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  4. Assistive Technologies for Care and Health Professionals

Assistive Technologies for Care and Health Professionals The work of the research group is concerned with the targeted relief of caregivers as well as the active support of the cared for with the help of innovative technologies from the fields of robotics, telecare, virtual and augmented reality as well as artificial intelligence.

Ensuring the long-term provision of nursing care is one of the greatest challenges of the future. The number of people in need of care is rising sharply, while the number of care professionals is falling. No other sector of the healthcare industry is growing as strongly as the care market, whose gross value added rose from 21.3 to 36.3 billion euros between 2006 and 2017, thus reaching the level of importance of numerous "classic" industrial sectors. The OFFIS Health research area has been facing up to these societal developments for many years, for example with the only nursing innovation center in Germany as part of the Future of Nursing cluster. Through this lead project, the area has been able to greatly expand its visibility and network within care and is now consolidating this socially relevant topic in the form of the research group: "Assistive Technologies for Care and Nursing" (ATP).

The work of the ATP group is aimed both at relieving the burden on nursing staff and at supporting the people receiving care. Technologies from the fields of robotics, telecare, virtual and augmented reality, and artificial intelligence are being used. Beyond professional care, the increasingly important group of informal caregivers, such as relatives, neighbors and friends, is also addressed in research projects. In addition, the effects of digitalization on the design of work processes are being investigated.

[Translate to english:]
  • Data Management and Analysis for Health Services Research
  • Automation and Integration Technology
  • Assistive Technologies for Care and Health Professionals
  • Biomedical Devices and Systems

GROUP MANAGER

Dr. Ing. Tobias Krahn
Dr. Ing.
Tobias Krahn

Persons

A

Meike Ahlers

E-Mail: meike.ahlers(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-554, Room: E104

Pedro Fernando Arizpe Gomez

E-Mail: PedroFernando.ArizpeGomez(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-741, Room: E66

H

Kirsten Harms

E-Mail: kirsten.harms(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-513, Room: U27

Pascal Hinrichs

E-Mail: Pascal.Hinrichs(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-726, Room: E67

K

Christian Kowalski

E-Mail: christian.kowalski(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-706, Room: E64

Dr. Ing. Tobias Krahn

E-Mail: tobias.krahn(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-145, Room: E119

Projects

P

PIZ

Pflegeinnovationszentrum (sorry - only available in German)

Duration: 2017 - 2022

V

VAPiAR

Verbesserung von Arbeitsbedingungen in der ambulanten Pflege durch innovative Arbeitskonzepte in der Region

Duration: 2021 - 2024

Publications

2021

Commanding a Whole-Arm Manipulation Grasp Configuration With One Click: Interaction Concept and Analytic IK Method

Gliesche, Pascal and Kowalski, Christian and Pfingsthorn, Max and Hein, Andreas; 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN); 08 / 2021

URL DOI BIB
Geometry-Based Two-Contact Inverse Kinematic Solution for Whole Arm Manipulation

Gliesche, Pascal and Kowalski, Christian and Pfingsthorn, Max and Hein, Andreas; 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS); 09 / 2021

URL DOI BIB
Handling Comparison between a Human and a Patient Simulator for Nursing Care Related Physical Human-robot Interaction

Kowalski, C., Gliesche, P., Fifelski-von Böhlen, C., Brinkmann, A., & Hein, A.; HEALTHINF; 2021

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