Projects of IAF
Current Projects
Research project
Alfred – Testing the voice-controlled AI companion for older people
To what extent can older people in retirement homes use the voice-controlled AI companion Alfred independently and what are the possible potentials and barriers to its use?
Research project
Creating Age-friendly Communities for Older People: A Case and Implementation Study on Ibasho
In the framework of the Japanese concept and project Ibasho (founder: Dr. Emi Kiyota), integrative, local caring communities are developed, launched, and maintained together with and by older adults.
Research project
"VIRAS - Shopping with Ease"
VIRAS stands for ‘Visually Impaired Robot-Assisted Shopping’. The interdisciplinary project aims to develop and test an autonomous shopping cart for blind and visually impaired people. At the same time, its potential and further development possibilities for use by older people or people with limited mobility when shopping are…
Research project
International Expertise for life in old age - AGE-INT
International Expertise from Switzerland for Innovative Solutions for an Ageing Society
AGE-INT is the largest national research project dealing with the challenges and opportunities of demographic change in a practice-oriented manner with a trans- and interdisciplinary project team in the three largest language regions of…
Expired Projects
General project
European Film Festival of Generations in Switzerland
The European Film Festival of Generations is being organised in Switzerland for the first time this year. The IAF Institute for Ageing Research is coordinating the organisation of individual events in the canton of St. Gallen.
Research project
Moflin
To what extent does the AI robot Moflin have the potential to be used as an instrument for activation therapies in institutions for the older people?
Service project
Growing Old in Mosnang
Assessment of the situation for a well-founded ageing policy - care situation and mood
Research project
FreiZeit (Leisure / Free Time)
Periods between encounters and without care: methodological plural explorations of the experience of persons with dementia
Research project
Tenna Hospice - Accompaniment and Documentation
"Alte Sennerei" Tenna is an innovative, civic and social housing project in the Safiental (GR).
Research project
Robotics platform
Development and implementation of an information platform for existing robotic systems in the field of care and support for ageing people
Research project
WisdomOfAge - EU-Project (AAL)
A Seniors Digital Platform for Knowledge Transfer towards Industrial Companies
Research project
HEROES - EU-Project (AAL)
Video platform for the search for care or nursing professionals for a self-determined life at home
The EU project HEROES, with international partners, aims to speed up and make more cost-effective the search for care and nursing professionals through an online platform.
Research project
Easierphone
The Easierphone app is designed to make it easier for older people to use their smartphones through simplified functions and navigation. The app can be used both individually by an older person and in tandem with the support of a carer (via remote access to the app).
Research project
Digital Skills 50+
Digital skills and training needs of people 50+
Research project
Covid-19 Ageism: Age Discrimination in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic.On the subjective experiences of people aged 65 and over in German-speaking Switzerland
Against the background of the classification of persons aged 65 and over as a risk group in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Institute for Research on Ageing investigated how persons in this age group experienced the initial months of the pandemic and what their subjective experiences of ageism were during this period.
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Successful use of service robotics in elderly care and nursing through human-centred design
The successful use of service robots in elderly care and nursing requires the consideration of different dimensions (people, technology, business, law).