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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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Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms
LEDCity is a Zurich based cleantech start-up and develops an autonomous plug and play lighting system to reduce the energy consumption of lighting by 90% compared to conventional lights. LEDCity’s AI-based optimization of lighting systems (OLS) is a radical new approach to sensor controlled lighting systems. OLS can ...
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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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Machine-Learning for Demand-Response
In many countries, renewable energy investment is starting to become economically viable without support. This disrupts the business of electric utilities and may result in significant grid expansion needs in order to accommodate the increasing amount of renewable electricity. A promising solution to this problem is ...
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Osteoarthritis in Switzerland: prevalence, treatment and costs
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease most frequently affecting the knee, hand and hip in older adults. It is a major cause of disability and leads to substantial social costs. The aim of our study is to investigate the epidemiology, treatment and costs of OA in Switzerland using different data ...
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Sex Work and Corona
Due to the Corona pandemic, political measures to contain it have been adopted in the canton of Zurich (Switzerland) (period March 2020-current), which have a great influence on the living situation, the living environment and the coping with life of sex workers (e.g. occupational ban). Sex workers are socially ...
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Speech-to-Text for Swiss German
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User-based redistribution for free-floating car sharing
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Serious Game Approach to improving Writing Skills in School-Aged Children
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Machine learning and algorithms in social work
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Optimisation of 3D printing of high-performance plastics
Development of a cost-effective 3D printer for printing high-performance Plastics.
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Development of a training for professional storytelling to strengthen the professional identity of occupational therapists
Introduction One of the factors contributing to the current shortage of occupational therapists is the rate of persons leaving the profession. Strengthening the professional identity of occupational therapists using professional storytelling may lead to better job satisfaction and job retention. Method we conducted ...
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Needs assessment of shelter places for girls and young women affected by violence
Up to now statistics on girls and young women affected by violence have been lacking in Switzerland. Furthermore, there has been no inventory of emergency and protective shelters and the future need for shelters for this group. This and the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and ...
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Digital Support Against Social Isolation
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Designing Business Models for the IoT
This project aims at developing a business model simulation software for evaluating IoT business models. The holistic approach leverages advanced simulation methods and will create new revenue opportunities for Swiss manufacturing companies.
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High performance security in embedded networked components with hard real time deadlines
The rolling stock industry is mission critical and places hard real time deadlines on its operations. Network security in train control products, and across a product range, is an utmost concern which we meet by developing both an innovative methodology and IP components to meet these challenges. ...
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A top-down indicator of lean-green alignment in small and medium-sized enterprises
To address the challenge from global warming, the UNFCCC has given rise to several initiatives to channel financial capital into decarbonization efforts. Among investors, demand increasing for investment vehicles that offer both environmental sustainability as well as economic performance benefits. We aim to design ...
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Advanced Materials and Characterization Tools for Quantum-Dot enhanced Displays
The ambition of this project is to develop improved quantum-dot (QD) encapsulation technology for display enhancement films, innovative measurement systems and simulation software for characterizing QD films as well as ink-jet printing technology for deposition of QD films on top of OLED pixels. ...
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Algorithmic Fairness in data-based decision making: Combining ethics and technology
We develop a consulting approach for helping companies to create data-based decision algorithms that explicitly consider fairness requirements. This approach is based on a new methodology which integrates an ethical choice methodology with a technical implementation methodology.
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Behavioural economic approaches in favour of road safety
Traditional measures that are based on rational thinking and action by individuals (e.g. controls, penalties or education campaigns) sometimes fail to achieve their full potential in road traffic and in reducing accidents. Moreover, it can be assumed that most road users already have a very good knowledge of the ...