Dec 2013: UnCrowdTPG mobile app awarded

The QoL team’s mobile application UnCrowdTPG has won a second place in the TPG Open Data Challenge. Read the full TPG press release in French and read the related article “Comment l’Open Data facilite notre vie”, LeTemps, 6 jan 2014. Check the application website and download instructions at UnCrowdTPG website. Photo of the QoL team […]

Nov 2013: Talk at USI Lugano by Mattia Gustarini: “Ops, I wasn’t supposed to share that picture!”

Mattia Gustarini, Ops, I was not supposed to share that picture with them! Towards semi-automated centralized privacy settings: what to share, with whom, and in which situation, University of Lugano, Switzerland, Nov 2013 Highlight news Ubiquitous data collection from our smartphones is becoming mainstream. We share data (e.g., photos, location) with our social networks, or […]

2013-2015: New Research Projects Accepted

The QoL team has got two research project proposals accepted: 2013-2015: Swiss National Science Foundation Basic Reserach Project “Enabling People-Centric Sensing by Overcoming the privacy BarriEr” (PCS-OBEY) 2014-2016: European Ambient Assisted Living project “intergenerAtioNal communIty for coMpAny knowledge TransfEr” (ANIMATE) (AAL-2013-6)

Oct 2013: IEEE Healthcom Conference Tutorial

9 October 2013, Katarzyna Wac is giving a tutorial titled “Methodology for Evaluating Experience of Mobile (Healthcare) Applications Used in Different Contexts of Daily Life”, at the 15th Intl Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services (IEEE HealthCom’13) conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Abstract: Many attendees at IEEE HealthCom conferences deal on a growing scale with […]

Apr 2013: “Un bracelet qui mesure tout”, Emission Radio sur RTS.ch.

25 April 2013, “Un bracelet qui mesure tout”, Emission Radio, Invitée: Dr. Katarzyna Wac, RTS.ch. Tout quantifier dans sa vie, c’est la tendance pour les accros à la technologie. Pour les adeptes du “Quantified Self”, un nouveau bracelet est disponible en Suisse. Le UP permettrait de tout mesurer dans sa vie, du sport au sommeil. […]