18-21 October 2023, International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Annual Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Igor Matias, Prof. Wac, and Clauirton Siebra are organizers of 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
January 2018, “Digital Health” book published by Springer (DOI). Prof. Rivas (Stanford) and Prof. Wac are editors of the Book.
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.
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.
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.
Call for papers for the Special Issue titled “Services Science for e-Health” in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) with deadline in November 2013 and publication date early 2014. J-BHI Special Issue CFP in PDF (266 Kb, )
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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