TEAM
We are multi-disciplinary
Our core team consists of researchers from various fields including technology management, computer science, and psychology. 30 additional researchers work at associated institutes at ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen.
Advisory Board
Center Leadership
Doctor of Philosophy in Management (Ph.D.), MSc in Business Informatics, MSc in Computer Science in Media (CSM) & Dipl.-Inform. (FH) in CSM.
«Docteur ès Sciences» in Signal Processing (Ph.D.), MSc in Physics, eMBA in Management of Technology
Postdoctoral Researchers
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
Medical Doctor
Universitätsklinik für Diabetologie, Endokrinologie Ernährungsmedizin & Metabolismus (UDEM), Universitätsspital Bern
Research Team
MSc in Business Management (HSG)
Focus: Development and Evaluation of Digital Coaching Approaches
MSc in Affective Disorders (King’s College London)
Focus: Investigating the Effects of Incorporating a Narrative Storyline on User Engagement in a Smartphone Intervention to Prevent Depression and Anxiety
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
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 Health Sciences and Technology (ETH)
Focus: Adaption of the Diabetes Prevention Program Curriculum for use by a Conversational Agent
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.
Master of Medicine (MMed) and Swiss State Diploma “Ärztin”
Focus: Novel approaches for the detection and prevention of dysglycemia – a project at the intersection of medicine and technology
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
MSc in Psychology and Computational Neuroscience
Focus: Using the Mobile Health App Breeze to Detect Symptoms of (Subclinical) Depression
MobileCoach Team
BSc in Computer Science (ETH Zurich)
Focus: MobileCoach, an open-source platform for digital biomarker and digital coaching research.
Research Associate, Senior Software Engineer, Project Leader, Knowledge Engineering at ZHAW, Wädenswil, Switzerland
Software Engineer at ZHAW, Wädenswil, Switzerland
Head of Research on Knowledge Engineering and the Data Science Laboratory (ZHAW Datalab) at ZHAW, Wädenswil, Switzerland
Student Research Assistants
2020 – 2021
Focus: Design of digital health interventions for asthma
2020-2021
Focus: Pollen, fine particle, and ozone values to assess asthma control and symptom progression
Visiting Students
Bachelor Student in Medicine
University of Sevilla, Spain
Focus: Efficacy evaluation of a smartphone-based breathing exercise for stress management.
Neurobiology & Economics
Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Focus: Design of digital health interventions for chronic diseases (e.g. diabetes).
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.
PH.D. candidate and doctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), MSc in Human Movement and Sport Sciences (UNIL)
Focus: Understanding the role of socio-economical factors in the appropriation of digital health interventions.
Bachelor & Master Students
2021 – 2022
Focus: Business Models in the Pharma Industry
2020 – 2021
Focus: Classification of human night noises using pre-trained artificial neural networks to assess asthma condition and sleep quality
2020 – 2021
Focus: Passive sensing on iOS devices to monitor chronic respiratory diseases.
2020 – 2021
Focus: Metric Learning with Application to Cough-based Speaker Verification
2021
Focus: Reaching Vulnerable Populations for the Prevention of Mental Illness
2021
Focus: Reaching Vulnerable Populations for the Prevention of Chronic and Mental Illness: A Gamified Approach
2020 – 2021
Focus: Reaching Vulnerable Populations for the Prevention of Chronic and Mental Illness: Development of a “Simple Talk” Digital Coaching Approach
2020 – 2021
Focus: Assessment of Popular Voice Assistants for the Prevention and Management of Chronic and Mental Conditions
2020
Focus: Successful Diabetes Companies, A Market Analysis
2020
Focus: Successful Digital Mental Health Companies, A Market Analysis
2020
Focus: Success Factors for the Implementation of a Digital Assistant Supporting the Reduction of Distress in Cancer Patients
2020
Focus: Beyond Existing Conversational Agent Categorizations A Taxonomy of Short- and Long-term Conversational Agent Usage
2020
Focus: Studying the effectiveness of smartphone applications for the treatment of chronic stress and depression
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
2020
Focus: The Data World within Healthcare
2020
Focus: Successful business model components of companies offering digital diabetes interventions
2020
Focus: Assessment of a smartphone-based breathing training
2019
Focus: Personalization of chatbots in healthcare based on user group data.
2019
Focus: Value-centered onboarding design for chatbots in a health service context.
2019
Focus: Implementation science in practice: market access, challenges, and regulations in digital health startups.
2019
Focus: Chatbot-based service encounter in health care: Structuring the chatbot market and literature using archetypes and elaborating their impacts and challenges.
2019
Focus: Data-driven diabetes type 2 prediction at employer wellness programs in the US.
2019
Focus: Review of biofeedback-based relaxation trainings
2019
Focus: Digitalization of Swiss hospitals and its financial implications for insurance companies
2018-2019
Focus: Development of a digital coach to strengthen the connection between pharmacies and their patients in Kenya.
2018-2019
Focus: Introduction of a digital physio coach to the Swiss health care system.
2018-2019
Focus: Evaluation of Digital Physiotherapy Coaching.
Focus: Assessing the Acceptance of a Smartphone-based Biofeedback Breathing Training
2018-2019
Focus: Evaluation of Health Literacy Intervention for Children with Asthma.
2018-2019
Focus: A Market Analysis of Chatbots for Swiss Public Organizations.
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.
2017-2018
Focus: Characteristics of a diabetes self management app: Identification of patient needs and comparison of existing solutions.
2017-2018
Focus: Cash Flow Modelling of Digital Asthma Interventions in the Healthcare System.
2017-2018
Focus: Development of an Application Enabling Separation of Audible Symptoms for People with Chronic Diseases.
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.
2017
Focus: Efficacy of a biofeedback-based breathing exercise.
2016
Focus: Behavior Change Techniques in mHealth Interventions for People with Asthma.
2016
Focus: Digital Health Business Models.
2015-2016
Focus: Job strain detection by mouse movements.
2015
Focus: Evaluation of a MobileCoach-based intervention for adolescents with eating disorders.
2015-2016
Focus: Literature review on mental health information systems.
2015
Focus: Design of a MobileCoach-based intervention for adolescents with eating disorders.
Affiliated
Scientific Director Bosch IoT Lab, ETH Zurich & University of St.Gallen
Alumni
MA in International Relations and Affairs.
MSc in Computer Science
Focus: Studying Personality Change with Smartphone Data
MSc in Business Management (HSG)
Focus: Digital delivery of health care services and how to actively manage chronic diseases at person in real-time
2020-2021
Focus: Gameful Biofeedback Breathing Trainings for Smartphones
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.
Focus: Assessment of digital health 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.
PhD in Neuroscience, MSc in Computer Science, BSc in Cognitive Psychology
Focus: Design of a MobileCoach-based intervention for people with mild cognitive impairment.
Focus: Artificial Intelligence in emerging Health Information Systems with emphasis on Machine Learning and Big Data.
MSc Pharmacy
MA HSG in Strategy and International Management & MSc CEMS MIM
Focus: Supporting human behavior by technology with a focus on privacy and health care.
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