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.
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 [...]
Breeze: A Gameful Biofeedback Breathing Training for Mental and Physical Well-being
Slow-paced breathing training is an effective method to strengthen cardiac functioning and psychological well-being. It thus addresses two of the most pressing global health challenges: chronic disease [...]
Using Voice Assistants for the Management of Chronic Diseases: is it possible?
Voice assistants (VAs) are increasingly, ubiquitous and accessible in multiple contexts. But can we use them to provide a scalable solution to deliver digital health-interventions? The heterogeneity in research methods used [...]
Elena+ A Pandemic Lifestyle Care Intervention
The current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is an emergency on a global scale, with huge swathes of the population required to remain inside for prolonged periods at a [...]
Sweetgoals: A Conversational Agent for Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes
Many young adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D) struggle with the complex daily demands of adherence to their medical regimen and face challenges achieving glycemic control at [...]
WAVE: Wearable-based Risk Assessment for COVID-19 inpatients
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 [...]
Adaptive Digital Assistants for Type-2 Diabetes Patients
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 [...]
Mental Well-being During an Entrepreneur’s Career
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, [...]