At German Sport University Cologne, the two EU-funded research projects FARSEEING and iStoppFalls were presented by Professor Wiebren Zijlstra (FARSEEING, German Sport University) and Dr. Rainer Wieching (iStoppFalls, University of Siegen) to 20 Journalists of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The purpose of the journalist’s tour was to inform the general population afterwards about […]
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FARSEEING systematic review audio slides
Audio slides have been prepared to accompany the publication of the FARSEEING systematic review of users’ perceptions of technologies aimed at falls prevention, detection or monitoring. Click on the play button at the bottom of the image to see and hear the slides presented by Dr Helen Hawley-Hague.
Interim Project Results First Release
The White Paper on the interim results of the FARSEEING project has now been released. The white paper presents a series of issues which the FARSEEING project aims to tackle and then provides the recommended solutions for these issues, if available, or the work that has been done so far by the project to respond to each […]
Virtual reality, gaming systems and physical activity
Systematic review of the use of virtual reality and gaming systems to increase physical activity, published in Age and Ageing. Read the abstract here: http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/2/188.abstract