News

IICT Flagship: Reflections in "tactuel"

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:37:51 GMT

In an interview with "tactuel", Flagship PI Sarah Ebling reflects on the project's key results and insights.

Online assessment for Swiss German Sign Language

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

The assessment test for understanding Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS), developed as part of the IICT flagship, has been implemented.

Newspaper article about technologies for people with hearing impairments

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:00:00 GMT

In its article dated 9 March 2026, the "Netzwoche" discusses how technologies improve digital inclusion for people with hearing impairments. The article also mentions developments from the IICT Flagship.

Strong interest in IICT results

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:00:00 GMT

About 120 participants from public administration, research, business, advocacy organizations, and target groups attended our information event in Bern.

Article about the IICT Flagship on UZH News

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:16:46 GMT

After four years, the IICT Flagship project is coming to an end. The article on UZH News provides a good overview of the project.

Invitation to IICT Information Event

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:59:26 GMT

Public event organized by IICT Flagship, Allianz Digitale Inklusion Schweiz (ADIS), Federal Bureau for the Equality of People with Disabilities (FBED) on 20 January 2026 in Bern

Recordings of the UZH-i-Ringvorlesung "An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Disability and Inclusion"

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:44:51 GMT

Recordings of the lectures also available with DSGS

UZH-i-Ringvorlesung: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Disability and Inclusion

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:13:59 GMT

Public event from 17 September to 17 December 2025, every Wednesday from 18:15 to 19:45

KoFo about Digital Signers

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:43:15 GMT

Information event on 26 June 2025 in Berne

Recordings of MeteoSchweiz text segments in DSGS

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:39:48 GMT

Christa Notter (HfH) visits the University of Surrey for recordings of MeteoSchweiz text segments in Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS)

Paper SwissADT at NAACL 2025

Tue, 06 May 2025 10:02:37 GMT

SwissADT is an emerging system for the automatic translation of audio description between the three main Swiss languages and English.

Report on IICT in SRF «Signes»

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:41:48 GMT

«Signes» is an SRF television program in sign language. The episode «KI, AI, digital Signers und Gebärden-Avatare» (AI, digital signers and sign language avatars) also presents the IICT flagship.

Interview with Katja Tissi from HfH

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:46:59 GMT

In an interview with "Schau!", a newspaper by and for people with and without hearing impairments, Katja Tissi talks about the IICT flagship.

MT Summit Geneva 2025

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:40:06 GMT

Prof Dr Sarah Ebling, Flagship PI, has been confirmed as the first keynote speaker at the MT Summit 2025, to be held in Geneva from 23 to 27 June.

E-Accessibility Symposium 2024

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling at the e-accessibility symposium which took place on 21. November 2024.

SRF Podcast «Digitale Inklusion: Was bringt KI?»

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Flagship PI Sarah Ebling interviewed on the topic of "Accessibility and AI"

Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Inaugural Lecture of our Flagship PI, 2 December 2024, 19:30-20:15 (new starting time!)

Sign Language and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Aspects

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Event on 12 November 2024, organized by the chair of Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling, PI of our Flagship

Symposium on «E-Accessibility» 2024

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 22:00:00 GMT

On 21 November 2024 the online symposium «E-Accessibility» will take place. The symposium is co-organized by implementation partners of our flagship.

5th LiZZ Gespräch: Multimodality

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Panel discussion on 24 October 2024 at the UZH City Campus

KOFO about Digital Signers

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Information event with invitation to discussion

IICT Flagship Accessibility Experts at AI+X SUMMIT 2024

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Meet our IICT PI Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling at the UZH booth

SwissNLP Award 2024 for sign language machine translation

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Members of the IICT team receive this year’s SwissNLP Award for their work in sign language machine translation

On the contribution of generative AI to web accessibility

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:00:00 GMT

Article by Prof Dr Sarah Ebling in the magazine Netzwoche

Launch of Google Accessibility Discovery Center (ADC) Zurich

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:00:00 GMT

IICT Flagship PI Sarah Ebling will take part in the launch event on 16 May 2024

IICT Consortium Meeting March 2024

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:42:57 GMT

The IICT consortium met at Technopark Winterthur to discuss recent progress and prepare for the upcoming review meeting with Innosuisse.

Digital Signers

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Information event with invitation to discussion

Inclusion through technology

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Newspaper article about Flaghip PI's research

Flagship Get Together 2024

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Innosuisse invites Flagship Consortia to exchange insights

Press Release of the FOCP

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Press release of the Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP) with reference to the IICT Flagship

Symposium on “E-Accessibility” - talks online

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 23:00:00 GMT

On 16 November 2023, the online symposium on “E-Accessibility” took place. The talks with sign language interpreting are available onLiveAccess

Newspaper article about IICT (in French)

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:00:00 GMT

On 7 November 2023, Le Nouvelliste published an article about Icare's research for subproject 1 (text simplification)

Information Event – Learn from colleagues

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 23:00:00 GMT

An information event on 8 November 2023, organzied by the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) and the UZH Innovation Office.

Talk at “Forum Digitale Kommunikation”

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 23:00:00 GMT

On 9 November 2023, the event "Forum Digitale Kommunikation" will take place in Berne, IICT-PI Sarah Ebling presents on one aspect of our flagship.

Campus Oerlikon – Lecture Series Fall Semester 23

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 23:00:00 GMT

On 20 November 2023, Flagship PI Prof. Dr. Sarah Ebling will give a short talk as part of the lecture series “Friend or Foe? Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Society” at Campus Oerlikon.

SAGG Germanistiktag 2023

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 23:00:00 GMT

On 1 December 2023, Flagship PI Sarah Ebling will give a talk about “KI-basierte Kommunikation im Kontext von Barrierefreiheit” (AI-based communication in the context of accessibility) at the University of Basel.

Our Flagship briefly explained

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 12:38:18 GMT

Short presentation by project partner SWISS TXT on the IICT Flagship.

Topics, Challenges and Expected Results

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:06:12 GMT

Interview by SWISS TXT with project partners.

IICT public information event

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Public information event (in German) on our Flagship on Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 17:30-19:00.

IICT PI Sarah Ebling at TEDxZurich

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:00:00 GMT

TEDxZurich talk by Dr. Sarah Ebling.

SWISS TXT Interview

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Interview with our implementation partner SWISS TXT

Language(s) and Spaces: Switzerland as a “Special Case”?

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Language(s) and Spaces: Switzerland As a “Special Case”?

Developing Sign Language Technologies for the Users: Insights from an NLP Perspective

Sun, 23 Oct 2022 22:00:00 GMT

Presentation on NLP challenges in sign language processing

Digital Days Lecture

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 22:00:00 GMT

Lecture on the Use of AI for People with Disabilities by Dr. Sarah Ebling (in German)

Conference “The Potential of Participatory Research”

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 22:00:00 GMT

Conference for improved inclusion of the deaf community in research projects (in German)

Bernet Blog interview with Dr. Sarah Ebling

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 22:00:00 GMT

Online communication in 2022 – accessible for everyone?

SWISS TXT informs about IICT

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Media coverage SWISS TXT

Flagship Kick-off Meeting

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 23:00:00 GMT

Kick-off meeting of the Innosuisse Flagship Initiative

The University of Teacher Education in Special Needs (HfH) informs about IICT

Sun, 21 Nov 2021 23:00:00 GMT

IICT coverage by HfH

"Le Nouvelliste" reports on IICT

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 23:00:00 GMT

Article with focus on Idiap and ICARE