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.
Towards the personalisation of the chatbot-patient relationship
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 [...]
HEADWIND: A Vehicle Hypoglycemia Warning System
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 [...]
Evaluation Criteria for Digital Health Interventions
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 [...]
Simon: A Digital Protocol for Predicting Suicidal Ideation
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 [...]
Digital Physiotherapy Coaching with Alex
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 [...]
OPTIMAX: Optimising Outcomes in Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders
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 [...]
MCTeen: A Digital Coach for Adolescent Substance Use in the US
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 [...]
Benefit Move: Deposit Contracts for Health Behaviour Change
There is overwhelming evidence that adding financial incentives to existing interventions for health behaviour change improves their efficacy. However, there are still questions regarding the sustainability of the [...]
Benefit StepCoach: A study to understand the working alliance of a virtual/human coach with the user.
The study focuses on eHealth, or more specifically, the comparison between guided (human-supported) and unguided (self-help) digital eHealth interventions. Previous research has shown that when comparing the [...]
SELMA: A Digital Coach for Self-Management of Pain
Almost everyone has experienced pain before. Pain is an individual and subjective experience. Usually, the pain can be treated successfully. However, if pain episodes last longer than three [...]
CAMP: Cardiac Rehabilitation, Adjustment Disorder, Medication Adherence and Physical Activity
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death and hospitalization both worldwide and in Switzerland. The direct and indirect socio-economic consequences are of great relevance. According to [...]
MySwissFoodPyramid: Your Digital Coach for a Balanced Diet
The digital diet coaches of this project aim to provide fully-automated interventions to improve food literacy and support health-promoting dietary behaviors. Results of menuCH, the [...]
DyMand: Dyadic Management of Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus Type II is a common chronic disease. To manage blood glucose levels patients need to follow medical recommendations for healthy eating, physical activity, and [...]
Predicting States of Receptivity for Just-in-time Adaptive Interventions
Recent advancements in mobile sensing technologies have led to novel intervention concepts, including just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI). The JITAI concept shows great potential because it aims to provide [...]
MAX: A Digital Health Literacy Coach for Children with Asthma
Health literacy is a crucial ingredient of successful asthma self-management. Studies have shown that a lack of asthma health literacy leads to lower levels of asthma control [...]
Ally: A Digital Assistant to Lift Your Level of Activity
Background: Smartphones enable the implementation of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) that tailor the delivery of health interventions over time to user-varying and time-varying context characteristics. Ideally, JITAIs [...]
ready4life: A Digital Life-skills Program for Substance Use Prevention Among Adolescents
Substance use is one of the biggest contributors to the health burden in 10-24-year olds. School-based life-skills trainings were effective in delaying or preventing problematic substance [...]
PEACH: Personality Detection and Digital Personality Coaching
Research has shown that personality traits are changeable over longer time periods, and that changes may bring about positive life outcomes such as greater success [...]
Clara: Nocturnal Cough Detection and Asthma Control Prediction
Nocturnal cough is a burdensome asthma symptom. However, knowledge about the prevalence of nocturnal cough in asthma is limited. Furthermore, prior research has shown that [...]
PathMate2: The Impact of Digital Coaches on Therapy in Overweight Teenagers
The goal of the research project PathMate2 is to help support obese children, their parents and their physicians with modern technology in creating a healthier lifestyle. [...]
CH-Teamcoach: Digital Corporate Health Teamcoach for Team Leaders
The Corporate Health Teamcoach (short «CH-Teamcoach») is an e-Coach for leaders and their teams to improve working conditions and team climate. The e-Coach guides team leaders [...]