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Overcoming User Resistance in Location Data Sharing

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We investigate whether and how sustainability and financial incentives encourage ethical location data sharing. Our results show that users do…
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Where does the Pig Health Platform stand today?

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The Pig Health Info System (PHIS) was launched a year ago and monitors the health of Swiss pigs. 40 veterinary practices have now used the app…
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Putting ethical principles into practice: the Posmo Ethics Board

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The use of mobility data raises ethical challenges that go beyond technical and economic concerns. The Institute for Data Applications and Security…
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Digital inclusion: digitalisation for society as a whole

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In the digital era, inclusion is not only a social necessity , but also a technological one. To ensure that the entire population can benefit…
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Threat, liberation and relationship – how AI is portrayed in films

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Over the last few decades, there have been numerous films dedicated to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI). But how has it been portrayed?…
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The Swiss E-ID – between data protection and interoperability

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The Swiss electorate does not want an e-ID that is operated by the private sector. With the vote on 7 March 2021, they sent a clear signal: Responsibility…
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Transfer Learning: Making use of what is already there

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As the number of AI models grows, it becomes clear that many new applications share similarities with existing ones. Transfer learning and domain…
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Why Companies Want to Harvest Digital Traces of Design Work

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The design community is concerned that companies like Figma are using their users' design resources stored in the cloud to train AI models, often…
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How smart decisions reduce our ecological footprint

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How can digital technologies be made more sustainable? Jan Bieser, Assistant Professor of Digitalisation and Sustainability at the Institute…
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