We all know it from school or university: some days you learn really well, other days nothing works. This is not only due to how you feel on the day, but also depends heavily on three psychological needs. DSI Professor and educational scientist Sascha Schneider explains what these needs are… Read More »How digital tools boost motivation to learn
The Next Generation of Customer Service Solutions from Web Content to No-Code, multimodal AI Chatbots AI API Core is a no-code platform that transforms website content and other resources such as internal documents into multilingual, citation-based chatbots for SMEs. Leveraging advanced LLMs and agentic AI, it automates up to 90%… Read More »AI API Core
Generative AI promises the future. But how does it change our view of the past? Roland Meyer, DIZH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and the Arts, describes an often overlooked dimension of generative AI in an article in the university magazine Zett: its relationship to history. AI systems such as… Read More »Synthetic archives
Virtual Arena for Research, Education, and Democratic Innovation Virena is a simulation platform that replicates lifelike social media with customizable AI agents and full experimental control. It enables researchers, educators, and public organizations to test, train, and strategize in safe digital arenas, fostering media literacy, democratic innovation, and scalable public-interest… Read More »VIRENA
AI-powered platform for constructing bespoke equity indices Swiss investors face a structural gap: conventional indices rarely match their objectives, while global providers dominate with high fees. We will develop an AI-powered platform for small asset managers and retail investors in Switzerland, enabling them to design dynamic custom indices with full… Read More »Custom Swiss Index AI
Community interpreters interpret conversations between migrants and professionals in hospitals, public institutions or at asylum hearings. Despite the responsibility of their role, they often receive only basic training in interpreting. As part of the IT-COMMIT project, an app was developed that uses AI to generate bilingual conversations in 21 languages… Read More »Project closure: IT-Commit
The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) at the University of Zurich is looking for a Research Assistant (30–40%) to work on the sixth DSI Strategy Lab on the topic of ‘The Impact of Interdisciplinary Research’. The DSI at the University of Zurich is looking for a Research Assistant (30–40%) to join… Read More »Vacancy: Research Assistant «The Impact of Interdisciplinary Research»
Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been established in digital tools that translate texts into other languages or generate subtitles. However, the technology for sign language translations for deaf people and audio descriptions for blind people is still a long way from being fully developed. DSI Professor and computational linguist Sarah… Read More »How AI can break down barriers in videos
What makes a podcast worth listening to? In this special episode, we welcome two guests for the first time and talk about what we do ourselves: podcasts. Pascal Streule (ZHAW) and Eric Andreae (ZHdK), together with an interdisciplinary team and the production company Podcastschmiede, have produced a comprehensive scientific analysis… Read More »Designing Podcasts: How podcasts are created and how they work
Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), anyone can now produce error-free, perfect-looking text in a matter of seconds with just a few pieces of information and instructions. However, the entire writing process should not be left to AI, says Noah Bubenhofer, director of the DSI and professor of German linguistics. He… Read More »Why writing should not be left to AI