Current Projects

Digital Ethics Compass (2023-2026)

Project leader(s): Luis Teran, Narek Andreasyan, Edy Portmann (UNIFR) and Martina Schwab (SwissPost)

AI Ethical Compass Develop a framework to address the challenges from data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in relation to concerns of justice, sustainability, and climate change. The produced artifact will consist in a digital ethic radar, a user interface, that supports the development of digitalization standards connecting law and regulations, ethics and justice, and environmental sustainability.

Supported by Innosuisse

Tour Data + (2024-2027)

Project leader(s): Simon Ruffieux, Ilyes Kadri, Denis Lalanne (UNIFR) and Pascal Stalder (SwissPost)

Tour Data + Automatically detect and classify deviations within realized parcels delivery tours to support smart updates of cartographical information for tour planners within the Swiss Post ecosystem. Leverage the postmen implicit knowledge to adapt planning algorithms.

Supported by Innosuisse

Participative Security [Faculty of Social Anthropology] (2024-2025)

Project leader(s): Prof. David Bozzini (UNIFR)

Participative Security Investigate the implementation of the bug bounty program within SwissPost from a social anthropology perspective (interviews, study of processes, impact on employees).

Supported by HIP Initinative (Call for Projects 2023)

Digital Label Relevance [Faculty of Business Informatics] (2024-2025)

Project leader(s): Dr. Felix Haerer (UNIFR)

Digital Label Relevance Investigate the traction of selected digital labels and certifications with the aim to help assess their potential relevancy for SwissPost (web-crawling, data modeling, visualizations). Implement a proof-of-concept application faciltating the monitoring of selected digital labels .

Supported by HIP Initinative (Call for Projects 2023)

Legal View for AI-Marketing at at Swiss Post [Faculty of Law] (2024-2025)

Project leader(s)s: Prof. Pascal Pichonnaz, Dr. Mark Drenhaus (UNIFR)

Legal View for AI-Marketing at at Swiss Post Develop a holistic view of marketing automation projects with AI support in data-driven, automated and personalized processes along the entire customer journey (interviews, mapping, visualization).

Supported by HIP Initinative (Call for Projects 2023)