Ein persönliches Assistenzsystem für ältere Nutzer mit chronischen Herzerkrankungen A Personal Assistance System for Older Users with Chronic Heart Diseases

The paper describes the program 'eHealth - Enhancing Mobility with Aging', an interdisciplinary research project at RWTH Aachen University, which aims at designing adaptive immersive interfaces for personal healthcare systems. The vision of the project is the development of holistic, multi-level, personal assistance system, which enables elderly pa- tients to maintain their mobility and independence despite their chronic diseases (focus on heart related diseases) and ad- vanced age. The main issues addressed within the project are the systematic evaluation and consecutive optimization of the interrelation of medical, environmental, technical, communicative, psychological, and social factors and their conse- quences for the design, architecture, use and acceptance of personal healthcare systems.