Kowatsch, Tobias

Smartphone use and smartphone addiction among young people in Switzerland

Haug, S., Castro, R. P., Kwon, M., Filler, A., Kowatsch, T., & Schaub, M. P. (2015) · Journal of Behavioral Addictions

Impact of Technology on AdolescentsChild Development and Digital Technology

Cited by 903

Conversational Agents in Health Care: Scoping Review and Conceptual Analysis

Tudor Car, L., Dhinagaran, D. A., Kyaw, B. M., Kowatsch, T., Joty, S., Theng, Y.-L., & Atun, R. (2020) · Journal of Medical Internet Research

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationDigital Mental Health Interventions

Cited by 553

Factors Influencing Adherence to mHealth Apps for Prevention or Management of Noncommunicable Diseases: Systematic Review

Jakob, R., Harperink, S., Rudolf, A. M., Fleisch, E., Haug, S., Mair, J. L., Salamanca-Sanabria, A., & Kowatsch, T. (2022) · Journal of Medical Internet Research

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsDigital Mental Health Interventions

Cited by 446

Blissfully ignorant: the effects of general privacy concerns, general institutional trust, and affect in the privacy calculus

Kehr, F., Kowatsch, T., Wentzel, D., & Fleisch, E. (2015) · Information Systems Journal

Privacy, Security, and Data ProtectionTechnology Adoption and User Behaviour

Cited by 410

Mobile Sensing and Support for People With Depression: A Pilot Trial in the Wild

Wahle, F., Kowatsch, T., Fleisch, E., Rufer, M., & Weidt, S. (2016) · JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Digital Mental Health InterventionsMobile Health and mHealth Applications

Cited by 333

Changing personality traits with the help of a digital personality change intervention

Stieger, M., Flückiger, C., Rüegger, D., Kowatsch, T., Roberts, B. W., & Allemand, M. (2021) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Personality Traits and PsychologyPersonality Disorders and Psychopathology

Cited by 273

A smartphone-based health care chatbot to promote self-management of chronic pain (SELMA): pilot randomized controlled trial

Hauser-Ulrich, S., Künzli, H., Meier-Peterhans, D., & Kowatsch, T. (2020) · JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Digital Mental Health InterventionsMobile Health and mHealth Applications

Cited by 210

The Potential of Mobile Apps for Improving Asthma Self-Management: A Review of Publicly Available and Well-Adopted Asthma Apps

Tinschert, P., Jakob, R., Barata, F., Kramer, J.-N., & Kowatsch, T. (2017) · JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsDigital Mental Health Interventions

Cited by 156

Voice-Based Conversational Agents for the Prevention and Management of Chronic and Mental Health Conditions: Systematic Literature Review

Bérubé, C., Schachner, T., Keller, R., Fleisch, E., v Wangenheim, F., Barata, F., & Kowatsch, T. (2021) · Journal of Medical Internet Research

Digital Mental Health InterventionsMobile Health and mHealth Applications

Cited by 133

Conversational Agents as Mediating Social Actors in Chronic Disease Management Involving Health Care Professionals, Patients, and Family Members: Multisite Single-Arm Feasibility Study

Kowatsch, T., Schachner, T., Harperink, S., Barata, F., Dittler, U., Xiao, G., Stanger, C., v Wangenheim, F., Fleisch, E., Oswald, H., et al. (2021) · Journal of Medical Internet Research

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsDigital Mental Health Interventions

Cited by 103

Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Chat App for the Open Source Behavioral Health Intervention Platform MobileCoach

Kowatsch, T., Volland, D., Shih, I., Rüegger, D., Künzler, F., Barata, F., Filler, A., Büchter, D., Brogle, B., Heldt, K., et al. (2017) · Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsDigital Mental Health Interventions

Cited by 87

Which Components of a Smartphone Walking App Help Users to Reach Personalized Step Goals? Results From an Optimization Trial

Kramer, J.-N., Künzler, F., Mishra, V., Smith, S. N., Kotz, D., Scholz, U., Fleisch, E., & Kowatsch, T. (2020) · Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsPhysical Activity and Health

Cited by 84

Investigating intervention components and exploring states of receptivity for a smartphone app to promote physical activity: Protocol of a microrandomized trial

Kramer, J.-N., Künzler, F., Mishra, V., Presset, B., Kotz, D., Smith, S., Scholz, U., & Kowatsch, T. (2019) · JMIR Research Protocols

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsDigital Mental Health Interventions

Cited by 74

Text-based Healthcare Chatbots Supporting Patient and Health Professional Teams: Preliminary Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial on Childhood Obesity

Kowatsch, T., Nißen, M. K., Shih, C.-H. I., Rüegger, D., Volland, D., Filler, A., Künzler, F., Barata, F., Hung, S., Büchter, D., et al. (2017) · ETH Zurich

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsDigital Mental Health Interventions

Cited by 74

MobileCoach: A novel open source platform for the design of evidence-based, scalable and low-cost behavioral health interventions: Overview and preliminary evaluation in the public health context

Filler, A., Kowatsch, T., Haug, S., Wahle, F., Staake, T., & Fleisch, E. (2015) · 2015 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS)

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsDigital Mental Health Interventions

Cited by 63

Toward the Design of Evidence-Based Mental Health Information Systems for People With Depression: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

Wahle, F., Bollhalder, L., Kowatsch, T., & Fleisch, E. (2017) · Journal of Medical Internet Research

Digital Mental Health InterventionsMobile Health and mHealth Applications

Cited by 48

Hybrid Ubiquitous Coaching With a Novel Combination of Mobile and Holographic Conversational Agents Targeting Adherence to Home Exercises: Four Design and Evaluation Studies

Kowatsch, T., Lohse, K.-M., Erb, V., Schittenhelm, L., Galliker, H., Lehner, R., & Huang, E. M. (2021) · Journal of Medical Internet Research

Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsSocial Robot Interaction and HRI

Cited by 39

Development and Evaluation of a Smartphone-Based Chatbot Coach to Facilitate a Balanced Lifestyle in Individuals With Headaches (BalanceUP App): Randomized Controlled Trial

Ulrich, S., Gantenbein, A. R., Zuber, V., Von Wyl, A., Kowatsch, T., & Künzli, H. (2024) · Journal of Medical Internet Research

Digital Mental Health InterventionsMigraine and Headache Studies

Cited by 36

Towards Wearable-based Hypoglycemia Detection and Warning in Diabetes

Maritsch, M., Föll, S., Lehmann, V., Bérubé, C., Kraus, M., Feuerriegel, S., Kowatsch, T., Züger, T., Stettler, C., Fleisch, E., et al. (2020) · Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Diabetes Management and ResearchNon-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring

Cited by 35

Breathing as an Input Modality in a Gameful Breathing Training App (Breeze 2): Development and Evaluation Study

Lukic, Y. X., Teepe, G. W., Fleisch, E., & Kowatsch, T. (2022) · JMIR Serious Games

Digital Mental Health InterventionsMobile Health and mHealth Applications

Cited by 32

Engagement With a Relaxation and Mindfulness Mobile App Among People With Cancer: Exploratory Analysis of Use Data and Self-Reports From a Randomized Controlled Trial

Schläpfer, S., Schneider, F., Santhanam, P., Eicher, M., Kowatsch, T., Witt, C. M., & Barth, J. (2024) · JMIR Cancer

Digital Mental Health InterventionsMobile Health and mHealth Applications

Cited by 14

Reliability of Commercial Voice Assistants’ Responses to Health-Related Questions in Noncommunicable Disease Management: Factorial Experiment Assessing Response Rate and Source of Information

Bérubé, C., Kovacs, Z. F., Fleisch, E., & Kowatsch, T. (2021) · Journal of Medical Internet Research

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationMobile Health and mHealth Applications

Cited by 14

Toward a Smartphone-Based and Conversational Agent–Delivered Just-in-Time Adaptive Holistic Lifestyle Intervention for Older Adults Affected by Cognitive Decline: Two-Week Proof-of-Concept Study

Brill, E., Vinay, R., Nißen, M., Joshi, P., Klöppel, S., & Kowatsch, T. (2025) · JMIR Formative Research

Digital Mental Health InterventionsMobile Health and mHealth Applications

Cited by 5

Towards the Embodied Conversational Interview Agentic Service ELIAS: Development and Evaluation of a First Prototype

Budig, T., Nißen, M., & Kowatsch, T. (2025) · Adjunct Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Social Robot Interaction and HRISpeech and dialogue systems

Cited by 3