Katrin Paldán

Fachhochschule Vorarlberg (University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg)

Es wird ein konzeptioneller Ansatz für ein Werkzeug zur Stadtplanung vorgestellt, das crowdbasiert mit Hilfe einer Smartphone-App spezifische gesundheitsrelevante Sensorinformationen im öffentlichen Raum erfasst. Urban Health mAPP stellt einen Vorschlag zur Partizipation von Bürgern für die Konzep-tion und Gestaltung gesunder Städte anhand von getr...

Background: Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of death worldwide. Although knowledge regarding diagnosing and treating cardiovascular disease has increased dramatically, secondary prevention remains insufficiently implemented due to failure among affected individuals to adhere to guideline recommendations. This has continued to lead to hig...

Background Typ1 Diabetes (T1D) us a complicated condition that requires constant monitoring and making many decisions. Living with T1D means to check blood sugar levels, inject oneself insulin, and be careful what you eat. In the life of a young adult there are a lot of things going on and youngsters don't want to control themselves all day and nig...

Museums are no longer places where guests aren’t allowed to touch anything. They have increasingly become adventure parks, where visitors are invited to directly interact with exhibits to discover new knowledge. This raises questions regarding how to design such interactive exhibits, so they invite and persuade people to interact with them and ther...

A gluten-free diet (GFD) is critical for people who are affected by celiac disease. To understand how to support people affected by celiac disease through persuasive technology, two apps called Snackfinder and CeliApp were designed within the EU-funded Erasmus + project DESQOL. While Snackfinder is based on the persuasive principle of social suppor...

BACKGROUND Mobile interventions are intended to digitally nurse complex health care needs in chronic diseases, but they are mainly targeted at general health improvement and neglect disease-specific requirements. Therefore, we designed TrackPAD, a smartphone app to support supervised exercise training (SET) in patients with peripheral arterial dise...

Background Mobile health interventions are intended to support complex health care needs in chronic diseases digitally, but they are mainly targeted at general health improvement and neglect disease-specific requirements. Therefore, we designed TrackPAD, a smartphone app to support supervised exercise training in patients with peripheral arterial d...

Background: The development of mobile interventions for non-communicable diseases has received increasing attention in recent years. However, patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and their specific requirements due to their frequently impaired ability to walk have been neglected thus far. Objective: In a patient-centred approach for t...

BACKGROUND The development of mobile interventions for noncommunicable diseases has increased in recent years. However, there is a dearth of apps for patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), who frequently have an impaired ability to walk. OBJECTIVE Using a patient-centered approach for the development of mobile interventions, we aim to de...

BACKGROUND Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a common and severe disease with a highly increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Through the circulatory disorder and the linked undersupply of oxygen carriers in the lower limbs, the ongoing decrease of the pain-free walking distance occurs with a significant reduction in patients’ quality...

When it comes to improving the health of the general population, mHealth technologies with self-monitoring and intervention components hold a lot of promise. We argue, however, that due to various factors such as access, targeting, personal resources or incentives, self-monitoring applications run the risk of increasing health inequalities, thereby...

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In this paper, we describe the development of a behavior change support system to improve health. The system is designed for people in the age range of 50–65 with an interdisciplinary approach. The basic structure of the presented system consists of two main modules: a monitoring module to collect and analyze data and an intervention module to supp...

Changing life in urban areas creates challenges for people who move and also for long-term inhabitants, who have to orientate themselves in new or changing environments. ICT has the potential to support people in orientating in urban neighborhoods as well as to foster participation when it comes to shaping future life in cities. We present results...

Goal-setting has shown some promise in promoting physical activity behavior change among adults. In this context, adaptive goal setting has been identified as a relevant future research area. However, it is not yet addressed in research sufficiently. We present a theoretical approach for adaptively supporting users in goal-setting. We explore poten...