Dr. Yanick Lukic

Work at ZHAW

Teaching

• Digitalization in Hospitals
• Data Standards in Healthcare
• Clinical Data Processing

Experience

• Founder
  Codeklang GmbH
  05 / 2023 - today
• Senior Lecturer & Researcher
  ZHAW School of Engineering
  04 / 2023 - today
• Advisor
  BreezeLabs AG
  02 / 2023 - 12 / 2025
• Postdoctoral Researcher
  School of Medicine - University of St.Gallen (HSG)
  09 / 2023 - 08 / 2025
• Chief Product Officer a.i.
  heyPatient AG
  10 / 2023 - 01 / 2024
• PhD Candidate and Doctoral Researcher
  ETH Zürich & CSS Health Lab
  09 / 2019 - 02 / 2023
• Research Assistant
  ETH Zürich
  04 / 2019 - 09 / 2019
• Software Engineer
  Netcetera
  08 / 2012 - 07 / 2013
• Software Engineer Apprenticeship
  Netcetera
  08 / 2008 - 08 / 2012

Education and Continuing education

Education

• CAS Higher & Professional Education
  ZHAW School of Management and Law
  09 / 2023 - 08 / 2024
• Doctor of Sciences / Digital Health and Applied Machine Learning
  ETH Zürich
  09 / 2019 - 02 / 2023
• Master of Science / Engineering with a Specialization in Information and Communication Technologies
  ZHAW School of Engineering
  08 / 2016 - 03 / 2019
• Master of Arts / Design with a Specialization in Interaction
  Zurich University of the Arts
  01 / 2017 - 06 / 2018
• Bachelor of Science / Computer Science
  ZHAW School of Engineering
  08 / 2013 - 08 / 2016

Network

Membership of networks

Professional Member of the ACM

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2576-6569

Projects

• The Best Blend of Tradition and Trend: Enhancing Cognitive Tests with Digital Pens and Mobile Brain Imaging / Project leader / ongoing
• Digital Health Zurich: a practice lab for patient-centred clinical innovation / Team member / ongoing

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Schläpfer, S., Murphy, C., Lukic, Y. X., Campos-Asensio, C., Colacicco, G., Lauber, B., Masneuf, S., Nyirö, L., Kajdi, G. W., Sutter, R., Laux, C. J., Ackermann, P., López-Alcalde, J., & Witt, C. M. (2026). Sex representation and user preferences in pain drawing body charts in back pain research : multimethod study. JMIR Human Factors, 13, e76175. https://doi.org/10.2196/76175
• Bischof, A. Y., Budig, T., Schläpfer, S., Lukic, Y. X., Schneider, F., Santhanam, P., Barth, J., Witt, C. M., & Kowatsch, T. (2025). Long-term usage of Breeze, a gamified breathing training app, and its effect on momentary relaxation in people with cancer : cohort study. JMIR Serious Games, 13(e70297). https://doi.org/10.2196/70297
• Nißen, M., Harperink, S., Joshi, P., Bischof, A. Y., Schachner, T., Lukic, Y., Schneider, F., Santhanam, P., Wangenheim, F. v., Ollier, J., & Kowatsch, T. (2025). Leveraging influencers to reach and engage vulnerable individuals with a digital health intervention : quasi-experimental field study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27, e67174. https://doi.org/10.2196/67174

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Häsler, S., Holler, A., Kessler, M., Schmidlin, S., Lukic, Y., & Ackermann, P. (2025). Illustrating AR patterns : a visual language for event-driven Augmented Reality [Conference poster]. In K. Helin, B. Schiavi, & E. Tsaknaki (Eds.), EuroXR 2025: Proceedings of the Application, Poster, and Demo Tracks of the 22nd EuroXR International Conference (Vol. 440, pp. 179–183). VTT. https://doi.org/10.32040/2242-122X.2025.T440
• Shenoi, A., Teepe, G. W., Lukic, Y. X., Negi, S., Mair, J. L., Fleisch, E., & Kowatsch, T. (2025). Just breathe : harnessing pretrained audio models for mood awareness in a gamified breathing training app [Conference paper]. In I. Avellino, P.-Y. Kuo, P. S. Foong, J. Wiese, H. Mentis, S. Munson, J. Wallace, A. Singh, A. Miller, D. Epstein, & F. Nunes (Eds.), CHI ’25 Workshop on Envisioning the Future of Interactive Health. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35918

Other publications

Lukic, Y., Häsler, S., & Kowatsch, T. (2025). Mouse interactions as digital measures of arousal and pleasure at work : limited between-person generalization and no reliable chronic-stress association. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5924470

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Kowatsch, T., Ackermann, L. J., Galliker, H., & Lukic, Y. X. (2025). Demonstrating BREEZE-VR : a gamified virtual reality biofeedback breathing training to strengthen mental resilience and reduce acute stress. Mensch Und Computer 2025 - Workshopband. https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2025-mci-demo-330

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Speaker identification and clustering using convolutional neural networks
• Learning embeddings for speaker clustering based on voice equality
• Breeze: Smartphone-based Acoustic Real-time Detection of Breathing Phases for a Gamified Biofeedback Breathing Training
• Breeze, ein spielerisches Biofeedback Atemtraining für das Smartphone: Physiologische Reaktionen und subjektive Einschätzungen aus einem Labor- und Online-Experiment
• Physiological Responses and User Feedback on a Gameful Breathing Training App: Within-Subject Experiment
• A Playful Smartphone-based Self-regulation Training for the Prevention and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Obesity: Technical Feasibility and Perceptions of Young Patients
• The Impact of a Gameful Breathing Training Visualization on Intrinsic Experiential Value, Perceived Effectiveness, and Engagement Intentions: Between-Subject Online Experiment
• Breathing as an Input Modality in a Gameful Breathing Training App (Breeze 2): Development and Evaluation Study
• Mobile Stress Management Applications: An Affordance-Theoretic Perspective on the Adoption and Use
• Breathe to Play - Design and Evaluation of a Microphone-Based Breathing Detection Algorithm and Gameful Breathing Training App
• Development of a digital biomarker and intervention for subclinical depression: study protocol for a longitudinal waitlist control study

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