Quality of Life technologies lab

Our organisation type is:: University

We are active in the following Technologies: Service innovation, User perspective, Social Science/Elderly, Design, Field trials / living lab, Hardware, sensors, actuators, Information technologies, data storage and processing (back end), Interfaces, software (front end), Communication technologies / Tele-systems, Standardization, Communication / Dissemination / Marketing, Knowledge transfer, Project management

Applications: Health & wellness, Hobbies , Home care, Information and learning, Knowledge Transfer, Mobility, Safety, security, privacy, Skills enhancement, Social interaction, Supply with goods & chores, Work

The QoL technologies lab researchers how mobile technologies can be leveraged for an accurate, longitudinal, real-life, context-rich, minimally obtrusive, privacy-preserving, personalized assessment of the individual’s behavior and Quality of Life (QoL) and improvement of the latter.

We promote ICT technologies to improve QoL of individuals through rigorous scientific research, education, science communication and outreach. Currently our reserach is applied in mobile healthcare (mHealth) for wellbeing, disease self-management, active and healthy ageing and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) by leveraging personal, big data approaches (like 'quantified-self' one) in Living Lab settings.

We have an an affiliated "mQoL Living Lab" with our lab enabling us to conduct user-centric studies and specifically involve many different individuals in design of solutions and trials.

Keywords: mhealth, ehealth, quality of experience, quality of life, wireless communication, Behaviour Informatics, Technologies for behaviour change, Technologies for promoting health and wellbeing

Contact details

Contact

Katarzyna Wac, Associate profesor of Computer Science
katarzyna.wac@unige.ch

Institution/Company

University of Geneva, Switzerland

http://www.qol.unige.ch

Switzerland