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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Introduction: There has been limited research investigating whether small financial incentives can promote participation, behavior change, and engagement in physical activity promotion programs. This study [...]

The increasingly demanding work environments today make job strain a timely and relevant subject of investigation. Early detection and tailored treatment of job strain is [...]

Evaluating software solutions for the medical practice – what do the users think? In cooperation with an industry partner, the Health-IS Lab evaluates the customer satisfaction [...]

Towards a mental health information system that harnesses ubiquitous sensor information for depression screening and tailored interventions. Limited personnel resources and costs have a [...]

The Job Crafting IS (JCIS) project aims to develop and evaluate an Information System aiming to support employees in analyzing their job situation and taking [...]

Investigating privacy-related phenomena, prior research has often pointed to discrepancies between users’ privacy concerns and disclosing behaviors, denoted as the privacy paradox. That is, users tend [...]

YouTurn is smoking cessation 2.0. Building on scientific knowledge from psychology and consumer behavior, quitters bet real money on their success in long-term withstanding. Furthermore, [...]

alphastreams is a mobile health information system that supports customers of pharmacies in everyday situations. Access to products and services of pharmacies takes usually place [...]

The PathMate project has the objective to build and evaluate a mobile healthcare information system that has direct effects on the performance of obesity expert and [...]