university management in these matters. The Council’s members take up national and international discussions, bring in their expertise and contribute to… Read More »Who is who: Digital Council ZHdK
https://youtu.be/xHk13Y_MTBM What happens when you cross educational institutions with videogames? Serious games! In other words, games that not only provide entertainment, but also convey information or education. On November 17, the five Zurich universities demonstrated in the Nüü, the event space for digital transformation of the ZHAW, using self-developed games,… Read More »Gaming for Good
This article was first published on the ZHAW Digital Futures Lab blog. The interview was conducted by Johanna Seiwald (ZHAW digital). Congratulations Dr. Lilach Goren Huber for winning the Best Presentation Award and DIZH fellow Dr. Jürg Meierhofer for the Best Paper Award at the Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS) this year! The SDS is… Read More »And the Awards go to … Smart Services and Predictive Maintenance
Beneath the surface of the global tech industry The exhibition Kamituga | Digital Gold which was originally created for the exhibition Planet Digital at the Museum für Gestaltung (February to June 2022) will be showcased in an adapted version during the Festival Zurich meets Berlin. From November 3rd to 7th 2022 projects from ETH, University… Read More »Kamituga | Digital Gold @ Zurich meets Berlin
The call promotes projects in which solutions to relevant practical questions and current societal challenges are developed. This explicitly includes the possibility of working on novel, risky questions for which the path to implementation or the measurement of the impact is fraught with uncertainty. We are looking for projects that… Read More »New call in the innovation program: Call for project proposals
DSI hosted a European hub for a conference held in Australia in mid-June. In the video, organizer and DSI postdoc Mario Angst talks about his experience with this new format and how it helps reduce researchers’ individual CO2 emissions.
Dmytro Boyarchuk and Christopher Hartwell are working together on the project Economic priorities in post-war Ukraine, funded by the Rapid Action Call. The Chicago Tribune published a commentary by the two explaining why now is the right time to talk about reconstruction and what areas the plan for Ukraine must… Read More »A Ukrainian postwar recovery plan needs specifics now. A commentary by Dmytro Boyarchuk and Christopher Hartwell in the Chicago Tribune.