Robots and other technologies with social functions are increasingly finding their way into working and everyday life. By offering interaction through gestures and voice, they open up new usage potentials. We help you identify areas of application and their design.
Robots with social functions offer potential benefits in industry and service sectors. Social robots are increasingly geared towards interaction or communication with humans. They are also becoming increasingly mobile: they can orient themselves, move around and act autonomously.
The Digital Innovation Lab is experimenting with a variety of robot models and appropriate deployment scenarios with a view to enhancing the social interaction between humans and robots.
Collaboration modalities
We offer bespoke support for your innovation projects, be they short-term and narrowly defined or longer-term and complex:
Our applied research focuses on answering questions from companies and organisations around digital innovation.
Applied research and development projects serve to generate new knowledge for science and industry. They can receive public funding due to their innovative nature. As a tertiary education provider, we have a wide range of experience with a variety of funding modalities.
The results, which help participating companies in their projects, are further leveraged by the staff of the FHNW School of Applied Psychology (e.g. for continuing education or in the form of publications) in order to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between research, business and society.
Timeframe: between six months and several years. Geared towards longer-term cooperation.
Our services – such as expert consulting, testing and training – assist companies and institutions in their search for tailored answers to a wide range of questions in the area of digital innovation.
Service projects are carried out at market rates by experts from the Digital Innovation Lab.
Timeframe: depends on the project. Short-notice projects possible.
Student projects offer the opportunity to work on a psychology-oriented problem within an organisation while providing a learning experience for the students. Student projects (individual or group work) are supervised by lecturers with all the relevant qualifications.
