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Entries by Friederike J. S. Thilo

Promoting Mental Health: The Potential of Social Robots in Schools

The mental health of students is a central component of successful learning and healthy social and emotional development. How can a social robot support this? What tasks and roles can it take on to assist teachers? A research team at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) is exploring these questions. Social robots are becoming increasingly […]

Technology Adoption in Care – What Are the Success Factors?(Part 3)

What conditions must be met for nurses to adopt technology, integrate it into their daily routines, and use it consistently? Researchers at BFH Health explored this question as part of an Innosuisse project named RAMOS. In a three-part series of articles, the research team provides insights into topics such as data utilisation, process design and […]

Care@home: Core Competencies for Home-Based Treatment

Care@home is a care model where patients with acute illnesses are treated in their home environment. This approach presents healthcare professionals with new challenges and requires special competencies. Healthcare is facing a paradigm shift: Care@home, the treatment of patients with acute illnesses in their own homes, is gaining increasing importance [1] . In the psychiatric […]

Focus on external hospital care: identifying communication barriers with mapping methods

Functioning communication and smooth information flows play an important role in the complex setting of outpatient care. The CuraComm project is investigating where communication hurdles arise and how these could be overcome in the future. This article shows how the use of the visualisation technique “mapping” can be used to identify communication hurdles in a […]