ZHAW digital - Research Portfolio
DIZH Fellowship
ZHAW digital serves as the interface between the ZHAW and DIZH. We will engage with DIZH by dispatching so-called "DIZH-Fellows". They are highly qualified researchers who will contribute their expertise to the common research cluster and thereby actively shape digital transformation. For the start of DIZH in the Spring of 2020, we have already selected the first 13 Fellows.
AI Research
TRAIL: Transdisciplinary Robotics & AI Lab
Actors from academic and industrial institutions are undertaking a combined effort to establish Zurich, and Switzerland more generally, as a global player in the AI research and business space. The "AI Moonshot Roundtable" in October 2019 was the launching pad for the creation of this connected AI talent and research hub. The ZHAW has been involved from the beginning, alongside the Zurich Department for Economic Affairs, the Mindfire foundation, and ETH.
The transdisciplinary AI lab aims to become a meeting point for global AI experts with its physical location in Zurich. The ambitious goal: The creation of a "robot scientist" that learns in ways machines currently cannot, within the next ten years. It will be capable of conceptual thinking, acquiring knowledge and skills from lectures, interacting with humans and supporting researchers - primarily in the medical field - through creativity and curiosity. ZHAW digital is supporting TRAIL with its academic, organizational and communication expertise.
CLAIRE: Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe
The ZHAW is establishing the Swiss office for CLAIRE in coordination with other leading Swiss AI research institutions. CLAIRE is an initiative of the European AI community aimed at strengthening European excellence in AI research and innovation. To that end, CLAIRE is proposing a paneuropean confederation of AI research laboratories to eventually reach a similar influence as CERN. The ZHAW is an active member of CLAIRE and will primarily focus on building a network of industry partners. ZHAW digital has been able to recruit Ricardo Chavarriaga as the "Head of CLAIRE Office Zurich" and he will assume the position from January 1st 2020 onwards. His main tasks are to connect the CLAIRE office with local academic and industrial organizations and to embed the regional office within national and international networks.
Impact-Article TRAIL und CLAIRE (German)
Publications
We're still in the startup phase so this list is not yet complete. In addition, some publications are only available in German, we're sorry. You can always use the general search with your own keywords.
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West, Shaun; Meierhofer, Jürg; Mangla, Utpal, eds.,
2022.
Smart services summit : smart services supporting the new normal.
Fourth Smart Services Summit, Zurich, 22 October 2021.
Cham:
Springer.
Progress in IS.
ISBN 978-3-030-97041-3.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97042-0
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Mahlow, Cerstin; Hediger, Andreas,
2021.
Education as loosely coupled system of technology and pedagogy.
On Education.
4(12).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.17899/on_ed.2021.12.7
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Amer-Yahia, Sihem; Koutrika, Georgia; Braschler, Martin; Calvanese, Diego; Lanti, Davide; Lücke-Tieke, Hendrik; Mosca, Alessandro; Mendes de Farias, Tarcisio; Papadopoulos, Dimitris; Patil, Yogendra; Rull, Guillem; Smith, Ellery; Skoutas, Dimitrios; Subramanian, Srividya; Stockinger, Kurt,
2021.
INODE : building an end-to-end data exploration system in practice.
SIGMOD Record.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23624
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Gatziu Grivas, Stella; Schmitter, Paul; Kirecci, Ilyas,
2021.
Die ABILI-Methodik : Navigation bei der digitalen Transformation.
In:
FM Perspektiven: FM Innovationen in HC digital, Wädenswil, 26. November 2021.
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2021.
Kompetenzen, Kultur und Kommunikation als Treiber des digitalen Wandels des Gymnasiums.
In:
10. HSGYM-Herbsttagung der Fachkonferenzen, Wetzikon, 18. November 2021.
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Wehrli, Samuel; Hertweck, Corinna; Amirian, Mohammadreza; Glüge, Stefan; Stadelmann, Thilo,
2021.
Bias, awareness, and ignorance in deep-learning-based face recognition.
AI and Ethics.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-021-00108-6
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Schmitter, Paul; Kirecci, Ilyas,
2021.
Lost in Transformation : was sind die Grundlagen einer erfolgreichen digitalen Transformation?.
In:
11. Fachkonferenz – Das Spital der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Luzern, 21.-23. Oktober 2021.
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Projects
We're still in the startup phase so this list is not yet complete. In addition, some projects are only available in German, we're sorry. You can always use the general search with your own keywords.
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AUTODIDACT – Automated Video Data Annotation to Empower the ICU Cockpit Platform for Clinical Decision Support
Monitoring diverse sensor signals of patients in intensive care can be key to detect potentially fatal emergencies. But in order to perform the monitoring automatically, the monitoring system has to know what is currently happening to the patient: if the patient is for example currently being moved by medical staff, ...
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Deep Brain Vessel Profiler
The architecture of the supplying brain blood vessels is believed to impact the occurrence and severity of common cerebrovascular diseases such as ischemic strokes or intracranial aneurysms. In this project, we study methods to efficiently quantify the variability in human cerebral vasculature and how this ...
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Digital Companion
To increase patient adherence, the Digital Companion combines electronic medical records with a patient app to create a highly integrated system, closing the loop from one consultation to the next. Helmedica is thus gearing up against foreign competition.
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Crowdworking in Switzerland (CroWiS) - an interdisciplinary analysis taking the example of nurse crowd workers
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Data-driven decision support for intracranial aneurysms and hospital catering using Bayesian networks
Clinical decisions in medicine and management decisions in facility management are regularly made on the basis of little evidence or extrapolations and are also influenced by subjective and economic aspects. While data is generated exponentially in medicine due to increasing digitization, there is no framework for ...
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Wearables & Apps for mental health
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Fighting bites with bytes: Promoting public health with crowdsourced tick prevention
Ticks are on the rise and transmit several infectious diseases, leading to serious illness or even death. The smartphone App “Zecke–Tick Prevention helps people, to remember the tick bite location and to check it for potential Lyme disease symptoms. In an interdisciplinary approach, ZHAW-scientists want to find out ...
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