Welcome to the Junior Professorship for Healthcare and E-Health
© RUB, Fabian Tode
The junior professorship for Health and E-Health researches the impact of digitization on the healthcare sector. It focuses on questions of how (digital) technology can be developed and designed in a participatory manner and which factors affect the implementation of digital technology and how.
News
Project
The results report of the project "Healthcare Start-up Ökosystem NRW 2022" has now been published. Read the report here.
New project "Enhancing the Adoption of Mobile Health by Persons with Mental Health Problems", read more here.
Publication
Kucharski, Alexander & Merkel, Sebastian 2023: "Domestication of Smart Speakers by Older Users" read here.
Langer, Henrike & Merkel, Sebastian 2023: "Co-Designing a Conversational Agent in Health and Social Care – Perspectives of Professional Care Staff and Older Adults" read here.
Burmann, Anja; Langer, Henrike; Bosompem, Jennifer; Clemens, Timo; Herten, Benjamin; Kerstan, Leah; Lauer, Romy; Naeve, Peter; Geller, Simon; Huhnt, Jönne & Merkel, Sebastian 2022: "Governance of Digital Health Data on Cooperatively Organized Platforms - a Design Thinking Approach" read here.
Naeve, Hans Peter & Merkel, Sebastian 2022: "Fake news, covid19 and Twitter – a bibliometric approach" read here. (preprint)
Merkel, Sebastian; Kucharski, Alexander & Schorr, Sabrina 2022: “Computer, how do smart speakers support aging in place?” – A feature analysis focusing on smart speaker applications in Amazon’s skill store for older persons read here.
Merkel, Sebastian & Langer, Henrike 2022: "Healthy and Active Aging in German Communities" read here in Korean.
Merkel, Sebastian & Huth, Diana 2022: "Digital Health Start-ups as Drivers of Digital Transformation - Challenges from the Perspective of Founders" read more here.
Endter, C., Merkel, S. & Künemund, H. 2022: "The Configuration of Older Users as Drivers of Innovation in the Design of Digital Technologies" read more here.
Merkel, Sebastian & Kucharski, Alexander 2022: "Echo, HomePod und Co. für ältere Menschen - Digitale Assistenten als Gewinner der Pandemie?" read more here.
Bauknecht, Jürgen & Merkel, Sebastian 2022: "Differences in self-reported health between low- and high-income groups in pre-retirement age and retirement age. A cohort study based on the European Social Survey" read more here.
Merkel, Sebastian & Knospe, Tim 2022: "Responsible Innovation in eHealth" read more here.
Merkel, Sebastian & Müller-Mielitz, Stefan 2022: "E-Health-Anwendungen als Motor der digitalen Transformation der Gesundheitswirtschaft" read more here.
CONTACT
sebastian.merkel@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Room GD E1/155
Phone: 0234 32 25411
Consultation hours
Fridays from 12 pm. Consultation may be given online or on campus. Please register in advance by mail.
Upcoming Lectures
- Mar. 05, 2024, " Smart speakers in health and care - use cases and motivations. Results of a scoping review", 2nd ITG Workshop Voice Assistants, OTH Regensburg