Shelter spaces as social and digital infrastructure for learning and working in times of crisis The SHAPE reimagines adaptive collaboration spaces for living, working, and learning in response to military conflict and its long-term impact on organizations and communities. These spaces are defined by the integration of physical shelters (such… Read More »SHAPE (Shelter-based Hubs for Adaptive Partnerships and Engagement)
Digital solutions for a cross-university, networked and future-oriented learning landscape The aim of the project is to strengthen cooperation between Zurich’s universities. The focus is on the vision of a networked ‘Zurich learning environment’. To this end, the starting point of the participating universities, international good practices and the needs… Read More »Learning environment Zurich
The aim of this project is to develop a digital platform that assesses the energy renovation needs of existing buildings and estimates renovation-adjusted property prices. The platform provides a basis for property comparison and informed investment decisions, while enhancing market transparency, supporting purchasing decisions, promoting affordable housing, and encouraging targeted… Read More »Towards Transparent and Energy-Efficient Real Estate Markets: A Smart Model for Renovation-Adjusted Property Valuation and Investment Decisions
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
Inclusive Digital Citizen Science: a technology-driven applied linguistics project within a disability studies framework The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires signatories to ensure the full participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society. Digital citizen science, as an emerging participatory methodology… Read More »DigInCiteS
Leveraging large language models to unlock and synthesize the expanding volume of medical research The overwhelming volume of published research hampers evidence-based medicine. The project team aims to develop MedLitGrasp, an online tool for researchers and clinicians, that uses large language models to automatically synthesize large volumes of biomarker data… Read More »MedLitGrasp