The Virtual Reality as a Learning Venue for Basic Vocational Education and Training project, which we presented in July as the winner of the SGAB Vocational Education and Training Award 2025, has now been officially honoured at the autumn conference of the Swiss Society for Applied Vocational Education and Training… Read More »VR as a learning venue: Award ceremony at the SGAB conference
The game ImaginEd is the result of the Edugame4Change project, which was funded in the third project call, and is now available as a product for schools. The game was presented to the public for the first time on 25 October 2025 at a launch event in the Lernmedienshop Zurich… Read More »ImaginEd: New educational game supports schools in the digital transformation
On October 23, 2025, the DIZH Public Data Lab (PDL) was launched at the Toni-Areal. Over 100 guests from the fields of science, administration, art, and civil society came together to discuss a key question: How do we measure the pulse of the canton of Zurich? Karin Mairitsch, president of… Read More »Launch of the Public Data Lab: A new space for open data and dialogue
“Design Your City” is an innovative virtual reality experience that enables new forms of participation in urban development. The aim is to actively involve the population and make changes in public spaces comprehensible to everyone. https://youtu.be/LwFxWWN4gmA Instead of presenting traditional plans, the virtual reality tool allows residents to experience planned… Read More »Design Your City
Dialogue-oriented artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in mental health care. It supports psychoeducation, self-management exercises, progress monitoring, and the implementation of structured therapeutic techniques. At the same time, its use raises fundamental questions: What does it mean when AI simulates empathy and care without itself bearing responsibility or values?… Read More »DSI Insights: AI in psychotherapy
ChatGPT is also sparking intense debate in educational research and is increasingly becoming the subject of scientific investigation itself. But what do we actually know about how well AI helps with learning? In the latest episode of Schampar digital, we talk to Joshua Weidlich, DIZH bridge professor at the University… Read More »Learning with ChatGPT. Research meets hype
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