Merlin Hebecker researches new forms of precarious work at the Public Data Lab. Since September 2025, Merlin Hebecker has been a doctoral student in labor geography at the University of Zurich and a member of the Public Data Lab. In his dissertation, he examines how new forms of precarious work,… Read More »On Precarious Work and Invisible People
The Re-Experiencing History project has been completed. An interactive platform has been developed that allows users to visually design historical scenes from antiquity themselves. With the help of AI and specially trained models, users can create their own visualizations via a prompt interface, whether of Roman triumphal processions or everyday… Read More »Project closure: Re-Experiencing History
The TRUST-RAD project team has published a comprehensive dataset for the development of AI assistance systems for X-ray image interpretation. RadVLM Instruction Dataset is now available to the scientific community on the PhysioNet platform. The dataset comprises over 1.1 million image-instruction pairs from chest X-rays and covers various radiological tasks:… Read More »TRUST-RAD: New dataset for reliable AI assistance tools in radiology published
The Swiss Centre for Responsible AI (SCRAI) has begun its work. It connects research, industry, and politics to promote the responsible and human-centered use of artificial intelligence. The kick-off event, “Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in Responsible AI,” took place as part of the Zurich AI Festival. Experts… Read More »Launch of the Swiss Center for Responsible AI
The new Immerse Lab at PH Zurich is a dedicated space for exploring and advancing immersive technologies in education. The lab is part of the IMMERSE project, which is funded in the 2nd Structure Call. Its aim is to promote the pedagogically sound use of emerging visual technologies such as virtual… Read More »PH Zurich opens Immerse Lab
The manual “Designing Podcasts” was presented on October 1. It was developed in collaboration with CAST / Audiovisual Media at ZHdK, the Department of Applied Psychology at ZHAW, and Podcastschmiede. The handbook combines media dramaturgical analyses of German-language podcasts with media psychology studies on listening behavior. It provides insights into… Read More »Manual “Designing Podcasts”
The Social Influencer project was the first Swiss project to be included in the Good Practice Collection of the Society for Media Education and Communication Culture (GMK). It shows how method-guided counter speech can have a constructive effect in digital spaces and how modern technologies such as artificial intelligence can help… Read More »Social Influencer
The research project on combating propaganda and disinformation in digital media has been successfully completed. As part of the project, the browser extension Apollolytics was developed to help users recognize and critically evaluate propagandistic content in online news. The tool uses large language models (LLMs) to identify propaganda techniques and… Read More »Project closure Apollolytics: Automated Propaganda Detection in the Browser
Not all forms of gainful employment appear in official statistics. Especially where working conditions are precarious or wages are barely enough to live on, those affected often remain invisible to the public. In this interview, Karin Schwiter, professor of labor geography at the University of Zurich, talks about how she… Read More »Making the invisible visible
At the “Talk im Turm,” Felix K. Maier and Roland Meyer discussed how artificial intelligence shapes historical images, from academic research to pop culture and political staging. Elon Musk in pseudo-Roman armor: At the Talk in the Tower, historian Felix K. Maier (second from left) and image scientist Roland Meyer… Read More »Fake or fact: How AI is changing our view of history
