PhD Projects

This project aims to design behaviour change interventions to promote behaviour paths that reduce the risk of infection and contagion or to add barriers to the performance of infection and contagion risk-related behaviours in the context of nursing homes.

Chronical conditions are expected to account for 60% or the global burden of diseases by 2020 [1]. This project addresses a class of chronical diseases related to the thyroid gland with the aim to improve the diagnostics and treatment process of thyroid patients.

This PhD project aims to investigate the impact of data visualization and interface design in a ’double-loop’ PHR, i.e. by looking at data visualization and interaction from both the patient and providers point of view.

Chronic sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a significant health condition, which is time consuming and expensive to diagnose. This project aims to design and clinically validate a simple monitoring systems for chronic sleep disorders.

For individuals with motor disabilities, gaze-control can be implemented into a telepresence robot, which provides the feeling of presence, in order to promote their participation in social interactions and enhance their communication quality.

According to WHO, depression is becoming a leading cause of disability. The RADMIS project seeks to design smartphone-based monitoring and treatment technology for depressive patients. The goal is to establish the efficacy of this technology by measuring re-admission and clinical outcome.

Body Age calculation has become a frequently used health tool. This project investigates the use of Body Age technologies and explores its potential as a reliable health technology in the prevention of lifestyle related diseases.

Healthcare Design for Collaborative Care aims to investigate how technology and services in collaborative healthcare can be designed in such a way that digital and human-centered treatment models can ensure better and more effective treatment of the chronic patient group.

A physically active lifestyle during pregnancy has enormous potential to improve maternal and child health. This PhD project investigates how to implement physical activity in pregnant women´s everyday life, and whether physical activity affects health of the pregnant women and their offspring, by testing the efficacy of two very different exercise programs during pregnancy.

The research project FitMum will generate evidence about how to implement physical activity in pregnant women’s everyday life by testing the efficacy of two very different exercise programs on physical activity levels during pregnancy.

This PhD project will investigate 1) the validity of commercial PA tracker by comparing their data with doubly labelled water (DLW) and pregnancy physical activity questionnaire PPAQ. 2) Will examine the Effects of FitMum PA intervention on sleep quantity and quality as determined by activity trackers. 3) Effects of FitMum RCT on PA level of mothers in one year after delivery.

In this PhD project, a novel miniaturized device - the InstaPatch - for instantaneous and quantitative monitoring of allergic reactions in the skin will be developed.

The feedback from activity monitors is suggested to facilitate result driven behavioural change through education, motivation, gamification and goal setting, but creating new and healthier habits among elderly is a complex process with a lot of unanswered questions.

Among patients with chronic medical diseases, patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are among those with the poorest prognosis despite advances in medical therapy. This project explores the use of continuous monitoring of vital signs for early detection of critical deteriorations in patients with exacerbation of COPD.

There is an undeniable increase of behaviour related challenges in society rooted in poor choice of behaviour, and the inability of conventional approaches to tackle them.

The objective of this project is to develop a mechanism to detect fatigue via eye-tracking measures

This project uses new technology to determine whether increased listening effort is associated with cognitive function, and to investigate how to integrate this new tool at point-of-care in dementia and hearing care settings.

Sharing personal data about daily behaviours and mental health can be useful for communication, peer-support and science, but such disclosure may also bring negative consequences. How can we design open-access platforms that are beneficial for individuals and society?

It has been shown that craniofacial features are predictive of OSA, and a diagnostic system based on craniofacial images would offer a cheap and efficient alternative to the PSG.

Cardiovascular diseases predispose to cognitive impairment and dementia as reduced cardiac output will lead to cerebral hypoperfusion which makes the brain more prone for dementia development. Electrocardiography (ECG) has low cost and is the standard initial test for cardiac examination and is performed in a large part of the population, either due to other reasons or as part in a routine health check-up

People with severe mental illness (SMI) die 10-20 years earlier than the general population. People with SMI have a higher prevalence of physical comorbidities than the general population.

Automatic analysis of sleep patterns has the potential to efficiently diagnose sleep disorders such as REM sleep behavior disorder, a precursor of Parkinson’s disease. Early and efficient diagnosis is therefore essential to identify patients at high risk of developing overt neurogenerative disease.