Aug 2023: Nature Mental Health Consensus Statement Published

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 […]

Oct 2022: International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL)

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 […]

Jan 2020: “Quality of Life Technologies” Defined

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 […]

Oct 2018: UBICOMP Workshop on Mobile Human Contributions & Special Issue of IJHCS (Elsevier)

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 […]

Aug 2018: Open Living Lab Days #OLLD18 in Geneva!

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 […]

Apr 2018: Panel at the Society of Behavioural Medicine 2018

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 Society of Behavioural Medicine (SBM), New Orleans, LA, USA. Prof. Wac participates in a Panel discussion. Full citation Goldstein […]

Dec 2015: HOT-MMCS: IEEE GlobeCom Special Session

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.

Sep 2012: Paper presented at UbiMi workshop, co-located with the UBICOMP Conference, Pittsburgh, US

Mattia Gustarini presented his scientific paper at the International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Instrumentation (UbiMi) workshop, co-located with the UBICOMP Conference, Pittsburgh, US You can find the paper and the slides under the following link: Mattia Gustarini, Katarzyna Wac, Ubiquitous Inference of Mobility State of Human Custodian in People-Centric Context Sensing Link to the UbiMi […]

Jun 2012: Papers Presented at the Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia Workshop, Newcastle, UK

Sokratis Barmpounakis and Mattia Gustarini presented their scientific papers published at the Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia Workshop, co-located with the PERVASIVE Conference in Newcastle, UK. You can find the papers, poster and slides under the following links: Sokratis Barmpounakis, Katarzyna Wac, Deriving Connectivity and Application Usage Patterns From Longitudinal Mobile Phone Usage Data Mattia […]

May 2011: QoL at Future Internet Assembly (FIA) in Budapest

Organizers: Andreas Metzger and Clarissa Marquezan (Paluno, U of Duisburg-Essen; S Cube Network of Excellence and FInest FI PPP Use Case project), Katarzyna Wac (U of Geneva), David Hausheer (TU Darmstadt) Future Internet applications will draw on the convergence of Services, Things, Contents and Networks. This means that the capabilities and features of FI applications […]

Sep 2010: BodyNets 2010

Katarzyna Wac presented a paper entitled “Body Area Networks for Ambulatory Psychophysiological Monitoring: A Survey of Off-the-Shelf Sensor Systems” at BodyNets Corfu, Greece, 10-12 September, 2010, ACM Press Publisher