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We are currently looking for a master or bachelor thesis student working together with our team in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn.

Proposal for a bachelor or master thesis project in Informatics, Computer Science or comparable subjects with the title:
Increasing Peoples’ Physical Activity by Monitoring and Feedback using a Sensor Floor

You can find the detailed tender for the master thesis here.

The project comprises the following tasks:

• Obtaining and summarizing knowledge about the current state of the art in the domains of AAL, serious games, fitness tracking and user interfaces tailored to elderly people
• Understanding the working principle and data format of SensFloor and getting familiar with the API
• Connecting the SensFloor room terminal to a notification service (e.g. “Pushover”) to transmit status messages
• Developing a scheduler and simple graphical interface to obtain, send and display the activity status on a tablet and mobile phone
• Presenting a showcase in a SensFloor LivingLab at the Saarlandversicherung in Saarbrücken (development partner)
• Preparing a publication (conference paper, trade fair speech, journal paper)
• Master thesis report
• Optional: Starting a study in a real nursing home to compare the development of activity levels in apartments with and without this system

For the project, Futur-Shape will provide the following:

• Access to various lab-style SensFloor installations
• Access to the SensFloor LivingLab at the Saarlandversicherung in Saarbrücken
• Optional access to real life SensFloor installations in a nursing home (development partner)
• SensFloor receivers (based on Raspberry Pi 4 with Buster OS and SensFloor API)
• Tablet and mobile phone for implementation
• Organisation of several coordination-visits at FutureShape
• Technical and organizational support by Dr. Axel Steinhage, R&D Future-Shape GmbH

The master student is responsible for organizing the university support of the thesis and to fulfill all formal requirements. The practical part of the work will be accompanied by Future-Shape GmbH, Germany, the manufacturer of the SensFloor system. Contact person: Dr. Axel Steinhage, CTO, axel.steinhage@future-shape.com

Your application
Are you interested in this position? We look forward to receiving your online-application, directly by e-mail at axel.steinhage@future-shape.com.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us for more information about this position.