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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work has been funded in parts from the German
DFG funded Cluster of Excellence ‘CoTeSys – Cog-
nition for Technical Systems’ and the German BMBF
funded project ‘GEWOS – Gesund wohnen mit Stil’.
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