#Health Sciences

Under the heading of Health Sciences, the St. Pölten UAS combines expertise from the fields of dietetics, physiotherapy, healthcare and nursing, and digital healthcare in the research areas of Health Promotion & Healthy Ageing, Clinical & Healthcare Research and Education & Lifelong Learning for Health Professionals.

Projects

IMPROVE

Framework to IMPROVE the Integration of Patient Generated Health Data to Facilitate Value Based Healthcare.

ACCESS

Assessing clinically relevant biomechanical biomarkers in the field to predict physical functioning and health in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a nation-wide citizen science approach.

DICHTE - Digitised Interprofessional Collaboration of Health Teams in Education

Digitised methods that support academic staff in organising person-centred, interprofessional health care education.

Publications

Horst, F., Hoitz, F., Slijepcevic, D., Schons, N., Beckmann, H., Nigg, B. M., & Schöllhorn, W. I. (2023). Identification of subject-specific responses to footwear during running. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 11284. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38090-0
Aigner, W. (2023, May 22). Visualization Literacy & Onboarding. VRVis Forum #176 | Digital Humanism, Vienna, Austria. https://www.vrvis.at/news-events/events/176-digital-humanism
Durstberger, S., Kranzl, A., & Horsak, B. (2023). Effects of three different regression-based hip joint center localization methods in adolescents with obesity on kinematics and kinetics - preliminary results of the HIPstar study. Gait & Posture, 100, 42–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2022.11.056
Slijepcevic, D., Zeppelzauer, M., Unglaube, F., Kranzl, A., Breiteneder, C., & Horsak, B. (2023). Towards more transparency: The utility of Grad-CAM in tracing back deep learning based classification decisions in children with cerebral palsy. Gait & Posture, 100, 32–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2022.11.045
Vulpe-Grigorasi, A. (2023). Cognitive load assessment based on VR eye-tracking and biosensors. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, 589–591. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626705.3632618
Vulpe-Grigorasi, A. (2023). Multimodal machine learning for cognitive load based on eye tracking and biosensors. 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588015.3589534
Stoiber, C., Emrich, Š., & Aigner, W. (2023). Design Guidelines for Visualization Onboarding Concepts in Data Journalism [Vortrag]. STS Conference, Graz. https://stsconf.tugraz.at/
Slijepcevic, D., Horst, F., Simak, M., Lapuschkin, S., Raberger, A. M., Samek, W., Breiteneder, C., Schöllhorn, W. I., Zeppelzauer, M., & Horsak, B. (2022). Explaining machine learning models for age classification in human gait analysis. Gait & Posture, 97, S252–S253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2022.07.153
Seel, M., Heller, M., & Anderluh, A. (2022, May 17). EFFECTS: Gesundheitliche Bewertung aktiver Mobilität [Postersession]. 25. ÖGPH Tagung 2022, Online. https://oeph.at/event/25-wissenschaftliche-jahrestagung-der-oegph-0/
Höld, E., Grüblbauer, J., Wiesholzer, M., Wewerka-Kreimel, D., Stieger, S., Kuschei, W., Kisser, P., Gützer, E., Hemetek, U., Ebner-Zarl, A., & Pripfl, J. (2022). Improving glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus through a peer support instant messaging service intervention (DiabPeerS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 23(1), 308. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06202-2

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