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YuRo: Real-time 3D vision for robots

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

IntelliGuide: Interactive AI-Driven User Manuals for Digital Transformation in the Public Sector

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

Redefining standard fatigue assessments through novel digital biomarkers

Project state closed Project start January 2024 Funding duration 10 months Universities involved UZH Practice partners Bellevue Medical Group Funding amount DIZH CHF 70’334 The main goal of this project was to improve the existing data collection infrastructure to gather the data needed for objective fatigue measurement. In particular, we… Read More »Redefining standard fatigue assessments through novel digital biomarkers

Design your city: A virtual reality experience for sustainable urban spaces

Project state closed Project start July 2023 Funding duration 24 months Universities involved ZHAW, ZHdK Practice partners Tiefbauamt Stadt Zürich (TAZ), Soziale Dienste Zürich (SOD), Amt für Städtebau Zürich (AfS), myclimate, Fussverkehr Schweiz, UmverkehR “Design Your City” is an innovative virtual reality experience that enables new forms of participation in… Read More »Design your city: A virtual reality experience for sustainable urban spaces

Partners in a Trading Zone – Development of a trading zone between ethnology and computer science in the context of embroidery

Project state closed Project start June 2023 Funding duration 24 months Universities involved UZH, PHZH Practice partner Volksschulamt Zürich In the digital transformation, there is a danger that disciplines will be forgotten. The team is pursuing the question of how a trading zone can be created in which actors from… Read More »Partners in a Trading Zone – Development of a trading zone between ethnology and computer science in the context of embroidery

Designing Podcasts

Project state closed Project start October 2023 Funding duration 24 months Universities involved ZHdK, ZHAW Practice partners Podcastschmiede Winterthur The most important outcome of the project is the development of a qualitative model designed to provide a holistic understanding of the design and use of podcasts and to establish a… Read More »Designing Podcasts

Potentials of Advanced Text Technologies: Machine Learning-based Text Recognition (PATT)

Project state closed Project start September 2023 Funding duration 24 months Universities involved ZHAW, UZH Practice partners ETH-Bibliothek, Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv (Zürich), Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich, UZH Archiv, Zentralbibliothek Zürich The recognition of complex layouts and manuscripts, among others by ATR, is far advanced. Today, their processing in research and memory… Read More »Potentials of Advanced Text Technologies: Machine Learning-based Text Recognition (PATT)

Edugame4Change. A digitally augmented business game for the digital transformation in schools

Project state closed Project start July 2023 Funding duration 30 months Universities involved PHZH, ZHdK Practice partners KITS-Fachstelle, Schulamt der Stadt Zürich, hep-Verlag Schools are facing numerous challenges in the digital transformation. In the Edugame4Change project, the ImaginEd game is being developed to help schools shape this change at various… Read More »Edugame4Change. A digitally augmented business game for the digital transformation in schools

The impact of Deepfakes in virtual reality scenarios for mental health therapy

Project state closed Project start September 2023 Funding duration 24 months Universities involved ZHdK, UZH Practice partners Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich Funding amount DIZH CHF 217’589 As part of the project, a working prototype was developed for an innovative therapeutic intervention that combines virtual reality (VR) with generative deepfakes. The aim… Read More »The impact of Deepfakes in virtual reality scenarios for mental health therapy

Spatial Abilities. Training spatial thinking in a playful way.

Project state closed Project start July 2023 Funding duration 24 months Universities involved ZHdK, ZHAW Practice partners 5am Games GmbH, DGI Bauwerk Funding amount DIZH CHF 149’238 https://youtu.be/OH9YdFLYQkA Spatial thinking can be improved through targeted practice. While appropriate training methods have previously been taught using exercise books, for example, the… Read More »Spatial Abilities. Training spatial thinking in a playful way.