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Mobility, community participation, and health of persons with disabilities in Switzerland (MOBILE)
Background and Rationale Persons with disabilities face inequalities in their everyday life due to the inability to participate in community activities and access places. Many of these inequalities are based on environmental restrictions. Mobility is an important prerequisite of community participation and health of ...
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Multimodal Anonymization of Gameplay Data
Gameplay data research gained popularity in the last decade across several disciplines (e.g. linguistic, pedagogy, psychology) as very precious way to analyse behavioural patterns and interactions among humans.One of the main limitations currently faced in gameplay research is the lack of open data. Gameplay ...
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New Interconnection Perspectives for Electrical Energy Exchange between Europe and North Africa
Power systems are becoming highly dependent on renewable generation and the flexibility to cope with the volatility of these technologies is an actual concern. The idea of transferring solar electricity from North Africa to Europe has received a lot of interest in recent years, particularly after the concern ...
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Next Generation 3D Tissue Models: Bio-Hybrid Hierarchical Organoid-Synthetic Tissues (Bio-HhOST) Comprised of Live and Artificial Cells.
Bio-HhOST aims to implement “hybrid organoids”, which means systems composed of biological and artificial cells. The purpose of hybrid organoids is to provide a tissue–like an environment for studying biological, e.g., tumours and cells. In this example, tumour cells would be an instance of biological cells, and ...
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Product-market fit for innovative seat cushions for wheelchair users from Reliyoo
The startup “Reliyoo" has developed a revolutionary seating solution for pressure ulcer prevention. Pressure ulcers are a major problem for all people with limited sensitivity in the sitting area who have to sit in a wheelchair all the time, including paraplegics. Reliyoo's solution is a unique seat cushion that ...
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Proof-of-Concept for a Match-Making Tool for ZHAW Members
The employee survey 2022 shows that the cooperation between institutes and departments is not satisfactory. The project aims to develop a proof-of-concept for a user-centered app that allows ZHAW members to connect. The matching system is inspired by dating apps: user profiles with interests and competencies are ...
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SAMAKI AFYA: Facilitating economic viability of fish farms through better fish health
The SAMAKI AFYA project aims to improve the health of fish and the profitability of farms through interdisciplinary co-operation.
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SmarTutor: Data-Driven Adaptive Tutoring Platform for Instant Personalized Learning Experience
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SpectralPad
SpectralPad offers an easy-to-use, accurate and cost-efficient way to diagnose and monitor yellow skin diseases for more than 1 billion patients world wide.
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Swiss Drone Base Camp Lodrino
Theproject is focused on the creation of a drone test center for outdooractivities in the area of the Lodrino airfield. The center would collaboratestrategically with other swiss UAV test locations, in particular withDübendorf, as part of Park Zurich as our main Park site, and in second priorityPayerne. Themain goal ...
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Swiss Smart City Outreach
The aim of the "Swiss Smart City Outreach (SSCO)" project is to promote the implementation of smart city initiatives, primarily in the canton of Zurich, by providing information, knowledge transfer and networking, thereby contributing to the development of smart, sustainable cities and municipalities in Switzerland. ...
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Technology Affordances of the Industrial Metaverse
The metaverse is considered the “next big thing” after the internet in its current form. For the industrial sector, the metaverse holds the possibility to advance physical-digital approaches such as the Industrial Internet of Things, and enables the transition from Industry 4.0 to 5.0. This SNF Spark project aims to ...
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Towards Enhancing Large Language Models with SNOMED CT for Multi-document Patient Records Summarization
Clinical physicians spend about 40% of their work time for reading and writing patient documentation. We will employ NLP, SNOMED CT, and Large Language Models (LLM) to generate concise, accurate, and interoperable summaries of patients’ records, thus saving time, effort, and resources. ...
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Transforming clinical assessments: Explicitly articulating implicit clinical decision-making to train AI
We are currently creating an AI algorithm using modern computer vision methods to assess movement quality in people after stroke. Our project, as many others, depends on therapist’s manual movement quality rating to create the ground truth. While therapists are trained to reliably assess movement quality in ...
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ExerSpace
Re-injury of the knee is related to a lack of explosive training and training volume during rehabilitation, and a lack of psychological readiness. These issues could be targeted by dual tasking during exergaming whose effects on movement pattern, cognition, physis, and motivation will be assessed in the course ...
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"Muscle Jump", how well do you control your biosignals?
This demo project relates to the current application of EMG sensors (electromyography). Nowadays, EMG sensors can be used to control modern arm or leg prostheses, giving patients more freedom. However, controlling such prostheses is a challenge and requires lengthy training. Especially at the beginning, it is ...
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3D tape winding on additive manufactured cores
The 3D Winding on Additively Manufactured Cores (3DW-AM) project proposes a novel technological process for the fabrication of highly topology-optimized, ultralight carbon fiber structures for use in the aviation industry.
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Accessible Graphics: Semantic graphic description in PDFs for visually impaired people
The goal of this project is to research and develop deep-learning based methods to automatically extract the data visualized in a chart, in order to generate a semantic description of the chart graphics for visually impaired readers using their screen readers.
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Accompanying Evaluation Model Station SOMOSA
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AI Index Machine Learning Algorithms
The project, undertaken by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) School of Management and Law for IMD – International Institute for Management Development, aims to pioneer the development of an "AI Index." This endeavor addresses a significant gap in the current understanding and measurement of Artificial ...