Sabine Dani

The article Learning from safety science: A way forward for studying cybersecurity incidents in organizations deals with the causes of cybersecurity incidents in organizations. Often, such incidents are attributed to isolated technical or human errors. But the authors argue that explaining such incidents in socio-technical systems is more like social… Read More »One wrong click and the company is broke?

The paper “Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones: A Scoping Literature Review” by Dr. Ning Wang, Nico Mutzner and Prof. Dr. Karl Blanchet was published in the current issue of the journal “Technogloy in Society”. Abstract des Papers: The use of drones (or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in urban areas has emerged… Read More »Societal Acceptance of Urban Drones: A Scoping Literature Review

This book explores the concept of public trust in health systems. In the context of recent events, including public response to interventions to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination uptake and the use of health data and digital health, this important book uses empirical evidence to address why public trust is… Read More »Book: «What Is Public Trust in the Health System? Insights into Health Data Use»Book:

Almost two-thirds of the Swiss population would like to have a digital twin. The digital image of a human body is likely to have a major impact on healthcare in the future and will become an issue in diagnosis and therapy, but also in prevention. The Digital Society Initiative (DSI),… Read More »Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine 

https://vimeo.com/865476620 The project aims to deepen the understanding of the Circle of Willis, an important vascular system in the brain. This is a network of blood vessels at the base of the brain that allows blood to be redirected in the event of an ischemic stroke. The project team is… Read More »Deep Brain Vessel Profiler: Treating strokes individually with Deep Learning

Late August “Government as a Platform” research group has held a presentation of a pilot project on the potential usage of SSI technology for issue of digital IDs for the refugees in Switzerland. The results were presented to the practice partners from the Swiss software companies Ergon Informatik AG and… Read More »Digital ID for refugees based on the Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)

At the beginning of September, we were represented at Switzerland’s largest science festival. We presented fascinating research ranging from virtual reality projects on gold mining in Congo to the amazing possibilities of artificial intelligence in health, language and robotics. Ricardo Chavarriaga presents a video game controlled by thoughts. Virtual Reality… Read More »Our appearance at the Scientifica

The BRIDGE Lab is a structural vessel funded by the UZH Digital Society Initiative (DSI). It offers a collaborative platform to promote research and innovation across sectors and cultures, and to bring together academia with industry and policy makers with the aim to better understand how to obtain societal acceptance of disruptive technologies, among others. The lab… Read More »The BRIDGE Lab – a collaborative platform to promote research and innovation

The Digital Society Initiative and the division of Mathematics are seeking candidates with an excellent track record and the potential to establish an internationally leading research group in one area of mathematics for high-dimensional problems with connections to mathematical modeling, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other areas relevant in… Read More »Open position: Assistant Professorship in Deep Learning in High-Dimensional Data Structures (50-100 %)