CDHSI - Center for Digital Health and Social 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.

The CDHI is currently developed further to become the Center for Digital Health and Social Innovation which places a stronger focus on social innovations as well. Details will be available on our website soon

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

Networking and further development of training and teaching programmes in dietetics/dietology

IntelliGait 3D- Gait Data Mining

Establishing advanced analysis methods for modelling, classification and similarity retrieval of gait patterns to enable novel data-driven ways to access 3D gait databases

ELSA- Evaluation of simple gait analysis devices

Evaluation of the effectiveness of rehabilitation measures after reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament using simplified gait analysis

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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