The Science behind it
2022
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 , 10.2196/33348. [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 10.2196/39186.
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 10.2196/preprints.41300.
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 10.2196/preprints.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 preprints.jmir.org/preprint/40754.
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]