The ever-increasing integration of renewable energy sources within modern power systems has significant benefits from the economic and environmental point of view, but poses also some technological challenges that shall be addressed to guarantee a safe and continuous service. Distributed energy resources are ...

Based on a 6-month prospective cohort study we want to examine how, and if, primary care patients manage to stopp antidepressant treatment. Our main objective is to study the occurrence of withdrawal reactions, which can develop when patients try to come off antidepressants. We willl also examine quality of life, ...

The goal of the LINA consortium is to create a basis for the largest European (real and virtual) infrastructure for research, development and safe testing of autonomous systems / UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) for commercial products in the canton of Zurich.

Innovation Potential Study for Oniri Dream Analysis.

The proposed scientific exchange with the Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway addresses  the protection of sensitive elements against stress waves through designing smart wave guides and phononic cloaks using metamaterials.

Multiphysics analysis of a complex pharmaceutical production process, involving heat heat- and mass transfer phenomena, laminar flow patterns and particle dynamics.

The Smart Grid International Research Facility Network (SIRFN) is a network of smart grid researchers with test facilities in countries participating in the Implementing Agreement for a Cooperative Programme on Smart Grids (ISGAN). The Electrical Energy Systems and Smart Grids Research Group of IEFE, ZHAW represents ...

Simultaneous interpreting depends on auditory and visual information. This pilot study investigates whether a seamless integration of visual and auditory information, achieved by displaying translations of technical terms on augmented reality glasses (AR), can lower cognitive load in interpreting.  ...

Switzerland ratified the Paris Agreement in 2017 and at the recently held UNCCC in Glasgow committed to global climate change goals, renewing its pledge to halve emissions by 2030. The country has also committed to the UN SDG policy framework, including the Voluntary National Reporting (VNR) standard for transparent ...

The project includes the elaboration of the basics for the development of a disruptive new type of application which, based on psychographic inputs, uses artificial intelligence to transfer the shopping experience from offline stores to the digital world.

In this project, the feasibility of a "measuring cushion for clinical use" is to be tested. The measuring cushion is to be designed in such a way that the anatomical body impression (relief) can be digitised. Central to this is a built-in pressure measurement (pressure height, direction and shear forces). The body ...

Since future applications and consequences of Affective Computing are still vague and hard to imagine, we rely on Science Fiction (ScFi) Prototyping as a central method for our communication concept. A SciFi Prototype allows the target group, adolescents and young adults, to experience a fictional future life with ...

The goal of this project is to lay the technological foundations for empowering various stakeholders to make fact-based decisions to achieve sustainable consumption and production. In particular, we will evaluate how various data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence methods can be used to extract ...

By optimizing production in the textile industry, digitalization can help to reduce power consumption and thus, emissions of pollutants. Yet, digitalization itself creates emissions, e.g., by using powerful AI algorithms. There is currently no transparency for how digitalization investments can reduce emissions. The ...

Training on patients according to the principle of “see one, do one and teach one” no longer corresponds to today’s requirements and technical opportunities regarding education of surgical residents. During the Covid-19 pandemic, most hands-on training had to be discontinued, leading to an almost complete ...

Scope of the project is to enable competitive, large scale Photovoltaic (PV) power production by implementation of new features on already developed land with a retractable PV roof concept. Project innovations are less metal used for robust PV mounting structure, prefab assembly, automatic PV module cleaning and ...

The challenge of this project is to extend ESG ratings from portfolios with liquid assets to illiquid assets. In the case of illiquid assets such as real estate the assets can't easily be replaced and a dynamic adjustment strategy is required. To this end, we intend to develop benchmarks with which real estate can ...

The PRISM project focuses on detecting radicalization events in Social Media networks. Overall, we are interested in unveiling the mechanics that lead to the event of extremist ideology being transferred and incorporated into a social media user’s world view. Specifically, the proposed project aims to identify ...

The project enables a novel, combined, adaptive cancer therapy combining tumor treating field and radiation therapy due to significantly improved static (3D) and time-resolved (4D) low dose Cone Beam Computer Tomography images based on artificial intelligence image reconstruction algorithms.  ...