The QoL research spans across the areas of mHealth applied in Wellbeing, Active and Healthy Ageing and Ambient Assited Living (AAL), as well as QoS/QoE in mobile computing and communications:

Current Research Projects

• European Ambient Assisted Living project A Pervasive Guardian for Elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairments (AAL-MyGuardian) (AAL-2011-4-x) (2012-2015)
• European Ambient Assisted Living project Way Finding Seniors (AAL-WayFiS) (AAL-2010-3-014) (2011-2013)
• European Ambient Assisted Living project TRAINing and NUTRItion senior social platform (AAL-TraiNutri) (AAL-2009-2-129) (2010-2012)
• Tele-Ultrasonography (TeleUSG)
• Tele-monitoring and Tele-treatment of Chronic Obtrusive Pulmonary Disease (COPD24)
• Body Area Network for Emotional State Assessment and Feedback (emoBAN)
• Quality of Service-Information System (QoSIS) (since 2009)
• European COST Action Wireless Networking for Moving Objects (WiNeMo-IC0906) (2010-2014)
• European COST Action European Network on Quality of Experience in Multimedia Systems and Services (QualiNet-IC1003) (2010-2014)

Participation in Past Projects

• European COST Action Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA-IC07003) (2008-2012)
• Swiss project on Monitoring and Analysis of Wireless Networks for a QoS-Prediction Service (SER-C08.0025) (2009-2011)
• Dr Katarzyna Wac Fellowship on Context-aware Performance Management for Mobile Services (SNSF-PBGEP2-125917) (2009-2010)
• US NSF FieldStream - Network Data Services for Exposure Biology Studies in Natural Environments project (US-NSF-0910754) (Dr Katarzyna Wac contributed to it along the academic year 2009-2010)
• European PlayMancer project (FP7-INFSO-ICT-215839) (2007-2010)
• Dutch Freeband AWARENESS project (BSIK-5902390) (2004-2006) epilepsy scenario movie
• European INTEROP Network of Excellence (FP6-IST-2003-508011) (2003-2006)
• European MobiHealth project (FP5-IST-2001-36006) (2002-2004), see the interview with Prof. D. Konstantas managing the MobiHealth project and chronic pain scenario movie by the MobiHealth BV start-up company

Currently Used Wearable Sensor Systems

Q Sensor, Affectiva Inc., USA

SenseWear, BodyMedia Inc., USA

Fitbit, Fitbit Inc., USA

Heart Rate Monitor, Polar, Finland

PiKo-1 Lung Health Monitor, nSpire Health, USA

Additionally: standard glucose meter, sphygmomanometer (blood pressure meter) and skin temperature sensor.

Standardization

We follow the technology standardization activities carried out in the Telecommunication Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) via the ITU Technology Watch.

Current Collaborations

Prof. Anind K. Dey, Ubicomp Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler, Service d'Informatique Médicale, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Switzerland

Prof. David Hausheer, Technischen Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden

Dr. Maria Toledo-Rodriguez, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom