Similarity-based AI for Rare Diseases The RareSim project aims at developing novel AI-based approaches to support physicians in their analogical tasks of helping rare disease patient (diagnosis, and, possibly, treatment planning/monitoring). Whilst these more than 7000 rare diseases afflict individually less than 2000 people, it is estimated that around 500’000… Read More »RareSim
Complex natural spaces are under pressure all over the world today. The aim of the project is to communicate this acute threat posed by the climate crisis using innovative digital communication methods and artistic productions, without putting further pressure on these natural spaces. Artists and scientists from the Telematic Performance… Read More »Augmented Ecospheres
The ‘Media and Computer Science’ module is to be taught in elementary school in accordance with the requirements of Curriculum 21, largely in an integrated and interdisciplinary manner. The project focuses on computer science and builds a bridge to music through the conceptual proximity between computational thinking and musical-compositional thinking.… Read More »Computer science and computer music at school
Zurich urban reachability & accessibility enhancement through digital technology The ZuReach is a participatory research project in collaboration with practice partners that aims to provide a scalable and regularly updated database containing comprehensive sidewalk accessibility information in Zurich. This initiative also plays a pivotal role in advancing digital methods and… Read More »ZuReach
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
The intensive care unit is a hectic environment where medical staff complain of critical overload from numerical values and curves displayed by various medical devices. To reduce the burden on clinical staff, this project aims to design user-centric digital tools making work more efficient while further automating patient monitoring and… Read More »Bringing Medical AI from Lab to Clinics through Empowering Design
In the digital transformation, there is a danger that disciplines will be forgotten. We are pursuing the question of how a trading zone can be created in which actors from the disciplines of anthropology and computer science meet and work on joint, transdisciplinary products, including teaching units and further training… Read More »Partners in a Trading Zone – Development of a trading zone between ethnology and computer science in the context of embroidery