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Second prize at a science award of the ministry for social affairs!

DI Karl Kaser (LIFEtool), Dr. Mirjam Augstein (FHOÖ), Mag. Beate Hartinger-Klein, Minister for Social Affairs, Helmut Friedl (Fronius)

DI Karl Kaser (LIFEtool), Dr. Mirjam Augstein (FHOÖ), Mag. Beate Hartinger-Klein, Minister for Social Affairs, Helmut Friedl (Fronius), left to right. (C) Christopher Dunker BKA

Demonstration of the WIFI team

Demonstration of the WIFI team

The WINTEC award.

The WINTEC award, (C) Christopher Dunker BKA

The WIFI team is happy about the second prize at WINTEC 2018, an award for inclusion through natural sciences and technology of the Austrian Ministry for Social Affairs. The prize was awared on the 6th of September, 2018 during an official ceremony by Mag. Beate Hartinger-Klein, minister for social affairs.

WIFI could impress the multi-member expert jury through the domain transfer between industry and assistive technology and the functional prototypes that allow industrial welders changing parameters during the welding process and people with impairments the interaction with complex computer games through voice.

More information on the WINTEC award can be found here (unfortunately in German only): https://www.sozialministerium.at/site/Ministerium/Preise/Wintec/