To provide effective care for COVID-19 inpatients, clinical practitioners need systems that monitor patient health and subsequently allow for risk scoring. Existing approaches for risk scoring in COVID-19 patients focus primarily on intensive care units and use specialized medical measurement devices, but not for general wards. Our [...]
Diabetes is rising globally, with 422 million adults’ worldwide currently living with the condition, equating to 1 in 11 individuals. In Switzerland, diabetes is likewise becoming more prevalent, with 7.4% of the adult population (469 400 adults) diagnosed. Shadowed amongst these figures is the growing burden on [...]
An individual’s mental well-being refers to the individual’s psychological state in terms of cognitive thoughts and affective feeling about life. It is strongly connected to work motivation, commitment, and capacity. Mental well-being is particularly critical for entrepreneurs, who often need to rely on their own cognitive evaluations, [...]
Conversational agents (CAs) for chronic disease management are receiving increasing attention in academia and industry. However, long-term adherence to CAs is still a challenge and to be explored. Personalisation of CAs has the potential to improve long-term adherence and, with it, user satisfaction, task efficiency, perceived benefits, [...]
Main goals: Hypoglycemia is among the most relevant acute complications of diabetes mellitus. It affects the neurocognitive and psychomotor function and has consistently been shown to be associated with an increased risk of driving mishaps and accidents. To prevent these, our project aims at designing, implementing and [...]
Today, there is a massive amount of digital health interventions available. For example, more than 300,000 so-called "health apps" can be found in Google's Play Store and Apple's App Stores in 2017 (Aitken, Clancy, & Nass, 2017) with the goal of measuring, monitoring and managing health states [...]
Digital technology provides an unparalleled opportunity to collect data in individuals’ everyday lives. This includes information derived from passive mobile sensing (e.g., activity, screen lock events, light and sound detectors, wifi connections, etc.), as well as assessments of psychological variables (behavior, emotions, cognitions) through smartphones and other [...]
Physiotherapy is a widespread and efficient method for the rehabilitation of various health problems, such as chronic diseases, injuries, and age-related health issues. In addition to face-to-face physiotherapy sessions with health professionals, exercises at home are crucial to ensure ongoing and efficient rehabilitation. However, adherence to home [...]
Anxiety disorders, such as phobia, panic disorder or generalized anxiety disorder, are the most common class of mental disorders present in the general population. They are hugely disruptive, place psychological distress and role impairments on individuals and their families and create a serious economic burden for society. [...]
Youth substance use (SU) is a major public health concern in the U.S. given its association with morbidity and mortality outcomes as well as a range of other negative social and emotional outcomes. Intervention for problematic youth SU remains a difficult task due to poor prognosis once [...]
