Digital health, well-being and stress

Overview

In its research, the Schöller Endowed Chair team addresses the potential of digital technologies for health and well-being, but also explores the negative emotions, dependency, and stress in digital worlds of work and life. To this end, drivers and consequences of techno-stress are investigated and, in particular, the role played by digital technologies in the general perception of stress in everyday working life, in studies or even in private life is demonstrated.

Projects & Talks​

Research project: EGHI

The Eghi project is a cooperation between the University of Freiburg, FAU, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, the University of Duisburg-Essen, BODYMED and Interactive Wear AG. This project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The goal of the project is to develop an AI-based, learning assistance system that supports healthy everyday behavior. To this end, data from wearables and smartphones will be evaluated to provide users with suggestions for health-promoting behavior – based on situation analyses, behavioral models and a digital twin (virtual image of a human being). Through sensor-based observation and modeling of situations and behavioral patterns, a wealth of experience is to be created between users and AI, which serves as a common communication level, between humans and AI. Within the project, the Schöller Endowed Chair will focus on researching the expectations and concerns of users with regard to digital health care assistance systems.