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 state closed Project start May 2024 Funding duration 22 months Universities involved ZHAW Practice partners PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH Scalable, location-based scoring of biodiversity and water risks for companies and investors Nature risks are accelerating and now carry direct operational, financial, and reputational consequences. Regulators, investors, NGOs, and media… Read More »Digitising Environmental Impacts using Geospatial Analytics
Project state closed Project start March 2024 Funding duration 12 months Universities involved UZH Practice partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 45’221 The project focused on developing an innovative image application that allows users to not only view visual content, but also experience and interpret it in new ways. The application… Read More »Re-Experiencing History
Project state closed Project start January 2024 Funding duration 15 months Universities involved UZH Practice partner Funding amount DIZH CHF 74’926 The project, funded by the DIZH Founder Call, investigated how companies can achieve a better balance between concentrated individual work and focused teamwork. The aim was to prepare an… Read More »FlowTeams
Project state closed Project start January 2024 Funding duration 18 months Universities involved UZH / USZ Practice partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 72’949 Interpreting laboratory results and deriving a diagnosis from them is a common and demanding task in medicine. The team has developed a clinical decision support system (CDSS)… Read More »Clinical decision support system for the interpretation of blood lab results and diagnosis based on them
Project state closed Project start April 2023 Funding duration 15 months Universities involved ZHAW Practice partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 71’871 The project developed a smartwatch that helps children with ADHD concentrate better on their schoolwork. With a prevalence of 5-7% among children, the technology offers an innovative alternative to… Read More »Focus Watch
Project state closed Project start February 2023 Funding duration 18 months Universities involved ZHAW Practice partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 66'141 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… Read More »IT-COMMIT: an interactive tool for community interpreter training
Project state closed Project start March 2024 Funding duration 12 months Universities involved UZH Practice partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 74’945 The project aimed to combat propaganda and disinformation in digital media through the development of AI-assisted tools for detection and analysis. Over multiple development phases, the team created and… Read More »Apollolytics: Making the Unseen Seen with an AI-assisted Propaganda Detection and Fact-Checking
Project state closed Project start April 2024 Funding duration 15 months Universities involved ZHAW The projectteam developed a hardware and software platform to enable real-time smart 3D vision for assistive robots. https://youtu.be/3KgJS77iBcc?si=SmFt6iK0T0iDpKby A novel hardware system was developed that integrates a pair of event-based vision sensors (DVS) and a pair… Read More »YuRo: Real-time 3D vision for robots
Project state closed Project start Januar 2024 Funding duration 12 months Universities involved UZH Practice partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 14'945 Our project set out to rethink how people use software manuals (those often confusing instruction guides) by turning them into interactive, AI-powered helpers. Traditional user guides can be hard… Read More »IntelliGuide: Interactive AI-Driven User Manuals for Digital Transformation in the Public Sector