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From Mindless to Mindful: Using Micro-Boundaries to Counter Excessive Social Media Use

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Social media is a phenomenon that captivates billions of users’ attention globally. Excessive social media use is often framed as a problem…
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Generative AI in Creative Education – Opportunities and Risks

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Novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, promise to boost human creativity in different domains, such as fashion design or…
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Why AI can’t yet generate business process diagrams

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Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) has become the standard for documenting how organizations work. But creating and maintaining accurate…
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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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