Research Publications

Quantifying Quality of Life: Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine (BOOK)

Health Informatics Series

Less Annoying: Quality of Experience of Commonly Used Mobile Applications

13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys)

Study Protocol For The ETMED-L Project: Longitudinal Study Of Mental Health And Interpersonal Competence Of Medical Students In A Swiss University Using A Comprehensive Framework Of Empathy

British Medical Journal (Open)

The Use Of Proxies And Proxy-Reported Measures: A Report Of The International Society For Quality Of Life Research (ISOQOL) Proxy Task Force

Quality of Life Research (Journal)

Using Consumer-Friendly Wearables To Associate Patient Reported Quality Of Life And Tech Reported Physical Activity And Sleep In Healthy Seniors

Quality of Life Research 29, S136-S136

Co-calibrating Physical and Psychological Outcomes and Consumer Wearable Activity Outcomes in Older Adults: An Evaluation of the coQoL Method

Journal of Personalized Medicine (MDPI), SI: PROomics: Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) and Self-Tracking for Personalized Medicine

Peer-ceived Momentary Assessment: Empirical Examination Of A Peer Supported Sensing Method To Augment Personal Sensing In Human Computer Interaction

PhD thesis, Information Systems

Peers Know You: A Feasibility Study of the Predictive Value of Peer’s Observations to Estimate Human States

17th International Conference On Mobile Systems And Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC)

Complementing Human Behavior Assessment By Leveraging Personal Ubiquitous Devices and Social Links: Evaluation of the PeerMA Method

Journal of Medical Internet Research: mHealth and uHealth (JMU)

Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Blood Glucose, Food Cravings, and Affect in a Non-Diabetic: An N-of-1 Randomized Pilot Study

MDPI Healthcare Journal, 8(1), 6 (Special Issue: N-of-1 Trials in Healthcare)

Quality of Life Technologies (definition)

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

Frontiers in Psychology, SI: Improving Wellbeing in Patients with Chronic Conditions

Feasibility Study Of Smartphone-Enabled, Peer Reported Outcomes Assessment In Healthy Individuals

Quality of Life Research 28, S178-S178

Predicting Quality of Experience of Popular Mobile Applications in a Living Lab Study

11th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) - ∗ BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD ∗

Multimodal Integration of Emotional Signals in HRI from Voice, Body, and Context: Effects of (In)Congruency on Emotion Recognition and Attitudes Towards Robots

International Journal of Social Robotics (SORO)

On the Feasibility and Privacy Benefits of On-Device Data Mining for Opportunistic Crowd-Sensing and Service Self-Provisioning

PhD thesis, Information Systems

Acute Mental Stress and Surgical Performance

British Journal of Surgery (Open)

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

International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, 17(1):53–57

Peer-ceived Well-Being: Exploring the Value of Peers for Human Stress Assessment in-Situ

UBICOMP/ISWC Doctoral Colloquium

Peer-vasive Computing: Leveraging Peers to Enhance the Accuracy of Self-Reports in Mobile Human Studies

Mobile Human Contributions: Opportunities and Challenges (MHC) Workshop in conjunction with UBICOMP

You’re Using This App For What? mQoL Living Lab Study

Mobile Human Contributions: Opportunities and Challenges (MHC) Workshop in conjunction with UBICOMP

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

Mobile Human Contributions: Opportunities and Challenges (MHC) Workshop in conjunction with UBICOMP

Artificial Agents as Social Companions: Design Guidelines for Emotional Interactions

PhD thesis, Information Systems

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

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

In "Digital Health", Health Informatics, Springer Nature. p. 65-81

Designing Emotionally Expressive Robots: A Comparative Study on the Perception of Communication Modalities

5th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI)

Quantifying and Enhancing Quality of Experience for Smartphone User

Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (PhD Session)

Digital Health (Book)

Health Informatics, Springer Nature

From Quantified Self to Quality of Life

In "Digital Health", Health Informatics, Springer Nature

Automatic Stress Assessment Using Smartphone Interaction Data

Conference on the Scientific Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets (NetMob)

Quality of Life Technologies (Special Issue)

IEEE Computer

Individuals’ Stress Assessment Using Human-Smartphone Interaction Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Leveraging Wearables for Ubiquitous Burnout Prevention in Students

International Conference On Wearable Technologies, Knowledge Development, And Learning (aWEAR)

Developing Self–Control Theory: Towards Digital Sensoring by Smartphone Technologies

72nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology

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

International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, 7(3):16-28

Anonymous Smartphone Data Collection: Factors Influencing the Users’ Acceptance in Mobile Crowd Sensing

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20(1), 65-82, Springer

Differences in Smartphone Usage: Validating, Evaluating, and Predicting Mobile User Intimacy

Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier, 2016

Analysing Smartphone Users “inner-self”: The Perception of Intimacy and Smartphone Usage Changes

PhD thesis, Information Systems, ISBN 978-2-88903-044-6

Energy Saving Approaches for Video Streaming on Smartphone Based on QoE Modeling (Work in Progress)

13th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2016)

Improving Patient Safety Through Human-Factor-Based Risk Management

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

Journal of Futures Studies 20(1):69-82

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

5th EAI International Symposium on Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health (MindCare)

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

IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue: Personalized Digital Health

iSenseStress: Assessing Stress Through Human-Smartphone Interaction Analysis

9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth)

UnCrowdTPG: Assuring the Experience of Public Transportation Users

2nd IEEE International Workshop on Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications (SCUCA'14), co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE WiMob 2014)

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

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Special Issue: Technologies for Affect and Wellbeing, 5(3): 251-272

Virtual Assistive Companion for Older Adults: Field Study and Design Implications

8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth)

Smartphone Interactions Change for Different Intimacy Contexts

Fifth International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE), G. Memmi and U. Blanke (Eds.), Springer LNICST 130, pp. 72-89

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

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

Poster at Society for Ambulatory Assessment 2013 Conference (SAA 2013)

Energy-based Anomaly Detection in QoE

Global Wireless Summit (Wireless VITAE, WPMC, PRISMS and WWSMC), Green Cognitive Radio Access Networks

UbiqLog: A Generic Mobile Phone Based Life-Log Framework

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 17(4): 621-637 Springer-Verlag

Theme Issue on Electronic Memories and Life Logging

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 17(4): 603-604 Springer-Verlag

User Acceptance Factors for a National Health Portal – Case Study of Switzerland

IEEE Healthcare Technology Conference: Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine

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

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

Studying the Challenges in Assessing the Perceived Quality of Mobile-Phone Based Video

International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX)

Towards Understanding Quality of Experience and Quality of Service in eHealth Domain

The 8th Swedish National Computer Networking Workshop 2012 Note: A version of this paper is also published as (but not presented at the conference):

Estimating People Perception of Intimacy in Daily Life from Context Data Collected with Their Mobile Phone

Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia Workshop, co-located with the PERVASIVE Conference

Mobile Psychiatry: Towards Improving the Care for Bipolar Disorder

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 6(1): p. 5

Factors Influencing Quality of Experience of Commonly-Used Mobile Applications

IEEE Communications Magazine (IEEE COMMAG), Special Issue on QoE Management in Emerging Multimedia Services, 50(4): 48-56, IEEE Press

Studying the Experience of Mobile Applications Used in Different Contexts of Daily Life

Workshop on Measurements Up the STack (W-MUST), co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2011

WayFiS: From Geospatial Public Transport Information to Way Finding Seniors

Workshop on User Issues in Geospatial Public Transport Information, co-located with 25th Conference of the International Cartographic Association

Supporting Forgetting and Semantic Enrichment of e-Memories through Annotation

Bridging Practices, Theories, and Technologies to Support Reminiscence Workshop (at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2011)

Mobile user experience beyond the laboratory: Towards methodology for QoE-QoS evaluation in natural user environments

International Workshop on Observing the Mobile User Experience, co-located with NordicHC

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

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

5th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets10), ACM Press Publisher

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

Brain Body and Bytes: Psychophysiological User Interaction Workshop (at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2010)

Research Publications

Quantifying Quality of Life: Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine (BOOK)

Less Annoying: Quality of Experience of Commonly Used Mobile Applications

Study Protocol For The ETMED-L Project: Longitudinal Study Of Mental Health And Interpersonal Competence Of Medical Students In A Swiss University Using A Comprehensive Framework Of Empathy

The Use Of Proxies And Proxy-Reported Measures: A Report Of The International Society For Quality Of Life Research (ISOQOL) Proxy Task Force

Using Consumer-Friendly Wearables To Associate Patient Reported Quality Of Life And Tech Reported Physical Activity And Sleep In Healthy Seniors

Co-calibrating Physical and Psychological Outcomes and Consumer Wearable Activity Outcomes in Older Adults: An Evaluation of the coQoL Method

Peer-ceived Momentary Assessment: Empirical Examination Of A Peer Supported Sensing Method To Augment Personal Sensing In Human Computer Interaction

Peers Know You: A Feasibility Study of the Predictive Value of Peer’s Observations to Estimate Human States

Complementing Human Behavior Assessment By Leveraging Personal Ubiquitous Devices and Social Links: Evaluation of the PeerMA Method

Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Blood Glucose, Food Cravings, and Affect in a Non-Diabetic: An N-of-1 Randomized Pilot Study

Quality of Life Technologies (definition)

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

Feasibility Study Of Smartphone-Enabled, Peer Reported Outcomes Assessment In Healthy Individuals

Predicting Quality of Experience of Popular Mobile Applications in a Living Lab Study

Multimodal Integration of Emotional Signals in HRI from Voice, Body, and Context: Effects of (In)Congruency on Emotion Recognition and Attitudes Towards Robots

On the Feasibility and Privacy Benefits of On-Device Data Mining for Opportunistic Crowd-Sensing and Service Self-Provisioning

Acute Mental Stress and Surgical Performance

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

Peer-ceived Well-Being: Exploring the Value of Peers for Human Stress Assessment in-Situ

Peer-vasive Computing: Leveraging Peers to Enhance the Accuracy of Self-Reports in Mobile Human Studies

You’re Using This App For What? mQoL Living Lab Study

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

Artificial Agents as Social Companions: Design Guidelines for Emotional Interactions

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

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

Designing Emotionally Expressive Robots: A Comparative Study on the Perception of Communication Modalities

Quantifying and Enhancing Quality of Experience for Smartphone User

Digital Health (Book)

From Quantified Self to Quality of Life

Automatic Stress Assessment Using Smartphone Interaction Data

Quality of Life Technologies (Special Issue)

Individuals’ Stress Assessment Using Human-Smartphone Interaction Analysis

Leveraging Wearables for Ubiquitous Burnout Prevention in Students

Developing Self–Control Theory: Towards Digital Sensoring by Smartphone Technologies

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

Anonymous Smartphone Data Collection: Factors Influencing the Users’ Acceptance in Mobile Crowd Sensing

Differences in Smartphone Usage: Validating, Evaluating, and Predicting Mobile User Intimacy

Analysing Smartphone Users “inner-self”: The Perception of Intimacy and Smartphone Usage Changes

Energy Saving Approaches for Video Streaming on Smartphone Based on QoE Modeling (Work in Progress)

Improving Patient Safety Through Human-Factor-Based Risk Management

A Foresight Analysis of Pervasive Healthcare Technologies

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

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

iSenseStress: Assessing Stress Through Human-Smartphone Interaction Analysis

UnCrowdTPG: Assuring the Experience of Public Transportation Users

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

Virtual Assistive Companion for Older Adults: Field Study and Design Implications

Smartphone Interactions Change for Different Intimacy Contexts

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

Smartphone Based Ambulatory Assessment of Health Risks: Literature Review

Energy-based Anomaly Detection in QoE

UbiqLog: A Generic Mobile Phone Based Life-Log Framework

Theme Issue on Electronic Memories and Life Logging

User Acceptance Factors for a National Health Portal – Case Study of Switzerland

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

Studying the Challenges in Assessing the Perceived Quality of Mobile-Phone Based Video

Towards Understanding Quality of Experience and Quality of Service in eHealth Domain

Estimating People Perception of Intimacy in Daily Life from Context Data Collected with Their Mobile Phone

Mobile Psychiatry: Towards Improving the Care for Bipolar Disorder

Factors Influencing Quality of Experience of Commonly-Used Mobile Applications

Studying the Experience of Mobile Applications Used in Different Contexts of Daily Life

WayFiS: From Geospatial Public Transport Information to Way Finding Seniors

Supporting Forgetting and Semantic Enrichment of e-Memories through Annotation

Mobile user experience beyond the laboratory: Towards methodology for QoE-QoS evaluation in natural user environments

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

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

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

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