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2023
1. Mair JL, Salamanca-Sanabria A, Augsburger M, Frese BF, Abend S, Jakob R, Kowatsch T, Haug S. Effective Behavior Change Techniques in Digital Health Interventions for the Prevention or Management of Noncommunicable Diseases: An Umbrella Review. Ann Behav Med. 2023 Sep 13;57(10):817-835. Link.
2. Lin X, Martinengo L, Jabir AI, Ho AHY, Car J, Atun R, Tudor Car L. Scope, Characteristics, Behavior Change Techniques, and Quality of Conversational Agents for Mental Health and Well-Being: Systematic Assessment of Apps. J Med Internet Res. 2023 Jul 18;25:e45984. Link.
3. Ng MSP, Jabir AI, Ng TR, Ang YI, Chia JL, Tan DNH, Lee J, Mahendran DCJ, Tudor Car L, Chia CLK. Evaluating TESLA-G, a gamified, telegram-delivered, quizzing platform for surgical education in medical students: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2023 Jun 28;13(6):e068740. Link.
4. Mair JL, Aguiar EJ, Stamatakis E, Edney SM. Moving Toward the Inclusion of Step-Based Metrics in Physical Activity Guidelines and Surveillance. J Phys Act Health. 2023 Jun 6;20(7):575-577. Link.
5. Castro O, Mair JL, Salamanca-Sanabria A, Alattas A, Keller R, Zheng S, Jabir A, Lin X, Frese BF, Lim CS, Santhanam P, van Dam RM, Car J, Lee J, Tai ES, Fleisch E, von Wangenheim F, Tudor Car L, Müller-Riemenschneider F, Kowatsch T. Development of “LvL UP 1.0”: a smartphone-based, conversational agent-delivered holistic lifestyle intervention for the prevention of non-communicable diseases and common mental disorders. Front Digit Health. 2023 May 10;5:1039171. Link.
6. Zheng S, Edney SM, Mair JL, Kowatsch T, Castro O, Salamanca-Sanabria A, Müller-Riemenschneider F. Holistic mHealth interventions for the promotion of healthy ageing: protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open. 2023 May 2;13(5):e066662. Link.
7. Mair JL, Castro O, Salamanca-Sanabria A, Frese BF, von Wangenheim F, Tai ES, Kowatsch T, Müller-Riemenschneider F. Exploring the potential of mobile health interventions to address behavioural risk factors for the prevention of non-communicable diseases in Asian populations: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health. 2023 Apr 24;23(1):753. Link.
8. Jabir AI, Martinengo L, Lin X, Torous J, Subramaniam M, Tudor Car L. Evaluating Conversational Agents for Mental Health: Scoping Review of Outcomes and Outcome Measurement Instruments. J Med Internet Res. 2023 Apr 19;25:e44548. Link.
9. Salamanca-Sanabria A, Jabir AI, Lin X, Alattas A, Kocaballi AB, Lee J, Kowatsch T, Tudor Car L. Exploring the Perceptions of mHealth Interventions for the Prevention of Common Mental Disorders in University Students in Singapore: Qualitative Study. J Med Internet Res. 2023 Mar 20;25:e44542. Link.
10. Keller R, Spanu A, Puhan MA, Flahault A, Lovis C, Mütsch M, Beau-Lejdstrom R. Social media and internet search data to inform drug utilization: A systematic scoping review. Front Digit Health. 2023 Mar 20;5:1074961. Link.
11. Ollier J, Suryapalli P, Fleisch E, von Wangenheim F, Mair JL, Salamanca-Sanabria A, Kowatsch T. Can digital health researchers make a difference during the pandemic? Results of the single-arm, chatbot-led Elena+: Care for COVID-19 interventional study. Front Public Health. 2023 Aug 25;11:1185702. Link.
2022
1. Jakob, R., Harperink, S., Rudolf, A.M., Fleisch, E., Haug, S., Mair, J., Salamanca-Sanabria, A., Kowatsch, T., (2022) Factors Influencing Adherence to mHealth Apps for Prevention or Management of Non-communicable Disease: A Systematic Review, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) 24(5):e35371. Link. [PDF]
2. Keller, R., Hartmann, S., Teepe, G., Lohse, K.M., Alattas, A., Tudor Car, L., Müller-Riemenschneider, F., von Wangenheim, F., Mair, J., Kowatsch, T., (2022) Digital Behavior Change Interventions for the Prevention and Management of Type 2 Diabetes: Systematic Market Analysis, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) 24(1):e33348 , Link [PDF]
3. Lukic, Y., Teepe, G., Fleisch, E., Kowatsch, T., (2022) Breathing as an Input Modality in a Gameful Breathing Training App (Breeze 2): Development and Evaluation Study, JMIR Serious Games 2022;10(3):e39186 Link.
4. Ollier, J.B., Suryapalli, P., Fleisch, E., von Wangenheim, F., Mair, J., Salamanca-Sanabria, A., Kowatsch, T., (2022) Can digital health researchers make a difference during the pandemic? Results of the chatbot-led Elena+: Care for COVID-19 intervention, JMIR Preprints 21/07/2022:41300 Link.
5. Ollier, J.B., Mishra, R., Mair, J., Salamanca-Sanabria, A., Fleisch, E., von Wangenheim, F., Kowatsch, T., (2022) Mass market health: demographic and psychographic drivers of participant recruitment of digital health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, JMIR Preprints 21/07/2022:41296.
6. Salamanca-Sanabria, A., Castro, O., Alattas, A., Teepe, G., Leidenberger, K., Fleisch, E., Tudor Car, L., Müller-Riemenschneider, F., Kowatsch, T., (2022) Top-Funded Companies Offering Digital Health Interventions for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression: A Systematic Market Analysis, Journal of Medical Internet Research Preprints 04/07/2022:40754 Link.
2021
2. Keller, R., Yao, J., Teepe, G., Hartmann, S., Lohse, K.M., von Wangenheim, F., Müller-Riemenschneider, F., Mair, J., Kowatsch, T., (2021) Are Conversational Agents Used at Scale by Companies Offering Digital Health Services for the Management and Prevention of Diabetes?, In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2021) – Volume 5: HEALTHINF, 811-816 ISBN: 978-989-758-490-9 ISSN: 2184-4305, Visual Abstract by R. Keller. [PDF]
3. Kowatsch, T., Shih, I., Lukic, Y., Keller, O., Heldt, K., Durrer, D., Stasinaki, A., Büchter, D., Brogle, B., Farpour-Lambert, N., l’Allemand, D., (2021) A Playful Smartphone-based Self-regulation Training for the Prevention and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Obesity: Technical Feasibility and Perceptions of Young Patients, 1st Workshop on Healthy Interfaces (HEALTHI), collocated with the 26th ACM Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) – Where HCI meets AI, Virtually Hosted by Texas A&M University, April 13-17, 2021, College Station, USA. [PDF]
4. Lukic, Y., Klein, S., Brügger, V., Keller, O., Fleisch, E., Kowatsch, T., (2021) The Impact of a Gameful Breathing Training Visualization on Intrinsic Experiential Value, Perceived Effectiveness, and Engagement Intentions: Between-Subject Online Experiment, JMIR Serious Games 9(3):e22803, 10.2196/22803, Visual Abstract by Y. Lukic. [PDF]
5. Lukic, Y., Shih, I., Hernández, Á., Cotti, A., Fleisch, E., Kowatsch, T., (2021) Physiological Responses and User Feedback on a Gameful Breathing Training App: Within-Subject Experiment, JMIR Serious Games 2021;9(1):e22802 10.2196/22802. [PDF]
6. Ollier, J.B., Neff, S., Dworschak, C., Sejdiji, A., Santhanam, P., Keller, R., Xiao, G., Asisof, A., Rüegger, D., Bérubé, C., Hilfiker Tomas, L., Neff, J., Yao, J., Alattas, A., Varela-Mato, V., Pitkethly, A., Vara, M.D., Herrero, R., Baños, R.M., Parada, C., Agatheswaran, R.S., Villalobos, V., Keller, O., Chan, W.S., Mishra, V., Jacobson, N.C., Stanger, C., He, X., von Wyl, V., Weidt, S., Haug, S., Schaub, M.P., Kleim, B., Barth, J., Witt, C., Scholz, U., Fleisch, E., von Wangenheim, F., Tudor Car, L., Müller-Riemenschneider, F., Hauser-Ulrich, S., Núñez Asomoza, A., Salamanca-Sanabria, A., Mair, J., Kowatsch, T., (2021) Elena Care for COVID-19, a Pandemic Lifestyle Care Intervention: Intervention Design and Study Protocol, Frontiers in Public Health, 9(1543), 10.3389/fpubh.2021.625640, Guest Lecture by J. Ollier, Project Page . [PDF]
7. Stasinaki, A., Büchter, D., Shih, I., Heldt, K., Güsewell, S., Brogle, B., Farpour-Lambert, N., Kowatsch, T., l’Allemand, D., (2021) Effects of a novel mobile health intervention compared to a multi-component behaviour changing program on body mass index, physical capacities and stress parameters in adolescents with obesity: a randomized controlled trial, BMC Pediatrics 21 (308), 10.1186/s12887-021-02781-2. [PDF]
8. Stieger, M., Flückiger, C., Rüegger, D., Kowatsch, T., Roberts, B.W., Allemand, M., (2021) Changing Personality Traits with the Help of a Digital Personality Change Intervention, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 118(8):e2017548118 10.1073/pnas.2017548118 (Preprint: 10.31234/osf.io/sur2j).
9. Teepe, G., Da Fonseca, A., Kleim, B., Jacobson, N.C., Salamanca-Sanabria, A., Tudor Car, L., Fleisch, E., Kowatsch, T., (2021) Just-in-Time Adaptive Mechanisms of Popular Mobile Apps for Individuals With Depression: Systematic App Search and Literature Review, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) 23(9):e29412, 10.2196/29412, Visual Abstract by G. Teepe. [PDF]
2020
1. Schachner, T., Keller, R., von Wangenheim, F., (2020) Artificial Intelligence-Based Conversational Agents for Chronic Conditions: Systematic Literature Review, Journal of Medical Internet Research;22(9):e20701, doi.org/10.2196/20701. [PDF]
2. Tudor Car, L., Dhinagaran, D.A., Kyaw, B.M., Kowatsch, T., Joty, S.R., Theng, Y.L., Atun, R., (2020) Conversational Agents in Health Care: A Scoping Review and Conceptual Analysis , Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(8):e17158, doi.org/10.2196/17158. [PDF]
2019
1. Shih, I., Tomita, N., Lukic, Y., Hernández, Á., Fleisch, E., Kowatsch, T., (2019) Breeze: Smartphone-based Acoustic Real-time Detection of Breathing Phases for a Gamified Biofeedback Breathing Training, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 3(4): Paper 152 10.1145/3369835. [PDF]
2016
1. Shih, I., Kowatsch, T., Tinschert, P., Barata, F., Nißen, M.K., (2016) Towards The Design of a Smartphone-Based Biofeedback Breathing Training: Identifying Diaphragmatic Breathing Patterns from a Smartphone’s Microphone, Proc. of the 10th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS), Paphos, Cyprus. [PDF]