Focus areas

The five R&D groups of the institute are active in the following areas:

Enterprise Information Integration

• Basic technologies for:
  • Distribution and storage of information
  • Retrieval, classification and augmentation of information
• Developement processes for distributed information systems
• (open source) components and frameworks
• Integration into heterogenous systems

Human Information Interaction

• Mobile Clients and Location Based Services
• Avanced User Interfaces (voice, multimodal, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality)
• User-Centered Design and  Usability Engineering
• Visualisation and Computer Graphics
• ICT-Accessibility: Consulting, Accessibility-Services

Information Security

• Secure software development, focussing on web application security
• Automated security testing
• Design and development of security-critical system components (e.g. key management, SuisseID integration, authentication methods for smartphones etc.)
• Passive and active network monitoring with a focus on attack and anomaly detction
• Security assessments (penetration tests, conceptual security analyses etc.)
• Risk assessment and risk engineering of IT systems in companies and as part of critical IT infrastructures

Information Engineering

• Information Retrieval and Data Warehousing
• Integration of heterogeneous and unstructured data and information sources; integration at search/analysis time
• Detection of topics and trends (find, don't search)
• Data and text mining
• Benchmarking of retrieval systems

Service Engineering

• Service Vision and Innovation of ICT- and information based Services
• Service Engineering of ICT- and. information based Services
• ICT Service Strategy Coaching
• Service Architecture Engineering
• Service Development Process