Research Publications

Quality of Life Technologies

  • Katarzyna Wac
  • 2020 (forthcoming)
Gellman M.D., Turner J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY, USA.

“I Must Try Harder”: Design Implications for Mobile Apps and Wearables Contributing to Self-Efficacy of Patients with Chronic Conditions

  • Sharon Wulfovich, Maddalena Fiordelli, Homero Rivas, Waldo Concepcion, Katarzyna Wac
  • October 2019
Frontiers in Psychology, SI: Improving Wellbeing in Patients with Chronic Conditions

Smartphones as Sleep Duration Sensors: Validation of the iSenseSleep Algorithm

  • Matteo Ciman, Katarzyna Wac
  • JMIR Publisher
  • May 2019
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) mHealth and uHealth, Vol 7, No 5

Assessment Of Menstrual Health Status And Evolution Through Mobile Apps For Fertility Awareness

  • Laura Symul, Katarzyna Wac, Paula Hillard, Marcel Salathe
  • Springer Nature Publishing AG
  • July 2019
Nature Partner Journals (npj) Digital Medicine, 2(1), p. 64

Acute Mental Stress and Surgical Performance

  • Peter Grantcharov, Thomas Boillat, Sara Elkabany, Katarzyna Wac, Homero Rivas
  • Wiley
  • September 2018
British Journal of Surgery (Open)

Reprocessing and Reuse of Single-Use Medical Devices: Perceptions and Concerns of Relevant Stakeholders Toward Current Practices

  • Peter Grantcharov, Shushmita Ahmed, Katarzyna Wac, Homero Rivas
  • Wolters Kluwer Health
  • 2019
International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, 17(1):53–57

Scaling Access to Care in Rural Mexico via Digital Health, Telemedicine and Drones

  • Sharon Wulfovich, Pedro Matabuena, Leonardo Antonio García Osuna, Diego Amaya Wilhelm, Katarzyna Wac, Homero Rivas
  • Boston, MA, USA
  • October 2018
American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress

mQoL: Mobile Quality of Life Lab: From Behavior Change to QoL

  • Vlad Manea, Katarzyna Wac
  • Singapore
  • October 2018
Mobile Human Contributions: Opportunities and Challenges (MHC) Workshop in conjunction with UBICOMP

Digital Health Tools for Chronic Illness and Dementia Risk Assessment in Older Adults

  • Sofia Laghouila, Vlad Manea, Veronica Estrada, Katarzyna Wac
  • New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  • April 2018
39th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM 2018)

‘Healthcare on a Wrist’: Increasing Diet Program Compliance Through Checklists on Wearables in Obesity (Self-)Management Programs

  • Thomas Boillat, Homero Rivas, Katarzyna Wac‘Healthcare on a Wrist’: Increasing Diet Program Compliance Through Checklists on Wearables in Obesity (Self-)Management Programs
  • Dordrecht, The Netherlands
  • 2018
In "Digital Health", Health Informatics, Springer Nature. p. 65-81

Optimizing Patient Management and Adherence for Children Receiving Growth Hormone

  • Carlo Acerini, Katarzyna Wac, Peter Bang, Dagmar Lehwalder
  • 8(1):313
  • November 2017
Frontiers in Endocrinology

Do Wearable Activity Trackers Enhance the Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery?

  • Habib Khoury, John M. Morton, Thomas Boillat, Sharon Wulfovich, Katarzyna Wac, Homero Rivas
  • Washington, DC‎, USA
  • November 2017
34th ASMBS Annual Meeting at ObesityWeek

Digital Health (Book)

  • Homero Rivas, Katarzyna Wac (Eds)
  • Dordrecht, The Netherlands
  • 2018
Health Informatics, Springer Nature

From Quantified Self to Quality of Life

  • Katarzyna Wac
  • Dordrecht, The Netherlands
  • 2018
In "Digital Health", Health Informatics, Springer Nature

Special Issue on Quality of Life Technologies

  • Katarzyna Wac, Homero Rivas, Maddalena Fiordelli
  • March 2017
IEEE Computer

Digital Health Tools for Sleep Self-Management: Working Mothers Use Case

  • Katarzyna Wac, Laura Montanini, Kimie Bodin Ryager, Homero Rivas
  • San Diego, California, USA
  • March 2017
38th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM 2017)

Leveraging Wearables for Ubiquitous Burnout Prevention in Students

  • Katarzyna Wac, Christiana Tsiourti, Laura Montanini, Jenny Vej, Homero Rivas
  • Stanford, USA
  • November 2016
International Conference On Wearable Technologies, Knowledge Development, And Learning (aWEAR)

Human-factor-based Risk Management in the Healthcare to Improve Patient Safety

  • Barbara Streimelweger, Katarzyna Wac, Wolfgang Seiringer
  • July 2016
International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, 7(3):16-28

Use and Misuse of Mobile Health Information Technologies for Health Self-management

  • Katarzyna Wac, Maddalena Fiordelli, Homero Rivas
  • Washington DC, USA
  • March 2016
37th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM 2016)

More Mobile & Not so Well-connected yet: Users’ Mobility Inference Model and 6 Month Field Study

  • Katarzyna Wac, Gerardo Pinar, Mattia Gustarini, Jerome Marchanoff
  • Brno, Czech Republic
  • October 2015
7th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems (ICUMT 2015)

Improving Patient Safety Through Human-Factor-Based Risk Management

  • Barbara Streimelweger, Katarzyna Wac, Wolfgang Seiringer
  • Algarve, Portugal
  • October 2015
International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies (HCist), Procedia Computer Science, 64(2015):79-86

A Foresight Analysis of Pervasive Healthcare Technologies

  • Thomas Gauthier, Katarzyna Wac
  • September 2015
Journal of Futures Studies 20(1):69-82

Quality of Life Technologies: From Fundamentals of Mobile Computing to Patterns of Sleep and Happiness (Poster)

  • Katarzyna Wac, Jenny-Margrethe Vej, Kimie Bodin Ryager
  • Milan, Italy
  • September 2015
5th EAI International Symposium on Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health (MindCare)

Quality of Life Technologies: Experiences from the Field and Key Research Challenges

  • Katarzyna Wac, Maddalena Fiordelli, Mattia Gustarini, Homero Rivas
  • July / August 2015
IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue: Personalized Digital Health

Ambulatory Assessment of Affect: Survey of Sensor Systems for Monitoring of Autonomic Nervous System’s Activation in Emotion,

  • Katarzyna Wac, Christiana Tsiourti
  • June 2014
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Special Issue: Technologies for Affect and Wellbeing, 5(3): 251-272

Beat by Beat Getting Fit: Leveraging Pervasive Self-tracking of Heart Rate in Self-management of Health

  • Katarzyna Wac
  • Stanford University, USA
  • March 2014
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium, Track on Big Data Becomes Personal: Knowledge Into Meaning

Lightweight Clustering of Cell IDs into Meaningful Neighbourhoods (Work in Progress)

  • Marios Fanourakis, Katarzyna Wac
  • West Yorkshire, England, UK
  • November 2013
Seventh International IFIP Working Conference on Performance and Security Modelling and Evaluation of Cooperative Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NETs)

Towards Smartphone-based Assessment of Burnout (Work in Progress)

  • Christiana Tsiourti, Katarzyna Wac
  • Paris, France
  • November 2013
Fifth International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE), G. Memmi and U. Blanke (Eds.), Springer LNICST 130, pp. 158-165

Smartphone Based Ambulatory Assessment of Health Risks: Literature Review

  • Katarzyna Wac, Christiana Tsiourti
  • Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • June 2013
Poster at Society for Ambulatory Assessment 2013 Conference (SAA 2013)

Smartphone as a Personal, Pervasive Health Informatics Services Platform: Literature Review

  • Katarzyna Wac
  • 2012
IMIA Yearbook 2012: Personal Health Informatics, 7(1), pp.83-93

Ubiquitous Inference of Mobility State of Human Custodian in People-Centric Context Sensing

  • Mattia Gustarini, Katarzyna Wac
  • Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • September 2012
International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Instrumentation (UbiMI), co-located with the UBICOMP conference

TeleUS: interactive, energy-efficient US-based telediagnosis services

  • Andrzej Urbanik, Lucjan Janowski, Katarzyna Wac, Antoine Geissbuhler
  • May 2012
International Congress and Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Real-time, Continuous, Smart-phone Based Ambulatory Assessment of Energy Expenditure

  • Jody Hausmann, Julien Bonjour, Katarzyna Wac
  • Geneva, Switzerland
  • April 2012
Geneva Health Forum (GHF 2012)

Phone in the Pocket: Pervasive Self-tracking of Physical Activity Levels

  • Jody Hausmann, Katarzyna Wac, Julien Bonjour
  • Stanford University, USA
  • March 2012
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium, Track on Self-Tracking and Collective Intelligence

Activity Level Estimator on a Commercial Mobile Phone: A Feasibility Study

  • Jody Hausmann, Katarzyna Wac
  • San Francisco, CA, USA
  • June 12 2011
International Workshop on Frontiers in Activity Recognition using Pervasive Sensing (IWFAR), co-located with the PERVASIVE Conference

Using Digital Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) Technique for an Assessment of Periodic Body Movement Patterns on a Mobile Phone

  • Gabor Paller, Jody Hausmann, Katarzyna Wac
  • San Francisco, CA, USA
  • June 12 2011
International Workshop on Frontiers in Activity Recognition using Pervasive Sensing (IWFAR), co-located with the PERVASIVE Conference

Smart-Phone Based Ambulatory Activity Level Estimation

  • Jody Hausmann, Katarzyna Wac, Richard Bults
  • Ann Arbor, USA
  • June 2011
Society for Ambulatory Assessment 2011 Conference (SAA 2011), Work in Progress Track

How to keep track of one’s physical activity budget using pervasive technologies

  • Katarzyna Wac, Jody Hausmann, Bengt Kayser
  • May 2011
Commentary on Viewpoint, Journal of Applied Physiology

COPD24: From Future Internet Technologies to Health Telemonitoring and Teletreatment Application

  • Katarzyna Wac, David Hausheer
  • May 2011
  • Dublin, Ireland
COPD24: From Future Internet Technologies to Health Telemonitoring and Teletreatment Application

Wearable System for Personalized Ambient Monitoring and Interventions for Patients with Bipolar Disorder

  • Pawel Prociow, Katarzyna Wac, John Crowe
  • Reykjavik, Iceland
  • October 2010
International Workshop on Therapeutic Strategies - a Challenge for User Involvement in Design, co-located with NordicHCI

Body Area Networks for Ambulatory Psychophysiological Monitoring: A Survey of Off-the-Shelf Sensor Systems

  • Katarzyna Wac, Anind K. Dey
  • Corfu, Greece
  • 10-12 September 2010
5th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets10), ACM Press Publisher

emoBAN: Improving Quality of Life via Psychophysiological Mobile Computing (Position Paper)

  • Katarzyna Wac, Anind K. Dey
  • Atlanta, Georgia, US
  • 10-15 April 2010
Brain Body and Bytes: Psychophysiological User Interaction Workshop (at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2010)

Mobile Patient Monitoring: the MobiHealth System

  • Katarzyna Wac, Richard Bults, Bert-Jan van Beijnum, Ing Widya, Val Jones, Dimitri Konstantas, Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten, Hermie Hermens
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
  • September 2009
31st Intl Conf of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC09)

Mobile Health Care: Towards a commercialization of research results

  • Dimitri Konstantas, Richard Bults, Aart van Halteren, Katarzyna Wac, Val Jones, Ing Widya, Rainer Herzog, Barbara Streimelweger
  • 1st European Conference on eHealth (ECEH06) Fribourg, Switzerland
  • October 12-13, 2006
GI-Edition, Lecture Notes in Informatics, Volume P-91, August 2006, pp. 155-166, Henrik Stormer, Andreas Meier, Michel Schumacher (Eds), ISSN 1617-5468, ISBN 978-3-88579-185-0

Mobile Patient Monitoring-Applications and Value Propositions for Personal Health

  • Rainer Herzog, Dimitri Konstantas, Richard Bults, Aart van Halteren, Katarzyna Wac, Val Jones, Ing Widya, Barbara Streimelweger
  • Luzern, Switzerland
  • 2006
pHealth Workshop

Measurements-based performance evaluation of 3G wireless networks supporting m-health services

  • Katarzyna Wac, Richard Bults, Aart van Halteren, Dimitri Konstantas, Victor Nicola
  • San Jose, California, USA
  • January 19-20, 2005
Twelfth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN'05)

Performance evaluation of a Transport System supporting the MobiHealth BAN ip: Methodology and Assessment

  • Katarzyna Wac, Richard Bults
  • University of Twente, the Netherlands
  • 24 October 2004
MSc final report

Mobile Health Care over 3G Networks: The MobiHealth Pilot System and Service

  • Katarzyna Wac, Richard Bults, Dimitri Konstantas, Aart van Halteren, Val Jones, Ing Widya, Rainer Herzog
  • Shanghai, China
  • October 11-13, 2004
Global Mobile Congress, GMC'04

MobiHealth: Ambulant Patient Monitoring Over Public Wireless Networks

  • Dimitri Konstantas, Aart van Halteren, Richard Bults, Katarzyna Wac, Val Jones, Ing Widya
  • Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering MEDICON 2004, Island of Ischia, Naples, Italy
  • 31 July - 5 Aug 2004
Ghedimedia, IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 6

MobiHealth: Ambulant Patient Monitoring Over Next Generation Public Wireless Networks

  • Aart van Halteren, Dimitri Konstantas, Richard Bults, Katarzyna Wac, Nicolay Dokovsky, George Koprinkov, Val Jones, Ing Widya
  • e-health: Current Status and Future Trends, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, G. Demiris (Ed.). Amsterdam, the Netherlands, IOS Press. 106: 107-122

Body Area Networks for Ambulant Patient Monitoring Over Next Generation Public Wireless Networks

  • Richard Bults, Katarzyna Wac, Aart van Halteren, Dimitri Konstantas, Val Jones, Ing Widya
  • Lyon, France
  • 27-30 June 2004
3rd IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit

Mobile Patient Monitoring: the MobiHealth System

  • Aart van Halteren, Richard Bults, Katarzyna Wac, Dimitri Konstantas, Ing Widya, Nicolay Dokovsky, George Koprinkov, Val Jones, Rainer Herzog
  • 2004
The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare, 2004; 2(5), 365-373

Mobile Patient Monitoring: the MobiHealth System

  • Dimitri Konstantas, Aart van Halteren, Richard Bults, Nicolay Dokovsky, George Koprinkov, Katarzyna Wac, Val Jones, Ing Widya and Rainer Herzog
  • International Congress on Medical and Care Compunetics, NCC, The Hague
  • June 2-4 2004
Medical and Care Compunetics 1, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 103: 307-314, IOS Press

Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare: the MobiHealth Project

  • Aart van Halteren, Richard Bults, Katarzyna Wac, Nicolay Dokovsky, George Koprinkov, Ing Widya, Dimitri Konstantas, Val Jones, Rainer Herzog
  • International Workshop on New Generation of Wearable Systems for E-Health, Lucca, Italy
  • December 11-14, 2003
Wearable eHealth Systems for Personalised Health Management, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 108: 181-193, IOS Press

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