Research

Our research involves building human-centered AI systems that combine mobile and wearable computing, and AI to advance health, education, and justice 

Project: WARAM: Wearable AI for Rheumatoid Arthritis (Link)
Funding: CHF 130K from SNF (Spark Grant) and Pfizer Rheumatology Award

Date: 2023 - Present

This project, which is a research core in the Centre for Digital Health Interventions, aims to develop a digital biomarker for monitoring and predicting disease severity in rheumatoid arthritis patients in daily life using wearable data from smart rings and hand photographs. It is a collaboration between ETH Zurich, the University of Zürich (UZH), and the University Hospital Zurich (USZ).

Project: DyMand: Dyadic Management of Diabetes (Link)

Date: 2018-2022

This project, which was part of the broader SNF Dymand project, developed wearable AI systems for
(1) emotion recognition among couples managing a chronic disease and
(2) detection and capturing dyadic interactions in situ among couples managing chronic diseases. 

It was a collaboration between ETH Zurich and the University of Zürich (UZH). 

Project: AfricEduAI: AI for improving education in  Africa
Funding: CHF 65K grants from ETH4D and the MTEC Foundation

Date: 2022 to 2026

In these projects, we developed and evaluated AI-powered applications in collaboration with Kwame AI for science, computing, and legal education in low-resource settings such as Africa.

• Adesua: AI-powered WhatsApp app for science education in West Africa

• Brilla AI: Open-source project to build an AI to win Ghana’s National Science and Math Quiz competition and democratize preparation towards the competition

• SuaCode: AI-powered smartphone app for teaching coding

• Eskwai for Students: AI-powered web app for legal education in Ghana

Project: Evaluation of Judges’ Use of AI

This project seeks to evaluate the impact of the use of AI by judges in Ghana. It is a collaboration with Kwame AI.