Katharina WernerTU Wien | TU Wien · Institute for Design & Assessment of Technology
Katharina Werner
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
September 2014 - June 2021
FH Campus Wien
Position
- Lecturer
June 2014 - present
research group for assisted living technologies
Position
- Senior Researcher
May 2014 - present
Publications
Publications (42)
Purpose:
Problems with handwriting are a common referral to occupational therapy in children and are often associated with inadequate pen grip and tip pressure. Technologies providing immediate feedback on applied forces are currently not available. Therefore, the aim was to identify user's perspectives on the optimal functionality of a pressure-s...
Menschen mit Geh-Einschränkungen müssen im Luftverkehr einen Bordrollstuhl nutzen, mit dem sie vom Gate abgeholt und in das Flugzeug zum Sitzplatz gebracht werden. Aber auch der Toilettengang während des Fluges macht einen Bordrollstuhl für Rollstuhlfahrende unverzichtbar. Dabei kann der Transfer vom eigenen Rollstuhl in den Bordrollstuhl, bzw. vom...
Children and designers have divergent, sometimes contradictory notions of what “design” means. Unrestricted by the lens of adulthood and the shackles of formal creative education, children ask unexpected questions, draw unlikely conclusions, and have a different experience of creation. How do we recognise, address and adapt to these differences of...
Social play is a key factor in children’s positive development. Children with different interactional styles, such as neurodivergent children, face challenges to create opportunities for playing with peers to practice and acquire complex social skills, putting their social and emotional wellbeing at risk. We report on the design of social play tech...
Way-finding pillars for tourists aid them in navigating an unknown area. The pillars show nearby points of interest, offer information about public transport and provide a scale for the neighbourhood. Through a series of studies with tourists and locals, we establish their different needs. In this space, we developed Mappy, a mobile application whi...
This paper disseminates work from the European Give&Take project, which aims at co-designing service sharing among senior citizens based on a mobile and distributed platform. With this project as a frame, the authors' paper addresses methodological considerations of participation in co-design for ageing. Based on the notions of design culture, comm...
This paper builds on the experiences made with regard to ethical and socio-legal issues in already completed and on-going AAL projects and pre-sents the plan for integrating ethical and legal dimensions into an upcoming field trial in two residential care facilities in Austria. We describe the SignAAL project and its evaluation plan, identify the t...
This paper addresses methodological considerations of participation in design for ageing. Based on the notions of design culture, communities of everyday practice and situated elderliness we present accounts from two settings and discuss methodological issues related to mobilizing senior citizens in co-design work.
'Robots in healthcare' is a very trending topic. This paper gives an overview of currently and commonly used methods to gather user needs and requirements in research projects in the field of assistive robotics. Common strategies between authors are presented as well as examples of exceptions, which can help future researchers to find methods suita...
The field of "AAL Robotics", combining AAL and robotics as disciplines, has not yet been precisely defined and does not present accepted structures and concepts that would allow to communicate unequivocally its methods, projects, and approaches. The paper presents a method of defining and categorizing AAL robots and presents the resulting classes o...
Zur Unterstützung eines möglichst langen selbstständigen Lebens älterer Menschen in den eigenen vier Wänden wurde von einem österreichischen Konsortium das System „CongeniAAL“ entwickelt, welches die Vorteile ambienter mit am Körper getragener Sensoren in einem hochmodularen komplementären System vereint. Im Projekt wurde eine Fusion der ambienten...
Enabled by web and mobile technologies, there has been an explosion of interest in the sharing economy and peer-to-peer exchange, with much high profile attention given to monetised exchanges such as in AirBnB and Uber. However there are also many other sharing initiatives, such as time banking, that focus on smaller, more local communities and do...
This contribution describes the AAL Living Lab Schwechat, methodologies deployed,
examples of projects and the experiences gained. Key actors and methods
are described.
Issues which came up are discussed: the need of using a common language for
researchers, developers, marketing experts and end users; involvement of persons
of trust; respecting eth...
Traditional Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) in older persons’ living environments are widespread but are limited as the users have to activate the button on the transmitter manually. This limitation is overcome by systems like the novel SOFTCARE prototype which is able to automatically call for assistance e.g. in case of a detected fall....
Within the FP7 project KSERA a biped robot was used within two main user trials as an embodied agent to support older people during daily life. This paper describes parts of the conducted trials involving 10 users in 32 test sessions to generate results regarding the technical validity and acceptance of the approach by evaluating approx. 20 hours o...
According to recent studies a strength of socially assistive robots (SARs) is the ability to motivate users to perform tasks in a multimodal manner. Within this paper the evaluation of a SAR based prototype for support of physical therapy of older users at home is described. By performing a user study with a training system consisting of a social a...
This paper describes the evaluation of human-robot-interaction (HRI) related to the future use of a humanoid robotic system as interface in intelligent home environments. The core motivation was to enhance the user interaction between smart home systems and senior users by introducing a humanoid, mobile socially assistive robot as user interface. T...
The demographic changes in the developed countries, especially the growing number of elderly citizens, are causing opportunities and big challenges to societies. The need of care and support of seniors is growing fast, also the changes within our ICT based information society increase the gap between the younger generation (“digital natives”) and t...
Telealarm systems for elderly people are already well established in Austria. Those systems typically consist of a base station for handsfree communication and a wearable emergency button. By pressing on this button a call to an emer-gency call center is established. Currently those systems only work inside the user’s flat. The fear of falling or o...
Internet usage in Austria varies between age groups in a way that only about 30% of older users above 60 have access to Internet services compared to nearly 100% in the age group between 14 and 30. This digital divide exists because of technical, social and economical barriers that affect especially older users. Weather or not current tablets have...
The municipality of Schwechat has initiated several programmes to boost the ICT research and development as well as the concrete usage of ICT in daily life in order to allow individuals and the local community to participate in the e-society and to gain benefits provided by upcoming ICT. By applying the Living Lab framework, users are involved duri...
Im Rahmen des Projekts eHome wurde der Prototyp eines Assistenzsystems entwickelt, welches älteren Menschen er-möglichen soll, länger sicher und autonom in ihrer vertrauten Umgebung zu Hause leben zu können. Dieser Prototyp wurde in einer Feldstudie im Rahmen des „Living Labs Schwechat“ über einen Zeitraum von insgesamt 20 Monaten gemeinsam mit elf...
Elderly people often experience difficulties in using modern Information and Communication Technologies. This paper presents findings of an evaluation and a field test of a touch screen based internet videophone system mounted in a wooden frame in order to provide a non technical appearance. During a 14-day lasting field test in real-life environme...
In this paper we describe the use of accelerometers in a system aiming to detect Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) of elderly people in home environments. Our aim is to enable senior citizens to remain in their familiar home environments as long as possible by increasing their feeling for safety and autonomy in a minimally invasive way. Therefore w...
Innovative Technologien können einen deutlichen Beitrag zur Erhöhung der Sicherheit und der Lebensqualität alter Menschen leisten. Wichtig ist, dass sich die neue Technik in das gewohnte Lebensumfeld einfügt, und dass die Anwender und Anwenderinnen von Anfang an in die Entwicklung und laufende Erprobung unter Beachtung ethischer und datenschutzrech...
1 ABSTRACT The demographic changes in the developed countries, especially the growing number of elderly citizens, are causing opportunities and big challenges to societies. The need of care and support of seniors is growing fast, also the changes within our ICT based information society increase the gap between the younger generation ("digital nati...
Projects
Projects (5)
The Got-IT project aims to respond to the need for inclusive and understandable eHealth solutions by developing a toolkit that supports the design of eHealth applications in general, and for people with low eHealth literacy in specific.
Taking the promotion of daily physical activity as a use case, in Got-IT, during 9 months we will work in close collaboration with end-users of the eHealth applications (older adults) and of the toolkit (eHealth developers) to create a toolkit that will inform and provide tools for inclusive design. In Got-IT, we will work together with end-users in two countries (NL and AT) to investigate ways to convey their health data (e.g., how to visualize data, how to convey feedback via audio or text). The ultimate question is how to convey complicated health data in a way that is inspiring, understandable and actionable to the older adult.
