PROJECTS
Bridging theory and practice: Our research projects are embedded in practical settings and require a multi-disciplinary approach. Industry provides inspiration and infrastructure for our ideas and experiments.
DDMS: Digital Diabetes Management Score
This pilot project, in close collaboration with Prof. Dr. med. Michael Brändle, Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen, explores how general practitioners can improve their capabilities in managing type-2 [...]
AIMIE: AI-based Nutrition Monitoring in Healthcare Settings
This project aims to tackle the critical issue of malnutrition among hospital patients by leveraging technology to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of nutritional assessments. Food is one [...]
GRACE: A Voice Assistant for People with Early Dementia
Dementia describes the deterioration of cognitive and memory skills, affecting people’s abilities to perform everyday tasks beyond normal aging. While dementia is considered to be a top [...]
How to reach and engage everyone with digital health programmes
Currently, people with the poorest health who stand to gain the most from public health research and digital health programmes are the least likely to use them. [...]
KIND – Investigating the Link between Blood Glucose Fluctuations and Nerve Vitality
Introduction Diabetic peripheral neuropathies (DPN) are major complications of diabetes, resulting from nervous system damage. Symptoms include tingling, numbness, pain, or reduced reflexes.2 While many children with Type [...]
COSO: How to make Care for Older Adults successful?
Imagine a situation where there is a huge party where guests continue to arrive, but the hosts are limited and increasingly overburdened. This situation mirrors what is [...]
How can NCD services be more successful? – A guide for creating successful business models for NCD companies
80% of the Swiss health care costs are spent on non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This means every fourth person in Switzerland suffers at least from one NCD. Often, [...]
TrailBlazer: Predicting Success in Growth-stage Digital Health Companies
Even the most revolutionary digital therapeutics (DTx) cannot significantly impact patients' lives if they fail to align with the business interests of healthcare payers, such as insurers, [...]
VOGUE: Receptivity of Women during Menstrual Cycle
We are pleased to present a research project that aims to explore the relationship between a woman's menstrual cycle and her receptivity to just-in-time adaptive interventions. This [...]
LvL UP: A Digital Lifestyle Coach for the Prevention of NCDs in Singapore
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer, and Common Mental Disorders (CMDs) such as depression or anxiety are the leading causes of death and [...]
Core – Wearable AI for Rheumatoid Arthritis Management (WARAM)
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease caused by the body’s immune system attacking its tissues resulting in inflammation of joints (e.g., fingers, toes) characterized by [...]
RehabCoach 2.0: Scaling up unsupervised rehabilitation by combining robotics and LLM-powered conversational agents
The Rehabilitation Engineering Lab (RELab) at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich is an interdisciplinary group with competencies in mechanical and electrical engineering, [...]
Book: Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction
Are you interested in how Digital Therapeutics might be leveraged in healthcare? The recently published textbook "Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction: The State of [...]
EDEN: Emerging Business Models for Digital Healthy Longevity
The EDEN project focuses on developing digital health solutions that are ‘scalable by design’. This involves identifying and analysing significant implementation gaps and applying innovative business model [...]
Digital Therapeutics for Healthy Longevity: A Roadmap
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including common mental disorders, not only impose an enormous health burden on individuals but also lead to substantial economic burdens for healthcare systems. Especially [...]
Research grant awarded to RehabCoach – a digital platform for remote rehabilitation
The ETH RESC – Suva Funding Programme, which supports R&D in prevention, rehabilitation, and health economics with a focus on accident-related injuries, has awarded its first [...]
What can we do to lower the socioeconomic inequalities in health? Healthification, a short animation
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) impose enormous health burdens on individuals and lead to substantial health economic challenges. NCDs' risk factors relate primarily to a lifestyle characterized by [...]
CanRelax: A mindfulness and relaxation app for people with cancer
Relaxation exercises can help to reduce stress symptoms and improve quality of life. In a project funded by the Swiss Cancer Research Foundation, researchers at the Institute for Complementary [...]
Trends in voice characteristics in patients with heart failure
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is characterised by the heart’s incapacity to pump sufficient blood to meet the body’s metabolic needs. It afflicts over 64 million people worldwide [...]
Frontiers in Digital Health 2022 Call for Papers on Scaling Up Health IT
Healthcare delivery is undergoing a rapid change from traditional processes towards the use of digital health interventions and personalized medicine. On one side, hospitals and health [...]
Digitalization of Inflammatory Biomarkers for Chronic Systemic Inflammation (CSI)
Several studies have shown robust evidence between the chronic systemic inflammation (CSI) and increasing risk of various non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mortality. As opposed to an acute [...]