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 AI-based Learning Systems (HAIS) Lab [1] at BFH-Wirtschaft used Bernese Swiss-German to investigate not just whether AI is biased, but to understand how that bias is distributed.…

Invasive quagga mussels threaten Swiss lakes and their infrastructure. The BFH project QuaggAI develops AI-based tools to monitor their spread. Building on this research, the QuaggAIedu module brings both the ecological problem and the underlying machine learning into the high school classroom. This article presents the…

With the rise of remote work, team meetings increasingly take place online. A field study by BFH Business School examined the effects on more than 600 employees: when attending online, twice as much meeting time went to off-task activities as when attending in person, and both engagement and motivation were lower. This…

There are many causes of why innovative IT projects fail. Three reasons for where things frequently go wrong: a lack of understanding of complexity phenomena, the disregard for cultural aspects, and the naive, direct application of the experiences of analogue business life to the design of digital transformation.

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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 interfaces can give workers control over collaborative robots, opening a path to affordable, flexible automation for Swiss SMEs.

The automation paradox
For decades, industrial…