TEAM
Co-Chairs
Lead Principal Investigator, Mobile Health Interventions, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore; Advisor, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Dartmouth College, USA
Doctor of Philosophy in Management (Ph.D.), MSc in Business Informatics, MSc in Computer Science in Media (CSM) & Dipl.-Inform. (FH) in CSM.
Centre Leadership
Lead Principal Investigator, Mobile Health Interventions, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore; Advisor, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, USA
Doctor of Philosophy in Management (Ph.D.), MSc in Business Informatics, MSc in Computer Science in Media (CSM) & Dipl.-Inform. (FH) in CSM.
Core AI & Digital Biomarker, Acoustic and Inflammatory Biomarkers
Core Behavioural Health & Disease Prevention

PhD in Exercise Physiology, BSc (Hons) in Sport and Exercise Science
Focus: Design and evaluation of a smartphone-based and chatbot-delivered intervention targeting individuals at risk of developing type-2 diabetes

PhD in Physical Activity and Public Health
Focus: Optimisation of the LvL UP intervention; a smartphone-delivered holistic lifestyle coaching intervention aimed at improving health and wellbeing and preventing non-communicable diseases and common mental disorders
Core Digital Biomarker in Diabetes Management
Core Digital Health Interventions
Lead Principal Investigator, Mobile Health Interventions, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore; Advisor, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, USA
Doctor of Philosophy in Management (Ph.D.), MSc in Business Informatics, MSc in Computer Science in Media (CSM) & Dipl.-Inform. (FH) in CSM.
PhD in Human-Computer Interactions, MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management with specialisation in Medical Engineering and Healthcare Management
Focus: Fostering patient engagement with digital health technologies and healthcare chatbots

MSc Strategic Marketing with Chinese
Focus: Mass market health interventions: design considerations for establishing successful human-computer relationships in self-service technologies led by conversational agents
Core Wearable AI for Rheumatoid Arthritis Management

PhD in Applied Machine Learning, MSc in Computer Engineering
Focus: Develop a digital biomarker for monitoring and predicting disease severity in rheumatoid arthritis patients in daily life using smartwatches and other ubiquitous devices.
Core Emerging Business Models in Digital Health
Lead Principal Investigator, Mobile Health Interventions, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore; Advisor, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, USA
Doctor of Philosophy in Management (Ph.D.), MSc in Business Informatics, MSc in Computer Science in Media (CSM) & Dipl.-Inform. (FH) in CSM.

MBA in Digitalization and M.Sc. in Computational Sciences at RWTH Aachen University, B.Eng. in Medical Robotics at Kyushu University Japan
Focus: Business model innovation in digital healthy longevity
MobileCoach Team
Lead Principal Investigator, Mobile Health Interventions, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore; Advisor, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, USA
Doctor of Philosophy in Management (Ph.D.), MSc in Business Informatics, MSc in Computer Science in Media (CSM) & Dipl.-Inform. (FH) in CSM.

MSc in Computer Science
Focus: MobileCoach, an open-source platform for digital biomarker and digital coaching research. SweetGoals, a Conversational Agent for Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.

BSc in Computer Science (ETH Zurich)
Focus: MobileCoach, an open-source platform for digital biomarker and digital coaching research. CanRelax, a relaxation and mindfulness app for people with cancer.
External Advisors
Visiting Students
Computer Science, Dartmouth College
Dartmouth’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health
Focus: Investigation of states of receptivity and vulnerability in MobileCoach-based physical activity and personality change interventions.
Neurobiology & Economics
Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Focus: Design of digital health interventions for chronic diseases (e.g. diabetes).
Bachelor & Master Students

2020
Focus: Identification of Effective Intervention Components Preventing Type-2 Diabetes and Assessment of their Scalability via Healthcare Chatbots and Hybrid Coaching with Human Health Professionals
2018-2019
Focus: Evaluation of Health Literacy Intervention for Children with Asthma.

2018
Focus: On the Impact of Chatbots with Self-Awareness Design on Users’ Perceptions, Trust and Intention to Adopt.

2018
Focus: Impact of General Privacy Concerns on Chatbot Design Elements’ Influence on People’s Willingness to Disclose Personal Information.

2018
Focus: User perceptions of a Digital Coaching App for Physical Activity.

2017-2018
Focus: User Onboarding Design for a Fully Automated Conversational Agent (“Chatbot”) in Mobile Health Interventions.
2016
Focus: Behavior Change Techniques in mHealth Interventions for People with Asthma.

2017-2018
Focus: Rebuilding Trust: The Effect of Chatbots on Doctor-Patient Interactions.

2017
Focus: Analyzing Success Factors for Disruptive Innovations in the mHealth Ecosystem for Diabetes Care.
2016
Focus: Digital Health Business Models.
Affiliated
Alumni

MSc in Psychology with specialization in Social Psychology, Economic Psychology and Decision Science
Focus: Voice Assistants for the Management of Chronic Diseases with Application to Type-1 Diabetes and Hypoglycemia while Driving

PhD in Psychology, MSc Clinical Psychology
Focus: Design and evaluation of a smartphone-based and chatbot-delivered intervention targeting individuals with subclinical depression

MA in Design with a specialization in Interaction & MSc in Engineering with a specialization in Information and Communication Technologies
Focus: Enabling Gameful Interactivity and Biofeedback in Scalable Breathing Trainings through Real-time Breathing Detection. A Gameful Biofeedback Breathing Training for Mental and Physical Well-being.

MSc in Affective Disorders (King’s College London)
Focus: Digital Health Promotion

B.Eng (Hons) in Manufacturing, Engineering and Management; M.Sc in Statistics; M.Tech in Knowledge Engineering (Intelligent Systems)
Focus: MobileCoach, an open-source platform for digital biomarker and digital coaching research. LvL Up, a digital health app to prevent Depression and Type-2 Diabetes in Singapore.

M.Phil. Health and Behaviour
University of Luxembourg, Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences
Focus: Development of a theory-based, personalized mHealth intervention for adolescents.

Doctor science ETH (Ph.D.) in Technology Marketing, MSc in Cognitive Science
Focus: Towards the personalisation of the chatbot-patient relationship

MSc Computational Science and Engineering
Focus: Cough detection for COPD, COVID-19, and further respiratory diseases. Design and evaluation of a smartphone-based voice monitoring system for patients with heart failure.

MSc in Artificial Intelligence
Focus: Design and evaluation of a digital diet coach.
MSc in Business Psychology
Focus: Design and evaluation of digital health interventions for asthma.

Bachelor in Medical Informatics
Focus: MobileCoach, an open-source platform for digital biomarker and digital coaching research.
MSc in Management, Technology and Economics
Focus: Design and evaluation of digital health interventions for diabetes.
MSc in Organizational Behavior and Adaptive Cognition
Focus: Design and evaluation of digital physical activity interventions.

MSc in Computer Science
Focus: Design and evaluation of health information systems on the PathMate2 project.

Focus: Assessmtent of digital health interventions

Focus: Systematic review of mobile health interventions for physical activity

Focus: Evaluation of a digital physiotherapy coach.

Focus: Design of digital health interventions for asthma

Focus: Systematic review of mobile health interventions for physical activity

Doctor of Sciences and MEng in Computer Science
Focus: Ubiquitous Digital Coaching.
MSc in Human Nutrition and Home Economics
Focus: Public health nutrition and technology-driven diet interventions.
MSc in Computer Science
Focus: Emotion recognition for MobileCoach interventions.
MSc in Computer Science in Media and Dipl.-Inform. (FH) in Computer Science in Media
Focus: Health information systems architect & lead developer of the open source MobileCoach platform.
Focus: Impact of technology-driven innovations in healthcare.

Focus: Artificial Intelligence in emerging Health Information Systems with emphasis on Machine Learning and Big Data.
Focus: Supporting human behavior by technology with a focus on privacy and health care.
PhD in Neuroscience, MSc in Computer Science, BSc in Cognitive Psychology
Focus: Design of a MobileCoach-based intervention for people with mild cognitive impairment.
MA HSG in Strategy and International Management & MSc CEMS MIM
MSc Pharmacy
Focus: Study Design & Evaluation.
MSc Psychology
Focus: Design of health interventions.
MSc Computer Science
Focus: Development of Health Information Systems.

Dipl.-Designer (FH)
Focus: Interaction design of health information systems.
2014
Focus: Health economic evaluation of IT-supported interventions.
2013-2014
Focus: Mobile Sports Applications.
2013-2014
Focus: Top 10 eHealth Applications.
2013
Focus: Business Models for eHealth.
2013
Focus: Gamification in Online Psychotherapy.
2012
Focus: Persuasive Technology.
2012
Focus: Mobile After-Care Operations.
2012
Focus: Health Insurance Mobile Apps