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Quantifying Quality of Life

Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine

  • Describes technological methods and tools for objective and quantitative assessment of QoL

  • Appraises technology-enabled methods for incorporating QoL measurements in medicine

  • Highlights the success factors for adoption and scaling of technology-enabled methods

Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Unfolding the Quantification of Quality of Life

      • Sharon Wulfovich, Jeppe Buur, Katarzyna Wac
      Pages 3-24Open Access
  3. Physical Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
    2. Monitoring Technologies for Quantifying Medication Adherence

      • Murtadha Aldeer, Mehdi Javanmard, Jorge Ortiz, Richard Martin
      Pages 49-78Open Access
    3. Quantifying Mobility in Quality of Life

      • Nancy E. Mayo, Kedar K. V. Mate
      Pages 119-136Open Access
    4. Technologies for Quantifying Sleep: Improved Quality of Life or Overwhelming Gadgets?

      • Sirinthip Roomkham, Bernd Ploderer, Simon Smith, Dimitri Perrin
      Pages 151-164Open Access
    5. Improving Work Capacity and HRQoL: The Role of QoL Technologies

      • Joan Julia Branin
      Pages 165-185Open Access
  4. Psychological Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
    2. Your Smartphone Knows you Better than you May Think: Emotional Assessment ‘on the Go’ Via TapSense

      • Surjya Ghosh, Johanna Löchner, Bivas Mitra, Pradipta De
      Pages 209-267Open Access
    3. The Elusive Quantification of Self-Esteem: Current Challenges and Future Directions

      • Stefano De Dominicis, Erica Molinario
      Pages 269-290Open Access
    4. Yoga and Meditation for Self-Empowered Behavior and Quality of Life

      • Gerlinde Kristahn
      Pages 291-317Open Access
  5. Social Relationships

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 371-371
    2. The Influence of Technology on the Assessment and Conceptualization of Social Support

      • John F. Hunter, Nickolas M. Jones, Desiree Delgadillo, Benjamin Kaveladze
      Pages 373-394Open Access

About this book

This open access book presents the rise of technology-enabled methods and tools for objective, quantitative assessment of Quality of Life (QoL), while following the WHOQOL model. It is an in-depth resource describing and examining state-of-the-art, minimally obtrusive, ubiquitous technologies. Highlighting the required factors for adoption and scaling of technology-enabled methods and tools for QoL assessment, it also describes how these technologies can be leveraged for behavior change, disease prevention, health management and long-term QoL enhancement in populations at large.

 

Quantifying Quality of Life: Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine fills a gap in the field of QoL by providing assessment methods, techniques and tools. These assessments differ from the current methods that are now mostly infrequent, subjective, qualitative, memory-based, context-poor and sparse. Therefore, it is an ideal resource for physicians, physicians in training, software and hardware developers, computer scientists, data scientists, behavioural scientists, entrepreneurs, healthcare leaders and administrators who are seeking an up-to-date resource on this subject.

Keywords

  • Quality of life
  • Behaviour Informatics
  • Self-esteem
  • Mobility
  • Physical environment
  • Open Access

Editors and Affiliations

  • Geneva School of Economics and Management, Center for Informatics, Quality of Life Technologies Lab, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Katarzyna Wac

  • School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA

    Sharon Wulfovich

About the editors

Katarzyna Wac, PhD, is since 2020 a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Geneva (CH), as well as Invited Professor of Human-Centred Computing at the Department of Computer Science (DIKU), University of Copenhagen (DK). She was affiliated with Stanford University and Medical Centre between 2013-2020. She leads the Quality of Life (QoL) Technologies lab at the University of Geneva. Her research leverages new emerging mixed models at the interface between the computer and social sciences incorporating examination, diagnosis and treatment of daily life as an “organ” – much like a cardiologist examines heart - and the resulting Quality of Life as a "vital sign" - routinely reported for patients and non-patients alike. Her research appears in more than 150 peer-reviewed proceedings and journals in computer science, human-computer interaction and health informatics, and in 2018 she co-edited a book on Digital Health. She is a (co)-PI in several European (including H2020, Horizon Europe), Swiss National Science Foundation projects and Stanford Medicine projects. She contributes to the ITU European Regional Initiative for mHealth. In 2015 she was a TEDMED Research Scholar. Since 2017, she is an Associate Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine. She is also a Senior Member of ACM and as well as of IEEE. She as well advises industry, and, as her research attracted considerable attention nationally and internationally, she is regularly interviewed in the mass media. More details at qualityoflifetechnologies.org.

 

Sharon Wulfovich is a current medical student at UC San Diego School of Medicine  (class of 2022). She  graduated from Stanford University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in Human Biology. Sharon has been involved in the digital health field for many years. She worked as a Digital Health Fellow at the Stanford Department of Surgery and co-created the first telemedicine class at Stanford University entitled “Close Encounters, Distance Learning by Telemedicine”. Additionally, Sharon has published multiple papers in the digital health field and is one of the co-editors of the book Digital Health Entrepreneurship. Her research is primarily focused on telemedicine, digital health, health innovation and entrepreneurship.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quantifying Quality of Life

  • Book Subtitle: Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine

  • Editors: Katarzyna Wac, Sharon Wulfovich

  • Series Title: Health Informatics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94212-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94211-3Published: 14 April 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94214-4Published: 14 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94212-0Published: 13 April 2022

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1917

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 602

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Informatics, Quality of Life Research, Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology

Buying options

Softcover Book USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
Hardcover Book USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)