Data Donation Day 2024 The Data Donation Lab will organize a Data Donation Day in September 2024 in Switzerland. The goal of the Data Donation Day is to increase people’s awareness of the possibility to donate their personal digital data to research and provide them the opportunity to participate in… Read More »Data donation for research purposes
For: High school students from a Gymnasium or Berufsmaturitätsschule in their third and final year before graduation.Date and time: 17 April 2024, 8:00am-08:00pmLocation: University of Zurich, DIZH, Rämistrasse 69, 8001 Zürich What is it about? “Kick-start your Career with AI» is a full-day hackathon aimed at empowering young and aspiring students to harness… Read More »Kick-start your Career with AI
The Apéro Digital event series are regular in-person gatherings for those who are interested in science and technology to meet and discuss pressing issues related to digitalization, innovations and society in a systematic and argumentative way. Apéro Digital is a “sister” program of Apéro Philo, both are event series that hold the promise… Read More »Apéro Digital
“Conversations with Stanley” enables the audience to have conversations in real time with an emotionally responsive artificial intelligence. The project aims to make technology tangible in a low-threshold way, encourage critical reflection and open up a public and broad debate on the role of algorithms in our society. Learn more… Read More »Conversations with Stanley
The project communicates digital transformation topics in an entertaining way. The focus is on a comedy show, advertised via various websites, social media and a live event. The show and the accompanying communication are tested for their impact and resonance. Image created by OpenAI’s DALL-E Team Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Gnach, ZHAW School… Read More »SciComm meets Comedy
Researchers from the University of Zurich have been honoured with the UZH Postdoc Team Award for developing an innovative smartwatch application and companion app called MindfulPacer to help Long Covid sufferers manage their symptoms. The researchers, André Meyer-Baron and Carlo Cervia-Hasler, met at a DIZH networking event in November 2022… Read More »A Smartwatch App to Tackle Long Covid
The Data Donation Day will familiarize the general public of the Canton of Zurich with the possibility to donate their digital trace data for academic research. The preparation of the outreach activity (live events, media coverage, and a website) will stimulate networking and collaboration among researchers from the four DIZH… Read More »Data Donation Day
The project will develop a platform that focuses on Augmented Reality (AR) Patterns and aims to improve collaboration between UX designers and software developers. The goal is to create and operate a public catalogue of AR Patterns that covers both technical and UX aspects. The resulting community platform promotes the… Read More »Community Platform to Promote AR Patterns
With the Digital MasterClass Canton of Zurich, qualified researchers from the DIZH universities will inform the parliamentarians of the Zurich Cantonal Council about relevant topics of digital transformation. Politicians can thus acquire digital expertise on a neutral basis and form independent opinions. Team: Roman Scherrer, UZH Digital Society Initiative (DSI)… Read More »Digital MasterClass Canton of Zurich
This hackathon event gives participants all means to capitalize on the application of Earth Observation data for the sustainable management of natural resources. Our mission is to enrich participants with EO-knowledge and an entrepreneurial spirit surrounding sustainability. This combination will result in start-ups that benefit society. Team: Dr. Claudia Röösli,… Read More »HackEOn: hacking satellite data for sustainable resource management