Finalized PhD Projects

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.