Finalized PhD Projects

A physically active lifestyle during pregnancy has enormous potential to improve maternal and child health. This PhD project investigated 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.

How are mHealth-apps being attuned to children and young people that live with chronic diseases?
While studies have provided insights into the complexities of introducing mHealth to adult patients, little is known about how mHealth makes sense with minors and how mHealth can be designed to resonate with everyday living of this group.

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

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?

Investigating the feasibility of a speech-enabled conversational agent to support the self-report of mental health and well-being.

Can contextualized ECG data collected (via Mobile Health Technology) under free-living conditions help improve ambulatory arrhythmia monitoring and diagnosis?

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.

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.

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.

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

Computer- and Smartphone-based Assessment of Cognitive Functioning in Affective Disorders in Young People.

Smartphone-based biomarkers in patients with bipolar disorder, unaffected relatives, and control individuals

Hearing impairment is a growing health- and wellbeing challenge both at a personal and a societal level. This project explores the use of hearing aids, smartphones and mobile devices to personalise hearing aids to the individual.

The first phase of the project focuses on gathering information to understand the needs of the dementia care network and relating these to functionality offered by existing smart wearables. An outcome from this will be a basic prototype (adapted smartwatch) to be used by people with dementia over several months in a collection of case studies.

Increase of sedentary behaviour and obesity has been on the rise for a score of years or more, despite public information campaigns and even the incursion of the latest fad, fitness trackers. The latter were by industry heralded as life–changers that by simple mechanisms would change the behaviour of the wearer to be more active and more healthy.

With an increasingly older population and a shrinking work force, there is a need to streamline the available resources. By using wearable sensors to monitor a patient’s condition, the resources of medical staff can be used more effectively on more demanding tasks than simple surveillance.

Smartphones provide a unique platform for monitoring and treatment of depression and mania.