Caring Robots // Robotic Care
Caring Robots // Robotic Care is a 5-year project, started in 2022, funded by the FWF #Connecting Minds program.
Ongoing projects
UNIKATE
The UNIKATE Prize rewards ideas for new technological developments that enable people with disabilities to have more self-determination and more equal participation in society. The prize is aimed at students with …
Completed projects
APH-Alarm - Gesture based alarming
Comprehensive safety solution for people with aphasia.
Breaking The Wall
With Breaking The Wall we explore how to use technology to involve the audience in music performances. We design and develop different interactive systems together with artists. These systems were deployed in public …
CoSi4U - Human Factors in Using Collaboration Systems in Companies
The CoSi4U (Human Factors in Using Collaboration Systems in Companies) project is a cooperation project with FRINK Advanced Services GmbH. FRINK Advanced Services GmbH developed a tool for analysing collaboration data in …
CVAST - Centre of Visual Analytics Science and Technology
The Centre of Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST) is one of the Laura Bassi Centres of Excellence. The goals of CVAST are twofold. The first goal is the integration of the outstanding capabilities of humans …
Designing for resilience with unaccompanied migrant youth
Unaccompanied migrant youth (UMY) must cope with adversities before, during, and after their flight to Austria without adult relatives. Mental health support could contribute to promoting resilience in UMY and help them …
Developing an inclusive technological toolkit to support prevention approaches
Within this project, a technological toolkit is developed, which will allow young people, mediated by caregivers, to create customizable applications to support their own mental health and wellbeing, based on …
Development of sensor-based systems for older people
In this project, we are trying to uncover the problems developers are facing in the development of sensor-based monitoring systems to support older people living alone. For this we use qualitative methods to investigate …
Digital Intelligent Assistant for Nursing Applications in Dementia Care
Less routine monitoring tasks for nurses and gaining more time for compassion and personal care taking for people with dementia.
Exceptional Norms
By thinking through Exceptional Norms, we investigate how technologies, particularly those related to embodied computing, literally encode normative assumptions and expectations in their artefacts. We conduct critical …
Give&Take - Designing a reciprocal exchange service for a good and engaged senior life
Give&Take co-designs an innovative digital platform that enables senior citizens to reciprocally exchange services and resources, creating new opportunities for senior citizens to contribute to society as volunteers and …
ILUM - Augmenting urban mobility through digital information systems
ILUM combines urban mobility with ICT. Pillars for local orientation are augmented as an interactive guide-system for pedestrians in Vienna. Our goal is the elaboration of interaction application scenarios and actual …
iToilet - ICT-enhanced Toilet Supporting Active Life
The iToilet project addresses older persons who are living independently at home and the needs they have when using a toilet.
LARAH - Location-aware Assistant Robots At Home
LARAH (Location-aware Assistant Robots At Home) aimed at providing older persons with an assistive robot, to provide support and safety in their own homes. This project developed a visual indoor localization solution for …
Lav4All - Lavatory for All
The utilization of a plane toilet represents difficulties for many mobility reduced persons. Often they aren’t able at all to use the on-board toilet, especially within short distance or medium-haul flights. Depending on …
MAXimizeMe
XXLMontage für alle (Diversitätsfördernde Individualisierung von Arbeitssystemen in der industriellen Baustellenmontage):
MySafeWC - Dehydration trends on the toilet
The basis of assistive products such as “iToilet” with integrated nursing documentation could be expanded sensibly and innovatively by further methods of data analysis in the daily use of toilets.
OutsideTheBox
With OutsideTheBox we will think laterally and outside of typical boxes and categorisations. We will design new technologies with autistic children which are not exclusively driven by functional limitations, but engage …
PAIR - Pairwise Visual Comparison of Directed Acyclic Graphs: A HCI Perspective
The goal of this project is to improve visualizations for pairwise network comparisons via new cognition-driven design guidelines. This project will specifically concentrate on the visual comparison of directed acyclic …
RISIoT
RISIoT (Risks of the Internet of Things) is a market analysis and risk assessment to accelerate the adoption of the Internet of Things in Austrian enterprises.
RoboGen
RoboGen was planned as a 3-year project, started in 2018 funded by the FFG (FemTech project).
SCHAUKASTEN - Sehförderung für Kleinkinder
SCHAUKASTEN - Sehförderung für Kleinkinder (1.12.2016 - 31.1.2018), financed by: Hauptverband der österreichischen Sozialversicherungsträger
SEL4Home - Supporting children’s social-emotional learning at home
A principal challenge for existing social-emotional learning (SEL) programs is to provide reinforcement of the learnt competencies in everyday contexts and beyond the in-school lessons. SEL4Home project starts to bridge …
Shared Space
Exploring Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction: What makes people accept or reject companion robots?
SocialPlayTechnologies
Social play is key for successful inclusion of children with disabilities and has significant impact on their wellbeing and development. Typical traits in autism, such as impaired social and communication skills and …
Sparkling Games
Together with secondary school students we investigate how concepts from the field of game-based learning can be used to develop learning methods and materials covering the topic informatics and society.
T4ME2 Toilet4me too - Personalised toilets for active living
The T4ME2 project addresses older people and the needs they have when using a toilet outside home in semi-public environments (e.g. toilets located in community centres, shopping malls, museums, theatres, hotels).
Teaching conflict resolution through Minecraft
Minecraft multiplayer servers allow millions of children from around the world to build, play and problem solve together in a shared virtual space. As conflicts between players are common, these online spaces offer a …
TEAM - Technology Enabled Mental Health for Young People
TEAM (Technology Enabled Mental Health for Young People) is a 4-year Innovation Training Network (ITN), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions initiative. There has …
The Got-IT Project
Got-IT will deliver an online toolkit to assist the design of inclusive eHealth solutions targeting the promotion of healthy lifestyles among older adults with low eHealth literacy, promoting citizen empowerment and …
Toilet4me - Personalised toilets for active living
The Toilet4me project addressed older people and the needs they have when using a toilet outside home in semi-public environments (e.g. toilets located in community centres, shopping malls, museums, theatres, hotels).
TrustRobots Doctoral College
From September 2018 TU Wien has established an interdisciplinary Doctoral College (DC) on “Trust in Robots – Trusting Robots” to foster cutting-edge research in robotics and AI at TU Wien. The main objective of the DC is …
Urban Food Spots
Urban Food Spots – Development of the basics for gender and diversity sensitive cooling stations for foodsharing in urban areas (2015 – 2017), financed by: Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG)
Versteckte Technologien? Exploring the Hidden Technological Labour of Service Workers
Digitalisation has transformed work, jobs, and working environments. Research has paid a lot of attention to topics such as “industry 4.0”, gig economy and digital employment. However, it is often overlooked how …
Visual Analytics for Sense-Making in Criminal Intelligence Analysis
The VALCRI project is funded by the EC to undertake R&D with a view to developing an integrated software support system for police forces across partner countries. This software system, known as VALCRI, will be used by …
Viz4PAIS - Visualization Techniques for Process-Aware Information Systems
The Viz4PAIS (Visualization Techniques for Process-Aware Information Systems) project is an initiative from the Workflow Systems and Technology Research Group, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna and we are …
WAALTeR
The AAL project - short for Active & Assisted Living - aims to develop age-appropriate assistance systems for an active, independent and self-determined life.
Way·Key - mobility assistant for people with dementia
In Austria about 1.2% of the population or a total of ca. 130,000 persons are affected by dementia. The increase of life expectancy will lead to a growing number of people affected in the future. Maintaining mobility can …
WCBuddy - Supporting Use of Toilet by Guidance
Based on project partners’ products “iToilet” and “fearless”, the feasibility of supporting cognitively impaired people while using the toilet was explored.