Overview of current and completed research projects at the School of Applied Linguistics in Winterthur
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A visual privacy label to increase trust in digital services
The project goal is to drive digital transformation by creating a communication tool for privacy policies, which puts the user perspective at the centre of its design. While the legal perspective (GDPR) cannot be neglected, we focus on transparency towards the user. We will create a visual label that provides the ...
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Field study: Digital discourse analyses in Switzerland
The field study identifies the current state of digitized discourse analysis among public and private actors. As a result, a Swiss map of digital discourse analysis is created. Results of discourse research have shown: Those who want to be successful in society and make a difference must be able to orient themselves ...
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SPPC: Swiss Process–Product Corpus of Student Writing Development
SPPC (Swiss Process–Product Corpus of Student Writing Development) is a novel longitudinal corpus of L1 student writing, linking automatically annotated and aggregated process data with the resulting product (text) and competence data. It will facilitate the development of teaching interventions with appropriate ...
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Akteure – Diskurse – Medien
The objective of the project is to explore to what extent central developmental steps of school pedagogy from the mid-19th century are related to current debates in Switzerland. The hypothesis being investigated is that the school as an educational institution became the exposed object of the social statistics ...
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Validation and Adjustment of Instruments and Processes to Evaluate English-Medium Education in the International Business Administration programme in the Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH Business School
The BFH Business School offers a Bachelor of Science in International Business Administration degree programme in English. This programme is continuously developed and adapted to emerging needs and trends. One key element of the programme’s quality is its use of English as a medium of instruction. The change of ...
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Machine Subtitling of Videos
We investigate if and how the quality of video subtitles generated by AI-based technology (i.e. transcription and machine translation of spoken language) can be scored automatically.
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Creative Agility – How art-based strategies transform digital and analog communication in organizations
As part of the EU-funded Erasmus+ project "Creative Agility", the ZHAW, together with adult education partners from Liechtenstein, Germany and Austria, is exploring how art-based strategies transform digital and analog communication in organizations. The aim of the project is to develop a curricular training concept ...
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Hydrogen In Distributed Energy Systems (HIDES)
The HIDES project investigates the use of hydrogen as energy carrier in distributed energy systems. In this context, the two dimensions of technology and value creation are investigated and optimized. Technical aspects are the generation of green electricity, the separation and storage of hydrogen, the reconversion ...
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To be liked or not to be liked – what makes a photo interesting?
Photos are a wonderful medium in corporate and science communications to showcase what faculty, staff, and students do at the ZHAW. But which photos are interesting and which are not? The aim of our project is to better understand the aesthetic and semantic characteristics of the photos in relation to the ...
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Identifying and understanding Native Ads
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NPO Journey to volunteers
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Digital Opportunities Promoting Inclusion in Academia (DigOPIA)
«Digital opportunities promoting inclusion in Academia (DigOPIA)» is a research project within the DIZH Fellowships. It deals with linguistic inclusion in the university context, focusing on hearing-impaired and deaf students. The project explores the repertoire of digital options available to students in ...
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Machine translation for academic texts
The project consists in developing a prototype for a ZHAW neural machine translation system trained on academic texts. Freely accessible systems such as DeepL and Google Translate are not specifically trained on scientific texts and therefore often present issues regarding terminology, text cohesion, pragmatics ...
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Digital Literacy Skills in University Contexts (DigLit)
Writing in most contexts today is done with digital, computer-assisted support. Technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) such as intelligent tutoring (IT), automated writing evaluation (AWE), automated text production (ATP) and machine translation (MT) present new opportunities, perspectives, and risks for ...
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Result Chains Studio Kalangou Niger
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The "Narrative Recherche" as an artistic method in a Municipal Context
The company is subject to change processes. And with it organizations, institutions and companies. The way we think, act and communicate is changing. How do we respond to these changes? How do we shape change? With which images, with which stories do we tell about ourselves? How do we give our social, ...
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Journalism Innovation in Democratic Societies: Index, Impact and Prerequisites in International Comparison (JoIn-DemoS)
Which journalism has a future and relevance? How do innovations in journalism influence journalistic quality and thus the public sphere in democratic societies? Our research identifies, indexes and evaluates the most important journalism innovations in each of the participating countries over the last ten ...
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Linguistic and occupational therapy support for augmentative and alternative communication in young adults
Persons who are using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) often do not receive new communication devices after compulsory schooling, and they do not receive further speech therapy support. As young adults, they are at a threshold into an important stage of their life, and into vocational education ...
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Machine translation literacy for academics
Objectives This project investigates the potential of neural machine translation (NMT) for academic texts (abstracts, papers...) for publication purposes. Initial situation and hypothesis Well-known issues with neural machine translation are text cohesion, (terminology) and "hedging" (hedge terms). This ...
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Establishing the Cantonal Clean Energy INDEX Switzerland (CEIS) as standard instrument for policy makers
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Definition and validation of use cases for the application of the MyoSuit
This project aimed to further develop and implement in the market a wearable robot, the Myosuit from MyoSwiss AG, to support people with mobility impairments. We worked together with key stakeholders involved in the care of people with mobility impairments to better understand their needs and expectations ...
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Public COVID-19 pandemic discourses
The containment of the COVID19 pandemic relies heavily on the communication between public health organizations and individual social groups. Therefore, public discourses and discursive practices of specific audiences play a crucial role in the policy implementation during a pandemic. Through discourse analysis ...
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Digital Transfer Platform for COVID-19 Research
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic force researchers to identify and classify the many different events and developments during the crisis period within a short period of time in order to develop and work on targeted research questions on COVID-19. The data and digital tools of corpus and discourse 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 ...
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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