#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.

VReeze

Developing an Open-Source Virtual Reality for improving treatment of Freezing of Gait.

EyeQTrack - Quantitative Eye-Tracking Analytics for Adaptive XR Training & Rehabilitation in Healthcare

A self-adaptive eXtended reality environment for training and therapeutic purposes.

DICHTE - Digitised Interprofessional Collaboration of Health Teams in Education

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

Institute of Health Sciences

Applied Biomechanics in Rehabilitation Research

Endowed professorship of the province of Lower Austria to strengthen and expand the research focus on motor rehabilitation

ULTRASKEL3D

Ultrasound-Based Skeletal 3D scans for Personalized Musculoskeletal Modelling.

deepForce - Pushing the limits of rapid estimation of knee joint contact force estimation in clinical gait analysis by Machine and Deep Learning

Machine learning methods to enable more clinicians to use data obtained by gait analyses for diagnosis.

National Reserve

National Reserve for Ensuring the Food Supply of the Population in Crises

NSUPH – Nursing science studies of unplanned perioperative hypothermia

Identifying decreased body temperature occurring before, during and after medical operations.

Institute of Health Sciences

Health Sciences

NUMOQUA - Nutrition and movement to improve quality of life with knee osteoarthritis

Combining exercise therapy with nutritional therapy to improve the quality of life of patients with osteoarthritis.

Health Sciences

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

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

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

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