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The key aim of the Quality of Life (QoL) research area is to establish quality research on mobile computing and communications systems deployed in the healthcare domain (i.e., mHealth) and delivering clinically validated services to patients, their professional and voluntary caregivers "anywhere-anytime-anyhow". The general approach is necessarily a transdisciplinary one, as many of the challenges in development and deployment phases of these systems need to be addressed considering not only the system, its services and their Quality of Service (QoS) in an operational environment, but, as sometimes missing in the current research - the actual system end-users, approaching mHealth not from the perspective of new hype technology but from the perspective of new innovate ways to solve their problems. These end-users have thus different mHealth services' requirements, expectations and perceptions of the Quality of Experience (QoE), including system's usability, efficacy, efficiency and effectiveness. In transdisciplinary research projects, we aim to establish innovate methodologies to demonstrate the value of mHealth improving the QoS, the QoE and ultimately the health outcomes and QoL of its end-users, and thus the social welfare. The QoL group currently contributes to research on mHealth applied in wellbeing, active and healthy ageing and ambient assisted living solutions. The group is lead by Dr Katarzyna Wac.

Quality of Life News

Jun 2012: Quantified Self & Quality of Life Intro Seminar
29.4.2012

11 Jun 2012, 18.15, Battelle A, RdC, Seminar co-organized by Clement Charles (Quantified Self Labs, Geneva) and Dr. Katarzyna Wac (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Jun 2012: "Future Internet for eHealth" Dagstuhl Seminar
24.5.2011

3-6 Jun 2012, Dagstuhl Seminar co-organized by Prof. Dr. Paolo Bonato (Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, USA), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Fiedler (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden), Prof. David Hausheer (TU Darmstadt, Germany) and Dr. Katarzyna Wac (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

May 2012: ACM SIGCHI CHI Conference Course
11.12.2011

5-10 May 2012, Katarzyna Wac is teaching a course on Methodology for Evaluating Experience of Mobile Applications Used in Different Contexts of Daily Life at the ACM SIGCHI CHI conference in Austin, Texas, USA.