The Focus Watch is a smartwatch that helps children with ADHD to concentrate on schoolwork. Our watch recognises a lack of attention and specifically promotes focus. With ADHD prevalence of 5-7% in children, this is an innovative alternative to medication and therapy. Team: Dr. Samuel Wehrli, ZHAW School of Life Sciences… Read More »Focus Watch
Community interpreters interpret conversations in the health, social, education or asylum sectors and thus make a significant contribution to giving people without sufficient knowledge of the national language access to public services. Despite this responsible task, they rarely have the opportunity to practise in their working languages as part of… Read More »IT-COMMIT: an interactive tool for community interpreter training
Apollolytics employs Large Language Models aims at fighting propaganda and disinformation in digital news. It identifies propaganda techniques, fact-checks content, and provides explanations. This empowers users to think critically and discern media biases, enhancing democratic integrity. Download the browser extension: Apollolytics GoogleChrome Apollolytics Firefox Demo pictures of the browser extension… Read More »Apollolytics: Making the Unseen Seen with an AI-assisted Propaganda Detection and Fact-Checking
Perception is the main bottleneck for robots in human-centred dynamic environments. YuRo will build the first real-time smart camera for robotic manipulators using neuromorphic technology. We will integrate the camera on a robotic manipulator and develop a mobile robot arm assisting in hospitals and care facilities. Prof. Dr. Yulia Sandamirskaya,… 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 22'500 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
Project state closed Project start January 2024 Funding duration 10 months Universities involved UZH Practice partners Bellevue Medical Group Funding amount DIZH CHF 70'300 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
A knowledge archive of the art of film cineMINDS is developing an international online platform for the collection, research and publication of craft knowledge in the art of film. We open up innovative perspectives for dealing with large video corpora in the digital humanities, promote a low-threshold accessible publication of… Read More »cineMINDS
Historical collection objects have a lot to tell about the global interconnections of our present. Often, however, they lack a contemporary translation. The project is developing a digital mediation platform that enables students to question the objects themselves and place them in new contexts. Core team: Prof. Dr. Sophia Prinz,… Read More »Histories for the Global Present. Digital Co-Creation in School and Museum
In the project, researchers from the ZHAW (School of Engineering, Social Work, Life Sciences and Facility Management) and the ZHdK (Knowledge Visualization) are creating and investigating an innovative tool for participatory design processes. This offers residents and decision-makers the opportunity to virtually experience and participate in the design of a… Read More »Design your city: A virtual reality experience for sustainable urban spaces
Stroke DynamiX explores data-driven stroke management using machine-learning techniques in a consortium of statistics researchers, translational enablers, and clinical partners. We implement statistical tools to dynamically model stroke epidemiologically and predict real-time sepsis onset in the clinic. Core team: Dr. Georg Spinner, ZHAW Life Sciences und Facility Management Prof. Dr.… Read More »Stroke DynamiX