In an interview with WOZ, Roland Meyer, DIZH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and Arts at UZH and ZHdK, talks about the cultural and political consequences of generative image AI. Instead of creating new visual languages, they mainly reproduce stereotypical motifs and backward-looking aesthetics. He warns of a “model collapse”:… Read More »“AI image generators are nostalgia machines and cliché amplifiers”
The European automotive industry is in crisis: 2024 sales figures for electric and combustion cars have fallen. Anja Schulze, Director of the Swiss Center for Automotive Research and DIZH bridge professor at the UZH and ZHAW, explains why electromobility still has a future in an interview with the Beobachter. She… Read More »‘It’s inconceivable that the combustion engine will run forever’ – Interview with Anja Schulze
The Best Blend of Tradition and Trend: Enhancing Cognitive Tests with Digital Pens and Mobile Brain Imaging The project enhances a neuropsychological test of visual memory, the Rey Figure Test, using smart pens and mobile brain imaging. The project team develops a computer vision algorithm to automate figure analysis, analyzes… Read More »CogniDIP
A virtual therapy guidance system for personalized rehabilitation after stroke This project develops a VR-based trunk control rehabilitation system for stroke patients, using adaptive algorithms, real-time motion data, and advanced communication. Through participatory design with clinicians and patients, we aim to create a user-friendly, scalable system that enhances recovery and… Read More »HoloTeach
Sensory Reweighting, Muscle Synergies and Triggers for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease Freezing of Gait is a frequent and debillitating condition in Parkinson’s Disease, for which there is no proven therapeutic approach. AntiFreeze uses virtual reality to assess, evaluate, and train strategies to avoid Freezing in a tailored manner.… Read More »AntiFreeze
Headaches are a major cause of health loss in Switzerland. The DHDH project brings together digital and analog processes for headache communication. Using methods from linguistics and digital language analysis, the project team aim to close the gaps between communications in the hospital setting and pain expression in the digital… Read More »DHDH. Decoding Headaches in Digital Helvetia
Resource Activation for Teachers’ Well-being with Timely, Needs-Based Support Teaching is a highly stressful profession. This project aims to develop a scalable smartphone app using Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAI) to enhance teachers’ well-being by activating resources. It will assess both effectiveness and implementation, with a user-centered and evidence-based design ensuring… Read More »REACT
In his article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Roland Meyer analyzes how right-wing extremists and tech companies use generative AI to package ideological messages in familiar, seemingly harmless visual styles, e.g. in the style of Studio Ghibli. He warns of the political power of these aesthetics and criticizes the exploitative… Read More »The language of digital fascism. Roland Meyer on AI, aesthetics and ideology
A recent study by the University of Zurich shows that people are more concerned about the immediate risks of artificial intelligence, such as job loss or discrimination, than about speculative future scenarios in which AI threatens humanity. Three online experiments with over 10,000 participants from the USA and the UK… Read More »How people perceive AI risks: New study by the University of Zurich
The University of Zurich is currently conducting the FIDO (Fatigue Investigation using Digital Outcomes) study and is looking for healthy participants aged between 18 and 65. The aim of the study is to find out how smartphones and wearables can be used to measure fatigue and remotely monitor health status,… Read More »Participants wanted for health study