05.07.2024DIZH Rapid-Action-Call: Funded Projects

UnRealBody develops an intervention that protects young people from the dangers of unrealistic AI-based body images.

• Team: Janna Hastings, UZH Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care | Charlotte Tumescheit, UZH Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care | Paula Muhr, UZH Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care

Digital resilience

The project develops, tests and publishes an interactive online tool including a learning environment to strengthen digital resilience in young people by promoting their AI and deepfake skills.

• Team: Sabrina Heike Kessler, UZH Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung

  Dr. Alexandra K. Krebs, PHZH Zentrum Bildung und digitaler Wandel | Guido Keel, ZHAW Angewandte Linguistik, Institut für Angewandte Medienwissenschaft | Valery Wyss, ZHAW Angewandte Linguistik, Institut für Angewandte Medienwissenschaft

The project will develop a baseline understanding of AI literacy in Swiss journalism that is of central importance for the current discourse on AI in the media. 

• Team: Silke Fürst (Project Lead), UZH, Research Center for the Public Sphere and Society (fög) and Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) | Daniel Vogler, UZH, Research Center for the Public Sphere and Society (fög) and Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) | Sara Pfeuti, B.A., UZH, Research Center for the Public Sphere and Society (fög) | Nadine Klopfenstein Frei, M.A., ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM) | Quirin Ryffel, M.A., UZH, Research Center for the Public Sphere and Society (fög) and Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) | Damiano Lombardi, B.A., UZH, Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ)

Cyber Safari promotes the digital resilience of young people through playful learning. Interactive quests at various stations strengthen media skills and combine digital learning with physical activity.

• Team: Gregor Waller, ZHAW School of Applied Psychology

  | Dr. Lea Stahel, UZH Department of Sociology | Céline Külling-Knecht, ZHAW School of Applied Psychology

TRUST-RAD aims to add trust layers to radiology AI assistant tools. 

• Team: Farhad Nooralazadeh, UZH Department of Quantitative Biomedicine | Nicolas Deperrois, UZH Department of Quantitative Biomedicine | Michael Krauthammer, UZH Department of Quantitative Biomedicine