Publications

Main articles in scientific journals, conference papers and special issues 

2024

• Silvia Rizzi, Maria Chiara Pavesi, Alessia Moser,  Francesca Paolazzi, Michele Marchesoni, Stefania Poggianella, Erik Gadotti,  Stefano Forti. A Mindfulness-Based App Intervention for Pregnant Women: Study Design, Development, and Preliminary Testing of a Prototype. JMIR Formative Research. 18/11/2024:58265 (forthcoming/in press) DOI: 10.2196/58265

• Gabrielli S, Mayora Ibarra O, Forti S. A Holistic Digital Health Framework to Support Health Prevention Strategies in the First 1000 Days. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting. 26/10/2024:55235 (forthcoming/in press) DOI: 10.2196/55235

• Pardini S, Gabrielli S, Olivetto S, Fusina F, Dianti M, Forti S, Lancini C, Novara C. Personalized Virtual Reality Compared With Guided Imagery for Enhancing the Impact of Progressive Muscle Relaxation Training: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Ment Health. 2024 Jan 30;11:e48649. doi: 10.2196/48649. PMID: 38289673.

• Rizzi S, Poggianella S, Pavesi MC, Gios L, Bincoletto G, Scolari I, Paoli C, Marroni D, Tassinari I, Baietti B, Gianatti A, Albertini V, Burlon B, Chiodega V, Endrizzi B, Benini E, Guella C, Gadotti E, Forti S, Taddei F. A Mindfulness-Based App Intervention for Pregnant Women: Protocol for a Pilot Feasibility Study. JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e53890vdoi: 10.2196/53890

• Appel L, Appel E, Kisonas E, Lewis-Fung S, Pardini S, Rosenberg J, Appel J, Smith C. Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Reality on the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia and Quality of Life of Inpatients With Dementia in Acute Care: Randomized Controlled Trial (VRCT). J Med Internet Res. 2024 Jan 30;26:e51758. doi: 10.2196/51758. PMID: 38289666; PMCID: PMC10865216.

• Mancinelli E, Gabrielli S, Salcuni S. A Digital Behavioral Activation Intervention (JuNEX) for Pregnant Women With Subclinical Depression Symptoms: Explorative Co-Design Study. JMIR Hum Factors. 2024 May 16;11:e50098. doi: 10.2196/50098. PMID: 38753421.

• Bolpagni, M.; Pardini, S.; Dianti, M.; Gabrielli, S. Personalized Stress Detection Using Biosignals from Wearables: A Scoping Review. Sensors 2024, 24, 3221. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24103221

• Pardini S, Kim S, de Jesus B Jr, Lopes MKS, Leggett K, Falk TH, Smith C, Appel L. SafeVRwards: Designing a complementary virtual reality module to the Safewards framework intended to relax and manage conflict in mental health wards. BMJ Open Qual. 2024 Jun 4;13(2):e002769. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2024-002769. PMID: 38834370.

• Mancinelli E, Magnolini S, Gabrielli S, Salcuni S. A Chatbot (Juno) Prototype to Deploy a Behavioral Activation Intervention to Pregnant Women: Qualitative Evaluation Using a Multiple Case Study. JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e58653. doi: 10.2196/58653

• Appel L, Appel E, Kisonas E, Lewis-Fung S, Pardini S, Rosenberg J, Appel J, Smith C. Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Reality on the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia and Quality of Life of Inpatients With Dementia in Acute Care: Randomized Controlled Trial (VRCT). J Med Internet Res. 2024 Jan 30;26:e51758. doi: 10.2196/51758. PMID: 38289666; PMCID: PMC10865216.

• Marco Bolpagni, Susanna Pardini, Silvia Gabrielli, Human centered design of AI-powered Digital Therapeutics for stress prevention: Perspectives from multi-stakeholders' workshops about the SHIVA solution, Internet Interventions, Volume 38, 2024, 100775, ISSN 2214-7829, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2024.100775

• Fietta V, Rizzi S, De Luca C, Gios L, Pavesi MC, Gabrielli S, Monaro M, Forti S. A Chatbot-Based Version of the World Health Organization–Validated Self-Help Plus Intervention for Stress Management: Co-Design and Usability Testing. JMIR Hum Factors 2024;11:e64614. doi: 10.2196/64614. P MID: 39355954

2023

• Pardini, S., Gabrielli, S., Gios, L. O. Mayora-Ibarrra, et al. Customized virtual reality naturalistic scenarios promoting engagement and relaxation in patients with cognitive impairment: a proof-of-concept mixed-methods study. Nature Scientific Reports 13, 20516 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47876-1

• Gabrielli S, Cristofolini M, Dianti M, Alvari G, Vallefuoco E, Bentenuto A, Venuti P, Mayora Ibarra O, Salvadori E. Co-Design of a Virtual Reality Multiplayer Adventure Game for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Feasibility Study. JMIR Serious Games. 05/11/2023:51719 (forthcoming/in press)

• O Mayora, B Arnrich, T Guerreiro, F Ferreira-Brito, M Luštrek, H Gjoreski. Digital Therapeutics Evolution What kind of Research Will Make the Difference in this Area?  2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3594739.3605109

• Silvia Gabrielli, Enrico Maria Piras, Oscar Mayora Ibarra. Digital Twins in the Future Design of Digital Therapeutics. 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing . https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3594739.3611325

• Pardini S, Gabrielli S, Olivetto S, Fusina F, Dianti M, Forti S, Lancini C, Novara C. Personalized, Naturalistic Virtual Reality Scenarios Coupled With Web-Based Progressive Muscle Relaxation Training for the General Population: Protocol for a Proof-of-Principle Randomized Controlled Trial, JMIR Res Protoc 2023;12:e44183. doi: 10.2196/44183, PMID: 37067881

• Mancinelli E, Dell'Arciprete G, Pattarozzi D, Gabrielli S, Salcuni S. Digital Behavioral Activation Interventions During the Perinatal Period: Scoping Review. JMIR Pediatr Parent 2023;6:e40937.  doi: 10.2196/40937, PMID: 36853756, PMCID: 10015349

• Lewis-Fung Samantha, Tchao Danielle, Gray Hannah Gabrielle, Nguyen Emma, Pardini Susanna, Harris Laurence R., Calabia Dale, Appel Lora. Designing virtual reality exposure scenarios to treat anxiety in people with epilepsy: Phase 2 of the AnxEpiVR clinical trial. Frontiers in Virtual Reality. Volume 4, 2023. DOI=10.3389/frvir.2023.1209535  

• Piras, Enrico Maria. Digital cultural probes : indagare il quotidiano, progettare tecnologie /  in "Salute e società : XXII, 2, 2023, Milano : Franco Angeli, 2023 , 1972-4845 - Casalini id: 5517330" - 80-91 p. - Permalink: http://digital.casalini.it/10.3280/SES2023-002008 - Casalini id: 5525256 

• Miele F., Bosco N., Cappellato V., Castellaccio E., Piras E. (2022), “On old age andcits multiplicity. Exploring discourses and materialities about getting older in and beyond pandemic times”, Tecnoscienza-Italian Journal of science & technology studies, vol 13 No 2 

• Piras EM, Calvi C, Rubini L (in press) Rendere visibile il cyberbullismo. La roleplaying simulation online come metodo per studiare le interazioni prevaricanti in rete. Scuola Democratica.

• Giovanazzi, A., Gios, L., Mastellaro, M. et al. Organisational models supported by technology for the management of diabetic disease and its complications in a diabetic clinic setting: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial targeting type 2 diabetes individuals with non-ideal glycaemic values (Telemechron study). Trials 24, 513 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07515-6

• Gray HG, Tchao D, Lewis-Fung S, Pardini S, Harris LR, Appel L. Virtual Reality Therapy for People With Epilepsy and Related Anxiety: Protocol for a 3-Phase Pilot Clinical Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2023 Jan 24;12:e41523. doi: 10.2196/41523. PMID: 36692939; PMCID: PMC9906303.

• Pardini S., Fusina F., Novara C. “Can Personalized Virtual Reality Be Better than Guided Imagery in Enhancing the Impact of Progressive Muscle Relaxation Training?: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Study on an Italian University Sample (Preprint).” JMIR Mental Health., 2023.

• Racano E, Malfatti G, Pertile R, Delle Site R, Romanelli F, Nicolini A. A novel smartphone App to support the clinical practice of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus: the validation of visual acuity tests. Eur J Pediatr. 2023 Sep;182(9):4007-4013. doi: 10.1007/s00431-023-05058-1. Epub 2023 Jun 29. PMID: 37386193.

2022

• Reščič, N.; Mayora, O.; Eccher, C.; Luštrek, M. Food Frequency Questionnaire Personalisation Using Multi-Target Regression. Nutrients 2022, 14, 3943. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14193943

• Gabrielli, S.; Rizzi, S.; Mayora, O.; More, S.; Pérez Baun, J.C.; Vandevelde, W. Multidimensional Study on Users’ Evaluation of the KRAKEN Personal Data Sharing Platform. Appl. Sci. 2022, 12, 3270. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12073270

• Gabrielli S, Roviš D, Cefai C. Editorial: Promoting Resilience Interventions for Mental Well-Being in Youth. Front Psychiatry. 2022;13:859546. Published 2022 Feb 16. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.859546

• Testa S. An overview of the secondary use of health data within the European Union. EU- driven possibilities and civil society initiatives. In Proceedings of Provino-2022. Privacy Symposium 5-7 April 2022, Venice, Italy.

• Passardi A, Foca F, Caffo O, et al. A Remote Monitoring System to Optimize the Home Management of Oral Anticancer Therapies (ONCO-TreC): Prospective Training-Validation Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2022;24(1):e27349. Published 2022 Jan 26. doi:10.2196/27349

• Bassi G, Donadello I, Gabrielli S, Salcuni S, Giuliano C, Forti S. Early Development of a Virtual Coach for Healthy Coping Interventions in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Validation Study. JMIR Form Res. 2022 Feb 11;6(2):e27500. doi: 10.2196/27500. PMID: 35147505; PMCID: PMC8881774.

• Passardi A, Serra P, Caffo O, Masini C, Brugugnoli E, Vespignani R, Giardino V, Petracci E, Bartolini G, Sullo F, Anesi C, Dianti M, Eccher C, Piras EM, Gios L, Campomori A, Oberosler V, Forti S. Use of the ONCO-TreC electronic diary compared with a standard paper diary to improve adherence to oral cancer therapy in patients with solid and haematological tumours: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2022 Jan 11;12(1):e055814. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055814. PMID: 35017254.

• Bassi G, Giuliano C, Perinelli A, Forti S, Gabrielli S, Salcuni S. A Virtual Coach (Motibot) for Supporting Healthy Coping Strategies Among Adults With Diabetes: Proof-of-Concept Study. JMIR Hum Factors. 2022 Jan 21;9(1):e32211. doi: 10.2196/32211. PMID: 35060918; PMCID: PMC8817220.

• Pardini, S.; Gabrielli, S.; Dianti, M.; Novara, C.; Zucco, G.M.; Mich, O.; Forti, S. The Role of Personalization in the User Experience, Preferences and Engagement with Virtual Reality Environments for Relaxation. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 7237. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127237 

2021

• Malfatti G, Racano E, Delle Site R, Gios L, Micocci S, Dianti M, et al. (2021) Enabling teleophthalmology during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Province of Trento, Italy: Design and implementation of a mHealth solution. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0257250. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257250

• Rizzi G, Carbone S, Gabrielli S, Maimone R, Marchesoni M, Bassi G, Forti S. A chatbot -based intervention to Promote Healthy Coping in Young Adults. European Conference of Digital Psychology. February 2021 

• Bassi G, Gabrielli S, Donisi V, CArbone S, Forti S, Salcuni S. Assessment of Psychologycal Distress in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Through Technologies: Literature Review. JMIR. 2021 Jan 7; 23(1):e17740. doi: 10.2196/17740 PMID:33410762. https:/www.jmir.org/2021/1/e17740

• A. Talitckii, A. Anikina, Kovalenko E., Mayora O., Somov A., Defining Optimal Exercises for Efficient Detection of Parkinson’s Disease Using Machine Learning and Wearable Sensors.  in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 70, pp. 1-10, 2021, Art no. 2512010, doi: 10.1109/TIM.2021.3097857.

• Anyan F, Morote R, Las Hayas C, Gabrielli S, Mazur I, Gudrun Gudmundsdottir D, Gonzales N, Krolicka-Deregowska A, Zwiefka A, Olafsdottir AS, Hjemdal O, UPRIGHT Project. Measuring Resilience Across Participating Regions in the UPRIGHT EU Horizon 2020 Project: Factor Structure  and Psycometric Properties of the Resilience Scale for the Adolescents .Front. Psychol. 2021; 12: 629375. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.629357 PMID: 33679551 

• Merz V, Ferro A, Piras EM, Zanutto A, Caffo O, Messina C. Electronic Medical Record-Assisted Telephone Follow-Up of Breast Cancer Survivors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single Institution Experience. JCO Oncol Pract. 2021 Jan;17(1):e44-e52. doi: 10.1200/OP.20.00643. Epub 2020 Dec 22. PMID: 33351674. URL:https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/OP.20.00643

• Ledertoug MM, Tidmand L, Las Hayas C, Gabrielli S, Carbone S. UPRIGHT -  Wellbeing and resilience education for teenagers - Disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Published in "Wellbeing and Resilience Education COVID-19 and Its Impact on Education". Edited by Mathew A. White, Faye McCallum

• Gabrielli S, Rizzi S, Bassi G, Carbone S, Maimone R, Marchesoni M, Forti S. Engagement and Effectiveness of a Healthy Coping Intervention via Chatbot for university students: proof-of-concept study during the COVID-19 pandemic. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2021 Apr 20. doi: 10.2196/27965. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33950849. URL:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33950849/

• Testa S, Mayora-Ibarra O, Piras EM, Balagna O, Micocci S, Zanutto A, Forti S, Conforti D, Nicolini A, Malfatti G, Moz M, Gios L, Benetollo PP, Turra E, Orrash M, Zambotti F, Del Greco M, Maines M,  Filippi L, Ghezzi M, Romanelli F, Racano E, Marin M, Betta M, Bertagnolli E.  Implementation of Tele Visit Healthcare Services Triggered by the COVID-19 Emergency: the Trentino Province Experience. Journal of Public Health, 2021 

• Gios L, Crema Falceri G, Patil L, Testa S, Micocci S, Sforzin S, Turra E, Conforti D, Malfatti G, Moz M, Nicolini A, Guarda P, Bacchiega A, Mion C, Marchesoni M, Maimone R, Molini PB, Zanella A, Osmani V, Mayora-Ibarra O, Forti S. Using eHealth platforms and Apps to support monitoring and management of home-quarantined COVID-19 patients. Insights from the experience of the Province of Trento, Italy. JMIR Formative Research, 2021, 5(5):e25713. doi: 10.2196/25713. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33909586. URL:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909586/

• Gabrielli S, Krenn S, Pellegrino D, Pérez Baun JC, Pérez Berganza P, Ramacher S, Vandelvelde W. KRAKEN: a secure, trusted, regulatory compliance and privacy-preserving data sharing plaftorm. In «Data Platforms: Foundations, Design Space, and Deployments (User-centric data sharing», Springer, 2021

• Bassi, G.; Mancinelli, E.; Dell’Arciprete, G.; Rizzi, S.; Gabrielli, S.; Salcuni, S. Efficacy of eHealth Interventions for Adults with Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 8982. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18178982

• Las-Hayas C, Mateo-Abad M, Vergara I, Izco-Basurko I, González-Pinto A, Gabrielli S, Mazur I, Hjemdal O, Gudmundsdottir DG, Knoop HH, Olafsdottir AS, Fullaondo A, González N, Mar-Medina J, Krzyżanowski D, Morote R, Anyan F, Ledertoug MM, Tidmand L, Arnfjord UB, Kaldalons I, Jonsdottir BJ, de Manuel Keenoy E; UPRIGHT Consortium. Relevance of well-being, resilience, and health-related quality of life to mental health profiles of European adolescents: results from a cross-sectional analysis of the school-based multinational UPRIGHT project. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2021 Aug 21:1–13. doi: 10.1007/s00127-021-02156-z. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34417859; PMCID: PMC8379563. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34417859/ 

• Franceschi, R.; Fornari, E.; Ghezzi, M.; Buzzi, E.; Toschi, M.; Longhi, S.; Maimone, R.; Forti, S.; Carneri, S.; Pirous, F.M.; Agostini, B.; Iori, T.; Gibin, M.; Porchia, S.; Soffiati, M.; Maffeis, C. Educational Intervention of Healthy Life Promotion for Children with a Migrant Background or at Socioeconomic Disadvantage in the North of Italy: Efficacy of Telematic Tools in Improving Nutritional and Physical Activity Knowledge. Nutrients 2021, 13, 3634. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13103634 

• Elliot G. Mitchell, Rosa Maimone, Andrea Cassells, Jonathan N. Tobin, Patricia Davidson, Arlene M. Smaldone, and Lena Mamykina. 2021. Automated vs. Human Health Coaching: Exploring Participant and Practitioner Experiences. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer InteractionVol. 5, No. CSCW1 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3449173 

• Gabrielli, S.; Rizzi, S.; Carbone, S.; Piras, E.M. School Interventions for Bullying–Cyberbullying Prevention in Adolescents: Insights from the UPRIGHT and CREEP Projects. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 11697. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111697  

2020

• Gabrielli S, Donisi V, Rizzi S, Carbone S. Promuovere la resilienza con un approccio sistemico: l'esperienza del progetto UPRIGHT nelle scuole secondarie di primo grado della provincia di Trento. RicercAzione. 2020. doi: 10.32076/RA12202

• Gabrielli S, Rizzi S, Carbone S, Donisi V. A Chatbot-Based Coaching Intervention for Adolescents to Promote Life Skills: Pilot Study, JMIR Hum Factors 2020;7(1):e16762, URL:https://humanfactors.jmir.org/2020/1/e16762 DOI: 10.2196/16762

• Eccher C, Gios L, Zanutto A, Bizzarri G, Conforti D, Forti S. TreC platform. An integrated and evolving care model for patients' empowerment and data repository. J Biomed Inform. 2020 Feb;102:103359. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2019.103359. Epub 2020 Jan 7. PMID: 31917253. URL:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046419302795?via%3Dihub 

• Maxhuni A, Hernandez P, Morales E, Sucar E, Osmani V, Mayora-Ibarra O. Unobtrusive Stress Assessment Using Smartphones. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. February 2020. URL:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9001213