22-25 October 2025, International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Prof. Wac is a Plenary Speaker at the Session titled “Breaking Tradition: Disrupting Quality of Life Research with AI”. The ISOQOL 2025 conference theme: “Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Quality-of-Life Research” Scientists worldwide are excited and concerned about […]
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 is titled “Beyond Surveys: Insights from a Decade of “mQoL Living Lab” Engagement”. ABSTRACT The mQoL Living Lab (mqol.unige.ch) at the University of Geneva research […]
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.
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
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
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.
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
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“.
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
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. […]
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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”.
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 […]
13 November 2012, Participation in the Seminar Series on Technology of Information for Geographic and Environment Research and Services (TIGERS), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Sokratis Barmpounakis contribution has been titled “QoSIS – Quality of Service Information System”.
The increasing availability of miniaturized computing, storage and communication resources for personal wearable electronics devices as well as the availability of diverse sensors for human vital signs (e.g., heart rate, respiration) enable the development of a wide variety of wearable systems for ambulatory psychophysiological measurements. These systems pave the way for the acquisition of quality […]
3 February 2011, 8.30, “Boursières d’Excellence” talk by Katarzyna Wac, titled Translational Research on Effective and Efficient Telemedicine Services Supporting the Self-management of Chronically Ill Patients
Collaborative Sharing of Quality of Service Information for Mobile Service Users Katarzyna Wac University of Geneva, 03.06.2009 12:00 Duration: 1:01:15 QuickTime