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Understanding and Enhancing Digital Wellbeing Dimensions: Empirical Studies on Smartphone Usage Patterns and Recommendations of Micro-Informative Content
Digital technology has become an integral part of our lives, offering various benefits from communication and entertainment to education and productivity. However, its pervasive use has also raised concerns about its potential negative impact on users' wel ...
EPFL2024Generalization and Personalization of Machine Learning for Multimodal Mobile Sensing in Everyday Life
A range of behavioral and contextual factors, including eating and drinking behavior, mood, social context, and other daily activities, can significantly impact an individual's quality of life and overall well-being. Therefore, inferring everyday life aspe ...
EPFL2024Tumescense monitoring system for diagnosing erectile dysfunction and methods of use
Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Rodrigo Araujo Fraga Da Silva
Systems and methods for monitoring penile tumescence are provided that overcome the drawbacks of previously known systems by providing a wearable formed of a flexible and elastic tube having a plurality of sensors disposed on or embedded within it, the wea ...
2023Data Privacy Concerns as a Source of Resistance to Complete Mobile Data Collection Tasks Via a Smartphone App
Smartphones present many interesting opportunities for survey research, particularly through the use of mobile data collection applications (apps). There is still much to learn, however, about how to integrate apps in general population surveys. Recent stu ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2022A Use Case Oriented Survey of Self-Sovereign Identity
With self-sovereign identity (SSI), we stand at a crossroads that is leading society to a new kind of digital identity. Under this new paradigm, users no longer have to remember a username and a password; instead they gain full power on the information tha ...
2022The Effects of Time-Restricted Eating versus Standard Dietary Advice on Weight, Metabolic Health and the Consumption of Processed Food: A Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial in Community-Based Adults
Felix Naef, Nicholas Edward Phillips
Weight loss is key to controlling the increasing prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and its components, i.e., central obesity, hypertension, prediabetes and dyslipidaemia. The goals of our study were two-fold. First, we characterised the relationships ...
2021Smartphone Sensing for the Well-being of Young Adults: A Review
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola
Over the years, mobile phones have become versatile devices with a multitude of capabilities due to the plethora of embedded sensors that enable them to capture rich data unobtrusively. In a world where people are more conscious regarding their health and ...
2021Capturing drinking and nightlife behaviours and their social and physical context with a smartphone application - investigation of users' experience and reactivity
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani
Background: Many addictive behaviours are influenced by the context in which they occur, but methods for simultaneously capturing the characteristics of a behaviour and its context are scarce. This study describes a smartphone application developed to docu ...
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020The emotional entanglements of smartphones "in the field": on social positioning, power relations, and research ethics
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani
Despite human geographers’ growing recognition of the need to explore how digital technologies are increasingly co‐producing geographies, the methodological implications of such forms of data production are rarely discussed. This paper explores how smartph ...
2020STeCC: Smart Testing with Contact Counting Enhances Covid-19 Mitigation by Bluetooth App Based Contact Tracing
SARS-CoV2 spread is hard to control, as asymptomatic people contribute to transmission. Currently, Covid-19 mitigation imposes social distancing and isolates the diseased. This slows down virus spread, eases stress on health care systems and thereby reduce ...
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