All projects from the School of Applied Linguistics
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Writing Technology for the 21st Century
Writing is essential for societal participation. I will create a systematic overview of research on current digital writing tools & provide important insights into how writers use them, helping us to better understand their needs & identify important challenges for research into digital text production. ...
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Immersive Stories of Energy Futures (ISTEF)
This project aims to highlight applied energy research from different departments in an immersive approach. The project "Immersive Stories of Energy Futures" (ISTEF) will enable decision-makers from energy policy and energy industry to engage with different development scenarios of energy futures and related ...
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High-impact measures for the comprehensive internationalisation of curricula in Switzerland
Internationalization is a key priority of UAS. Yet, efforts in the internationalization of curricula (IoC) are still modest due to manifold challenges. Applying the IoC paradigm to Swiss UAS, this project develops high-impact measures that provide effective incentives to institutions wishing to internationalize ...
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CEFR-website for Sign Languages of Switzerland
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A corpus linguistic approach to childhood public health
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Development of the New Language Component of the FEAST Test
The FEAST test suite was designed by EUROCONTROL to be used in the recruitment process for ab initio air traffic controllers. The test suite comprises of several sub-tests, and it is up to the users of the test to decide which components they want to use as part of their internal recruitment process. The aim of this ...
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Digital Health for parents facing language and cultural access barriers to the Swiss health system
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How to Reach Swiss Digital Natives with News. A Qualitative Study
Information services for young people today have to meet different requirements than those offered by traditional media. Innovations in this area require both structural changes and new ways of thinking in editorial offices as well as new media formats that anticipate technological and social developments and the ...
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Accessible communication between hearing-impaired people and healthcare professionals
The number of people, especially older adults, with disabling hearing loss is steadily increasing. To date, existing knowledge about this health condition and its impact on patients’ everyday life has not been transferred into developing a standardised communication model for inclusive practice in healthcare. ...
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CEFR CV for Sign Languages
This is a project funded by the Counsil of Europe to make the results of an Swiss National Foundation project available internationally to learners and instructors of sign language by providing translations in English and videos in International Sign. The original project empirically developed and statistically ...
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Smart Mobility Experience
In this project, a virtual reality environment will be created to bring concepts around smart mobility closer to a broad audience. These concepts include smart sharing offers (and thus a change of mentality from owning to using), automated driving (which could reduce the number of vehicles in cities to one tenth ...
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The Ergonomics of Socio-Technical Systems and Reflective Practice
With increasing digitisation, purposeful reflection about the potential influence of current and foreseeable developments in socio-technical systems on cognition, meaning making and decision making in education and professional life has become ever more important. In the area of tertiary education, new technology ...
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Community Based Survey in DSGS
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Doing good with Virtual Reality?
Information dissemination, access, and comprehension are key components for citizen involvement in democratic processes. The broad dissemination and respective ease of comprehension of voting relevant information in election/voting booklet provided by, for example, the Federal Chancellery is a key prerequisite for ...
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Research Epistemologies in Text-based Digital Humanities
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Health Communication
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Indo-Swiss Translation and Interpreting Professionalization (ISTIP)
India and Switzerland share as an inherent characteristic their widely practiced and officially recognized multilingualism. In the management of multilingualism, English (as a second language) has played a much more prominent role in India than translation and interpreting (T&I), whereas, in Switzerland, English (as ...
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Cognitive Load in Interpreting and Translation (CLINT)
English has become the first truly global lingua franca. Even in multilingual Switzerland, English as a lingua franca (ELF) is replacing the four Swiss languages not only in international but also in intra-national communication. What appears at first glance to be a practical solution to communication problems in ...
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Discourse analysis on Antibiotic Resistance (French linguistic usage)
Due to the increase in antimicrobial resistance in Switzerland and in the light of the health policy priorities "Health 2020", the Confederation has launched a national strategy against antibiotic resistance (StAR strategy) in cooperation with the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Food Safety and Veterinary ...
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Seamless Writing: Expanding Technologies to Support Thesis Writing
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Seamless Writing: Expanding Technologies to Support Thesis Writing
Processing final papers (theses) is a big challenge for universities. Depending on student numbers, educational establishments have to supervise hundreds, if not thousands, of papers each year. Students on short Bachelor's study programs often have insufficient personal resources for the autonomous writing of ...
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Energy Discourses in Switzerland: How and whether multilingual sources (mis)represent monolingual discourses
The phenomenon of various areas of Switzerland exhibiting contrasting patterns of voting on societal issues has been linked to urbanization, to cultural diversity, to geographical proximity to other countries’ discourses, and to linguistic differences. For example, the results of a popular initiative relevant to ...
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Competences for inter-professional cooperation and appropriate teaching formats
The present project aims to develop competencies for inter-professional cooperation and appropriate teaching formats for the Swiss context. In addition, a framework for all health professions for inter-professional training and cooperation is to be developed.
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Discourse analysis on Antibiotic Resistance (German linguistic usage)
Due to the increase in antimicrobial resistance in Switzerland and in the light of the health policy priorities "Health 2020", the Confederation has launched a national strategy against antibiotic resistance (StAR strategy) in cooperation with the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Food Safety and Veterinary ...
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PhD in Applied Linguistics – Swiss AL Tools