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ACI Team Projects Research

Together against loneliness

Rogério Bordini, PhD student at ACI, Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, presents Noneliness App at European Commission event on loneliness interventions. On 12 May 2022 the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) held the Fairness Online Event, a workshop on interventions to reduce loneliness among youth. The workshop is part of a webinar series on …

Misc Projects

Three new founding teams in the OGFLab

On 28.04.2022, three new founding teams moved into the OGFLab after a successful pitch. All three teams convinced the jury with their start-up ideas and will now receive professional support for nine months to develop their ideas. The applicants presented themselves and their ideas in a maximum of 7.5 minutes, followed by a 7.5-minute question …

Events Misc Projects

Lunch Break #1: Founding at the HSO

On 30 March, the Open Game & FabLab introduced itself as a central project for promoting start-ups at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in the newly occupied rooms in the Steinbeis building. At the same time, Florian Appel and Mona Faisst, the team of the partner & office neighbour Black Forrest Innovation GmbH, also opened …

Projects Research

SWR reports on EmoCare robot “Misa”

On 23.12.2021, SWR reported in Aktuell Baden-Württemberg about the EmoCare project of the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg. The two-minute report shows nursing robot “Misa” during an initial test deployment at Sankt Carolushaus in Freiburg. Are nursing robots a remedy for staff shortages? To answer this question, an SWR team looked at the EmoCare project …

Flitzmo EmoCare
Events Projects

EmoCare meets Flitzmo robot

The EmoCare research project supports nurses with the help of voice, gesture and facial expression analysis of residents in retirement homes. At the end of September, the EmoCare team exchanged ideas with the operators of the Flitzmo robot. The EmoCare research project of the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences together with the software developer Dr. …

Misc Projects

Major project OGFLab launched

The ACI-affiliated project Open Game & FabLab, or OGFLab for short, was launched on 1 July 2021.  Funded by the BMBF to the tune of 1.4 million euros, the project will expand the area of business start-ups at the university in the long term and raise it to a qualitatively higher level. New StartUpLab as …

Misc Projects Research

SUITCEYES-project is complete!

Three years of hard work and intensive research activity on how to improve the life of persons with deafblindness – and now the European project SUITCEYES is complete. International exchange on deafblindness To present the results and discuss further needs, the consortium invited participants to the symposium “Living Through Touch – Smart, Haptic Communication for …