A project funded by the Humane Digital Transformation initiative is redefining the concept of digital inclusion. Researchers have developed a mobile gesture learning aid that allows instructors who are blind or severely visually impaired to teach others with visual impairments the complex touch and swipe gestures required…

People with cognitive impairments can actively shape digital applications when their lived experiences are included from the very beginning. In collaboration with the TRANSfair Foundation, we conducted participatory workshops with employees to identify requirements for a digital support tool in everyday working life. Our…

Manually checking thousands of tender documents for sustainability criteria is virtually impossible. Artificial intelligence can take on this task – provided it knows what to look for. A BFH research project is investigating how standardised procurement criteria can improve AI-supported sustainability detection.

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IMD continually reports on Switzerland's great successes in digitalisation, yet reality feels quite different. And the vote on eID confirmed doubts about the scientifically measured achievements. What is it that science fails to see?
Yes! Yes! Yes! And: No!
Yes, digitalisation is no cure-all – often it even creates…

The ArchiVR project aims to make visiting spaces in virtual reality as simple as visiting websites in a web browser. The project consists of a web platform (https://archi-vr.ti.bfh.ch) where users and 3D scenes are managed, a plugin for the game engine Unity that allows 3D scenes to be uploaded to the ArchiVR platform,…