Technology for co-working on health and active life: 2nd conference.
 

https://kohs.at/cms/en/2025/10/29/technology-for-co-working-on-health-and-active-life-2nd-conference/

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https://iea.cc/event/technology-for-co-working-on-health-and-active-life-2nd-conference/​

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https://ergonomics-fees.eu/2025/11/11/technology-for-co-working-on-health-and-active-life-2nd-conference/

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https://www.aal-europe.eu/exploring-technology-and-co-working-for-health-and-an-active-life/

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https://www.oeae.at/veranstaltungen/

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Technology → Ergonomics → OH → health care → AAL
<<< towards human centered AI >>>

When & where:
place: virtual
date: December 11th 2025 14:00 CET
duration: ~2-3 hours
application/registration: Please apply/register here.
(available: sponsored attendance (free of charge))
contact: events@kohs.at.

Call for papers:

It is planned to produce a conference publication. If you are interested in presenting (short inputs of ~ 7 minutes) and publishing a paper related to the topics of the conference please submit an abstract: here (extended until 15.11.2025).

The conference publication is planned to be published in the journal IETI TES (Transactions on Ergonomics and Safety) and/or IETI TERP (Transactions on Engineering Research and Practice).

Overall subject:

The subject of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners of several disciplines working on concepts to enable the transition of European societies towards healthy and active life.

The health care systems in the European regions are in transition. A wise integration of innovative processes in primary care, competence improvement strategies and the use of technology will be the key for a successful implementation of a demanding change.

Together with partners in research and practice KOHS is being developing a new format of interdisciplinary collaboration. The idea is to foster activities in communities of health care, ergonomics, occupational health and technology research.
Topics of the workshop will be actual demands in health care (secondary users), applications of technology to meet this demands, technology (focusing on open platforms, open source), integrated processes to enable co-working on health of primary users and the health of health care workers (challenges for health care organisations and occupational health (tertiary users).

Topics of the workshop:

• Actual challenges in health care

  • “New” approach: Community health care → co-working on health → active life

• Technology needs

  • Data – need of data and data structures (open data)

  • Technology competences → new formats of interdisciplinary, interprofessional and intersectoral ergonomics education

  • systematic approach to user experience (UX)

• Approach of: Integrated learning

• Approach of: Joint cognitive systems (JCS) & Soziotechnical system design (STS-D)

• Relevant aspects of Ergonomics

Speaker/Input lineup:

• “Aspects of Macro Ergonomics”, Andrew Thatcher, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa, President of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA)

• “Technology for Co-working in Active Life and on Health in Inclusive Agriculture”, Elisabeth Quendler, BOKU University, Vienna, Austria

• “IA GO! — Designing Human-AI Learning Ecosystems through Joint Cognitive and Sociotechnical Approaches”, Laura Salgado Ferreira, IA.GO!, Greater Huelva Metropolitan Area, Spain

• FRAM as a Lens for Human-Centered AI and Socio-Technical Co-Working Systems, Niklas Grabbe, TUM (Technical University of Munich), Munich, Germany

• “IEC – a new ergonomic method for risk identification and assessment”, Aleksandar Zunjic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Serbia, Secretary General of the Federation of European Ergonomics Societies and President of the Ergonomics Society of Serbia

• “From Lab Research to Field Application: Usability Insights of a Soft Arm Exoskeleton”, Christina Harbauer, EASE, Germany

• “Links (in Standardisation) between Ergonomics and Occupational Safety and Health”, Gyula Szabó, Óbuda University, Bánki Donát Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering, President of the Hungarian Ergonomics Society, Budapest, Hungary

• “The Effects of the Ergonomics and AI Transition on Workers, Firms, and Skills in Digital Era: Insights from International Educational Projects and Real Practical Examples”, Tihomir Dovramadjiev, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria, President of Bulgarian Association of Ergonomics and Human Factors (BAEHF), Darina Dobreva and Mariela Todorova, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria

• “News from the Standardization of Human-System Interaction”, Lutsch Clemens, swohlwahr – Human Centered Strategy, Vienna

• “Assessment and Prediction of a Human Functional State and Performance”, Alexander Burov, Institute for Digitalisation of Education, Kyiv, Ukraine

• Personalization of the Educational Model for Developing Linguistic and Clinical Communicative Competence in International Medical Students through Artificial Intelligence, Albena Dobreva and Presiyan Penchev, Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria

• “Living with Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases: can ICT Facilitate Diagnostics, Therapy and Active Life?”, Michał Kosiedowski, Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe, Poland

• “QKD cryptography in Health”, Maria Laura Clemente, CRS4 Research Center, Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia, Italy

• “Ergonomics, Human factors, Language and Communication”, Jens Allwood, University of Gothenburg, Head of SCCIIL – Interdisciplinary center

• “Technology Enabling Socio-Technical System-Design (STS-D)”, Harald Kviecien, KOHS, Vienna, Austria

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Cooperation:

• FEES - Federation of the European Ergonomics Societies

• AAL Europe

• KOHS - Austria

• BAEHF – Bulgarian Association of Ergonomics and Human Factors

• MET – Hungarian Ergonomics Society

• IEA Technical Committee for Safety and Health

• ÖAE – Austrian Ergonomics Society

 

Further the conference is supported by the Technical Committee for Safety and Health of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) , the Ergonomics Society of Serbia and the Austrian Ergonomics Society (ÖAE).