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Interdisciplinary AAL research (technology, social science, economy)


Our organisation type is:: University, Research institution, Evaluation (trials) specialist organisation

We are active in the following Technologies: Service innovation, User perspective, Social Science/Elderly, Design, Field trials / living lab, Hardware, sensors, actuators, Integration, Communication technologies / Tele-systems, Accessibility, Impact assessment, Project management

Applications: Health & wellness, Hobbies , Home care, Information and learning, Knowledge Transfer, Mobility, Skills enhancement, Social interaction

The IARA - Institute for Applied Research on Ageing - is set up as an interdisciplinary (technology, social science, economy) research institute with a focus on developing and evaluating technical solutions and services for the older generation. We include expertise in all steps of a AAL product development lifecyle.

IARA hosts researchers with expertise in social sciences (psychology, sociology, care sciences, therapy), technology (electronics, sensor networks, medical informatics, UX-experts) and economy (business and national economy) as well as socio-technological evaluation (acceptance, sQoL evaluation)

IARA follows a strict user-centred, participative approach and has well developed user-involvement strategies as well an existing living lab (including infrastructure - lab, demo-appartements, external labs)

IARA is lead of the Austrian AAL pilot region SMART VITAALITY (smart-vitaality.at) and is part of more than 10 AAL relevant projects in parallel - which shows the experience in integration existing technology packages in real-testing environment in older people's homes and evaluating them in a multi-domain approach (UX, acceptance, efficiancy, sustainabililty)

webpage IARA: www.iara.ac.at

webpage SMART VITAALITY: www.smart-vitaality.at

webpage LILAB: https://blog.fh-kaernten.at/lilab/de/

webpage EVAALUATION: http://evaaluation.tech-experience.at/

webpage CARE4TECH: http://www.alpine-space.eu/projects/care4tech/en/about/the-project/overview

Contact details

Contact

Prof (FH) Johannes Oberzaucher, PhD
j.oberzaucher@fh-kaernten.at

Institution/Company

IARA - Institute for Applied Research on Ageing
Primoschgasse 10, 8020 Klagenfurt

Austria