HAT Department for Health and Assistive Technologies

Human & Technology
AAL and Health Technology

Active and Assisted Living (AAL) • eHealth & Health Solutions • Participative Research & Living Lab

HAT Team

Head of Department

Johannes Oberzaucher
Head

Daniela Elisabeth Ströckl
Dep. Head

Team

Team Members

Clara Bauer
Scientific Project Assistant

Letícia Cotinguiba Silva
Scientific Project Assistant

Yannick Schwann
Scientific Project Assistant

Christoph Voutsinas
Senior Researcher / Lecturer

Enrico de Monte
Intern

Maja Četić
Junior Researcher

Valentina Peternell
Scientific Project Assistant (on maternity leave)

Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků
Senior Researcher / Lecturer

Eleni Zografou
Junior Researcher

Markus Gugl
Intern

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Research on ageing from the perspective of technology and health

The department HAT deals with the interaction between humans and technology. It focuses on social and technological innovations that support a healthy and independent life in old age – in one’s own living environment, in public spaces and at work. Therefore, it uses a strongly interdisciplinary research and innovation approach. The focus is on the research fields Active & Assisted Living (AAL), eHealth & Health Solutions and Participative Research & Living Lab.

Priorities for ageing research at HAT

Active & Assisted Living (AAL) stands for age-appropriate assistance systems for a healthy and independent life. This includes concepts, products and services that combine new technologies and the social environment to improve the quality of life for people in all stages of life, especially in old age.

Active and Assisted Living (AAL)

With the help of modern technical systems, the state of health is recorded and analysed to support prevention as well as therapy and rehabilitation. Classical examples of such systems are wearables, telemonitoring and telemedicine.

eHealth und Health Solutions

The Living Lab approach includes infrastructures, methods and processes in the entire R&D process. Solutions are developed together with future users, involving relevant stakeholders from politics, industry, academia and civil society.

Participative Research and Living Lab

A promising development of technology that is accepted by the future users, meets their needs and can generate positive effects in everyday life requires the participation of different scientific perspectives from technical, medical, nursing and health science, economic or social science disciplines. In the sense of integrated technology research, questions of user needs and acceptance, of ethical, legal and social aspects as well as economic issues are seen and lived in an inter- and transdisciplinary research context. Only this form of research makes it possible to realize multidimensional evaluations and proofs in close connection with theory-based technology development.

Thematic focus

INTERDISCIPLINARY TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Outlook

The Department focuses on the evidence-based development of new approaches and on long-term testing under real-life conditions. Derived from the goal to realize long-term and sustainable research projects on an international level, as well as the related goal of a possible long-term research in the regional area of Carinthia with a high number of cases (n>100) for the research field, strong networking with the other two IARA research fields is necessary in addition to technological research and development.

Latest news from HAT

IARA Tagung 2022 Save the date Icon größer

Invitation | IARA Conference | 21-22 May 2025 | Day 1 online (EN) | Day 2 Villach, Austria (DE)

Rethinking age(ing): Innovative models of regional health care. Registration open until May 12, 2025.

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Dec

IARA Research Colloquium | 12 March 2025 | 10-11 CET | ONLINE

In English language! The focus is on the Interreg IT-AT project PROMOS and biomedical technology [...]

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Dec

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Student Project Presentation “Health Learning Games” | 05.02.2025 | ONLINE

In English language! Medical Engineering students present 5 self-developed games in the context of health [...]

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Dec

IARA Research Colloquium | 11 Dec 2024 | 10-11 CET | ONLINE

In English language! On interdisciplinary curriculum development within the Erasmus+ project E-MEBE.

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Nov

Webinar | Cardiac arrhythmias and novel tools for the definition of new anti-arrhythmic therapies | Sept. 14, 2022 | Online

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES: The Interreg project INCardio invites you to participate in the next online webinar.

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Sep

Trailrunning-Camp | July 22-24, 2022 | Region of Hermagor, Austria

The 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴-𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘛-𝘈-𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭 promotes trail running in Hermagor and Friuli.

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Jun

IARA Research colloquium | March 16, 2022 | REVIEW

Informal care platform rethought? Find out more about the HEROES project and our research.

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Apr

Health Valley Event | March 15-17, 2022 | hybrid

Johannes Oberzaucher from CUAS/IARA will give an online presentation in Track 2 "Ageng well" / [...]

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Mar

HAT projects and cooperation in projects

Project descriptions, links to (often English) project websites and other key information on all ongoing projects can be found on the German website version. An English translation will be made availbale as soon as possible. We are looking forward to you visiting our website again.

HAT Department for Health and Assistive Technologies

Human & TechnologyAAL and Health Technology

HAT Team

Head of Department

Johannes Oberzaucher Head

Daniela Elisabeth Ströckl Dep. Head