FH St. Pölten

UmBrello: Working towards an AAL testregion in Lower Austria

The exploratory project UmBrello aims at designing a cost-effective and easy-to-use communication and service platform for older citizens and stakeholders for a future test region in Lower Austria. Based on the research results from the FFG Benefit-funded projects Brelomate 1 and 2, the chances for online services are to be examined in the following research […]

FH St Pölten / Sabine Sommer

Brelomate presented at the IARA conference in Villach

Johannes Pflegerl and Sabine Sommer were invited to present Brelomate at the international conference of the Institute for Applied Research on Ageing (IARA) at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences. Their presentation was focused on preliminary findings of the field study which was conducted from February until June 2017 in 30 elderly households in Lower […]

Brelomate at Alternsmedizin trifft Traumatologie

“Alternsmedizin trifft Traumatologie” is an interprofessional congress for physicians, medical assistants, nurses and home nurses  and took place from 15th to the 16th of September 2017,  at Voestalpine Steel World in Upper Austria. Lectures, roundtable discussions and workshops – with its variety of didactic methods, the congress ensured a diversified form of knowledge transfer around […]

Annual meeting held at the AUVA

The entire IntelliTeam met this week (11.09.2017) once again at the Weißer Hof, AUVA in Klosterneuburg. We discussed critical points in the project, defined the “machine learning algorithm” road map and also had some coffee (just as researcher do).   Using edomodo for parents, parents will be able to check their kids upcoming assignments, homework […]

Best Paper Session – ESMAC 2017

Anna-Maria Raberger and Brian Horsak attended the ESMAC conference from the 5th to the 9th of September in Trondheim, Norway. They talked and chitchatted to a lot other scientist working on similar projects and discussed the project’s road map. Brian Horsak presented our results on the first day of the conference, at the Best-Paper-Award session. […]

Consortial Meeting #7

On September 6th, 2017 the Brelomate team met at the company location of Kabelplus in Maria Enzersdorf. The main topic was the final evaluation of the fieldstudy, which took place from February to June 2017. The participating 17 women and 16 men were between 61 and 82 years old (Ø 71) and during their test time, […]

FH St. Pölten / Jakob Doppler

New project UmBrello starting in October

We are very proud to announce that our project proposal for UmBrello, our follow-up to Brelomate 1 & 2, was accepted by FFG benefit. UmBrello is an interdisciplinary project with team members from 5 departments and services of St. Poelten UAS and our external partner “Kleinregion Pielachtal”. It starts in October 2017 and the following […]

FH St. Pölten / David Artner

CE – Certification Workshop

Today our team took part in a training for CE Certification of medical devices.  The main goal was to refresh our knowledge of the CE certification process and the prerequisites necessary during the development phase. The course was organized by tecnet equity NÖ (www.tecnet.co.at) and was held by the mdc medical device certification GmbH (www.mdc-ce.de). […]

“Pimp our Brain” – Workshop!

The entire IntelliTeam met this week (12.07.2017) for an amazing workshop at the BIZ in St. Pölten. The main goal of this workshop entiteled “Pimp our Brain” was to prepare for the upcoming presentation at the annual ESMAC conference in Trondheim. All our team members were eager to learn something new about methods like Statistical […]