All projects from the School of Applied Linguistics
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Enhancing sustainability at workplace: live more sustainably and healthily thanks to regular Beekeeper nudging
Internal digital communication channels have become an essential part of work life. The project aimsat promoting sustainability in employee's workplace behaviour at Dept. L. In order to achieve this,different interactions such as brief information, tips and surveys are emitted via Beekeeper,employees are thus ...
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LEAD – LEarning from the pAst: Digitized past pandemics in Switzerland
The project LEAD is designed to meet two specific needs: - data hub providing data on past pandemics in Switzerland (1890, 1918, and 1957), publicly accessible to different target groups; - selected data stories about forgotten past pandemic experiences.
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Needs Analysis for Intercultural Training of Higher Education Employees
The R&D unit Language Management and Globalisation has the lead in a collaboration consortium consisting of BFH, HES-SO, SUPSI & ZHAW in the context of two ongoing Movetia projects1. High-Impact Measures for the Comprehensive Internationalization of Curricula (No. 2019-1-CH01-OF-0017) aimed at inter-university ...
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Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (IICT)
The goal of this flagship is to develop information and communication technologies (ICT) for persons with disabilities. In particular, the flagship targets five applications: text simplification, sign language translation, sign language assessment, audio description, and spoken subtitles. Each application ...
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Competence for Cantonal Energy and Climate Policy ZHAW through expansion and communication of the Cantonal Clean Energy INDEX Switzerland (CEIS)
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Monitoring Sustainability
Embracing Sustainability is an overarching goal in ZHAW’s strategic leadership, research and education. We contribute to this goal by: building a richly annotated text corpus on Swiss sustainability discourse (defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals), giving access to the corpus for all ZHAW members and the ...
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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 that ...
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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 academic ...
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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 higher ...
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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 and ...
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Digital German assessment for engineering students
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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, our ...
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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 years ...
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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 or ...