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How Digital Tools Are Transforming International Market Entry for SMEs

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A Swiss precision tool manufacturer's expansion to Vietnam illustrates which digital building blocks have become essential for successful internationalisation.…
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Learning to Swipe Without Sight – Teaching Touch and Swipe Gestures on Smartphones to Blind and Severely Visually Impaired People

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A project funded by the Humane Digital Transformation initiative is redefining the concept of digital inclusion. Researchers have developed a…
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Key Factors for Successful Co-Design with People with Cognitive Impairments

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People with cognitive impairments can actively shape digital applications when their lived experiences are included from the very beginning.…
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The Digital Sins – Part 1: Focusing on Trivialities

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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…
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ArchiVR: Space Browsing like Web Browsing

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The ArchiVR project aims to make visiting spaces in virtual reality as simple as visiting websites in a web browser. The project consists of…
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Decision Intelligence: Operationalizing a Humane Digital Transformation, Part 3

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Efforts to ensure fairness and accountability often focus narrowly on artificial intelligence itself, yet many ethical challenges may arise at…
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Promoting Mental Health: The Potential of Social Robots in Schools

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The mental health of students is a central component of successful learning and healthy social and emotional development. How can a social robot…
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Memory Safety: An Interview on Rust and the Future of Secure Software Development, Part 2

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The first part examined the issue of memory safety vulnerabilities and possible solutions. The programming language Rust is considered a promising…
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Memory safety: opportunities and challenges for the software security of the future, Part 1

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Software has become an integral part of our everyday lives: whether in the latest electric car, in e-banking or in life-saving systems. One of…
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