Jun 2025: Two ‘mQoL Living Lab’ Talks

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 conducts research that extends far beyond self-reports and surveys. The mQoL Living Lab has pioneered the use of mobile and sensor-based technologies since 2012 to assess and improve human behavior, health, and quality of life in real-world settings. Over the past decade, the lab has partnered with diverse stakeholders, engaging the public as co-researchers to capture and analyze longitudinal personal data. Treating daily life as an “organ in context” to be examined, diagnosed, and enhanced, the lab combines advanced computational models with lived experiences. Key challenges include addressing recruitment strategies, ethical concerns in data acquisition and use, sustaining participation, and ensuring impact. Despite these hurdles, the research has empowered individuals, driving personalized health solutions and reshaping quality-of-life research. This work underscores the potentially transformative impact of collaboration between academia and the general public in identifying and tackling complex, human-centered challenges. This talk presents the historical view on the research conducted in the mQoL Living Lab settings and reflections on limitations and opportunities for the future of human behavior, health, and quality of life reserach.

5-6 Jun 2025, CitSciHelvetia, the Swiss Citizen Science Conference (WEB), Lausanne, Switzerland. The conference theme is “Citizen Science in Action – Collaboration between Civic Society and Academia”. Our talk is titled “Collaborative Science in Action: Insights from a Decade of “mQoL Living Lab” Engagement”.

ABSTRACT The mQoL Living Lab at the University of Geneva has pioneered the use of mobile and sensor-based technologies since 2012 to assess and improve human behavior, health, and quality of life in real-world settings. Over the past decade, the lab has partnered with diverse stakeholders, engaging the public as co-researchers to capture and analyze longitudinal personal data. Treating daily life as an “organ in context” to be examined, diagnosed, and enhanced, the lab combines advanced computational models with lived experiences. Key challenges include addressing recruitment strategies, ethical concerns in data acquisition and use, sustaining participation, and ensuring impact. Despite these hurdles, the research has empowered individuals, driving personalized health solutions and reshaping quality-of-life research. This work underscores the potentially transformative impact of collaboration between academia and the general public in identifying and tackling complex, human-centered challenges.