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This Article introduces two research projects towards assistive robotic arms for people with severe body impairments. Both projects aim to develop new control and interaction designs to promote accessibility and a better performance for people with functional losses in all four extremities, e.g. due to quadriplegic or multiple sclerosis. The project MobILe concentrates on using a robotic arm as drinking aid and controlling it with smart glasses, eye-tracking and augmented reality. A user oriented development process with participatory methods were pursued which brought new knowledge about the life and care situation of the future target group and the requirements a robotic drinking aid needs to meet. As a consequence the new project DoF-Adaptiv follows an even more participatory approach, including the future target group, their family and professional caregivers from the beginning into decision making and development processes within the project. DoF-Adaptiv aims to simplify the control modalities of assistive robotic arms to enhance the usability of the robotic arm for activities of daily living. lo decide on exemplary activities, like eating or open a door, the future target group, their family and professional caregivers are included in the decision making process. Furthermore all relevant stakeholders will be included in the investigation of ethical, legal and social implications as well as the identification of potential risks. This article will show the importance of the participatory design for the development and research process in MobILe and DoF-Adaptiv.
Zusammenfassung
Der demografische Wandel führt dazu, dass die Anzahl der Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner in ländlichen Räumen deutlich abnimmt. Außerdem nimmt der Anteil der alten Menschen zu. Diese Veränderungen stellen eine große Herausforderung für den öffentlichen Personennahverkehr (ÖPNV) dar. Gesucht werden deshalb alternative Angebotskonzepte, die auch unter veränderten Rahmenbedingungen die Mobilität sichern.
Im Forschungsvorhaben „MoLa.opt – Mobilität auf dem Land optimieren“ wurde mit Förderung des hessischen Programms „Forschung für die Praxis" erstmals unter Berücksichtigung aller Angebotsformen ein integriertes Planungsverfahren für ein effizientes und nachhaltiges Angebot des ÖPNV in ländlichen Regionen entwickelt. Das Verfahren liefert einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Daseinsvorsorge im ländlichen Raum.
Zunächst wurden im Projekt die Charakteristika der Mobilität im ländlichen Raum anhand vorhandener Erhebungen mit den Mitteln der beschreibenden Statistik analysiert. Es wurde herausgearbeitet, welche spezifischen Anforderungen an das ÖPNV-Angebot im ländlichen Raum gestellt werden und auf welchen Datengrundlagen demzufolge eine ÖPNV-Planung im ländlichen Raum aufbauen muss. Auch widmete sich das Projekt der Analyse und Evaluation verschiedener bestehender Angebotsformen mit dem Ziel, deren spezifische Erfolgsfaktoren und Hemmnisse zu identifizieren. Neben den bereits verbreiteten Flexiblen
Bedienungsformen und den Bürgerbussen wurden auch die neueren Ansätze zur Integration von Privatfahrten in den ÖPNV berücksichtigt. Als Novum wurde auch die selbst (z. B. nachbarschaftlich) organisierte Mobilität jenseits öffentlicher Verkehrsangebote betrachtet.
Aufbauend auf den Analyseergebnissen wurde anschließend deduktiv ein Verfahren zur integrierten Planung des ÖPNV im ländlichen Raum entwickelt, das die lokalen räumlich-verkehrlichen und organisatorischen Rahmenbedingungen ebenso berücksichtigte wie die geeigneten Einsatzbereiche der verschiedenen
Angebotsformen.
Die nachfolgenden Prinzipien des ÖPNV im ländlichen Raum abstrahieren die Analyseergebnisse von MoLa.opt und stellen Grundsätze für die Planung der Mobilität im ländlichen Raum dar. Diese Prinzipien prägen auch das MoLa.opt-Planungsverfahren:
1. Veränderungen umfassend angehen.
2. Wichtige Achsen stärken, Linienverkehr optimieren.
3. Elemente des Gesamtsystems aufeinander abstimmen und planerisch sichern.
4. Schwerpunkte und Prioritäten setzen.
5. Chancen der Digitalisierung nutzen.
6. Neue Mobilitätsangebote fördern.
7. Bürgerinnen und Bürger sowie Kommunen einbeziehen.
8. Lokale Initiativen fördern.
9. Gemeinschaften und Infrastruktur vor Ort stärken.
10. Menschen zu neuem Verkehrsverhalten ermuntern, Bilder schaffen.
Neben zwei Veröffentlichungen in Fachzeitschriften, zwei Workshops mit Expertinnen und Experten wurde nach Abschluss des Projekts eine Fachkonferenz an der Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences durchgeführt. Auf der mit ca. 100 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern besuchten Konferenz wurden die finalen Ergebnisse des Projekts der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert.
Master thesis for the academic graduation as Master of Engineering in the interdisciplinary
study programme Environmental Management Systems and Urban Planning in Metropolitan
Areas / Umweltmanagement und Stadtplanung in Ballungsräumen at the faculty of Architecture,
Construction Engineering and Geo-Informatics.
Universities of graduation:
Hochschule RheinMain
University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main (FRA-UAS)
Hochschule Geisenheim University
Emotional spaces
(2021)
Taking into account that architects have a pronounced influence on humans’ lives, it is their responsibility to design and build livable environments. For this, there is another crucial dimension that shapes the individual understanding of space in a way that has not yet been taken into account. This paper looks at living environments and their meaning for individual life and well-being. It introduces a theoretical background that sets its focus on buildings and exterior spaces and presents a different point of view. Here the theory of Emotional Spaces is introduced, referring to a connection between space and feelings and considering that it is not enough to plan buildings and open spaces merely with architectural qualities in mind. This paper presents a different understanding of space and proposes a new approach to the design process. It is based on a design concept that places people and all their needs in the center. In order to be able to design and plan architectural spaces according to the needs of human beings, it seems necessary to understand the individual, everyday life. The challenge is to understand the individual life story, which should then be put into a spatial context. From these insights, Emotional Spaces that are relevant for „good and successful” living can become visible.
Service robotics offers great potential for retirement and nursing homes. In the present project Agebots (Implementation of service robotics in the field of elderly care), founded by the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse), a multidisciplinary team is investigating and testing the implementation of service robotics in elderly care. The pursued dimensions are human, technology, business, and law. The project is carried out in cooperation with two implementation partners: a retirement and nursing home and a robot manufacturer, both based in Switzerland. The project is still ongoing and will be completed by 2022. So far, the use of robots in elderly care has proven to be challenging regarding all different dimensions. These challenges have yet to be overcome to ensure a safe implementation that adds value for both caregivers and the elderly and efficiently supports the operations at the retirement and nursing home. The human centered and iterative approach of the present project allows an early identification of potential challenges and the end-users’ needs. This way, the challenges can be addressed proactively, prior to the implementation in the retirement and nursing home.
The ageing population demands designing environments while considering their functional needs, desires and wishes. The ICF framework together with the gerontechnological principles can help to have focus on how to adjust or to (re)design the environment for this population. This paper focuses on building-related environmental factors including eHealth solutions. Knowledge and understanding of how the environment is perceived by older people help to set the building performance requirements and gives direction to Improve our research to create healthy environments for future users.
Connected ambient assistance systems support elderly people - or people in need of care - for a self-determined, healthy and safe living in their familiar home until very old age. The systems typically communicate with nursing relatives or remote professional caregiving providers. The basic functions of stationary assistance systems include the detection of a) falls and b) deviant behavior indicating a health hazard. These kernel tasks of assistance have been amended in the course of time by a plenitude of more general assistant functions. Wearable devices, like programmable smartwatches, extend the reach of stationary assistance beyond the spatial boundaries of the familiar home. They extend the scope of wellbeing monitoring by analyzing the wearer’s heart rate in relation to the current physical activity and can also verify sufficient liquid ingestion, drinking, thus compensating the diminishing natural sensation of thirst at increasing age. Home robots also extend the scope of wellbeing monitoring within the home and relieve from the necessity of a comprehensive sensoric instrumentation of the home. So far, ambient assistant systems can primarily provide assistance only in the physiological dimension. Cognitive ambient assistance, which allows the participation in the social communication on an equal footing, today is beyond their abilities. The advances in artificial intelligence are about to change the picture. From an economic point of view, the dissemination and success of assistance systems has been slowed down within the last decade by lacking wide-spread interaction standards as well as the shortage of necessary multivalent utility of such systems. In contrast, the smart home concept offering increased comfort and sustainability has gained a lot of attractivity in the same time. Therefore, commercially successful assistance systems must provide their utility in all three dimensions: assistance, but also simultaneously in comfort/safety and sustainability.
Campus Mapping
(2024)
Objective: This best-practice example shows the positive effect on the behavior of a mentally disabled client with significant behavioral problems after the custom-made change in his built environment. Background: Healthcare organizations are often faced with the difficulty of creating a built environment that has a positive effect on the mental well-being of the users. Ipse de Bruggen is a healthcare organization that offers care and support for the mentally handicapped. They look after clients who need additional individual support due to their behavioral problems and have developed new care concepts for this over the years. With regard to the built environment, however, they found in individual cases that the living environment does not suit the client. The rooms are bare and devoid of atmosphere. It seems that in many cases this has led to even more aggression and destruction. A negative spiral. The organization saw the need to change this and in 2011 commissioned Andrea Möhn Architects, formerly Möhn + Bouman Architects, to examine the built environment and the needs of individual users with major behavioral problems. Methods: The findings are based on the architects’ many years of experience with regard to the target group, a precise observation of the behavior of the user in his personal space as well as interviews with the staff from November 2011 to April 2012. Results: Based on the observations the architects created a tailor-made environment that had a very positive effect on the behavior of the user and thus also on his family, the care staff and the organization. Conclusions: The best practice example shows that for clients with severe behavioral problems a personalized and humanized approach seemed to be the right approach, rather than a flexible spatial solution. The redesigned space gave the client a sense of control, pride, dignity and a sense of well-being. Inspired by this success, the organization started the project "Physical environment, a fixed value in our care” in 2020. Within four years, twelve rooms will be redesigned and their effects on users will be scientifically researched.
Abstract
The global problem with drinking water supply has increased considerably in recent decades, mainly due to accelerated population growth and unsustainable use of non-renewable resources. Ciudad Juarez, located on the northern border between Mexico and the United States, has not been excluded from this problem. Its desert characteristics and low rainfall accentuate the need for a change in water management. This paper presents water-sensitive urban design measures to help combat climate change and water scarcity problems in Ciudad Juarez.
Work Package 7:
Integrating the Rapid Planning Methodology into Spatial Planning and Urban Development Procedures
D-07
Review of the Urban Development in Frankfurt am Main and the Lessons Learned for Trans-sectoral Planning
Work Package 7:
Integrating Rapid Planning Methodology into Spatial Planning and Urban Development Procedures
Task - 7.1: Review of Spatial Planning and Urban Development Systems
Task 7.2: Identification and Documentation of Sustainable Urban Development Goals
Deliverable - 7.1/7.2:
Documentation and Review of Spatial Planning Systems and Urban Development Goals in Assiut, Egypt