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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.
Persons 
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Pedro Fernando Arizpe Gomez
E-Mail: PedroFernando.ArizpeGomez(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-741, Room: E66
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Publications
2023
Robots and Norms of Care: A Comparative Analysis of the Reception of Robotic Assistance in Nursing
Matsuzaki, Hironori and Gliesche, Pascal; Social Robots in Social Institutions; jan / 2023
2022
A rule-based robotic assistance system providing physical relief for nurses during repositioning tasks at the care bed
Kowalski, Christian and Brinkmann, Anna and Böhlen, Conrad Fifelski-von and Hinrichs, Pascal and Hein, Andreas; International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications; 2022
Analyse erforderlicher Technikunterstützung und Handlungsbedarfe bei Arbeitsprozessen in der ambulanten Pflege
Kirsten Harms, Heike Thomsen, Ortrud Leßmann, Miriam Schwanholt, Tobias Krahn, Andreas Hein, Michael Bau ; Abstractband - 5. Clusterkonferenz "Zukunft der Pflege" ; 9 / 2022
Analytical Solutions for Two-Contact Whole-Arm Manipulation Inverse Kinematics for Manipulators with Link Offsets
Hinrichs, Pascal and Vu, Minh Tam and Pfingsthorn, Max and Kowalski, Christian and Hein, Andreas; 2022 Sixth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing; 12 / 2022
Designing and applying technology for prevention—Lessons learned in AEQUIPA and its implications for future research and practice
Meyer, Jochen and Ratz, Tiara and Pauls, Alexander and Hellmers, Sandra and Boll, Susanne and Fudickar, Sebastian and Hein, Andreas and Bauer, Jürgen M and Koppelin, Frauke and Lippke, Sonia and Peters, Manuela and Pischke, Claudia R and Voelcker-Rehage, Claudia and Zeeb, Hajo and Forberger, Sarah; Frontiers in Public Health; 2022
Effect Of Situation Awareness On Accomplishing Manipulation Tasks in Nursing Care
Vu, Minh Tam, Hinrichs, Pascal and Hein, Andreas; Assistive robots in the real world - IROS'2022 Workshop; Oktober / 2022
Suitability of Virtual Reality for Eye Tracking Studies in a Nursing Context
Gliesche, Pascal and Weiß, Sebastian and Gerdes, Arne and Heuten, Wilko and Hein, Andreas; 5. Clusterkonferenz "Zukunft der Pflege"; 9 / 2022
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
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
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
