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Department of Informatics People and Computing Lab

Using the Past to Inform the Future

In this ongoing project, we explore the benefit of seeing analogous past situations for informed chronic disease management decision-making. Decision-making based on an assessment of one’s current situation and experience is essential in chronic disease self-management, such as T1D self-management.

Motivation: By showing individuals with T1D similar past situations including their future progression, technologies could support patients in making informed decisions, ultimately improving their health outcomes.

Problem: T1D self-management decision-making is particularly difficult as effective management depends on a multitude of interdependent factors, including food intake, stress, and insulin use. While most individuals with T1D rely on their experiences for in the moment decision-making, human memory is often limited and biased. This may lead to misinformed decision-making and poorer health outcomes.

Goal: Create a digital health technology and VA solution that allows an interactive and personalized search for  similar past situations to support patients’ in situ decision-making based on facts rather than memory.

Approach: In this project, we develop applications that find the most similar past situations based on the multitude of factors involved in a patient’s self-management. To account for individual differences regarding the importance and effect of factors affecting a patient’s blood glucose levels, we allow patients to adapt the weights given to factors by our algorithm.

Contact

Interested in this Project or an idea related to this project?

Please contact Clara-Maria Barth

Open Projects

Open Master Project:

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Open Master Thesis

This would be a thesis either on design of a mobile application or implementation of a mobile application. For more details please contact cbarth@ifi.uzh.ch