Quality of Life

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Katarzyna Wac is a senior scientist at the Institute of Services Science (ISS) of University of Geneva (UniGE) and leader of the Quality of Life (QoL) research area since 2010. She holds a BSc and MSc degree in Computer Science from Wroclaw University of Technology (WUT) (Poland), an MSc in Telematics from University of Twente (UT) (the Netherlands), as well as a PhD in Information Systems from University of Geneva (Switzerland). From 2003-2004, Ms. Wac was a research staff member at University of Twente. In 2005 she joined University of Geneva as a research and teaching assistant, while keeping her affiliation with the University of Twente. From 2007-2010, Ms. Wac was also affiliated with the MobiHealth BV start-up company. In 2009-2010, Ms. Wac was on leave for a one-year SNSF Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (USA), Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII). Ms. Wac's research interests include Quality of Service-aware mobile systems and services with special emphasis on support of adaptive multimedia protocols and Quality of Service mechanisms, especially in the mobile healthcare (i.e., mHealth) domain. Ms. Wac strives towards effective and efficient pervasive mobile computing and communication - meeting the end-user Quality of Service requirements and Quality of Experience expectations. Ms. Wac is an Associate Expert of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) European Regional Initiative for mHealth.

Professional Activities

Katarzyna Wac is a Session Chair of:

• IEEE ICC 2011 Business Forum on eHealth Support in the Future Internet - Viable Business Models for Quality of Service Assurance (ICC 2011)
• Adaptive Services Session (eHealth Application Domain), Future Internet Assembly Workshops, May 2011, Budapest (FIA Budapest 2011) (commented in the FP7 SESERV project's FISE conversation)

Katarzyna Wac is a Technical Program Committee member of:

• International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Instrumentation (UbiMI) collocated with the 14th International ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2012)
• International Workshop on Recommender Technologies for Lifestyle Change (Lifestyle12) collocated with the 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012)
• International Conference on Future Internet and Communications (BCFIC 2012)
• International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2012)
• 9th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2012)
• International Workshop on Wireless Body Area Networks for mHealth (WiBAN 2012), collocated with The International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2012)
• International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Special Session on Ambient Assisted Living (Ami 2011)
• 7th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2011)
• 2th and 3rd International Conference on Serious Gaming (GameDays 2011, GameDays 2012) and
• 6th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets 2011)
• 14th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2011)
• ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010, 2011, 2012)
• International Conference on e-Health Services and Technologies (ICEHST 2011)
• Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous Systems (ADAMUS 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), in 2007 and 2008 colocated with the IEEE Int. Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), in 2009 and 2010 collocated with the the ACM International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2009, 2010), and in 2011 is colocated with the 41st Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2011)
• 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010)
• Workshop on Bio-inspired Models and Technologies for Ambient Information Society (BioAmbIS 2010)
• International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2009, 2010) organized in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2009 and IEEE PerCom 2010
• International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2008, 2009, 2010)
• International Conference on User Centric Media (UCMedia 2009)
• 3rd and 5th International Workshop on Context-Aware Mobile Systems (CAMS 2007, 2009) organized in conjunction with the OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM 2007, 2009)
• International Conference on Mobile Business (MBUSINESS 2008)
• International Workshop on Mobile Services and Personalized Environments (MSPE 2006)

Katarzyna Wac is also a reviewer for:

• IEEE Communications Magazine
• International Journal of Medical Informatics (Elsevier)
• Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Communications Journal (for tele-medicine and tele-health area)
• IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
• International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (Hindawi Publishers)
• European Transactions on Telecommunications

Professional Affiliations

Katarzyna Wac is a member of:

• International Telecommunication Union (ITU), European Regional Initiative for mHealth (Ms. Wac is an Associate Expert of ITU for mHealth)
• International Society for Ambulatory Assessment of Human Psychophysiology (SAA)
• Association for Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIMR)
• Humaine Association (emotion-research)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• World Future Society (WFS) and Futuristic Club of Amsterdam (CoA)
• European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS) and International Federation of University Women (IFUW)