ZHAW digital

Up to a third of schoolchildren have fine motor difficulties that become noticeable when writing. A new digital game, which is being developed at the ZHAW’s Department of Health together with partners from ZHdK and PHZH, aims to make practicing fun.

Together with Swiss universities and industry partners, the ZHAW is researching how hospitals can implement the digital transformation.

Modern forms of organization, digital technologies such as virtual reality or artificial intelligence, and the networking of processes and data can turn the hospital into an intelligent system and increase quality and efficiency. For three and a half years, a consortium led by the ZHAW is researching how this transformation to the hospital of the future can be implemented – together with four other research partners, around 20 hospitals and 24 industry partners. The research project “Smart Hospital – Integrated Framework, Tools & Solutions” (SHIFT) will run until June 2025. It has a total budget of 5.7 million Swiss francs and is supported as a flagship project by Innosuisse, the Swiss agency for innovation promotion.

Jürg Meierhofer, Christoph Heitz, and Frank Hannich won the Best Paper Award in the Service Science category at the Naples Forum on Service 2021 for their paper on optimising service value creation with smart, connected products. The paper was written as part of a DIZH Fellowship.

The paper describes a novel quantitative model for the design of the service interactions in the life cycle of customers using smart connected products – typically in industrial environments, i.e., in Industry 4.0 context – with the goal of optimising mutual service value creation for both the customer and the provider.

The DIZH Fellowships are awarded to outstanding ZHAW researchers who would like to work in a research cluster on cross-university and interdisciplinary digital transformation projects. In 2020 and 2021, a total of 27 fellows had already started their fellowships. This was the third call.

At the Swiss Digitaltag, ZHAW presented five projects on artificial intelligence, including the new robot bar. The event took place in the “Nüü”, the new event location of ZHAW digital. Artificial intelligence has many faces. To experience the diverse applications of the technology, ZHAW invited people to marvel and discuss… Read More »Artificial intelligence to touch with drinks from the robot bar

Algorithms can assess a person’s creditworthiness or filter people in the application process who are particularly well suited for a job. Does that make such processes fairer? Or does automatic selection tend to lead to social injustice? Corinna Hertweck from the ZHAW School of Engineering will present a project on this topic at the Swiss Digitaltag.

Seven new projects will receive funding in the third and final Digital Futures Fundaward date in 2021. This year, for the first time, the Digital Futures Lab community was involved in the selection process. “We thank our community members for their support and will take the feedback into account when designing the next… Read More »ZHAW digital funds seven additional projects as part of the “Digital Futures Fund”

10 November, from 4 p.m., Lagerstrasse 45 in Zurich Would we thank a robot if it poured us a beer? There will soon be a space for such and similar questions about digital transformation: the “Nüü”. The opening and the first event will take place on the Swiss Digital Day and will… Read More »Opening “Nüü” & Swiss Digital Day

Every app collects data about its users. Privacy statements indicate whether personal data is passed on to third parties and how long and where it is stored. But does anyone really read that? DIZH Fellow Nico Ebert knows how to get people to read through the boring privacy statements after all.

“We don’t care about your privacy at all” could be written in a privacy statement online and many people would still click “Accept”. Terms and conditions, imprints and privacy statements are important legal components of websites and apps. They inform users about the terms of use, which company or person is responsible, and which of the user data is used for which purposes. You can read all of this – but does anyone ever do that?

“Privacy statements are probably the most boring research topic in the world,” says Dr. Nico Ebert of the ZHAW School of Management and Law. “But I want to show that it’s not as boring as it looks.”