The project aims to improve the accessibility of teaching at Swiss universities and to guarantee it in the long term. One of the main problems is the lack of awareness among responsible faculty and staff of the diversity needs of their students, which is why the development of an online training and short films to ...

The aim of this research is to develop concepts for accessible urban trip-planning and navigation for pedestrians with visual and mobility impairments, and to implement two proof-of-concept mobile application for accessible trip-planning and map exploration.

This project will identify proven methods, practices and standards that support responsible research and development of AI systems for health. They will be tested in use cases from medical imaging and neurotechnology, publicly released and published as a guideline of recommended best practices.  ...

Digital transformation constitutes one of the most important innovations at the local level of government and is expected to reshape local service delivery, public administration, and governance in Europe fundamentally. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the fundamental importance of a well-prepared ...

Optimizing the brain of databases with machine learning: Query optimization is one of the hardest problems of database systems research. A query optimizer can be considered as the “brain” of the system that makes sure that queries are executed efficiently. Even after several decades of research, many sub-problems ...

Researchers in an applied sciences context, including at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, have no adequate means to gain insights into their past e-mail and chat communication. Usually this communication archive is a treasure - a hidden gem - when trying to remember contacts, project opportunities, ...

The DOSSMA project will investigate suspicious and malicious behaviour on social media platforms. In a first phase, we will compile an extensive survey report on the areas that are currently being researched, including the respective state-of-the-art, existing solutions and initiatives. This report will serve as a ...

In this R&D project, scanmeter - a service for the automated security analysis of IT systems - is being extended by three innovative components. This will significantly increase the level of automation and test coverage, significantly improve customer benefits, and expand the fields of applications. Specifically, ...

PDF is the most popular document format to provide and distribute information on the internet. It was developed by Adobe 1996 but has been an open format since 2008. It was estimated in 2015 that more than 2.5 trillion PDF documents exist on the internet, covering all aspects of life and research, and their number ...

The RACOON project explores novel methods to compose online applications across the engineering lifecycle. In particular, it extends beyond the state of technology in user-friendly cloud application design, implementation and deployment. Furthermore, it investigates application scenarios for turning such methods ...

Emerging Mobility As A Services (MAAS) are pushing the boundaries of DevOps practices and processes, with new challenges to handle for both practitioners and researchers. MAAS providers such as BOND (Bike ON Demand start-up in Switzerland) employ DevOps innovations to sustain the evolution of future MAAS services ...

Much of the increasing complexity of ICT systems is being driven by the more distributed and heterogeneous nature of these systems, with Cyber Physical Systems accounting for an increasing portion of Software Ecosystems. This basic premise underpins the COSMOS proposal which focuses on blending best practices DevOps ...

In this project, a «Digital Mobility/Logistics Hub» with different traffic modalities will be realised in robotic model format and combined with cameras and digital components (simulators, device models, cloud platforms, real-time injection of open data, reservation system, application scenarios). A logistics ...

This project is part of a wider swissuniversities initiative called “Swiss Digital Academy”, which deals with open educational resources and open educational platforms. The specific goal of the project “Mastering Accessibility of Open Educational Resources” is to provide knowledge of accessible open educational ...

In the context of digital transformation, we work on the challenge of speeding up the time-to-market of high-quality software products. The extraordinary value of this project comes from involving virtual reality systems for requirements engineering. From a practical point of view, we investigate how to digitalise ...

GitOps is an innovative technique that blends version control technology with declarative application configuration specifications such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC). It removes the chance of errors and security issues by removing the reliance on human operators or scripts to perform deployment tasks. Implementing ...

The main aim of this project is to design and develop a map application for tourists in wheelchairs, people with restricted mobility and people with visual impairments. The app will provide specific information on the accessibility of areas of interest to tourists. In Switzerland, these include both urban ...

In the ADDSA project, an advanced Data and Service Architecture is being developed to meet the industrial needs in equipment insights.