Carsten Röcker

Carsten Röcker is a senior researcher at the Human Technology Centre (HumTec) at RWTH Aachen University, working in the research program "eHealth - Enhancing Mobility with Aging." As part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers he is designing healthcare applications for supporting elderly people in ubiquitous computing environments. Previously, Carsten was a visiting PostDoc at the Media Computing Group, focusing on the evaluation of user requirements for smart work environments. Before joining RWTH Aachen University in 2008, he was a PostDoc at the Distributed Cognition and HCI Laboratory at the University of California in San Diego. From 2000 to 2006 he worked as a research associate at the Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI) in Darmstadt. During this time he was involved in several projects designing novel information and communication technologies for intelligent home and office environments. He has an interdisciplinary background with academic degrees in the areas computer science (PhD), psychology (PhD), electrical engineering (Master) and management (Master).

Publications

Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies: Concepts, Methods and Applications
Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies: Concepts, Methods and Applications
Martina Ziefle, Carsten Röcker. © 2011. 426 pages.
Electronic healthcare technologies support the interaction between patients and health-service providers, institution-to-institution transmission of data, and peer-to-peer...
Smart Healthcare Applications and Services: Developments and Practices
Smart Healthcare Applications and Services: Developments and Practices
Carsten Röcker, Martina Ziefle. © 2011. 384 pages.
Within the last years a variety of new healthcare concepts for supporting and assisting users in technology-enhanced home environments emerged. These so-called “smart healthcare...
E-Health, Assistive Technologies and Applications for Assisted Living: Challenges and Solutions
E-Health, Assistive Technologies and Applications for Assisted Living: Challenges and Solutions
Carsten Röcker, Martina Ziefle. © 2011. 392 pages.
E-health technologies will play an increasingly important role in the coming years, as more and more older people will require medical care and support. Due to the prevalent...
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Ambient Assisted Living
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Ambient Assisted Living
Martina Ziefle, Carsten Röcker, Wiktoria Wilkowska, Kai Kasugai, Lars Klack, Christian Möllering, Shirley Beul. © 2011. 18 pages.
This chapter illustrates the different disciplinary design challenges of smart healthcare systems and presents an interdisciplinary approach toward the development of an...