As a bridge professor for digital cultures and arts, Roland Meyer combines teaching and research at ZHdK and UZH. The DIZH bridge professorship “Digital Cultures and Arts” is now online with a new website. The professorship combines media and visual culture studies and deals with digital visual cultures, platform capitalism,… Read More »New website for the DIZH Bridge Professorship “Digital Cultures and Arts”
A vast majority of media professionals in Switzerland use AI tools in their day-to-day work but do so mostly to support their tasks rather than produce content, according to a study by the University of Zurich. They are rather ambivalent in their assessment of the impact of AI tools on… Read More »Clear Majority of Swiss Media Professionals Use AI Tools – But Have Reservations
Playful didactics in university teaching What happens when a goat suddenly appears in a Zoom call? How can a dice bring new ideas to a seminar? And what exactly is the difference between ludic didactics, gamification, and playification? In this episode of Schampar digital, we talk to Mela Kocher, lecturer… Read More »Level up for learning
New paper published in «International Journal of Technoethics» DSI researcher Dr. Ning Wang published a new paper on a study that analyzed experts’ perspectives regarding public acceptance of urban drones in the Swiss context. DSI reseacher Dr. Ning Wang published the paper «“Trusting the Sky!”: Expert Perceptions Regarding Public Acceptance of Urban Drones»… Read More »Trusting the sky!
The fifth Strategy Lab of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) focussed on the future of quantum technology. The results have been summarised in a position paper that provides realistic assessments of expected technical developments and reflects on the potential impact on society. A column on the topic was also published.… Read More »DSI Strategy Lab: A Future with Quantum Computing
The DSI Infrastructures & Labs are shared platforms and structural vessels for creating collaborative research environments for digital transformation. Four new projects were selected for funding as part of this year’s call: DAVALab – Digital Audio-Visual Annotation Lab ELIAS – an Agentic Interview Service OpenOSR – General-Purpose Open-Source Tools for… Read More »Four new DSI Infrastructures & Labs
The “ZHAW digital” initiative supports research projects that address a wide range of topics and aspects of digital transformation. The projects in this funding round deal with issues such as privacy protection, digital participation and sustainable resource use. As part of the “Digital Futures Fund for Research and Development” (DFF),… Read More »ZHAW digital: Five new DFF projects
With the 3rd Structure Call, we are promoting innovation structures that are effective in the long term. We support agile projects that overcome disciplinary and institutional boundaries, enable socially relevant solutions and sustainably strengthen cooperation between universities and practice partners. Funding of up to CHF 1.2 million per structure is… Read More »Apply now: 3rd Structure Call
Voices are with us all the time, whether in conversations, podcasts or movies. But what if we are suddenly no longer sure whether it is a person speaking on the other end?Today, artificial intelligence can generate voices that sound deceptively real. How does this work technically and linguistically? Phonetics professor… Read More »Who is speaking? Voice, identity and simulation
The fourth DSI Insights is dedicated to the position paper ‘Recommendations for a future with quantum technology’. This paper was produced as part of the fifth DSI Strategy Lab. In the ‘DSI Insights’ column, Titus Neupert writes that quantum technologies such as quantum computing, quantum communication and quantum sensor technology… Read More »DSI Insights: Are we fit for quantum computing?