Center for Digital Health Innovation

Information and communications technology is playing an increasingly important role in healthcare. St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences has in recent years built up innovative, interdisciplinary research at the interface of health, social issues and digitalization and is combining its expertise and energy in the St. Pölten Center for Digital Health Innovation.

Key Focus

Active Assisted Living

Digital applications and solutions for health promotion, active ageing and social care

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Key Focus

Motor Rehabilitation

Innovative technologies for motor rehabilitation: machine learning, visual analytics and mixed reality

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Selected projects

IntelliGait – Intelligent Gait Analysis

Automatic gait pattern analysis for robust classification of functional deficits. Intelligait aims at developing automated methods to analyze and classify gait patterns.

BRELOMATE 2

BRELOMATE 2 aims at creating a user friendly and inexpensive centerpiece of an information, communication and gaming platform for elderly people.

IMPECD

Improvement of Education and Competences in Dietetics

Mag. Dr. Jürgen Pripfl

Head of Institute of Health Sciences

Researchers at St. Pölten UAS have developed, among other things, intelligent shoe soles that make improper walking stresses audible. The research supports rehabilitation, improves the analysis and visualization of health data which assists therapists in their diagnosis. They are also inventing new technological solutions that make it possible for older people to live an active and independent life.

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