Motivation:
Nursing staff are often exposed to physical strain in their everyday work, which can lead to long-term health problems due to incorrect posture. This contributes significantly to absences due to illness in an already highly stressful profession. To counteract these developments, early awareness of ergonomically correct working practices is necessary—ideally as early as during training. This is where PostureCare comes in with an innovative, practical training approach.

Goal:
The PostureCare project aims to develop an interactive training system that recognizes harmful postures in nursing practice at an early stage, provides feedback, and thus prevents them. The system is to be used specifically in the training and further education of nursing staff in order to promote ergonomically correct working practices in the long term.

Research questions:

• How realistically can physically demanding care scenarios be implemented in MR for training purposes?
• How must a feedback system be designed in order to convey both specific incorrect postures and recommendations for more relieving postures in the situation?
• How can individual spinal characteristics be taken into account in posture assessment?

Funding: 
“zukunft.niedersachsen” program as part of the call for proposals “Missionsorientiere Transferprojekte im ZDIN”

Partners:
OFFIS e.V.
MinkTec GmbH