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VIRENA

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

Custom Swiss Index AI

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

Project closure: IT-Commit

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

Vacancy: Research Assistant «The Impact of Interdisciplinary Research»

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»

Project closure: Digital lifeling learning

The project Revolutionizing Education60+: Digital Lifelong Learninghas been successfully completed. The aim was to make it easier for people aged 60 and over to access contemporary learning opportunities and to equip them with the skills they need for an increasingly digital society. In collaboration with partners from the field, new course… Read More »Project closure: Digital lifeling learning

How AI can break down barriers in videos

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

Designing Podcasts: How podcasts are created and how they work

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

Collaborative development of a digital health app for cancer care

The study ‘Collaborative Design and Development of a Patient-Centred Digital Health App for Supportive Cancer Care: Participatory Study’ was published in JMIR Human Factors. The study describes the collaborative design and development process of the digital health app OncoSupport+, which is specifically tailored to the needs of supportive cancer care.… Read More »Collaborative development of a digital health app for cancer care

Why writing should not be left to AI

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