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.
GENKI: Business Models in Digital Healthy Longevity
Challenges Digital health companies can address significant healthcare challenges such as demographic impact—particularly the health burden of non-communicable diseases and common mental disorders among lower socioeconomic populations [...]
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
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 [...]
Digital Therapeutics for Healthy Longevity: A Roadmap
The "Switzerland Innovation Park Ost" was founded in September 2021 and opened operationally on 1 January 2022. The project constitutes the sixth locality of the Switzerland Innovation initiative. [...]
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 [...]
HackZurich 2021: Stay comfy and get healthy
Unhealthy lifestyles endanger the human population in the 21st century; more than 50% of the world’s population live with a non-communicable disease (NCD), often caused by [...]
Book: The Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System
Information technology is changing healthcare in numerous wide-ranging aspects, including significantly improving the overall quality of patient care and therefore helping to reduce limitations in people's daily [...]
I feel BEDDA – A Vocal Biomarker for Subclinical Depression
Visit the study website Worldwide millions of people are suffering from depression. This trend is fueled by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the pandemic [...]
RADAR: Wearable-Based Dysglycemia Detection and Warning in Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus affects approximately 537 million people worldwide, and a doubling of cases is expected within the next 25 years. The economic burden manifests in yearly expenditures [...]
FLIRT: A Feature Generation Toolkit for Wearable Data
Researchers use wearable sensing data and machine learning (ML) models to predict various health and behavioral outcomes. However, sensor data from commercial wearables are prone to noise, [...]
HYPEX: Hypoglycemia Prediction During and After Exercise
Diabetes mellitus affects approximately 460 million people worldwide, of which type 1 diabetes is estimated to impact 1.1 million children and adolescents under the age of 20 [...]
MobileCoach Open Source Platform
The vision of the MobileCoach platform is to create fully-automated digital interventions. Due to a modular and extendable structure as well as an architecture rooted [...]
Prediction and Prevention of Non-Adherence to Digital Health Interventions
Digital health interventions (DHIs) show vast potential in supporting patients and health care systems with the globally increasing prevalence and economic costs of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – [...]
Towards a Digital Biomarker for COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the leading causes of death and affects 251 million people worldwide. In the United States, the direct costs of [...]