News

Our progress and achievements.

August 2024

Our technology has been featured in a publication in the European Journal of Neurology! The study suggests that the temporal dynamics of smartphone touchscreen interactions as captured by QuantActions' technology may help monitor neurobehavioural comorbidities in neuralogical care. Real-world smartphone data can trace the behavioural impact of epilepsy: A case study, van Nieuw Amerongen A. R., Meppelink A. M., Ghosh A., Thijs R. D. (2024).

June 2024

BrainAware is now available on iOS, offering key mental fitness indicators and trends also to Apple users. More information here. Download here.

June 2024

QuantActions' technology enabled the development of an aging status index that can be observed over time, revealing that aging is not a strictly linear process. The fluctuations in this index demonstrate how individuals can exhibit shifts between younger and older behavioral states. Age-related behavioral resilience in smartphone touchscreen interaction dynamics, Ceolini, E., Ridderinkhof R., Ghosh, A. (2024).

November 2023

QuantActions is collaborating with leading Swiss health insurance Sanitas to explore QuantActions' solution for mental health in an insurance setting. Read More

November 2023

As part of the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology #SWITCH2023, QuantActions is proud to be chosen by Haleon as co-innovation and looks forward to collaborating with global healthcare leader Haleon in the domain of healthy ageing. Read More

November 2023

QuantActions invited to present at Building Trust in Healthcare conference in Lausanne.

October 2023

QuantActions is proud to be winner of Future of Health 2023 grants by CSS and EPFL Innovation Park Lausanne.

October 2023

Our app BrainAware is live for Android, allowing users to manage their own mental health with key daily mental fitness indicators and trends. More information here. Download here.

September 2023

QuantActions is excited to win Kickstart Innovation Program 2023 and gets opportunity to collaborate with leading Swiss corporate partners.

July 2023

We are happy to announce the closing of an oversubscribed CHF 500k pre-seed extension round (following our initial pre-seed round last year). In addition to existing investors re-joining, the round includes tickets from European tech and healthcare investors Meerkat Holding (Germany) and Excellis (Italy), as well as from Piero Novelli (Independent Chairman Euronext, ex-UBS).

August 2022

A model that estimates chronological age from smartphone behaviour predicts advanced aging in patients with stroke and epilepsy showing the potential of smartphone-based models of healthy behavior for helping understand aging in diseases. Read More

August 2022

New study shows that smartphone usage dynamics reflect the performance of healthy individuals in cognitive tests and age. Read More

November 2021

QuantActions featured in The Guardian as a leader in the field of digital phenotyping. Read More

June 2021

Study compares QuantActions technology and other sensors for sleep tracking, shows that tap-data can improve accuracy of other sensors. Read More

May 2021

First results from epilepsy patients at Yale University, showing that QuantActions technology can detect small abnormal neural events typically associated with seizures. Read More

May 2021

Study looks at mood and health changes following COVID-19 lockdown and reopening. Using QuantActions technology, the authors were able to show that reopening results in shorter and earlier sleep as well as increased physical activity but also increased stress. Read More

May 2021

Using QuantActions technology, it was shown that social activity is strongly associated with the release of the important neurotransmitter dopamine, which opens up the potential for using behavioral data from smartphone use for mental health. Read More

February 2021

Smartphone-based data shows large cognitive fluctuations surrounding sleep, and showing that QuantActions technology is a sensitive tool to measure long-term cognitive activity. Read More

July 2020

Study models smartphone behaviour and shows that QuantActions technology is able to reveal data patterns spanning multiple time-scales, a key step towards the development of novel cognitive measures based on smartphone data. Read More

June 2020

Researchers in Denmark and Netherlands studying stroke begin exploring the use of QuantActions technology for monitoring patients. Read More

January 2020

Database reaches 1000+ users with long-term data from R&D settings.

November 2019

Smartphone-based tap data monitors brain recovery progress in patients after neuro-surgery. Read More

July 2019

Study shows how QuantActions technology can be used to track sleep with equal and sometimes greater accuracy than traditional actigraphy. Read More

October 2018

Completed SDK to allow data collection on third-party apps.

July 2018

First paying customers (R&D clients) who subscribe to QuantActions’ data services for dedicated research programs in neurology.

April 2018

Established fully operational cloud-based infrastructure, including QuantActions’ proprietary “Taps Intelligence Engine” (version 1.0) for generating insights from raw tap data.

March 2018

Study uses QuantActions technology to explore properties of the brain’s motor system and suggests that digital behaviour may be used to generate insights into neurological health. Read More

April 2017

Established metrics for sleep.

February 2017

QuantActions receives Swiss Venturekick I & II funding.

February 2017

QuantActions awarded as IBM Global Entrepreneur.

January 2017

Study uses QuantActions technology to investigate how people gather and share information on smartphones and this can be used to detect changes in cognitive and behavioural performance. Read More

December 2016

Exclusive licensing agreement with University of Zurich.

November 2016

Launch of TapCounter, QuantActions’ R&D app for continuous and passive smartphone-based data collection.

September 2016

QuantActions incorporated as spinoff from University of Zurich, with domicile at EPFL campus in Lausanne (due to relationships and science synergies).

March 2015

Smartphone use changes our brain and thumb interaction and is an ideal way to explore the everyday plasticity of the human brain. Read More

December 2014

Study shows that brain representation of hand movements is shaped by smartphone use, opening the possibility to use smartphone usage patterns from QuantActions technology as a tool to gain insights into brain activity and plasticity. Read More

December 2014

Using a smartphone regularly is similar to playing the violin. Scientists find that proficiency in the use of the smartphone does not depend on the amount of time spent with it but depends on the amount of time that has passed since the last use. Read More

December 2014

Our brains are being 'continuously reshaped' by smartphone use,  the use of the smartphone carries a lot of information about our brain so much so that our brain is allocating more resources to the physical and cognitive processes involved in the use of our devices. Read More

January 2013

Research project at University Zurich led by QuantActions co-founder Dr. Arko Ghosh in collaboration with researchers at University of Fribourg launches, studying the links between smartphone behavioral logs and brain activity.