Publications


2022

TripletCough: Cougher Identification and Verification from Contact-Free Smartphone-Based Audio Recordings Using Metric Learning
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, February 2022.
Jokic, S.+, Cleres, D., Rassouli, F., Steurer-Stey, C., Puhan, M.A., Brutsche, M., Fleisch, E., Barata, F.+ (+First and last author contributed equally.)
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2021

FLIRT: A feature generation toolkit for wearable data
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, November 2021.
Föll, S., Maritsch, M., Spinola, F., Mishra, V., Barata, F. , Kowatsch, T., Fleisch, F., Wortmann, F.
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Lena: a Voice-Based Conversational Agent for Remote Patient Monitoring in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
In Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2021 Workshops, co-located with 26th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2021), July 2021.
Cleres, D., Rassouli, F., Brutsche, M., Kowatsch, T., and Barata, F.
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Voice-Based Conversational Agents for the Prevention and Management of Chronic and Mental Health Conditions: Systematic Literature Review
Journal of Medical Internet Research, March 2021.
Bérubé, C., Schachner, T., Keller, R., Fleisch, E., v Wangenheim, F., Barata, F.+, and Kowatsch, T.+ (+co-last authors)
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Conversational Agents as Mediating Social Actors in Chronic Disease Management Involving Health Care Professionals, Patients, and Family Members: Multisite Single- Arm Feasibility Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research, February 2021.
Kowatsch, T., Schachner, T., Harperink, S., Barata, F., Dittler, U., Xiao, G., Stanger, C., v Wangenheim, F., Fleisch, E., and Oswald, H.
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2020

Enabling a Digital Biomarker for Asthma—Smartphone Contact-Free Audio-Based Nocturnal Cough Monitoring
ETH Zurich, October 2020.
Barata, F. (Dissertation)
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Smartphone-based cough detection predicts asthma control – description of a novel, scalable digital biomarker
In 2020 ERS International Congress, in session “Respiratory viruses in the “pre COVID-19” era”, September 2020.
Tinschert, P., Rassouli, F., Barata, F., Steurer-Stey, C., Fleisch, E., Puhan, M., Kowatsch, T., and Brutsche, M.H.
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The anatomy of asthma-related nocturnal cough – a potential new digital biomarker
In 2020 ERS International Congress, in session “Respiratory viruses in the “pre COVID-19” era”, September 2020.
Rassouli, F., Tinschert, P., Barata, F., Steurer-Stey, C., Fleisch, E., Puhan, M., Kowatsch, T., and Brutsche, M.H.
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Characteristics of Asthma-related Nocturnal Cough: A Potential New Digital Biomarker
Journal of Asthma and Allergy, September 2020.
Rassouli, F., Tinschert, P., Barata, F., Steurer-Stey, C., Fleisch, E., Puhan, M.A., Kowatsch, T., and Brutsche, M.H.
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Nocturnal cough and sleep quality to assess asthma control and predict attacks
Journal of Asthma and Allergy, August 2020.
Tinschert, P., Rassouli, F., Barata, F., Steurer-Stey, C., Fleisch, E., Puhan, M.A., Kowatsch, T., and Brutsche, M.H.
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Automatic Recognition, Segmentation, and Sex Assignment of Nocturnal Asthmatic Coughs and Cough Epochs in Smartphone Audio Recordings: Observational Field Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research, July 2020.
Barata, F., Tinschert, P., Rassouli, F., Steurer-Stey, C., Fleisch, E., Puhan, M.A., Brutsche, M., Kotz, D., and Kowatsch, T.
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2019

Towards device-agnostic mobile cough detection with convolutional neural networks
In IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), June 2019.
Barata, F., Kipfer, K., Weber, M., Tinschert, P., Fleisch, E., and Kowatsch, T.
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Don’t Lose Heart: Preliminary Engagement Results in an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Study Evaluating Digital Biomarkers for Asthma
In 10th International Society for Research on Internet Interventions Scientific Meeting (ISRII 2019), February 2019.
Tinschert, P., Barata, F., Kramer, J.-N., Rassouli, F., Steurer-Stey, C., Puhan, M.A., Brutsche, M.H., and Kowatsch, T.
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Prevalence of nocturnal cough in asthma and its potential as a marker for asthma control (MAC) in combination with sleep quality: protocol of a smartphone-based, multicentre, longitudinal observational study with two stages
BMJ open, January 2019.
Tinschert, P., Rassouli, F., Barata, F., Steurer-Stey, C., Fleisch, E., Puhan, M.A., Brutsche, M., and Kowatsch, T.
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2018

Smartphone-based Cough and Sleep Quality Detection
In Applied Machine Learning Days 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 2018.
Barata, F., Kipfer, K., Weber, M., Tinschert, P., Fleisch, E., and Kowatsch, T.
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2017

Text-based healthcare chatbots supporting patient and health professional teams: Preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial on childhood obesity’,
In Persuasive Embodied Agents for Behavior Change (PEACH2017) Workshop, co-located with the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2017), August 2017.
Kowatsch, T., Nißen, M., Shih, C.-H.I., Rüegger, D., Volland, D., Filler, A., Künzler, F., Barata, F., Büchter, D., and Brogle, B.
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The potential of mobile apps for improving asthma self-management: a review of publicly available and well-adopted asthma apps
JMIR mHealth and uHealth, August 2017.
Tinschert, P., Jakob, R., Barata, F., Kramer, J.-N., and Kowatsch, T.
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Design and evaluation of a mobile chat app for the open source behavioral health intervention platform MobileCoach
In International Conference on Design Science Research in Information System and Technology, May 2017.
Kowatsch, T., Nißen, M., Shih, C.-H.I., Rüegger, D., Volland, D., Filler, A., Künzler, F., Barata, F., Büchter, D., and Brogle, B.
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Enhancing asthma control through IT: design, implementation and planned evaluation of the mobile asthma companion
In Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), St. Gallen, Switzterland, February 2017.
Tinschert, P., Barata, F., and Kowatsch, T.
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Self-Learning Digital Health Interventions: How to Learn from Personal Data with an Application to Cough Monitoring
In Applied Machine Learning Days 2017, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 2017.
Barata, F., Tinschert, P., Chiesa, G., Elser, N., Kowatsch, T., and Fleisch, E.
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2016

Towards the design of a smartphone-based biofeedback breathing training: identifying diaphragmatic breathing patterns from a smartphone’s microphone
In 10th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, October 2016.
Shih, C.-H.I., Kowatsch, T., Tinschert, P., Barata, F., and Nißen, M.K.
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Personal MobileCoach: tailoring behavioral interventions to the needs of individual participants
In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Adjunct, September 2016.
Barata, F., Kowatsch, T., Tinschert, P., and Filler, A.
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