Research Publications

How To E-Mental Health: A Guideline For Researchers And Practitioners Using Digital Technology In The Context Of Mental Health

  • Caroline Seiferth, Lea Vogel, Benjamin Aas, Isabel Brandhorst, Per Carlbring, Annette Conzelmann, Narges Esfandiari, Marlene Finkbeiner, Karsten Hollmann, Heinrich Lautenbacher, Edith Meinzinger, Alexandra Newbold, Ansgar Opitz, Tobias J. Renner, Lasse Bosse Sander, Philip S. Santangelo, Ramona Schoedel, Björn Schuller, Clemens Stachl, sysTelios Think Tank, Yannik Terhorst, John Torous, Katarzyna Wac, Aliza Werner-Seidler, Sebastian Wolf, Johanna Löchner
  • August 2023
NATURE mental health

Factors Influencing the Use of Mobile Applications and Services in the Context of Sexual Health

  • Katarzyna Wac, Jessica Pidoux
  • Bologna, Italy
  • June 2023
Science & Technology Studies Italia Conference (STS), Panel 47

The Social Robot Companion To Support Homecare Nurses: The Guardian Study Protocol

  • Arianna Margaritini, Marco Benadduci, Giulio Amabili, Anna Rita Bonfigli, Riccardo Luzi, Katarzyna Wac, Henk Herman Nap, Elvira Maranesi, Roberta Bevilacqua
  • October 2022
Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications 30(1)

The Future of Quantifying Behaviors, Health, and Quality of Life

  • Katarzyna Wac
  • April 2022
Quantifying Quality of Life, Springer Nature Publishing AG

Unfolding the Quantification of Quality of Life

  • Sharon Wulfovich, Jeppe Buur, Katarzyna Wac
  • April 2022
Quantifying Quality of Life, Springer Nature Publishing AG

Designing a Social Robot Companion to Support Homecare: Usability Results

  • Alexandra Villaverde Naveira, Alexandre de Masi, Katarzyna Wac, Giulio Amabili, Martijn Vastenburg, Janna Alberts, Judith de Koning, Raymond Cuijpers, Christian Lovis
  • June 2022
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 295:261-264

Advances In Telemedicine Using Personal Mobile Devices: One Patient At A Time

  • Katarzyna Wac
  • August 2022
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology Journal

Burned-Out With Burnout? Insights From Historical Analysis

  • Renzo Bianchi, Katarzyna Wac, James Francis Sowden, Irvin Sam Schonfeld
  • August 2022
Frontiers in Psychology, Section Organizational Psychology

Behavioural Data Categorization for Transformers-based Models in Digital Health

  • Clauirton A. Siebra, Igor Matias, Katarzyna Wac
  • Ioannina, Greece
  • September 2022
IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)

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

  • Katarzyna Wac, Sharon Wulfovich (Eds.)
  • Springer Cham, Switzerland
  • April 2022
Health Informatics Series

Less Annoying: Quality of Experience of Commonly Used Mobile Applications

  • Alexandre De Masi, Katarzyna Wac
  • Athlone , Ireland
  • June 2022
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

  • Alexandre Berney, Valerie Carrard, Sylvie Berney, Katja Schlegel, Jacques Gaume, Mehdi Gholam, Pierre-Alexandre Bart, Martin Preisig, Katarzyna Wac, Marianne Schmid Mast, Celine Bourquin
  • December 2021
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

  • Jessica K. Roydhouse, Matthew L. Cohen, Henrik R. Eshoj, Nadia Corsini, Emre Yucel, Claudia Rutherford, Katarzyna Wac, Allan Berrocal, Alyssa Lanzi, Cindy Nowinski, Natasha Roberts, Angelos P. Kassianos, Veronique Sebille, Madeleine T. King, Rebecca Mercieca-Bebber
  • July 2021
Quality of Life Research (Journal)

From Participation Factors to Co-Calibration of Patient- and Wearable-Reported Outcomes in Behavioural, Health, and Quality of Life Studies

  • Vlad Manea
  • University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • April 2021
PhD thesis, Computer Science

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

  • Vlad Manea, Katarzyna Wac
  • October 2020
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

  • Vlad Manea, Katarzyna Wac
  • November 2020
Journal of Personalized Medicine, MDPI. Special Issue: 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

  • Allan Berrocal
  • University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • August 2020
PhD thesis, Information Systems

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

  • Allan Berrocal, Katarzyna Wac
  • August 2020
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

  • Allan Berrocal, Waldo Concepcion, Stefano De Dominicis, Katarzyna Wac
  • 2020
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

  • Eric Jay Daza, Katarzyna Wac, Marily Oppezzo
  • 2020
Healthcare Journal, 8(1), 6, MDPI. Special Issue: N-of-1 Trials in Healthcare

Quality of Life Technologies (definition)

  • Katarzyna Wac
  • 2020
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, Special Issue: Improving Wellbeing in Patients with Chronic Conditions

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

  • Allan Berrocal, Stefano de Dominicis, Katarzyna Wac
  • October 2019
Quality of Life Research 28, S178-S178

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

  • Alexandre De Masi, Katarzyna Wac
  • Berlin, Germany
  • May 2019
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

  • Christiana Tsiourti, Astrid Weiss, Katarzyna Wac, Markus Vincze
  • Springer
  • 2019
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

  • Marios Fanourakis
  • University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • November 2018
PhD thesis, Information Systems

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

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

  • Allan Berrocal, Katarzyna Wac
  • Singapore
  • October 2018
UBICOMP/ISWC Doctoral Colloquium

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

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

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

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

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

Artificial Agents as Social Companions: Design Guidelines for Emotional Interactions

  • Christiana Tsiourti
  • University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • June 2018
PhD thesis, Information Systems

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
  • Dordrecht, The Netherlands
  • 2018
In "Digital Health", Health Informatics, Springer Nature. p. 65-81

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

  • Christiana Tsiourti, Astrid Weiss, Katarzyna Wac, Markus Vincze
  • Bielefeld, Germany
  • October 2017
5th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI)

Quantifying and Enhancing Quality of Experience for Smartphone User

  • Alexandre De Masi, Katarzyna Wac
  • Dublin, Ireland
  • June 2017
Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (PhD Session)

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

Automatic Stress Assessment Using Smartphone Interaction Data

  • Matteo Ciman, Katarzyna Wac
  • Milan, Italy
  • April 2017
Conference on the Scientific Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets (NetMob)

Quality of Life Technologies (Special Issue)

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

Individuals’ Stress Assessment Using Human-Smartphone Interaction Analysis

  • Matteo Ciman, Katarzyna Wac
  • 9(1): 51-65, 2018 (online first 2016)
  • 2018
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

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)

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

  • Jakob Demant, Marie Bruvik Heinskou, Katarzyna Wac, Laura Marie Schierff
  • New Orleans, LA, USA
  • November 2016
72nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology

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

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

  • Mattia Gustarini, Katarzyna Wac, Anind Dey
  • 2016
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20(1), 65-82, Springer

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

  • Mattia Gustarini, Marcello Scipioni, Marios Fanourakis, Katarzyna Wac
  • 2016
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier, 2016

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

  • Mattia Gustarini
  • University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
  • April 2016
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)

  • Luis Guillermo Martinez Ballesteros, Selim Ickin, Jan Markendahl, Konrad Tollmar, Markus Fiedler, Katarzyna Wac
  • Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • January 2016
13th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2016)

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

iSenseStress: Assessing Stress Through Human-Smartphone Interaction Analysis

  • Matteo Ciman, Katarzyna Wac, Ombretta Gaggi
  • Istanbul, Turkey
  • May 2015
9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth)

UnCrowdTPG: Assuring the Experience of Public Transportation Users

  • Mattia Gustarini, Jerome Marchanoff, Marios Fanourakis, Christiana Tsiourti, Katarzyna Wac
  • Larnaca, Cyprus
  • October 2014
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,

  • Katarzyna Wac, Christiana Tsiourti
  • June 2014
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

  • Christiana Tsiourti, Emilie Joly, Maher Ben Moussa, Cindy Wings-Kolgen, Katarzyna Wac
  • Oldenburg, Germany
  • May 2014
8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth)

Smartphone Interactions Change for Different Intimacy Contexts

  • Mattia Gustarini, 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. 72-89

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)

Energy-based Anomaly Detection in QoE

  • Selim Ickin, Markus Fiedler, Katarzyna Wac
  • Atlantic City, NJ, USA
  • June 2013
Global Wireless Summit (Wireless VITAE, WPMC, PRISMS and WWSMC), Green Cognitive Radio Access Networks

UbiqLog: A Generic Mobile Phone Based Life-Log Framework

  • Reza Rawassizadeh, Martin Tomitsch, Katarzyna Wac, A Min Tjoa
  • London, UK
  • April 2013
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 17(4): 621-637 Springer-Verlag

Theme Issue on Electronic Memories and Life Logging

  • Reza Rawassizadeh, Martin Tomitsch, Katarzyna Wac
  • London, UK
  • April 2013
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 17(4): 603-604 Springer-Verlag

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

  • Caroline Franck, Katarzyna Wac, Antoine Geissbuhler
  • Huston, TX, USA
  • November 2012
IEEE Healthcare Technology Conference: Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine

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

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

  • Selim Ickin, Lucjan Janowski, Katarzyna Wac, Markus Fiedler
  • Australia
  • July 2012
International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX)

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

  • Muhammad Ullah, Markus Fiedler, Katarzyna Wac
  • June 2012
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

  • Mattia Gustarini, Katarzyna Wac
  • Newcastle, UK
  • June 2012
Mobile Data Challenge by Nokia Workshop, co-located with the PERVASIVE Conference

Mobile Psychiatry: Towards Improving the Care for Bipolar Disorder

  • Pawel Prociow, Katarzyna Wac, John A. Crowe
  • May 2012
International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 6(1): p. 5

Factors Influencing Quality of Experience of Commonly-Used Mobile Applications

  • Selim Ickin, Katarzyna Wac, Markus Fiedler, Lucjan Janowski, Jin-Huyk Hong, Anind K. Dey
  • April 2012
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

  • Katarzyna Wac, Selim Ickin, Jin-Hyuk Hong, Lucjan Janowski, Markus Fiedler, Anind K. Dey
  • Toronto, Canada
  • August 19, 2011
Workshop on Measurements Up the STack (W-MUST), co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2011

WayFiS: From Geospatial Public Transport Information to Way Finding Seniors

  • Mattia Gustarini, Katarzyna Wac, Dimitri Konstantas, Inmaculada Luengo, Roberto Giménez, Anna Mereu, Maria João Machado, Irene Fritzen, Csaba Megyesi, Peter Laborczi, Attila Torok, Michel Deriaz
  • Paris, France
  • 1-2 July 2011
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

  • Reza Rawassizadeh, Elaheh Momeni, Katarzyna Wac, Martin Tomitsch, and A Min Tjoa
  • Vancouver, Canada
  • April 2011
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

  • Katarzyna Wac, Anind K. Dey
  • Reykjavik, Iceland
  • October 2010
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

  • 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)

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