29-31 October 2025, 6th Swiss Federation of Clinical Neuro-Societies (SFCNS) Congress, SwissTech Convention Center, STCC (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Prof. Wac is a Panelist at the Panel titled “From Stem Cells to Circuits and Behavior—Bridging Brain Function with Artificial Intelligence” (30 October 2025 , 08:40 am).
4-5 Jun 2025, 25 Years of Longitudinal Surveys in Switzerland (WEB), Joint Conference of Panel suisse de ménages (PSM) et Transitions from Education to Employment (TREE), Lausanne, Switzerland. Our Talk: Igor Matias, Anna Ferrari, Pawel Prociow, Allan Berrocal, Vlad Manea, Alexandre de Masi, Mickael Fonseca, “Beyond Surveys: Insights from a Decade of “mQoL Living Lab” […]
12-13 May 2025, 6th EORTC Quality of Life in Cancer Clinical Trials Conference, Barcelona, Spain (WEB). Prof. Wac talk titled “Cutting Edge Research and Academic View on PROs and Digital Health” contributes to a session on “Electronic and Digital Outcome Assessments”.
9 May 2025, Women in Data Science (WiDS) Zürich, SwissRe Center for Global Dialogue, Switzerland (WEB). Prof. Wac is a panel member.
27 March 2025, Digital Health Innovation Forum, Potsdam, Germany (WEB). M.Sc. Igor Matias hosts the workshop titled “Predicting Cognitive Performance with Wearable Data” following an invitation from the forum’s organizers. “Join for an engaging workshop where we explore the potential of wearable data for predicting longitudinal cognitive performance. Discover MoTR, a cutting-edge tool for intraindividual […]
10 février 2025, Enseignement d’un module dans le cadre du programme “Soins à l’ère Numérique”, (Soins Infirmiers), Haute École de Santé, HES-SO Fribourg, Suisse (WEB) Le Prof. Wac enseignera un module d’une demi-journée: “L’Internet des objets médicaux (IoMT)”.
The QoL team has just started to collaborate on the following projects: 2024-2028: EU HE SHIELD: Strategic Health Initiatives for Effective Disease Prevention 2025-2028: THCS Recover+ Digital Rehabilitation and Health Education for Osteoporosis And Osteoarthritis The QoL team is collaborating on the following projects: 2020-2025: AGE-INT and its Providemus study 2023-2028: Mobile Devices EMBED: […]
22 October 2024, Talk at the IEEE CS DVP R8 Webinar Series. The talk given by Prof. Wac is titled “How AI Can Enhance Our Quality of Life’”. All details and registration are here.
17 October 2024, Open Innovation in Life Sciences Conference, Zurich, Switzerland. The talk given by Dr. Ferrari is titled “Digital Age in Healthcare: What Do Users Want?’”. All details and registration are here
13-16 October 2024, International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Annual Conference, Cologne, Germany. Igor Matias (QoL Lab), Prof. Nancy Mayo, BSc(PT) MSc PhD (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Piper Fromy, PhD (SeeingTheta, Saumur, France), and Prof. Wac (QoL Lab), are organizers of a workshop titled “Navigating Digital Health Technologies: From Data Collection to […]
11 Octobre 2024, 17-18h, Table Ronde Dans le Cadre de la “Semaine de la Santé Mentale” intitulée « Mon smartphone peut-il prendre soin de moi ? » organisée par l’Office Cantonal de la Santé, Département de la Santé et des Mobilités (DSM), Secteur de la Prévention et de la Promotion de la Santé. Un bref […]
19 September 2024, BeTomorrow Webinar “Digital Health: Augment Quality of Life with AI” (WEB) Prof. Wac will contribute to the panel. Register here
The QoL team has just started to collaborate on the following project: 2024-2028: SHIELD: Strategic Health Initiatives for Effective Disease Prevention We are hiring
We are pleased to announce the upcoming “Digital Innovations for a Happier, Healthier Aging: A Transdisciplinary Training” as part of the Quality of Life Technologies Lab’s Summer School. This program will be held from July 1-5, 2024 (9-17h, daily) at the University of Geneva – Campus Battelle (Carouge). This program is a key component of […]
24-25 June 2024, “Joint FDA/FNIH Event for Digital Measures” (WEB), Bethesda, MD, USA. Prof. Wac will contribute to the panel titled “Development of a Digitally Derived Endpoint – What is “Good” to Whom?“. Event materials
27 May 2024, EPFL Well-Being Seminar Series, EPFL, Switzerland (WEB). Prof. Wac is a panel member.
17 May 2024, The talk given by Mr Rainer Herzog, the Founder and Managing Partner of “Digital Health Partners” is titled “DiGAs in Germany – more than a flash in the pan? Did the DiGA initiative establish itself in the German healthcare system and in care delivery?” Content Since October 2020, digital health applications (DiGAs) […]
30 April 2024, Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series (WEB), University of Cambridge, UK. Prof. Wac will give a talk titled “Towards Digital Endpoints of Quality of Life”. VIDEO
14 February 2024, The talk given by MSc Steven Bourke, the director, and CEO of PersonalPulse GmbH, is titled “From Testers to Co-creators – A Blueprint for Inclusion of People Who are Patients in Digital Health Innovation” Abstract Successful digital health innovation requires a multistakeholder approach to build a sustainable solution. People who are patients […]
8 December 2023, “AI for Life” Event (WEB), Campus Biotech, Switzerland. Prof. Wac will contribute to the panel titled “Harnessing Digital Health Solutions for Chronic Disease Management“.
30 November 2023, The Power of Digital Biomarkers 2023 (WEB), Sanofi, France. Prof. Wac will give a talk titled “Digital Biomarkers of Quality of Life: Incorporating Daily Life into Clinical Trials” in the Session on “From Evidence Generation to Patient Centricity“.
18-21 October 2023, International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Annual Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Igor Matias, Prof. Wac, and Dr. Clauirton Siebra are organizing a workshop titled “Introduction to Technology-Reported Outcomes for QoL Research.” Igor Matias and Prof. Wac will present a paper titled “Light at the End of the Copper Wire: A Tentative Clarification […]
10 October 2023, FORS Lunch Seminar Series, Lausanne, Switzreland. Prof. Wac will give a talk on “mQoL Living Lab: Quantifying Quality of Life Beyond Self-Reporting and Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine”.
6 September 2023, 5th International Research Roundtable (WEB), César Ritz Colleges, Brig, Switzerland. Dr Mozgovoy contributed to the roundtable with the talk titled “High Psychological Climate as a Resource for Reducing Stress in the Workplace: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Study“.
7 August 2023, Nature Mental Health consensus statement has been published titled: “How to e-mental health: a guideline for researchers and practitioners using digital technology in the context of mental health”. Full citation: Seiferth, C., Vogel, L., Aas, B. et al. How to e-mental health: a guideline for researchers and practitioners using digital technology in the context […]
The QoL lab will hold the 2nd edition of the QoL Summer School entitled « Leveraging Innovative Technologies for Ageing Well: a Transdisciplinary Training » from July 3-7, 2023 at the University of Geneva (UNIGE). It is part of the AGE-INT project, which aims to build Switzerland’s international expertise around innovative solutions for an ageing society. The course will be open to practitioners, care […]
The QoL team has just started to collaborate on the following projects: 2023-2028: EMBED: European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Research Project 2024-2025: ComputeMigraine Research Project
5-6 April 2023, Spring School for Global Health: Digital technologies for addressing global challenges in women’s health and wellbeing, Geneva, Switzerland (1 ECTS). Prof. Wac is a co-organizer. More information is on the website of the Institute of Global Health. COURSE DESCRIPTION Digital health technologies and services hold a considerable potential of solutions for ameliorating women’s […]
23 March 2023, The mHealth Center for Discovery, Optimization & Translation of Temporally-Precise Interventions (the mDOT Center, USA) Webinar. The talk given by Katarzyna Wac, is titled “Digital Biomarkers: Human-Centric AI Research in Service of Quality of Life”. 23 March 2023, 5 PM to 6 PM CET All details, registration, and video recording are here
1 February 2023, AI and Big Data in Healthcare session, in person and online. The talk given by Igor Matias, M.Sc., is titled “Data overdose: side effects and metabolism of big data in the 21st century”. 12 PM to 1 PM CST (7PM to 8PM CET) Video and Slides
The QoL team has just started to collaborate on the following project: 2023-2024: HART: Healthy Aging and the Role of Technology
The QoL team has just started to collaborate on the following project: 2023: SNSF QuantifyingSexualHealth. This project is now recruiting participants in Geneva and Stanford areas.
6-9 November 2022, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Conference (ISPOR), Vienna, Austria. The panel Prof. Wac contributes to is titled “Can Technology Reported Outcomes (TechROs) Lead to a Paradigm Shift in Healthcare Decision-Making?’”. All details and registration are here
19-22 October 2022, International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Annual Conference, Prague, The Czech Republic. Clauirton A. Siebra presented a paper titled “A Deep Learning-based Approach for Mood Analysis based on Multi-featured QoL Data”. Igor Matias presented a poster titled “Physical Activity May Affect Sleep Unexpectedly. Results from Small Data”. Prof. Wac is a co-chair […]
15-16 September 2022, Reverse Engineering of Digital Measures: A conference on patient-centric digital evidence by ETH Zurich and FNIH, Zurich, Switzerland. Prof. Wac contributes to its Closing Fireside Chat. All details and registration are here.
16 September 2022, University of Geneva Data Science Day, QoL Lab members contribute with multiple posters, a talk, and panel contributions. Posters Igor Almeida Matias, “Providemus alz: Giving you the power to foresee Alzheimer’s disease effortlessly” available here. Clauirton De Albuquerque Siebra, “Explainable AI for Longitudinal Behaviour, Health and Quality of Life Data” available here. […]
This summer school is organized by the Quality of Life (QoL) technologies. It is part of the AGE-INT initiative, which aims to build Switzerland’s international expertise around innovative solutions for an ageing society. More information can be found at: qolschool.unige.ch Download the Summer School Flyer here. Background: The population is ageing at a much faster […]
20-21 June 2022, Closing Panel titled “Where Does The Future Lie for Digital Biomarkers and Digital Measurements?”, at the Digital Biomarkers & Digital Measurements Europe event, London, UK. Prof. Wac participates in a Panel discussion. See the event web for details. Video
5-6 May 2022, Spring School for Global Health: Digital Technologies for Addressing Global Challenges in Mental Health, Geneva, Switzerland (1 ECTS). Prof. Wac is a co-organizer. More information is on the website of the Institute of Global Health. COURSE DESCRIPTION and TARGET AUDIENCE Digital mental health refers to the research or the services which leverage […]
The “Quantifying Quality Of Life: Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine” has been just published under Open Access (supported by the Swiss NSF). The final published version is here. We thank all the chapter authors and reviewers for all their efforts! Selected authors have promoted their chapters as below.
Two QoL lab’s projects are listed under the UNIGE’s Programme de Projects Partenaires (P3) and accepting applicants.
31 January – 4 February 2022, CUSO Winter School, Hotel Suisse, Champéry, Switzerland. Two posters will be presented by members of the QoL lab. The poster presented by MSc Igor Matias is titled “Fighting Alzheimer’s Disease Effortlessly”. Poster The poster presented by Dr Clauirton A. Siebra is titled “Explainable AI for Longitudinal Health Data”. Poster […]
30 January 2022, People-Centered Internet meeting, Online. The talk given by Prof. Wac is titled “Quantifying Quality Of Life: Quality of Life Lab”. All details and registration are here Slides and Video
19 November 2021, coQoL@hip2neck GenEx Project’s Virtual Workshop. We have summarized the GenEx project “Co-calibrating Momentary Assessments for Physical and Psychological Outcomes with Quality of Life Measurements in Hip Arthroplasty and Cervical Myelopathy Surgeries: The coQoL@hip2neck Study Protocol Design” project results and discussed the future collaboration in an online workshop. Schedule 10-10:05: Introduction and confirmation […]
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3 November, Prof. Wac received the IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award in Sensor Systems or Networks – Early Career “For contributions to the algorithms enabling improvement of human behavior, well-being, health, disease self-management, and quality of life in the long term”.
27 October 2021, Digital Health Connect Conference, Sion, Switzerland. The talk given by Prof. Wac is titled “Remote quality of life assessment: ‘What is always speaking silently is the body’”. All details and registration are here Slides and Video
13-16 October 2021, International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Annual Conference, Calgary, Canada. Prof. Wac is a co-chair of the Workshop Sub-Committee.
15 September 2021, International Transdisciplinarity Conference, online. The talk is titled “mQoL: Methodology for Assessing and Modeling Human Aspects in Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing in Situ”. All details and registration are here Slideshare Video
Contexte du symposium: Malgré les défis auxquels le monde est actuellement confronté pour surmonter l’épidémie de COVID-19, nous observons son impact positif sur la transformation numérique du système de santé. L’objectif de ce webinaire est d’engager un ensemble d’expert.e.s du domaine et un large public (professionnel.le.s de la santé, chercheur.euses, régulateur.trice.s, ONG, citoyen.ne.s, patient.e.s, […]
16 September 2021, University of Geneva Data Science Day round table «Beyond SDGs: measuring and forecasting for taking action», Data Science Competence Center, Geneva, Switzerland. The talk given by MSc Igor Matias is titled “Technology: your body’s seismometer“. All details and registration are here.
16 September 2021, University of Geneva Data Science Day «Shaping a Better Future with Data: Data Science for Sustainable Development Goals», Data Science Competence Center, Geneva, Switzerland. The talk given by MSc Igor Matias is titled “Co-calibrating Short Term, Mixed-Methods Based Momentary Assessments for Physical and Psychological Outcomes with Long Term Quality of Life Outcomes […]
16 September 2021, Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW) Digital Health Lab Day, Winterthur, Switzerland. The talk given by Prof. Wac is titled “Multimodal Machine Learning for Quality of Life Assessment: Throwing Data at a Problem?”. All details and registration are here Slides and Video
16 September 2021, “Trust in Medical AI Systems” Online Symposium, Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW), Winterthur. Prof. Wac is a co-Organizer. Co-Organizers: Holger Rommel, ti&m Beat Tödtli, Ostschweizer Fachhochschule Katarzyna Wac, Universität Genf All details and registration are here
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17 May, 15h CET, ZOOM, QoL Seminar by Prof. Toledo-Rodrigues titled: “How exercise, mindfulness, and sleep improve your mental health and resilience?”. Speaker Dr. Maria Toledo-Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, The University of Nottingham Seminar Title Run and sleep for your brain! How exercise, mindset, and sleep improve your mental health […]
14 April, 13h, ZOOM, PhD Defence of Vlad Manea titled: “From Participation Factors to Co-Calibration of Patient- and Wearable-Reported Outcomes in Behavioural, Health, and Quality of Life Studies”. PhD Candidate Vlad Manea Thesis Title “From Participation Factors to Co-Calibration of Patient- and Wearable-Reported Outcomes in Behavioural, Health, and Quality of Life Studies” Abstract Chronic diseases […]
The QoL team has just started to collaborate on the following projects: 2021: The coQoL@hip2neck Study Protocol Design 2021: QoL@GVA: Bien Vivre Dans Nos Territoires Genevoises 2021-2023: European H2020 MSC Fellowship “Onto-mQoL: Extensions of Temporal Representations for Ontology-based and Holistic Reasoning in the Mobile Quality of Life Domain” 2021-2024: AGE-INT – Switzerland’s International Expertise for […]
24-26 March 2021, 25th Congress of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP 2021), Hospital Pharmacy 5.0 – the future of patient care. The talk given by Prof. Wac is titled “Treated by computers? – A futuristic perspective of healthcare”. The conference has been postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Slides & Video […]
21-24 October 2020, International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Annual Conference, Prague, The Czech Republic. Prof. Wac is a co-chair of the Workshop Sub-Committee as well as a Plenary Speaker at the Session: ““Video killed the radio star”: How technology is changing the way we collect, analyze and interpret patient-relevant data.” Video
29 october 2020, 14ème Journée de l’Innovation (WEB), Centre de l’Innovation HUG. The QoL Lab contribution presented by Alexandre De Masi is titled “mQoL-Lab: Une Plateforme Flexible Pour Réaliser Des Études Sur La Santé Aidée Par Des Appareils Interactifs, Mobiles, Portables Et Omniprésents” (project description). See also mQoL-Lab Research Publications for further details.
28 August 2020, 9-11h, Battelle A, PhD Defence of Allan Berrocal titled: “Peer-ceived Momentary Assessment: Empirical Examination Of A Peer Supported Sensing Method To Augment Personal Sensing In Human Computer Interaction”. PhD Candidate Allan Berrocal Thesis Title “Peer-ceived Momentary Assessment: Empirical Examination Of A Peer Supported Sensing Method To Augment Personal Sensing In Human Computer […]
The Center of Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) and the Department of Computer Science (DIKU) and its Quality of Life Technologies Lab are excited to announce that their research proposal on AI@CARE: Laws and Ethics and Algorithmic Bias in Healthcare has been awarded funding from the UCPH Data+ pool. The UCPH Data + […]
A definition of “Quality of Life Technologies” has been published in the Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Reference: Wac K. (2020) Quality of Life Technologies. In: Gellman M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY, USA. DOI “Certain things should never be taken for granted, among them […] the precise meaning of words that […]
9 September 2019, ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP 2019). The LDC Workshop is titled “International Workshop on Longitudinal Data Collection”. Web Co-Organizers: Vlad Manea (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)Allan Berrocal (University of Geneva, Switzerland)Alexandre De Masi (University of Geneva, Switzerland)Naja Holten Møller (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)Katarzyna Wac (University of Copenhagen, Denmark and University […]
27-28 June 2019, Workshop Titled “Wearables in Sleep Research”, at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine and Chronobiology (SSSSC) 2019, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Prof. Wac is a workshop organizer.
24 April 2019, Poster Titled “Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Blood Glucose, Food Cravings, and Mood in Non-Diabetics: An N-of-1 Randomized Trial Pilot Study”, at the Annual Frontiers in Diabetes Symposium 2019, Stanford University, USA. Website Citation for the full paper Eric Jay Daza, Katarzyna Wac, Marily Oppezzo, ” Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Blood […]
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6-9 March 2019, Digital Health Council Panel Titled “Interdisciplinary, collaborative models of designing, implementing, and evaluating digital behavior change interventions”, at the 40th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of Society of Behavioural Medicine (SBM), Washington, DC, USA. Prof. Wac participates in a Panel discussion. Full citation Madalina Sucala, Katarzyna Wac, Donna Spruijt-Metz, The Digital Health Council Present […]
Future Healthcare? Human & IT & Legal Perspectives Seminar How are healthcare technologies going to impact our society and relations? And what questions should we consider and discuss for the future, as the healthcare industry right now is changing dramatically? What: Human and legal perspectives on the area, in the shape of short presentations from […]
2 November 2018, 9-11h, Battelle 432, PhD Defence of Marios Fanourakis titled: “On the Feasibility and Privacy Benefits of On-Device Data Mining for Opportunistic Crowd-Sensing and Service Self-Provisioning”. PhD Candidate Marios Fanourakis Thesis Title “On the Feasibility and Privacy Benefits of On-Device Data Mining for Opportunistic Crowd-Sensing and Service Self-Provisioning” Abstract Mobile device services are increasingly becoming […]
Our lab is generously hosting a free screening of ‘OUT OF MY HEAD’ – documentary on migraine on Monday, October 15th at 18h/6:00 pm, outofmyheadfilm.com WHERE: ReZ Auditorium, Université de Genève / Battelle building A, Route de Drize 7, 1227 Carouge, Switzerland. How to get here https://cui.unige.ch/en/contact/planaccessglobal/ Discussion with participants will follow the screening. Register and ensure your seat! […]
8 October 2018, ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP 2018). The MHC Workshop is titled “Mobile Human Contributions: Opportunities and Challenges”. Web Co-Organizer: Prof. Katarzyna Wac Selected high-quality, high-impact, and original research results papers will be invited to submit extended version of their work to the Special Issue on ‘Human Accuracy in Mobile Data Collection’ of The […]
24-27 October 2018, 25th International Society for Quality of Life Research Conference (ISOQOL 2018). The Workshop is titled “Clinical Outcome Assessments Embedded in Mobile and Wearable Information Technologies” and is a continuation of the successful 2017 workshop titled “Designing Quality of Life-driven Mobile Information Technologies” (ISOQOL 2017). Co-Organizers: Prof. Katarzyna Wac, Allan Berrocal (QoL PhD student), Nikki […]
22-24 August 2018, Annual Summit of the Worldwide Living Lab Community (OpenLivingLab Days 2018), Geneva, Switzerland. OpenLivingLab Days is the annual summit of the worldwide Living Lab community, formally the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) Summer School. The annual 4 day event includes interactive sessions, workshops, lively discussion panels with excursions and off-site visits […]
22 June 2018, 10-12h, Battelle ReZ, PhD Defence of Christiana Tsiourti titled: “Artificial Agents as Social Companions: Design Guidelines for Emotional Interactions”. PhD Candidate Christiana Tsiourti Thesis Title “Artificial Agents as Social Companions: Design Guidelines for Emotional Interactions” The Thesis Jury Prof. Gilles Falquet (president of the jury) Prof. Dimitri Konstantas (thesis co-director) Assoc. Prof. Katarzyna Wac […]
The QoL team contributes to the accepted European COST Action titled “CardioRNA: Catalysing Transcriptomics Research in Cardiovascular Disease”. European COST Action “CardioRNA: Catalysing Transcriptomics Research in Cardiovascular Disease” The COST Action proposed by Cardiolinc Board Members Yvan Devaux and Clarissa Pedrosa da C. Gomes and co-proposed by other 19 Cardiolinc members and partners has been […]
21-24 May 2018, 12th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2018) and Conference Workshops, New York, United States. Katarzyna Wac is a Technical Program Committee co-Chair.
11-14 April 2018, The Digital Health Council and Education, Training, and Career Development Council organizes a Panel Titled “Perspectives On Effective Digital Health Training In Behavioral Medicine” (Web), at the 39th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioural Medicine (SBM), New Orleans, LA, USA. Prof. Wac participates in a Panel discussion. Full […]
The QoL team has got two new European H2020 RIA-type research project proposals accepted: 2018-2021: European H2020 Projects: “WellCo: Wellbeing and Health Virtual Coach” (Call topic SC1-PM-15-2017) and “ECoWeB: Assessing and Enhancing Emotional Competence for Well-Being in the Young: A principled, evidence-based, mobile-health approach to prevent mental disorders and promote mental well-being”(Call topic SC1-PM-07-2017). H2020 […]
January 2018, “Digital Health” book published by Springer (DOI). Prof. Rivas (Stanford) and Prof. Wac are editors of the Book.
23 November 2017, Katarzyna Wac, Connecté Pour Mieux Vivre, Careers and Opportunities Network Cafe titled “Nouvelles Technologies de l’information: En Finir Avec Les Préjugés”, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Video
18-21 October 2017, 24th International Society for Quality of Life Research Conference (ISOQOL 2017). The Workshop is titled “Designing Quality of Life-driven Mobile Information Technologies”. Web Organizer: Prof. Katarzyna Wac
23-26 May 2017, 11th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2017) and Conference Workshops. Workshops “Challenges and Opportunities in Pervasive Health-enabled Telemedicine” (web) “Leveraging Patient-Generated Data for Collaborative Decision Making in Healthcare” (web) “Health-i-Coach: Intelligent Technologies for Coaching in Health” (web) Katarzyna Wac is the Workshop Chair, see the submission details at […]
Call for papers for the Special Issue titled “Quality of Life Technologies” in the IEEE Computer Magazine (CFP) with deadline on 1st August 2016 and publication date early 2017. Update March 2017: SI Available online at DOI and multimedia resources for the articles available at Web.
26 October 2016, The ‘Public Health Schweiz’, i.e., the Swiss Society of Public Health organizes a Symposium titled “Compter ses pas, mesurer la tension artérielle, calculer les calories : une meilleure santé grâce au «self-tracking» et aux «wearables» ?” (Web), Bern, Switzerland. Prof. Wac participates in a Panel discussion.
3 October 2016, 9-12h, KUA campus, Room 24.5.62, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, “QoL Vadis” – Interdisciplinary Workshop on Future and Emerging Trends in the Science of Quality of Life. Organizer Prof. Katarzyna Wac The Speakers Prof. Ayo Wahlberg, Institute for Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Making Of Quality Of Life – Co-Productions and Anthropological […]
23-24 May 2016, ITU-WHO Policy Dialogue on Digital Health for “Healthy Lives and Wellbeing for All (SDG3)” in parallel to the World Health Assembly (WHA 2016). Panel in which Prof. Wac participates is titled “Innovations for Global Health Challenges”. (Web, Slides)
16-18 March 2016, 21st Congress of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP 2016). Talk given by Prof. Wac is titled “Star Trek’s Tricorder: Science Fiction or Future Science?”. Web, Slides, Video
23 Feburary 2016, 15-16.30h, Battelle A-432, Invited talk by Prof. Anind K. Dey (CMU, USA) titled: “Understanding Human Behavior Using Everyday Technology”. Speaker Prof. Anind K. Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, USA Title Understanding Human Behavior Using Everyday Technology Abstract Commodity smart phones and initial Internet-of-Things devices have made the visions of ubiquitous […]
23 Feburary 2016, 10-12h, Battelle A-404/407, PhD Defence of Mattia Gustarini titled: “Analysing Smartphone Users’ “Inner-Self”: The Perception of Intimacy and Smartphone Usage Changes”. PhD Candidate Mattia Gustarini Thesis Title “Analysing Smartphone Users’ “Inner-Self”: The Perception of Intimacy and Smartphone Usage Changes” Lay Summary To be more intelligent, mobile services and applications rely on users’ […]
6-10 December 2015, Special Session on “Hot Topics on Multimedia Communication Systems” (HOT-MMCS) at the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (CCSNA) co-located with IEEE GlobeCom. See the dedicated HOT-MMCS website.
5 December 2015, 3rd Conference of International Society for Wearable Technology in Healthcare (WATCH 2015). Talk given by Prof. Wac is titled “Human Aspects in Use (and Misuse) of Mobile Apps and Wearables for Health Self-Management”.
23-25 May 2015, 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2015) and Workshops. WORKSHOPS Workshop on Adaptive Treatments and Therapies (WATT 2015) Workshop on Personal Health Systems for Chronic Diseases (PHSCD 2015) 2nd Workshop on Process Oriented Approach for Patient Centered Care Delivery (ProCare 2015) Workshop on Issues of Geographically Distributed, Home-Based […]
Thanks to our collaboration with the Google Research Group, we are currently investigating smartphone usage and interaction for building better interfaces. Since smartphone are becoming a common and ubiquitous devices supporting our daily life activities, better and more usable interfaces are required to make a smartphone even smarter. With the study we are currently conducting […]
The QoL team is happy to announce that UnCrowdTPG is now available as beta version to download from Google Play!
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 […]
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 […]
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)
9-12 October 2013, IEEE International Workshop on Service Science for e-Health (SSH) co-located with the IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services (IEEE HealthCom 2013) See the dedicated IEEE SSH workshop website. The workshop was also running in 2014.