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We are a science magazine of Bern University of Applied Sciences and focus on digital transformation with the human being at the centre. We publish scientific articles and interviews about research projects, results and studies by our scientists, our partners and researchers from related organisations. We connect science and practice, whereby administration and politics are just as much a part of practice for us as the economy.

Co-working with LLMs: Where to automate and safeguard

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LLM security has become an operational question. Language models are moving into security operations, fraud monitoring and software engineering…

Digital Foundations of the Triage Process in Swiss Primary Care Practices

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A BFH study assessed the current digital situation in five primary care practices in German-speaking Switzerland: documentation and billing are…

Teaching Programming with AI: What Does a Code Submission Still Prove?

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When AI tools are available, a working code submission no longer reliably demonstrates what students can do. Have they understood the problem,…
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Dialect Bias in AI: Where Language Models Place Swiss German Speakers

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Does an AI assistant judge you differently when you write in the Swiss dialect rather than standard German? A study conducted by the Human-Centered…
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The Quagga Mussel Problem Through the Lens of AI: A Module for the Classroom

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Invasive quagga mussels threaten Swiss lakes and their infrastructure. The BFH project QuaggAI develops AI-based tools to monitor their spread.…

On the side instead of on task – Employees are twice as distracted online as in person

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With the rise of remote work, team meetings increasingly take place online. A field study by BFH Business School examined the effects on more…

When Workers Program the Robots: No-Code Interfaces for a Humane Automation

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What if production workers could program robots themselves? Research conducted at BFH in partnership with Bien-Air Dental SA shows that no-code…

Critical Digital Literacy – Refining Literacies from technical fluency to ethical and political agency

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Critical digital literacy (also CDL) is an expanding field of profound importance for the future of both research and pedagogies. It redefines…

Agentic AI: When the Language Models are Given Tools to Act

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Agentic AI extends language models with tools, memory, and the ability to act. Instead of relying on one giant model, many smaller agents can…