The “Designing Podcasts” project has developed practical insights into podcast design and use. It focuses on three basic design types that have been developed – “story”, “talk” and “factual” – and their interaction with listeners’ motives for using podcasts. The findings are summarized in the “Designing Podcasts” manual, which has… Read More »Designing Podcasts – Transfer, Training, Tools
The DigitalForum of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) at the University of Zurich is a canton-wide platform for exchange between science, politics, and administration. It is aimed at municipalities, administrative units of the canton of Zurich, and the cantonal council, and makes DIZH research results available for practical use in… Read More »DigitalForum
The pop-up exhibition “Remember. Understand. Envision.” brings the LEAD Hub’s digital research on historical pandemics to life for a broad audience. Archival materials, data, and oral histories are condensed into an interactive experience that invites reflection on collective memory, social resilience, and digital transformation. This project builds on the digital… Read More »Remember. Understand. Envision. Historical pandemics in societal memory
The project promotes critical and reflective engagement with artificial intelligence among students and teachers. At its heart is the “KI-Schule” learning tool, which was developed as part of the project “Strengthening digital resilience: Interactive learning tool for AI skills among young people” in the third Rapid Action Call. The tool… Read More »From AI skills to digital resilience: empowering young people in the digital transformation
Speaker Recognition across Age-Groups for Cantonal Law Enforcement Agencies Criminal activities are increasingly coordinated via telecommunication channels. Telephone fraud generates extensive audio data that make manual analysis impossible. The SAGE project responds to these growing demands on the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Canton of Zurich and the Zurich Forensic… Read More »SAGE
Deepfake voice technology enables deceptively realistic voice clones that are used for fraud and manipulation. Neither humans nor machines can reliably detect deepfakes. The project investigates whether brain signals can capture unconscious distinctions between real and artificial voices. Neural measurements are combined with AI methods to develop more robust detection… Read More »Fake or real? Exploring brain signals for deepfake voice detection
An AI-powered inscription chatbot for research, education and cultural mediation Inscriptions are direct testimonies of real people (from soldiers to officials and craftsmen to families) and provide direct access to life in antiquity. However, they remain difficult for laypeople to understand, and even researchers find it difficult to map complex… Read More »Vox Lapidum
Rapid Integration through Job-Specific Communication Training As part of the project, a mobile AI-supported app is to be developed that promotes communication skills in the workplace. This aims to foster integration in the workplace and counteract the shortage of skilled workers. Team Dr. Anne Catherine Gieshoff, ZHAW Angewandte Linguistik Duygu Dogru,… Read More »SteppingStone
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
The project aims to develop a novel automated digital tool based on communication theory to analyze how different journalistic perspectives are linked in media reporting. The tool will benefit both strategic communication of organizations and journalistic research within media companies. Team Prof. Dr. Alexandre Bovet, UZH Department of Mathematical Modeling… Read More »New Digital Tools for Media Monitoring and Discourse Analysis