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SAVEDGE: Scalable AV Platform for Edge AI Computing
A battery-powered audio-visual sensor platform for edge AI computing with highly scalable processing and ultra low power consumption is being developed. It enables high-performance AI applications at the edge while providing very long battery lifetimes.
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Smart Grid International Research Facility Network (SIRFN)
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 ...
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The augmented interpreter- a pilot study on the usability of augmented reality in interpreting
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. ...
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Tokenized Voluntary Carbon Offsetting Mechanism for Accelerated Adoption
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 ...
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Virtualizing sales staff for online shopping: Transferring the offline shopping experience into the digital world
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.
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Workshop European Centre for Living Technology ECLT
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The Anatomy of Sustainability
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Feasibility study seat scan
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 ...
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Development of the #Bestandsplatine#: A Common Data Environment as Design and Decision Supporting Tool
With this preliminary project we would like to implement the existing Veg-Module into an Eco-Module which shall contain enhanced ecological data such as animal species distribution, habitat and vegetation types. In this way, we would test the potentiality to develop an ‘Ecological’ Common Data Environment as Design ...
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Accessibility of ZHAW Webpages
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Creating Inclusive Education: from the Perspectives of Children, Parents, Teachers and Others
Inclusive schools teach children skills to engage with each other and do things together in classrooms, playgrounds, and other places, disregarding differences in abilities, gender, race, class, and language. Education is contextualised within local systems, varying across socio-historical and cultural settings. ...
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Economic Priorities in Post-War Ukraine
The purpose of this proposed project is to help enable these reforms from the minute that peace is achieved. Working with the Ukrainian Government and key policymakers and scholars from the region, this proposed project will provide a blueprint for rapid reforms during the era of reconstruction. In particular, ...
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Evolving (Im)Mobility Regimes
In this political-social-legal study, we seek to analyze the link between ‘crises,’ the legal changes that often accompany them, and forms and processes of precarization. We will analyze this interrelation by focusing on the situation and the entitlements of migrant workers. The study is based on a multilevel design ...
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Experience the Consequences of Affective Computing - Immersive Science Fiction Prototyping for Responsible Innovation
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 ...
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HumanTech
The HumanTech project aims to make the construction industry safer, more sustainable and more efficient. Digital tools and devices are being developed for various applications to support the planning and the actual process of construction. This includes topics of occupational safety and health such as the ...
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Intent detection in citizen-based damage reporting systems
Images do not only carry visual information about their content but also an intent, namely the one of person who shared it. Disruption images, uploaded by citizens in urban reporting systems, constitute a fantastic lab to develop algorithms able to detect the different message users want to deliver. Citizen-based ...
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Living Labs Interfaces for Energy Transition (SWEET LANTERN)
The aim of the LANTERN proposal is to co-design, test, validate, and scale up a portfolio of interventions for a user-empowered, decarbonized, resource efficient and sufficient Switzerland. We will achieve it through applied research and development at the interface between markets, technology, policies, and ...
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Mushroom cultivation on substrate blocks in agricultural production and gardens
The production of mushrooms on substrate blocks in climate-controlled growrooms is a proven method for decades. Growing mushrooms on logs or straw bales outdoors is really trendy in private horticulture. So far, little attention and little research has been done on a promising hybrid form: production on substrate ...
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National Nutrition Survey for children and adolescents
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Positive Energy District Algorithms for Load Forecasting and Optimal Dispatch (PEDALO)
To avoid grid congestion and optimize their operation, positive energy districts (PEDs) need to adjust their loads to the local renewable production. We plan to develop approaches and algorithms that help them to do so. This project is a research contribution to the Positive Energy Districts European Network, a ...