Digital society

New areas of activity are emerging in the fields of collaborative digital social games for the ageing society as well as science communication, inclusion and informal STEM learning.

Selected project

FHNW Myosotis Garden
Playing games with elderly people can be fun. It can facilitate communication between people from different generations.
SySTEM2020: Connecting Science Learning Outside The Classroom
Research participant recruitment, data collection and mapping STEAM initiatives in Switzerland.
Speech Recognition for Swiss German
The FHNW Institute for Data Science is working on speech recognition technology to transform speech in various Swiss dialects to Standard German text.