GetAMoveOn:transforming health through enabling mobility
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: UCL Interaction Centre
Abstract
When we move more, we become smarter; as we become stronger, chronic pain decreases. Greater movement, especially in social contexts, improves collaboration. As we move, not only do we reduce stress: we improve our capacity to handle stressful situations and to see more options for creative new solutions. Movement enhances both strength and stamina, improves bone mineral density and balance, reducing incidence of falling and associated hip injuries (causes of death in the elderly). Movement complements other functions, from assisting with sleep and therefore memory and cognition, to helping with diet and associated hormones - improving insulin sensitivity and balancing cortisol. There are recent studies showing benefits of movement related to dementia. And yet, physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide; sedentarism has been called the "new smoking". Meanwhile costs to UK GDP from sedentarism and associated disease are increasing - from sick days lost to work, to elders losing mobility and having to move into care homes.
We have designed ourselves into our sedentarism: sitting during our commute, at desks while we work, and at home on the sofa. There is a critical need to design ourselves back into the natural effects of health accrued simply by moving more. We need solutions that will help build both the evidence and the experience that movement can enhance and benefit people's lives.
New technologies are transforming our ability to capture lifestyle data on individuals in real time. Consumer technologies such as step counters and wifi scales are the tip of an iceberg - research programmes worldwide are proposing lifestyle data capture from devices ranging from video cameras to electricity meters to wearables. Meanwhile pervasive connectivity allows that data to be transmitted, processed through powerful machine learning tools and provided back to people in a heartbeat. While we understand the potential technologies, we do not yet know how to leverage the technology effectively to support transformative health.
Current approaches in ehealth generally only reach a small part of the population that is already interested in fitness, personal data capture, or both. Their uptake is, furthermore, of dubious effect as two recent medical reviews have shown. To have a national impact on health and wellbeing, to reduce the crippling burden of long term health conditions and to move healthcare from the clinic to the community, we need to reach everyone, across a range of abilities and aspirations. We need to connect the potential of the technology with the potential of people and realise the benefits of a healthy, brilliant, population.
Realising this potential requires research on novel technical solutions, supported by theories from sports and health sciences on blending appropriate movement strategies for particular performance aspirations to behavioural and cognitive sciences on ways to engage people to make effective and meaningful progress. We need to understand what measures are appropriate not just to evaluate progress, but to guide it and adapt to it. To have meaningful impact across these dimensions we need to combine a range of expertise including sensor networks, data analytics, interactive visualisation, human computer interacton, online citizen engagement, behaviour change, sports, exercise.
In this network we focus on movement as a locus for health: it is our test case as it drives so many other benefits that are of value: economically, socially and culturally. The current call is the ideal opportunity to establish our proposed network to develop an interdisciplinary UK community that will address the EPSRC Grand Challenge of transforming community health and care through the delivery of tested technologies that promote wellbeing by providing timely, individualised feedback that encourages appropriate activities.
We have designed ourselves into our sedentarism: sitting during our commute, at desks while we work, and at home on the sofa. There is a critical need to design ourselves back into the natural effects of health accrued simply by moving more. We need solutions that will help build both the evidence and the experience that movement can enhance and benefit people's lives.
New technologies are transforming our ability to capture lifestyle data on individuals in real time. Consumer technologies such as step counters and wifi scales are the tip of an iceberg - research programmes worldwide are proposing lifestyle data capture from devices ranging from video cameras to electricity meters to wearables. Meanwhile pervasive connectivity allows that data to be transmitted, processed through powerful machine learning tools and provided back to people in a heartbeat. While we understand the potential technologies, we do not yet know how to leverage the technology effectively to support transformative health.
Current approaches in ehealth generally only reach a small part of the population that is already interested in fitness, personal data capture, or both. Their uptake is, furthermore, of dubious effect as two recent medical reviews have shown. To have a national impact on health and wellbeing, to reduce the crippling burden of long term health conditions and to move healthcare from the clinic to the community, we need to reach everyone, across a range of abilities and aspirations. We need to connect the potential of the technology with the potential of people and realise the benefits of a healthy, brilliant, population.
Realising this potential requires research on novel technical solutions, supported by theories from sports and health sciences on blending appropriate movement strategies for particular performance aspirations to behavioural and cognitive sciences on ways to engage people to make effective and meaningful progress. We need to understand what measures are appropriate not just to evaluate progress, but to guide it and adapt to it. To have meaningful impact across these dimensions we need to combine a range of expertise including sensor networks, data analytics, interactive visualisation, human computer interacton, online citizen engagement, behaviour change, sports, exercise.
In this network we focus on movement as a locus for health: it is our test case as it drives so many other benefits that are of value: economically, socially and culturally. The current call is the ideal opportunity to establish our proposed network to develop an interdisciplinary UK community that will address the EPSRC Grand Challenge of transforming community health and care through the delivery of tested technologies that promote wellbeing by providing timely, individualised feedback that encourages appropriate activities.
Planned Impact
This NetworkPlus will have impact across a wide range of areas. The goal of our network is to help move our nation from being sedentary to active by understanding the role interactive technology can have in supporting this transition, and in delivering future technological solutions that are truly fit for purpose. Our engagement strategies will bring together experts in health and sport science, behavioural psychology, network systems, sensors, and human computer interaction, to create the critical mass of experts required to address this key challenge in UK welfare that will deliver improved health nationwide.
When we move more, research unequivocally shows, we are smarter, healthier, calmer and more creative, simply as side effects of this activity. One example of longer term impact will be the methods and technologies developed by the Network that can be used to motivate people to be more physically active, through the detection and communication of changes in personal physical, emotional, cognitive and social (PECS) factors. The collaborations and projects fostered, with our focus on in-the-wild pilots, will create the foundation of knowledge that can be used for developing larger scale projects and deployments, with increasing beneficial impact.
In addition, increased movement will result in a reduction in the demand for expensive healthcare by enabling individuals to detect minor PECS issues early on and address them through suitable lifestyle interventions before they manifest as larger health problems. Our goal in this network is to help people discover how they can move enough to achieve these side effects for whatever their aspirations, from feeling and performing better at school, to being more productive and participating in the labour market for longer, to staying independent longer in their own homes, thus reducing costs to the economy. We will further expand the network by involving health technology companies who want to build applications in the network, providing them with the opportunity to work with researchers to develop theory-informed solutions that are useful, usable and used.
To secure impact stories such as these we will conduct three workshops that each focus on a particular sector such as education, workplaces and residential care communities. These communities have been chosen because of the different types of impact they have the potential to elicit within each context. The network will also fund feasibility projects that will be required to work directly with community groups. The network will have societal impact through improving the quality of life of these and other individuals through the development of technologies that enhance health and wellbeing through impact on physical, emotional, cognitive and social factors. We will work closely with UKactive and others to ensure the evidence from these projects has an influence on the development of national policies.
With respects to impacting individuals, people from community groups involved in network projects and events will learn about the development of research through co-design processes. We will run two competitions that engage school children, university students and members of the public. We will also support Network members in developing their own outreach and public engagement activities. In addition the Network will support capacity building and skill development of early career and established researchers through hosting two doctoral consortia and running two training events.
When we move more, research unequivocally shows, we are smarter, healthier, calmer and more creative, simply as side effects of this activity. One example of longer term impact will be the methods and technologies developed by the Network that can be used to motivate people to be more physically active, through the detection and communication of changes in personal physical, emotional, cognitive and social (PECS) factors. The collaborations and projects fostered, with our focus on in-the-wild pilots, will create the foundation of knowledge that can be used for developing larger scale projects and deployments, with increasing beneficial impact.
In addition, increased movement will result in a reduction in the demand for expensive healthcare by enabling individuals to detect minor PECS issues early on and address them through suitable lifestyle interventions before they manifest as larger health problems. Our goal in this network is to help people discover how they can move enough to achieve these side effects for whatever their aspirations, from feeling and performing better at school, to being more productive and participating in the labour market for longer, to staying independent longer in their own homes, thus reducing costs to the economy. We will further expand the network by involving health technology companies who want to build applications in the network, providing them with the opportunity to work with researchers to develop theory-informed solutions that are useful, usable and used.
To secure impact stories such as these we will conduct three workshops that each focus on a particular sector such as education, workplaces and residential care communities. These communities have been chosen because of the different types of impact they have the potential to elicit within each context. The network will also fund feasibility projects that will be required to work directly with community groups. The network will have societal impact through improving the quality of life of these and other individuals through the development of technologies that enhance health and wellbeing through impact on physical, emotional, cognitive and social factors. We will work closely with UKactive and others to ensure the evidence from these projects has an influence on the development of national policies.
With respects to impacting individuals, people from community groups involved in network projects and events will learn about the development of research through co-design processes. We will run two competitions that engage school children, university students and members of the public. We will also support Network members in developing their own outreach and public engagement activities. In addition the Network will support capacity building and skill development of early career and established researchers through hosting two doctoral consortia and running two training events.
Organisations
- University College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Footfalls and Heartbeats (Collaboration)
- HiMotiv (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- Haringey Rhinos RFC (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (Collaboration)
- Robert Gordon University (Collaboration)
- Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- University of Bath (Collaboration)
- University College Cork (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- University of Copenhagen (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN (Collaboration)
- Lancaster University (Collaboration)
- European Healthy Stadia Network (Collaboration)
- NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- University of Hull (Collaboration)
- University of San Diego (Collaboration)
- University of Windsor (Collaboration)
- Old Library Trust, Healthy Living Centre (Collaboration)
- Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (Collaboration)
- Openbrolly (Collaboration)
- ULSTER UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Collaboration)
- SWANSEA UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Royal College of Art (Collaboration)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Greenhouse Sport (Project Partner)
- ukactive (Project Partner)
- Portsmouth College (Project Partner)
Publications
Blandford A
(2019)
HCI for health and wellbeing: Challenges and opportunities
in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Carlin A
(2021)
Development and Feasibility of a Family-Based Health Behavior Intervention Using Intelligent Personal Assistants: Randomized Controlled Trial.
in JMIR formative research
Collins E
(2019)
Digital Games and Mindfulness Apps: Comparison of Effects on Post Work Recovery.
in JMIR mental health
Crossley SGM
(2019)
Understanding Youths' Ability to Interpret 3D-Printed Physical Activity Data and Identify Associated Intensity Levels: Mixed-Methods Study.
in Journal of medical Internet research
Ellis DA
(2018)
Failing to encourage physical activity with wearable technology: what next?
in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Essery R
(2020)
Development of the Digital Assessment of Precise Physical Activity (DAPPA) Tool for Older Adults.
in International journal of environmental research and public health
Farkhatdinov I
(2019)
Assisting Human Balance in Standing With a Robotic Exoskeleton
in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Gerling, K
(2020)
Critical Reflections on Technology to Support Physical Activity among Older Adults: An Exploration of Leading HCI Venues
in ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
Lean, M.H.A.
(2020)
Inbodied interaction design example: fat tapestry
Marshall J
(2021)
Are Exergames Exercise? A Scoping Review of the Short-Term Effects of Exertion Games
in IEEE Transactions on Games
Description | Achievement against objectives: OBJECTIVE 1: DEVELOP AND ENGAGE A COMMUNITY Initial network of 5 managers (PI and Co-Is). Core network: 147 researchers who were actively engaged as contributors to research and/or events including • 10 GetAMoveOn Fellows - early career network • 47 investigators involved in our 8 feasibility projects • 26 who presented at our symposium • 64 academics who hosted/organised and/or presented at our other events. • 32 institutions and 30 disciplines involved in plus-funded activities Actively engaged: • 1752 network of academic / practitioner / policy / business people who attended our events. Wider community: 1631: • 353 academics and professionals/practitioners on mailing list, from 131 institutions in 23 countries • 349 people who took part in our research with eWorkLife on the impact of remote working • 929 twitter followers OBJECTIVE 2: DEVELOP THE SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING BASIS FOR THE AREA BY PUMP-PRIMING RESEARCH Funded 19 projects (more details below) - 7 Think pieces - 8 Feasibility projects - 3 Fellows' collaboration projects - 1 citizen science project Furthermore, we have disseminated the findings through academic workshops, our website, twitter and YouTube videos, in addition to the normal route of academic publication. See Objective 5 for statistics indicating our reach. Academic workshops 1. Developing health behaviour change interventions: the person-based approach. Collaboration with University of Bristol 1/7/19 2. How can we use digital technology in the workplace to combat physical inactivity. Collaboration with University of Bristol 2/7/19 3. Active minds: physical activity, mental health & digital technology. Collaboration with University of Glasgow 19/7/18 4. Workshop on behaviour change to address sedentarism 20/2/18 5. Exploring affective and sensory dimensions of data (2018) 6. Older adults and physical activity. Collaboration with University of Southampton 27/6/17 OBJECTIVE 3: DEVELOP RESEARCH CAPABILITY THROUGH TRAINING EVENTS AND DOCTORAL CONSORTIA 25 events including academic workshops, training, and symposium: Events organised by Network members 6 Academic workshops 6 Conference workshops 5 Symposium 1 Training residential events for Fellows 5 Summer school 1 Policy Dialogue 1 Fellows programme: We ran a training programme - the GetAMoveOn Fellows'. programme - for 10 PhD students and ECRs. Aims of the programme Our aim was provide support to the next generation of researchers whose research interests and activities align with the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network, specifically to enable Fellows to: • Raise awareness of their work, enhance their academic profile and interact confidently with the media • Improve their success in applying for grant funding • Maximise the impacts of their research • Participate in and help to develop a supportive community of scholars in a spirit of collaboration, to enable them to broaden their network of potential collaborators across different disciplines and increase their opportunities to contribute to projects and apply for grant funding for projects related to the GetAMoveOn themes The programme • A visibility workshop where Fellows learned how to communicate science to non-specialist audiences and made a video about their work • An impacts workshop to help them write better impact sections for grant applications, maximise the impacts of their research and get their research into policy • A collaboration event where they explored successful collaboration strategies, worked together in multidisciplinary teams to develop ideas for a project and pitched to win a share of the prize money to take their projects forward • A writing retreat where they had dedicated time for writing and learned how to develop positive writing practices and habits using a model known to increase productivity and wellbeing OBJECTIVE 4: ENSURE IMPACT OF THE RESEARCH BY ENGAGING WITH INDUSTRY AND POLICY MAKERS Parliamentary evidence submitted to three House of Lords committee enquiries: National Plan for Sports and Recreation January 2021 https://www.eworklife.co.uk/lords-select-committee-inquiry-a-national-plan-for-sport-and-recreation/ Living online: the long-term impact on wellbeing December 2020 https://www.eworklife.co.uk/policy/parliamentary-evidence-living-online-the-long-term-impact-on-wellbeing/ The impact of conronavirus on business and workers August 2020 https://www.eworklife.co.uk/policy/parliamentary-evidence/ Consultation response and policy briefing paper: July 2019 Enabling better health for all: the role for digital technologies to help people move more and stay healthier for longer https://www.eworklife.co.uk/briefing-paper-2019/ In addition, Anna Cox was invited to speak to House of Lords COVID19 Committee in October 2020 about the impact of the rapid transition to home working on employee wellbeing, including the increased sedentary time. We held a Policy Dialogue event with policy officials, practitioners and business leaders in October 2019 at the UKactive Summit. 671 practitioners, policy officials and business leaders attended the summit where we held an 'ask our experts' poster presentation session with our Fellows and feasibility grantees, and a Policy Dialogue event attended by over 200, discussing implications of our research for policy and practice. Workshop on wearables in primary care We held a workshop on design and use of wearables in primary care attended by 30 people, including doctors, others working in primary care and academics researching eHealth, mHealth and HCI. July 2018 Workshop with academics and business leaders A workshop attended by 40 people bringing together academics and professionals with an interest in workplace wellbeing, physical activity in the workplace and new opportunities for digital technology. Theme: how new digital technologies can support the mission to make our workplaces happier, healthier and more creative. Hosted by Professor Lucy Yardley and Professor Ian Craddock. July 2019. OBJECTIVE 5: INCREASED PUBLIC AWARNESS OF THE IMPACTS OF MOVEMENT AND ACTIVITY Public events: • Mindfulness on the Go - workshop about Mindfulness, mindful movement, and use of apps to support mental health- attended by 40 • What does health feel like? - interactive exhibition exploring physical ways (using materials) to provide feedback to people about their health data - attended by 500 • What does health look like? - exploring graphical and illustrative ways to express health data and turn this into t-shirt designs - attended by 30 Policy, business, practitioner events: • Policy Dialogue event with policy officials, practitioners and business leaders in October 2019 held at the UKactive Summit. 671 practitioners, policy officials and business leaders attended. o We held an 'ask our experts' poster presentation session with our Fellows and feasibility grantees o Had a stand in the exhibition area o Held a Policy Dialogue event attended by over 200, discussing implications of our research for policy and practice. Followers 978 - a significant following given we are tweeting on a narrow 'niche' interest, average follower number is 700 and only 2% of twitter accounts have more than 1000 followers. Key stats to date indicate significant reach and engagement with audiences, demonstrating achievement of intended outcomes and impacts. (Figures as at end Jan 2021). Tweets: 4856 Impressions (number who saw tweets): 1.15 million Engagements: 20,226 Profile visits: 9946 YouTube We have produced 5-minute videos of all the events we have funded and for each of our feasibility projects. Our Fellows have also created personal profile videos which are included on our channel. We now have 26 videos. Outcomes and impacts: - Increased awareness among researchers of GAMO agenda, research challenges & related activities (e.g. by tweeting the videos, as well as simply their presence on line). - Wider public audience reached via YouTube - Resources for our collaborators/funded researchers to raise the profile of their projects: multiplies our reach & awareness impacts YouTube stats (as at 8/2/21); Total videos in channel: 26 Total views: 7001 Total watch time: 233 hours Average view time: 2.00 (at least 50% of most videos) Website The purpose of the website is to provide information about the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+, news about funding calls and network events. It provides a repository of information to link to from social media, newsletters etc. so plays a pivotal role in other engagement activities. Key website stats from launch to 31/1/21 Visitor sessions: 14831 Users: 10204 Page views: 32181 Downloads of PDFs and other documents 1823 Thinkpiece downloads 294 Feasibility report downloads 117 Downloads of Prevention Green Paper response 120 Visits to expert/directory pages 390 Individual expert profile visits and tag searches for experts 414 Press / news media Evening Standard Interview with Evening Standard (ES) published 19th November 2020 about eWorkLife Covid-19 research (reported under 'Collaborations") which included a citizen science project gathering data about the experience of switching to remote work and simultaneously providing remote workers with personalised research-informed advice about how to best cope with remote working. That research informed submissions of written evidence to the UK Parliamentary Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, in response to the evidence call, "The impact of coronavirus on businesses and workers" (August 2020). The ES picked up on a suggestion in the submission that home workers could be encouraged to do a 'pretend commute' i.e. compensate for loss of commuting-related activity and create work-lfe/home-life separation by taking a short work before and after work. The result was a 400 word article which appeared in the print version (reach c850k / week) and online version (reach c3m / week). The idea captured the imagination of other journalists and led to Prof Cox being interviewed and quoted by the Wall Street Journal & CBS News. Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal picked up on the ES article and published their own, on Jan 11 2021, "Welcome to the Fake Office Commute" which quoted Prof Cox and appeared in the print version (circulation c754K/day) and the online version (c2.26m/day). CBS News Radio CBS News Radio in the US also picked up on the article and did an interview with Prof Cox which ran across more than 700 CBS News affiliated radio stations in the US on January 18th, and also streams live via SoundCloud. Citizen science: We carried out a citizen science study with eWorkLife to gather data on people's work-life practices, including physical activity, and provide people with personalised recommendations https://www.eworklife.co.uk/research/covid19-remote-work/personalised-recommendations/ Findings from this study informed the development of Work Life Radio, a browser app that uses music to help people balance periods of work with periods of rest, break up sedentary time and create an opportunity for physical activity. There will be a 5-week study designed to test the current version of the app. It will involve filling in a baseline diary of activities, using the app for 4 weeks, and filling in an online survey. https://www.eworklife.co.uk/eworklife-radio/ Achievement of research objectives: In May 2017 the GAMO Symposium took place with the aim of bringing together a range of experts to help to scope and define approaches, and stimulate debate about the role of current and future technologies in enhancing physical activity levels in our three target groups: schools, workplaces, and communities of older adults. The symposium closed with a workshop with the aim of identifying the main research challenges and goals for GAMO and a range of related research questions. taken as a whole, the research funded did address all the themes identified, with the exception of "Establishing continuous engagement: how to enable behaviour change (e.g. supporting habit formation". We didn't receive any applications which directly addressed this theme. This is perhaps not surprising as the 6 to 9 month timeframe for the feasibility projects would preclude longer term studies to demonstrate the efficacy of a particular approach to establishing longer term, continuous engagement in physical activity. It might be argued that several of the research projects funded would actually support this longer term aim indirectly, for example, Rooksby et al's project to design a mobile app for football fans to promote physical activity: there is some evidence that the social connections engendered among users of the app may encourage participants to organise and engage in physical activity that was not 'prescribed' or monitored by the app, such as friendly football matches. Other activities funded by GAMO did address the behaviour change themes identified in the symposium workshop report. For example, the workshops on behaviour change to address sedentarism, and the workshop on developing health behaviour change interventions sing the person-based approach. Achievement of our vision: The vision set out at the start of the project was that "at the end of four years we will have": 1. Develop and engage a community: Built an academic community: Established an internationally leading community of scholars whose research interest is improving the design and efficacy of technology that helps people maintain and improve their health and wellbeing by encouraging and supporting physical movement. We have achieved this: our funding created: Core network: • 147 researchers who were actively engaged as contributors to research and/or events including • 10 GetAMoveOn Fellows - early career network • 47 investigators involved in our 8 feasibility projects • 26 who presented at our symposium • 64 academics who hosted/organised and/or presented at our other events. • 32 institutions and 30 disciplines involved in plus-funded activities Actively engaged: • 1752 network of academic / practitioner / policy / business people who attended our events. Wider community: 1631: • 353 academics and professionals/practitioners on mailing list, from 131 institutions in 23 countries • 349 people who took part in our research with eWorkLife on the impact of remote working • 929 twitter followers 2. Trained multi-disciplinary researchers: Increased the capability of the UK to deliver digital technologies that: are informed by the state of the art in evidence-based behavioural science theories; make use of integrated sensors that deliver timely and useful information; and are usable, useful and used. This will be achieved through providing cross-disciplinary training opportunities to both established and early-career researchers. We have achieved this: • Trained 10 ECRs though the Fellows' programme in the personal and professional skills to advance their careers and raise their profiles as researchers • Ran 17 workshops and other training events: o 5 academic conference workshops o 6 academic workshops o 5 training events o 1 summer school 3. Pump-primed research: Funded innovative, interdisciplinary, cross-sector collaborations between behavioural, social, sports and computer scientists to create and test novel wearable, situated and interactive technological interventions that effectively engage users in self-management of health and wellbeing around movement. These collaborations and interventions will be funded through a series of themed calls that are expected to lead on to future research proposals and long-term interdisciplinary working. We have achieved this through: • Distribution of £450k of plus funds • The collaborations funded did include some ECRs, but perhaps we could have focused more on ECRs and positively encouraged them to apply as PIs and become grant-holders in their own right 4. Engaged with and empowered the broader professional community: Enabled researchers, technologists, and stakeholders in educational, residential and work settings to develop and share new methodologies, data, conceptual frameworks, skills and practices for creating and understanding the use of existing health tracking technologies, and to co-produce novel technological solutions. We will support this through a series of themed workshops and design competitions. We have achieved this through: • Disseminating research to the academic community through our website, social media activity and conference workshops. This activity could have been more integrated with other parts of the vision. • Engaging with policy professionals 5. Outreach: Increased public awareness of the impacts of movement and activity and the role that technology can take in supporting behaviour change. This awareness will be promoted through a range of impact and public engagement activities. We have achieved this through: • 3 public engagement events • Our partnership with ukactive • Citizen science projects with eWorkLife • Our website, social media activity and YouTube channels • The eWorkLife podcast Impacts The ultimate aim of the GetAMoveOn project is to improve people's health and wellbeing through encouraging them to move more with the help of digital technologies. This is a long term impact which all the work we have done will contribute towards, but it is very challenging to identify and track this over time, and link it back to the GAMO network. Shorter term impacts include: • Creation of 19 new, interdisciplinary collaborations that will lead to future research projects • Training 10 ECRs in the personal and professional skills to advance their careers and raise the profile of their work • Funded a feasibility study into natural language processing; important foundational work that will support the future ability to deliver remote, personalised, AI-driven support for physical activity at scale. • Proof of concept for several digital tools for measuring / supporting physical activity that can be further developed (See John Rooksby app for football fans; Melitta McNarry Rise and Recharge app testing; Max Western DAPPA tool; Ildar Farkhatdinov wheelchair tracker; Angela Carlin digital personal assistants; Kirk Plangger gamification system; Kathy Stawarz Exercise snacking; Cindy Forbes EMA with cancer patients. • Joe Newbold's research project that focused on bridging the gap between behaviour change expertise and app development, including development of a toolkit to help technology developers understand how to incorporate behaviour change techniques into their products + website to promote it; likely to make their apps more effective • Further funding that will support additional work related to the GAMO themes 1. Health Resilience Interactive Technology: transforming self-management for individual and community health via inbodied interaction design Fellowship Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/T007656/1 £ 1,585,889 2020-2025 2. Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship University of Melbourne Fellowship AUD$20,000 2021-2021 3. Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP190102627 Australian Research Council DP190102627 AUD$410,000 July 2019-2023 4. Exercise self-management for post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA). Bath Institute for Rheumatic Diseases Research Grant £14363.14 Funding runs October 2019 to November 2021 Biggest successes: 1. Establishing critical mass for a HCI-led multidisciplinary health challenge through commissioning 19 interdisciplinary projects, 10 Fellowships (forming an Early Career Network), 6 academic workshops, 1 symposium, creating an interdisciplinary community of 147 scholars exploring how digital technology can help people maintain and improve their health and wellbeing by encouraging and supporting physical movement. (10 GetAMoveOn fellows, 47 investigators involved in our 8 feasibility projects, 64 academics who hosted/organised and/or presented at our events and 26 who presented at our symposium.) 2. Capacity building through provision of high quality strategic training (20 workshops and training events) and developing an early career network leading to 3 new collaborations, and 3 promotions/getting academic posts after 1 year. Feedback from the Fellows indicates they all found the programme valuable and thought it would help them to advance their careers, even if they weren't sure exactly how yet. Most said that it already was helping their career in a number of different ways. |
Exploitation Route | Plans for further research following on from feasibility projects (see entries relating to feasibility projects) Academic use to inform further research (see publications) Use in public policy (see entries on evidence submitted to government consultation & committee enquries) Impact of Fellows' programme on enhancing career development and by extension further impact arising from their future researach in this field. |
Sectors | Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Healthcare Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/ |
Description | Parliamentary evidence submitted to three House of Lords committee enquiries: National Plan for Sports and Recreation January 2021 https://www.eworklife.co.uk/lords-select-committee-inquiry-a-national-plan-for-sport-and-recreation/ Living online: the long-term impact on wellbeing December 2020 https://www.eworklife.co.uk/policy/parliamentary-evidence-living-online-the-long-term-impact-on-wellbeing/ The impact of conronavirus on business and workers August 2020 https://www.eworklife.co.uk/policy/parliamentary-evidence/ Consultation response and policy briefing paper: July 2019 Enabling better health for all: the role for digital technologies to help people move more and stay healthier for longer https://www.eworklife.co.uk/briefing-paper-2019/ In addition, Anna Cox was invited to speak to House of Lords COVID19 Committee in October 2020 about the impact of the rapid transition to home working on employee wellbeing, including the increased sedentary time. |
First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
Sector | Government, Democracy and Justice |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Parliamentary Evidence August 2020 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/12776/html/ |
Description | Parliamentary Evidence December 2020 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/18925/html/ |
Description | Parliamentary Evidence January 2021 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/482/national-plan-for-sport-and-recreation-committee/publ... |
Description | Prevention Green Paper consultation submission & briefing document |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/publications/policy-and-practice |
Description | Special Advisor - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee / House of Commons for the Immersive and addictive technologies inquiry |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-an... |
Description | Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP190102627 |
Amount | $410,000 (AUD) |
Funding ID | DP190102627 |
Organisation | Australian Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | Australia |
Start | 06/2019 |
End | 06/2023 |
Description | EPSRC IAA award to UCL 2017-20 Grant Reference EP/R511638/1 |
Amount | £4,964 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EPSRC IAA 2017-2- OVPR Public Policy / Rapid Response Advisory Scheme |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2019 |
End | 12/2019 |
Description | EPSRC IAA award to UCL 2017020 Grant Reference EP/R511638/1 |
Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EPSRC IAA 2017-2- OVPR Public Policy / Policy Dialogues 2017-20 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2019 |
End | 12/2019 |
Description | Health Resilience Interactive Technology: transforming self-management for individual and community health via inbodied interaction design |
Amount | £1,585,889 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T007656/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2020 |
End | 10/2025 |
Description | MRC/AHRC/ESRC ADOLESCENCE, MENTAL HEALTH AND THE DEVELOPING MIND: Engagement Awards https://mrc.ukri.org/documents/pdf/amhdm-engagement-awards/ |
Amount | £100,679 (GBP) |
Funding ID | MR/T046864/1 |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellows https://provost.unimelb.edu.au/committees/miegunyah |
Amount | $20,000 (AUD) |
Organisation | University of Melbourne |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | Australia |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 12/2021 |
Description | The Post Traumatic Osteoarthritis Support Tool (POST Study aka Exercise self-management for post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) |
Amount | £14,363 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Department | Bath Institute for Rheumatic Diseases (BIRD) |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2019 |
End | 11/2021 |
Description | Active Minds Workshop |
Organisation | Northumbria University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided funding for the Active Minds workshop and related public engagement event, Mindfulness on the Go, both fully funded by GetAMoveOn; promoted the workshop via our media channels; made a video of the workshop to publicise the workshop and its outcomes, which is on our website, YouTube channel and is also available for the organisers to embed in their own publicity materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | Organised a two-day event focusing on how issues of mental health, accessibility, and neurodiversity intersect with technology and physical activity. Engaged speakers from diverse areas. Ran workshop session in which they arranged the attendees into small groups and asked them to consider three questions: "If you were to spend three years doing a PhD in this area, what would it be on?", "if you were to spend 6 months do a collaborative project, what would it be on and who would it involve?", "If you were to work on a community initiative, what would it be and why?" They also arranged for posters and demos to be presented, including a local collaboration between University of Glasgow and an NHS team. |
Impact | The organisers have reported the following outputs and outcomes from the activities we have funded: • Requests about (further) participation or involvement • Plans made for further related activity • Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours • Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions • Requests for further information • We brought together 75 people including academics, industry professionals, health professionals, charity workers and members of the public with lived experience of mental health issues to discuss topics related to the concerns of the EPSRC Get A Move On+ • We organised a publicly accessible event at an NHS Hospital • We have changed the views of people on the relevance of mental health to the area of technology and physical activity and enabled people to see connections and parallels across different areas. • A grant application between several attendees will be made in late 2018 on issues relating to the workshop. Multidisciplinary workshop. Disciplines represented amongst speakers: • Health informatics • Psychiatry • Computer Science • Data Science • Lived Experience (Members of public) • Veterinary Science • Mental Health • Dentistry • Psychology • Public Health Disciplines represented amongst participants: • Computer science • Dentistry • Veterinary science • Public health • Artist • Nursery Teacher • Secretary • Design • Coaching • Health Professions • Health Informatics • Medicine • Cancer care • Activist • Data Science • Health promotion • Project officer • Project management • Technology Industry Professional • Lived Experience (Members of public) The impacts of this work are still emerging, and include: • We brought together 75 people including academics, industry professionals, health professionals, charity workers and members of the public with lived experience of mental health issues to discuss topics related to the concerns of the EPSRC Get A Move On+ • We organised a publicly accessible event at an NHS Hospital • We have changed the views of people on the relevance of mental health to the area of technology and physical activity and enabled people to see connections and parallels across different areas. • A grant application between several attendees will be made in late 2018 on issues relating to the workshop. Other outcomes and impacts: • Requests about (further) participation or involvement • Plans made for further related activity • Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours • Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions • Requests for further information |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Active Minds Workshop |
Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided funding for the Active Minds workshop and related public engagement event, Mindfulness on the Go, both fully funded by GetAMoveOn; promoted the workshop via our media channels; made a video of the workshop to publicise the workshop and its outcomes, which is on our website, YouTube channel and is also available for the organisers to embed in their own publicity materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | Organised a two-day event focusing on how issues of mental health, accessibility, and neurodiversity intersect with technology and physical activity. Engaged speakers from diverse areas. Ran workshop session in which they arranged the attendees into small groups and asked them to consider three questions: "If you were to spend three years doing a PhD in this area, what would it be on?", "if you were to spend 6 months do a collaborative project, what would it be on and who would it involve?", "If you were to work on a community initiative, what would it be and why?" They also arranged for posters and demos to be presented, including a local collaboration between University of Glasgow and an NHS team. |
Impact | The organisers have reported the following outputs and outcomes from the activities we have funded: • Requests about (further) participation or involvement • Plans made for further related activity • Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours • Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions • Requests for further information • We brought together 75 people including academics, industry professionals, health professionals, charity workers and members of the public with lived experience of mental health issues to discuss topics related to the concerns of the EPSRC Get A Move On+ • We organised a publicly accessible event at an NHS Hospital • We have changed the views of people on the relevance of mental health to the area of technology and physical activity and enabled people to see connections and parallels across different areas. • A grant application between several attendees will be made in late 2018 on issues relating to the workshop. Multidisciplinary workshop. Disciplines represented amongst speakers: • Health informatics • Psychiatry • Computer Science • Data Science • Lived Experience (Members of public) • Veterinary Science • Mental Health • Dentistry • Psychology • Public Health Disciplines represented amongst participants: • Computer science • Dentistry • Veterinary science • Public health • Artist • Nursery Teacher • Secretary • Design • Coaching • Health Professions • Health Informatics • Medicine • Cancer care • Activist • Data Science • Health promotion • Project officer • Project management • Technology Industry Professional • Lived Experience (Members of public) The impacts of this work are still emerging, and include: • We brought together 75 people including academics, industry professionals, health professionals, charity workers and members of the public with lived experience of mental health issues to discuss topics related to the concerns of the EPSRC Get A Move On+ • We organised a publicly accessible event at an NHS Hospital • We have changed the views of people on the relevance of mental health to the area of technology and physical activity and enabled people to see connections and parallels across different areas. • A grant application between several attendees will be made in late 2018 on issues relating to the workshop. Other outcomes and impacts: • Requests about (further) participation or involvement • Plans made for further related activity • Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours • Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions • Requests for further information |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Active Minds Workshop |
Organisation | University of Glasgow |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided funding for the Active Minds workshop and related public engagement event, Mindfulness on the Go, both fully funded by GetAMoveOn; promoted the workshop via our media channels; made a video of the workshop to publicise the workshop and its outcomes, which is on our website, YouTube channel and is also available for the organisers to embed in their own publicity materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | Organised a two-day event focusing on how issues of mental health, accessibility, and neurodiversity intersect with technology and physical activity. Engaged speakers from diverse areas. Ran workshop session in which they arranged the attendees into small groups and asked them to consider three questions: "If you were to spend three years doing a PhD in this area, what would it be on?", "if you were to spend 6 months do a collaborative project, what would it be on and who would it involve?", "If you were to work on a community initiative, what would it be and why?" They also arranged for posters and demos to be presented, including a local collaboration between University of Glasgow and an NHS team. |
Impact | The organisers have reported the following outputs and outcomes from the activities we have funded: • Requests about (further) participation or involvement • Plans made for further related activity • Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours • Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions • Requests for further information • We brought together 75 people including academics, industry professionals, health professionals, charity workers and members of the public with lived experience of mental health issues to discuss topics related to the concerns of the EPSRC Get A Move On+ • We organised a publicly accessible event at an NHS Hospital • We have changed the views of people on the relevance of mental health to the area of technology and physical activity and enabled people to see connections and parallels across different areas. • A grant application between several attendees will be made in late 2018 on issues relating to the workshop. Multidisciplinary workshop. Disciplines represented amongst speakers: • Health informatics • Psychiatry • Computer Science • Data Science • Lived Experience (Members of public) • Veterinary Science • Mental Health • Dentistry • Psychology • Public Health Disciplines represented amongst participants: • Computer science • Dentistry • Veterinary science • Public health • Artist • Nursery Teacher • Secretary • Design • Coaching • Health Professions • Health Informatics • Medicine • Cancer care • Activist • Data Science • Health promotion • Project officer • Project management • Technology Industry Professional • Lived Experience (Members of public) The impacts of this work are still emerging, and include: • We brought together 75 people including academics, industry professionals, health professionals, charity workers and members of the public with lived experience of mental health issues to discuss topics related to the concerns of the EPSRC Get A Move On+ • We organised a publicly accessible event at an NHS Hospital • We have changed the views of people on the relevance of mental health to the area of technology and physical activity and enabled people to see connections and parallels across different areas. • A grant application between several attendees will be made in late 2018 on issues relating to the workshop. Other outcomes and impacts: • Requests about (further) participation or involvement • Plans made for further related activity • Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours • Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions • Requests for further information |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Active Minds Workshop |
Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided funding for the Active Minds workshop and related public engagement event, Mindfulness on the Go, both fully funded by GetAMoveOn; promoted the workshop via our media channels; made a video of the workshop to publicise the workshop and its outcomes, which is on our website, YouTube channel and is also available for the organisers to embed in their own publicity materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | Organised a two-day event focusing on how issues of mental health, accessibility, and neurodiversity intersect with technology and physical activity. Engaged speakers from diverse areas. Ran workshop session in which they arranged the attendees into small groups and asked them to consider three questions: "If you were to spend three years doing a PhD in this area, what would it be on?", "if you were to spend 6 months do a collaborative project, what would it be on and who would it involve?", "If you were to work on a community initiative, what would it be and why?" They also arranged for posters and demos to be presented, including a local collaboration between University of Glasgow and an NHS team. |
Impact | The organisers have reported the following outputs and outcomes from the activities we have funded: • Requests about (further) participation or involvement • Plans made for further related activity • Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours • Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions • Requests for further information • We brought together 75 people including academics, industry professionals, health professionals, charity workers and members of the public with lived experience of mental health issues to discuss topics related to the concerns of the EPSRC Get A Move On+ • We organised a publicly accessible event at an NHS Hospital • We have changed the views of people on the relevance of mental health to the area of technology and physical activity and enabled people to see connections and parallels across different areas. • A grant application between several attendees will be made in late 2018 on issues relating to the workshop. Multidisciplinary workshop. Disciplines represented amongst speakers: • Health informatics • Psychiatry • Computer Science • Data Science • Lived Experience (Members of public) • Veterinary Science • Mental Health • Dentistry • Psychology • Public Health Disciplines represented amongst participants: • Computer science • Dentistry • Veterinary science • Public health • Artist • Nursery Teacher • Secretary • Design • Coaching • Health Professions • Health Informatics • Medicine • Cancer care • Activist • Data Science • Health promotion • Project officer • Project management • Technology Industry Professional • Lived Experience (Members of public) The impacts of this work are still emerging, and include: • We brought together 75 people including academics, industry professionals, health professionals, charity workers and members of the public with lived experience of mental health issues to discuss topics related to the concerns of the EPSRC Get A Move On+ • We organised a publicly accessible event at an NHS Hospital • We have changed the views of people on the relevance of mental health to the area of technology and physical activity and enabled people to see connections and parallels across different areas. • A grant application between several attendees will be made in late 2018 on issues relating to the workshop. Other outcomes and impacts: • Requests about (further) participation or involvement • Plans made for further related activity • Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours • Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions • Requests for further information |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | David Ellis workshop: Innovations In Primary Care |
Organisation | Lancaster University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided funding for the workshop (fully funded); promoted the workshop via our media channels; made a video of the workshop to publicise the workshop and its outcomes, which is on our website, YouTube channel and is also available for the organisers to embed in their own publicity materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | Individual collaborators were Dr David Ellis (Lancaster University) and Dr Lukasz Piwek (University of Bath) organised a workshop following on from the 'thinkpiece' that they wrote for GetAMoveOn: "As part of our getamoveon funded 'thinkpiece', we considered how future wearable interventions might be improved or re-designed from the ground up in order to maximise their success. This included the idea of trialling a practitioner-based approach when considering how wearable technologies might best serve specific domains in health or occupational settings. In July of this year, we hosted a workshop at Lancaster University that focused on the role that wearable interventions might play as part of a primary care intervention. We first heard from Professor Philip Wilson (Medicine) who spoke candidly of recent interactions with challenging patients, who might benefit from interventions to help them become more active. This provided a unique perspective because while Professor Wilson remains research active, he continues to practice as a GP. Academics in the room asked many questions regarding how new developments in wearable technology might become prescribed by primary care practitioners in the future. Dr Lukasz Piwek (Data Science) then presented an overview of research, which makes many promises regarding how wearable technology can diagnose and help patients become more active. This highlighted large gaps between the promise of basic research and how this might be applied within a primary care domain. Several attendees were quick to point out that modern technology may inadvertently be causing harm (e.g., physical inactivity due to time spent sitting in front of a screen). However, others were quick to point out that this shouldn't diminish new attempts to use technology that encourages mobility. After a short break, Dr John Hardy (Chemistry) provided an overview regarding what new wearable technologies might be around the corner. Specifically, materials science has already pioneered the development of fabrics and devices, which appear in other medical interventions. Finally, Dr David Ellis (Psychology) presented recent findings from his own programme of research, which argues that keeping wearable interventions comparatively simple might provide a more straightforward point of access when transferring lab-based findings into the NHS. Over lunch, discussions continued around the promises and barriers afforded by these new technologies, and delegates spent much of the afternoon designing some new interventions of their own. Highlights included a scheme entitled 'Home Walk', which aimed to gamify the walk home from school in a similar style to Pokemon Go. Another aimed to merge Tango Dancing with wearable trackers, which could monitor performance as part of a series of classes aimed at the elderly. While it became clear that moving new technological developments into the hands of primary care practitioners is less than straightforward, the day nevertheless allowed researchers and service providers to share ideas in a relaxed and constructive space. The overall goal - to encourage more physical activity - is universally accepted as something that should be encouraged, and this helped drive discussions forward both during and after the event. Delegates have continued to meet and discuss some of these ideas at length following this workshop, and we will hope this leads to a related funding application shortly. " |
Impact | David Ellis and Lukasz Piwek, University of Bath are actively involved in the GetAMoveOn network. They have written a thinkpiece, organised this workshop, and also another public engagement workshop all of which are documented elsewhere in the relevant Researchfish entries. They have reported the following impacts to date from the work with them that they have funded: Requests about (further) participation or involvement Plans made for further related activity Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions Decision made or influenced Requests for further information This is a multidisciplinary collaboration. Disciplines involved: psychology, data anlaytics, behaviour change, research methodology, app/wearable development. Dr Ellis is an academic psychologist. The majority of his work considers on how recent methodological developments in technology and data collection (often referred to as digital traces) can reveal information about individuals and their behaviour. This typically involves the integration of converging evidence from laboratory based behavioural experiments and large scale secondary data analysis. He is particularly interested in how these technologies can be applied within health and security settings. Lucasz Piwek is a psychologist and data scientist. He is interested in using data obtained from mobile devices, smart wearables, apps and social networks in user profiling, behaviour change and developing new research methodology. His projects range from investigating psychological markers of 'digital footprints' of behaviour generated by digital devices, developing novel data visualization techniques, and understanding psycho-behavioural implications of using 'quantified self' solutions in workplace, healthcare and security. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | David Ellis workshop: Innovations In Primary Care |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided funding for the workshop (fully funded); promoted the workshop via our media channels; made a video of the workshop to publicise the workshop and its outcomes, which is on our website, YouTube channel and is also available for the organisers to embed in their own publicity materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | Individual collaborators were Dr David Ellis (Lancaster University) and Dr Lukasz Piwek (University of Bath) organised a workshop following on from the 'thinkpiece' that they wrote for GetAMoveOn: "As part of our getamoveon funded 'thinkpiece', we considered how future wearable interventions might be improved or re-designed from the ground up in order to maximise their success. This included the idea of trialling a practitioner-based approach when considering how wearable technologies might best serve specific domains in health or occupational settings. In July of this year, we hosted a workshop at Lancaster University that focused on the role that wearable interventions might play as part of a primary care intervention. We first heard from Professor Philip Wilson (Medicine) who spoke candidly of recent interactions with challenging patients, who might benefit from interventions to help them become more active. This provided a unique perspective because while Professor Wilson remains research active, he continues to practice as a GP. Academics in the room asked many questions regarding how new developments in wearable technology might become prescribed by primary care practitioners in the future. Dr Lukasz Piwek (Data Science) then presented an overview of research, which makes many promises regarding how wearable technology can diagnose and help patients become more active. This highlighted large gaps between the promise of basic research and how this might be applied within a primary care domain. Several attendees were quick to point out that modern technology may inadvertently be causing harm (e.g., physical inactivity due to time spent sitting in front of a screen). However, others were quick to point out that this shouldn't diminish new attempts to use technology that encourages mobility. After a short break, Dr John Hardy (Chemistry) provided an overview regarding what new wearable technologies might be around the corner. Specifically, materials science has already pioneered the development of fabrics and devices, which appear in other medical interventions. Finally, Dr David Ellis (Psychology) presented recent findings from his own programme of research, which argues that keeping wearable interventions comparatively simple might provide a more straightforward point of access when transferring lab-based findings into the NHS. Over lunch, discussions continued around the promises and barriers afforded by these new technologies, and delegates spent much of the afternoon designing some new interventions of their own. Highlights included a scheme entitled 'Home Walk', which aimed to gamify the walk home from school in a similar style to Pokemon Go. Another aimed to merge Tango Dancing with wearable trackers, which could monitor performance as part of a series of classes aimed at the elderly. While it became clear that moving new technological developments into the hands of primary care practitioners is less than straightforward, the day nevertheless allowed researchers and service providers to share ideas in a relaxed and constructive space. The overall goal - to encourage more physical activity - is universally accepted as something that should be encouraged, and this helped drive discussions forward both during and after the event. Delegates have continued to meet and discuss some of these ideas at length following this workshop, and we will hope this leads to a related funding application shortly. " |
Impact | David Ellis and Lukasz Piwek, University of Bath are actively involved in the GetAMoveOn network. They have written a thinkpiece, organised this workshop, and also another public engagement workshop all of which are documented elsewhere in the relevant Researchfish entries. They have reported the following impacts to date from the work with them that they have funded: Requests about (further) participation or involvement Plans made for further related activity Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions Decision made or influenced Requests for further information This is a multidisciplinary collaboration. Disciplines involved: psychology, data anlaytics, behaviour change, research methodology, app/wearable development. Dr Ellis is an academic psychologist. The majority of his work considers on how recent methodological developments in technology and data collection (often referred to as digital traces) can reveal information about individuals and their behaviour. This typically involves the integration of converging evidence from laboratory based behavioural experiments and large scale secondary data analysis. He is particularly interested in how these technologies can be applied within health and security settings. Lucasz Piwek is a psychologist and data scientist. He is interested in using data obtained from mobile devices, smart wearables, apps and social networks in user profiling, behaviour change and developing new research methodology. His projects range from investigating psychological markers of 'digital footprints' of behaviour generated by digital devices, developing novel data visualization techniques, and understanding psycho-behavioural implications of using 'quantified self' solutions in workplace, healthcare and security. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | David Ellis workshop: What does health look like? Exploring visual feedback from wearables |
Organisation | Lancaster University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided funding of £2,360; promoted event via our media channels & GetAMoveOn Network communications channels |
Collaborator Contribution | Developed and organised an event as follows: In line with the aims of GetAMoveOn, this event allowed members of the public to develop simple wearable movement trackers that generate unique visual outputs. Specifically, activities were designed to challenge current thinking on what might constitute a valuable piece of feedback, which could, in turn, feed into future behaviour change interventions. The event took place in September 2018, and began with an introduction from Laura Pullig who provided an overview of what the day would entail. David Ellis then introduced the underlying aims of the GetAMoveOn network and how participants could find out more about future events. Participants were provided with materials and guidance that allowed them to create two wearable movement trackers from scratch. The first was a pressure sensor, which could be placed in a shoe. A second, stretch sensor, could be attached or stitched into fabric. Once these devices were communicating wirelessly with a computer, movements were converted it into visuals with pre-written computer code, which participants could customise. Different movements altered the final visualization in real-time, and experimenting with the sensors to generate new responses helped participants to see, quite literally, what each sensor was recording. This helped illuminate the relationship between movement and visual representation. A static capture of these unique visuals was then transferred onto a t-shirt or mug. While experimenting with the sensors and displays was fun for participants, we hope that these activities will encourage new ways of thinking when health-related data is utilised as part of a future intervention or public engagement event that aims to get people moving. A second group-led activity with work with local dancers to create e-textile movement responsive displays. These will light up or change appearance in response to different movements. Sensors will be made with materials that can be incorporated into clothing and costumes such as conductive fabrics, threads, metals beads, and pressure sensitive materials. We hope to display devices developed following both events as part of an interactive exhibition at future GetAMoveOn or related events. These may challenge current thinking in terms of what might constitute useful and engaging feedback that helps encourage people to become genuinely interested in their activity levels. In turn, developing interventions that go beyond traditional wearable devices (e.g., wrist-based) and feedback metrics (e.g., step counts) could provide several new research opportunities. |
Impact | This was a multidisciplinary collaboration. Disciplines represented amongst the researchers/organisers: Art Psychology Disciplines represented amongst speakers: Art Psychology Disciplines represented amongst delegates/audience: Art Data Science Computer Science Public engagement: 30 people attended. They were overwhelmingly positive about the day, with 100% of participants reporting that they were happy and satisfied with the event in writing or in conversation with the organisers. 100% who completed the feedback survey said they would recommend the event to others. No delegate reported feeling unsatisfied about any aspect of the event. Engaging young people and stimulating interest in STEM careers: Many children attended the event with their parents. Some were already learning to code in school, but others had little previous experience with electronics. Regardless, they enjoyed building and programming devices (often requiring less assistance than their parents). Therefore, these activities can help children develop an interest in engineering, science and health more generally. Awareness raising: Many people tweeted during the day with the @DoESLiverpool account being especially active. Capacity building: Influenced development of a creative hub at Lancaster University to help build capacity in tech design skills: Event organisers reported that, "There appears to be a large skills gap when developing and prototyping wearable devices as part of interventions that aim to encourage physical activity. Specifically, those working within digital health don't always have the technical knowledge to build simple, but highly-customised sensors. This has become such an issue that Lancaster University is in the process of investing in a 'maker space', which will provide a creative hub for interested students and researchers who are developing prototype devices. The activities outlined previously have helped guide these recent developments and illuminated how this new space will become more productive. First, it is possible for anyone to quickly understand and practice the basic technical skills associated with sensor development. Second, those working with digital textiles and interactive art exhibits already have many skills that could translate across to health and computational social science. We intend to explore this interdisciplinary avenue further as it appears that research cultures and practices are converging when developing digital health interventions." |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: AI intervention to encourage PA in older adults (Wiratunga) |
Organisation | Openbrolly |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%): £49,704 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on on our website, on YouTube, promoted through twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: Our vision is to develop a natural, ubiquitous and proactive system that can use conversation to deliver behaviour change interventions for improving physical activity to older adults. For this, we address the following research questions: 1. Can physical activity data from wearable sensors be used to contextualise conversational interaction? 2. Can we recognise barriers to physical activity in follow-on user responses and generate recommendations for overcoming them? 3. Can conversational intervention create positive behaviour change? 4. Can we create the type of experience that ensures full engagement and long-term adherence? Conversation appeals to all age groups, but might prove particularly appropriate for older adults who can have difficulties with new technologies and may be more likely to appreciate the natural interaction offered through conversational dialogue. Hence, delivering behaviour change interventions using digital conversation provides an opportunity for achieving higher levels of adoption and adherence, compared to traditional approaches. Presently, digital behaviour change interventions are delivered as text notifications on mobile phones. Despite the popularity of this approach, there is little evidence to indicate that text notifications are effective at promoting positive behaviour change particularly in the long-term. The main problem is that text notifications offer one-way communication (from the device to the user) and hence, provide no opportunity for interaction. In addition, text notifications are easily ignored; fewer than 30% of received notifications are typically viewed by users with average delays of close to 3 hours, highlighting the need for an alternative approach. |
Impact | Project report on GetAMoveOn website. Publication planned for ECAI workshop on Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation. Presentation during 'Meet the Researchers' session at ukactive National Summit held 31 October 2019 (see entry for ukactive National Summit under 'Engagement Activities') Presented a poster at SICSA DemoFest 2020. Presented the FitChat demo at a public-facing event OneDigital North Scotland; where the general public was able to use it and discuss the benefits of regular physical activity and how to fit that into their lifestyles to improve health and wellbeing. Follow-on funding: A feasibility study was funded by Standard Innovation Voucher Fund (from Scottish Enterprise) to study how Conversational AI methods might be incorporated for self-management of young adults with mental health. Techniques used in FitChat were relevant here. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: AI intervention to encourage PA in older adults (Wiratunga) |
Organisation | Robert Gordon University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%): £49,704 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on on our website, on YouTube, promoted through twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: Our vision is to develop a natural, ubiquitous and proactive system that can use conversation to deliver behaviour change interventions for improving physical activity to older adults. For this, we address the following research questions: 1. Can physical activity data from wearable sensors be used to contextualise conversational interaction? 2. Can we recognise barriers to physical activity in follow-on user responses and generate recommendations for overcoming them? 3. Can conversational intervention create positive behaviour change? 4. Can we create the type of experience that ensures full engagement and long-term adherence? Conversation appeals to all age groups, but might prove particularly appropriate for older adults who can have difficulties with new technologies and may be more likely to appreciate the natural interaction offered through conversational dialogue. Hence, delivering behaviour change interventions using digital conversation provides an opportunity for achieving higher levels of adoption and adherence, compared to traditional approaches. Presently, digital behaviour change interventions are delivered as text notifications on mobile phones. Despite the popularity of this approach, there is little evidence to indicate that text notifications are effective at promoting positive behaviour change particularly in the long-term. The main problem is that text notifications offer one-way communication (from the device to the user) and hence, provide no opportunity for interaction. In addition, text notifications are easily ignored; fewer than 30% of received notifications are typically viewed by users with average delays of close to 3 hours, highlighting the need for an alternative approach. |
Impact | Project report on GetAMoveOn website. Publication planned for ECAI workshop on Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation. Presentation during 'Meet the Researchers' session at ukactive National Summit held 31 October 2019 (see entry for ukactive National Summit under 'Engagement Activities') Presented a poster at SICSA DemoFest 2020. Presented the FitChat demo at a public-facing event OneDigital North Scotland; where the general public was able to use it and discuss the benefits of regular physical activity and how to fit that into their lifestyles to improve health and wellbeing. Follow-on funding: A feasibility study was funded by Standard Innovation Voucher Fund (from Scottish Enterprise) to study how Conversational AI methods might be incorporated for self-management of young adults with mental health. Techniques used in FitChat were relevant here. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: AI intervention to encourage PA in older adults (Wiratunga) |
Organisation | University of Aberdeen |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%): £49,704 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on on our website, on YouTube, promoted through twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: Our vision is to develop a natural, ubiquitous and proactive system that can use conversation to deliver behaviour change interventions for improving physical activity to older adults. For this, we address the following research questions: 1. Can physical activity data from wearable sensors be used to contextualise conversational interaction? 2. Can we recognise barriers to physical activity in follow-on user responses and generate recommendations for overcoming them? 3. Can conversational intervention create positive behaviour change? 4. Can we create the type of experience that ensures full engagement and long-term adherence? Conversation appeals to all age groups, but might prove particularly appropriate for older adults who can have difficulties with new technologies and may be more likely to appreciate the natural interaction offered through conversational dialogue. Hence, delivering behaviour change interventions using digital conversation provides an opportunity for achieving higher levels of adoption and adherence, compared to traditional approaches. Presently, digital behaviour change interventions are delivered as text notifications on mobile phones. Despite the popularity of this approach, there is little evidence to indicate that text notifications are effective at promoting positive behaviour change particularly in the long-term. The main problem is that text notifications offer one-way communication (from the device to the user) and hence, provide no opportunity for interaction. In addition, text notifications are easily ignored; fewer than 30% of received notifications are typically viewed by users with average delays of close to 3 hours, highlighting the need for an alternative approach. |
Impact | Project report on GetAMoveOn website. Publication planned for ECAI workshop on Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation. Presentation during 'Meet the Researchers' session at ukactive National Summit held 31 October 2019 (see entry for ukactive National Summit under 'Engagement Activities') Presented a poster at SICSA DemoFest 2020. Presented the FitChat demo at a public-facing event OneDigital North Scotland; where the general public was able to use it and discuss the benefits of regular physical activity and how to fit that into their lifestyles to improve health and wellbeing. Follow-on funding: A feasibility study was funded by Standard Innovation Voucher Fund (from Scottish Enterprise) to study how Conversational AI methods might be incorporated for self-management of young adults with mental health. Techniques used in FitChat were relevant here. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: Rise & Recharge! App (McNarry) |
Organisation | Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute |
Country | Australia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £48,296.50 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on our website, on YouTube, promoted via twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators will carry out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: Physical inactivity is well-accepted as a major cause of morbidity and mortality, but less is known regarding the influence of sedentary behaviour (sitting) on adverse health outcomes. Sitting is now identified as a novel risk factor for poor cardiometabolic health and premature mortality. For many adults, sitting is inherent to the occupational setting, with office workers spending two thirds of their working hours sedentary. Importantly, even in those who regularly exercise, such activity does not offset all of the deleterious consequences of long sedentary periods. New evidence from our Australian CO-PIs shows significant benefits from by breaking up periods of sustained sitting with intermittent movement. Wearable activity trackers and health apps are one of the most rapidly growing market sectors, highlighting the potential for technology in addressing this global health challenge. However, these apps tend to attract people who are already active; and more attention is needed on those who are highly sedentary, many of whom are unaware that they are, in order to break up their sedentary behaviours sufficiently for health gain. The Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Australia has recently developed an app, Rise and Recharge, to address this issue, with preliminary evidence suggesting that self-monitoring and real-time feedback via an activity tracker and mobile app, with set-up support only, can elicit short-term improvements in daily movement, sitting time, and sitting accumulation patterns. This project will ascertain the individual and environmental factors that moderate the feasibility of this app to break up prolonged sitting in office workers. |
Impact | Published journal paper: Morris A S, Mackintosh KA, Dunstan D, Owen N, Dempsey P, Pennington T, McNarry MA. (2020). Rise and Recharge: Effects on Activity Outcomes of an e-Health Smartphone Intervention to Reduce Office Workers' Sitting Time. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health , pp. 9300 Blog post on GetAMoveOn website. Research was presented at the UKActive Summit on October 31st 2019. Abstract accepted for International Society for Physical Activity and Health 2021 Additional funding secured for studentship based on this funding: Swansea Paid Internship Network funding for a 4 week student placement over the summer to help with data collection. Work from this project contributed to development of strategic themes integrated within the newly inaugurated and funded Welsh Institute of Physical Activity, Health and Sport (The Welsh Institute of Physical Activity, Health & Sport - Swansea University) ACSM International Scholar Award was given to M. McNarry to retrospectively explore sedentary behaviour patterns and the effect of exercise interventions on them A. Morris was awarded a grant from Lancaster University (£1380) to attend ISPAH 2021 to present the feasibility work. The Rise and Recharge project has informed development of a further project, "Optimising older adults' home spaces to support independence, activity, connection and wellbeing through the development of a Digital Movement Diary (DMD)" funded by CHERISH-DE, an ESRC funded centre, and led by Dr Joanne Hudson (PI). The aim of this project is to develop a Digital Movement Diary (DMD) that practitioners can use in partnership with older adults to help them recognise their individual physical movement patterns whilst in their homes/care home and to encourage them to increase their physical activity and decrease sedentary behaviour. Budget: £9,275. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: Rise & Recharge! App (McNarry) |
Organisation | Swansea University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £48,296.50 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on our website, on YouTube, promoted via twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators will carry out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: Physical inactivity is well-accepted as a major cause of morbidity and mortality, but less is known regarding the influence of sedentary behaviour (sitting) on adverse health outcomes. Sitting is now identified as a novel risk factor for poor cardiometabolic health and premature mortality. For many adults, sitting is inherent to the occupational setting, with office workers spending two thirds of their working hours sedentary. Importantly, even in those who regularly exercise, such activity does not offset all of the deleterious consequences of long sedentary periods. New evidence from our Australian CO-PIs shows significant benefits from by breaking up periods of sustained sitting with intermittent movement. Wearable activity trackers and health apps are one of the most rapidly growing market sectors, highlighting the potential for technology in addressing this global health challenge. However, these apps tend to attract people who are already active; and more attention is needed on those who are highly sedentary, many of whom are unaware that they are, in order to break up their sedentary behaviours sufficiently for health gain. The Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Australia has recently developed an app, Rise and Recharge, to address this issue, with preliminary evidence suggesting that self-monitoring and real-time feedback via an activity tracker and mobile app, with set-up support only, can elicit short-term improvements in daily movement, sitting time, and sitting accumulation patterns. This project will ascertain the individual and environmental factors that moderate the feasibility of this app to break up prolonged sitting in office workers. |
Impact | Published journal paper: Morris A S, Mackintosh KA, Dunstan D, Owen N, Dempsey P, Pennington T, McNarry MA. (2020). Rise and Recharge: Effects on Activity Outcomes of an e-Health Smartphone Intervention to Reduce Office Workers' Sitting Time. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health , pp. 9300 Blog post on GetAMoveOn website. Research was presented at the UKActive Summit on October 31st 2019. Abstract accepted for International Society for Physical Activity and Health 2021 Additional funding secured for studentship based on this funding: Swansea Paid Internship Network funding for a 4 week student placement over the summer to help with data collection. Work from this project contributed to development of strategic themes integrated within the newly inaugurated and funded Welsh Institute of Physical Activity, Health and Sport (The Welsh Institute of Physical Activity, Health & Sport - Swansea University) ACSM International Scholar Award was given to M. McNarry to retrospectively explore sedentary behaviour patterns and the effect of exercise interventions on them A. Morris was awarded a grant from Lancaster University (£1380) to attend ISPAH 2021 to present the feasibility work. The Rise and Recharge project has informed development of a further project, "Optimising older adults' home spaces to support independence, activity, connection and wellbeing through the development of a Digital Movement Diary (DMD)" funded by CHERISH-DE, an ESRC funded centre, and led by Dr Joanne Hudson (PI). The aim of this project is to develop a Digital Movement Diary (DMD) that practitioners can use in partnership with older adults to help them recognise their individual physical movement patterns whilst in their homes/care home and to encourage them to increase their physical activity and decrease sedentary behaviour. Budget: £9,275. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: family intervention using intelligent personal system (Carlin) |
Organisation | Old Library Trust, Healthy Living Centre |
Country | Ireland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £49,150 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on our website, on YouTube, was promoted on twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: The high incidence of childhood obesity and the associated risk of developing obesity-related co-morbidities earlier in life mean that schoolchildren are a key target population for the promotion of sustainable healthy behaviours. To date, the majority of health interventions within this population have focused on the school setting; however, the influence of parents and other family members on health behaviours at this stage of the lifecycle is well-established. Therefore, interventions should also target the wider family when seeking to promote physical activity and other health-related behaviours such as healthy eating in school children. Recent years have seen a rapid integration of technology into everyday life, particularly within the home environment. Intelligent personal systems such as Amazon Echo and Google Home can now be used to stream audio entertainment, control other smart devices and promote health, for example, online fitness coaching. To date, little is known about the potential role that such devices can play in positively influencing health-related behaviours within the home setting. The proposed project will adopt a cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary approach to explore the role of intelligent personal systems within the home environment for promoting and maintaining physical activity and other health-related behaviours in school children participating in the community-based, family-focused SWEET (Safe Wellbeing Eating & Exercise Together as a family) project. Motivation towards using the devices, and the impact on behaviour once the technology has been removed will also be explored. Additionally, the project will examine engagement with and acceptability of this technology from the participant's perspective. |
Impact | Journal paper: https://formative.jmir.org/2021/1/e17501 Carlin A, Logue C, Flynn J, Murphy MH, Gallagher AM Development and Feasibility of a Family-Based Health Behavior Intervention Using Intelligent Personal Assistants: Randomized Controlled Trial JMIR Form Res 2021;5(1):e17501 Project report on GetAMoveOn website. Research presented (poster presentation) at ukacive National Summit 31 October 2019 Conference presentations (abstracts not published): Using intelligent personal systems to promote behaviour change within the home setting: A process evaluation (HEPA Europe, Odense, August 2019) Using intelligent personal systems to promote behaviour change within the home setting (ISBNPA, Prague, June 2019) 'Give me a healthy tip' Development and feasibility of a family-based intervention using intelligent personal assistants: a randomised controlled trial (submitted, not yet accepted) (European and International Congress on Obesity, Dublin, May 2019) Additional funding awarded on the back of feasibility funding: Collaboration involving PI Angela Carlin was awarded prize of £8565.00 for the project entitled "Creating digital technology to support exercise snacking for pre-frail older adults in the home setting" at the GAMO Fellows' collaboration event. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: family intervention using intelligent personal system (Carlin) |
Organisation | Ulster University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £49,150 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on our website, on YouTube, was promoted on twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: The high incidence of childhood obesity and the associated risk of developing obesity-related co-morbidities earlier in life mean that schoolchildren are a key target population for the promotion of sustainable healthy behaviours. To date, the majority of health interventions within this population have focused on the school setting; however, the influence of parents and other family members on health behaviours at this stage of the lifecycle is well-established. Therefore, interventions should also target the wider family when seeking to promote physical activity and other health-related behaviours such as healthy eating in school children. Recent years have seen a rapid integration of technology into everyday life, particularly within the home environment. Intelligent personal systems such as Amazon Echo and Google Home can now be used to stream audio entertainment, control other smart devices and promote health, for example, online fitness coaching. To date, little is known about the potential role that such devices can play in positively influencing health-related behaviours within the home setting. The proposed project will adopt a cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary approach to explore the role of intelligent personal systems within the home environment for promoting and maintaining physical activity and other health-related behaviours in school children participating in the community-based, family-focused SWEET (Safe Wellbeing Eating & Exercise Together as a family) project. Motivation towards using the devices, and the impact on behaviour once the technology has been removed will also be explored. Additionally, the project will examine engagement with and acceptability of this technology from the participant's perspective. |
Impact | Journal paper: https://formative.jmir.org/2021/1/e17501 Carlin A, Logue C, Flynn J, Murphy MH, Gallagher AM Development and Feasibility of a Family-Based Health Behavior Intervention Using Intelligent Personal Assistants: Randomized Controlled Trial JMIR Form Res 2021;5(1):e17501 Project report on GetAMoveOn website. Research presented (poster presentation) at ukacive National Summit 31 October 2019 Conference presentations (abstracts not published): Using intelligent personal systems to promote behaviour change within the home setting: A process evaluation (HEPA Europe, Odense, August 2019) Using intelligent personal systems to promote behaviour change within the home setting (ISBNPA, Prague, June 2019) 'Give me a healthy tip' Development and feasibility of a family-based intervention using intelligent personal assistants: a randomised controlled trial (submitted, not yet accepted) (European and International Congress on Obesity, Dublin, May 2019) Additional funding awarded on the back of feasibility funding: Collaboration involving PI Angela Carlin was awarded prize of £8565.00 for the project entitled "Creating digital technology to support exercise snacking for pre-frail older adults in the home setting" at the GAMO Fellows' collaboration event. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: improving adult health through gamification system and rewards (Plannger) |
Organisation | HiMotiv |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £47,887 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research is on our website, on YouTube, and was also disseminated via twitter. It is available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: This project aims to improve health by developing a gamification system where adults can earn points for physical activity and redeem them for real rewards. Our pilot study reveals that real rewards act as a motivational catalyst to encourage increased activity and, if sustained, this increased activity can become habit. We need to understand when and why real rewards are the most effective in increasing activity so that health benefits can be maximized. We need to make persuasive nudges that encourage increases in activity in order to improve health. We need to optimise these persuasive nudges in terms of their utility and cost-effectiveness in order to encourage increased activity and improved health. We will develop, make, and optimise real rewards and health messages that compel working adults to increase their activity and improve their health. We will develop real rewards and health messages in consultation with working adults to ensure their salience and relevance. We will make emails that promote real rewards and health messages in order to compel staff to increase their activity and improve health. We will test and optimise the real rewards and health messages through a randomised field experiment over several weeks using a gamification system and we will evaluate their utility and cost-effectiveness. We will develop a future research agenda focused on improving the health of other communities using persuasive nudges built on the outcomes of an industry stakeholder workshop that will reflect on the study's findings. |
Impact | Journal publication, Little Rewards Big Changes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S037872061930285X?via%3Dihub (see Publications Section) Video (see entry for You Tube channel under 'Engagement Activities') Presentation during 'Meet the Researchers' session at ukactive National Summit held 31 October 2019 (see entry for ukactive National Summit under 'Engagement Activities') Conference paper: Plangger, K., Campbell, C., Robson, K., Hao, J. and Montecchi, M. (2019) Understanding points collection and redemption behaviors in a gamified fitness program, in the proceedings of the World Marketing Congress, Edinburgh, UK. Additional funding applied for based on work done for this project: Innovate UK Grant Submission for Innovate UK Smart Grants: October 2019 Competition (Application number 48820) Findings of the research have immediate impact in that they are helping to inform the reward structure for the gamified system used at Kings College to promote physical activity, helping to promote an 'activity culture' at the university with consequent social, physical and mental health benefits for participants. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: improving adult health through gamification system and rewards (Plannger) |
Organisation | King's College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £47,887 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research is on our website, on YouTube, and was also disseminated via twitter. It is available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: This project aims to improve health by developing a gamification system where adults can earn points for physical activity and redeem them for real rewards. Our pilot study reveals that real rewards act as a motivational catalyst to encourage increased activity and, if sustained, this increased activity can become habit. We need to understand when and why real rewards are the most effective in increasing activity so that health benefits can be maximized. We need to make persuasive nudges that encourage increases in activity in order to improve health. We need to optimise these persuasive nudges in terms of their utility and cost-effectiveness in order to encourage increased activity and improved health. We will develop, make, and optimise real rewards and health messages that compel working adults to increase their activity and improve their health. We will develop real rewards and health messages in consultation with working adults to ensure their salience and relevance. We will make emails that promote real rewards and health messages in order to compel staff to increase their activity and improve health. We will test and optimise the real rewards and health messages through a randomised field experiment over several weeks using a gamification system and we will evaluate their utility and cost-effectiveness. We will develop a future research agenda focused on improving the health of other communities using persuasive nudges built on the outcomes of an industry stakeholder workshop that will reflect on the study's findings. |
Impact | Journal publication, Little Rewards Big Changes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S037872061930285X?via%3Dihub (see Publications Section) Video (see entry for You Tube channel under 'Engagement Activities') Presentation during 'Meet the Researchers' session at ukactive National Summit held 31 October 2019 (see entry for ukactive National Summit under 'Engagement Activities') Conference paper: Plangger, K., Campbell, C., Robson, K., Hao, J. and Montecchi, M. (2019) Understanding points collection and redemption behaviors in a gamified fitness program, in the proceedings of the World Marketing Congress, Edinburgh, UK. Additional funding applied for based on work done for this project: Innovate UK Grant Submission for Innovate UK Smart Grants: October 2019 Competition (Application number 48820) Findings of the research have immediate impact in that they are helping to inform the reward structure for the gamified system used at Kings College to promote physical activity, helping to promote an 'activity culture' at the university with consequent social, physical and mental health benefits for participants. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: improving adult health through gamification system and rewards (Plannger) |
Organisation | University of San Diego |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £47,887 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research is on our website, on YouTube, and was also disseminated via twitter. It is available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: This project aims to improve health by developing a gamification system where adults can earn points for physical activity and redeem them for real rewards. Our pilot study reveals that real rewards act as a motivational catalyst to encourage increased activity and, if sustained, this increased activity can become habit. We need to understand when and why real rewards are the most effective in increasing activity so that health benefits can be maximized. We need to make persuasive nudges that encourage increases in activity in order to improve health. We need to optimise these persuasive nudges in terms of their utility and cost-effectiveness in order to encourage increased activity and improved health. We will develop, make, and optimise real rewards and health messages that compel working adults to increase their activity and improve their health. We will develop real rewards and health messages in consultation with working adults to ensure their salience and relevance. We will make emails that promote real rewards and health messages in order to compel staff to increase their activity and improve health. We will test and optimise the real rewards and health messages through a randomised field experiment over several weeks using a gamification system and we will evaluate their utility and cost-effectiveness. We will develop a future research agenda focused on improving the health of other communities using persuasive nudges built on the outcomes of an industry stakeholder workshop that will reflect on the study's findings. |
Impact | Journal publication, Little Rewards Big Changes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S037872061930285X?via%3Dihub (see Publications Section) Video (see entry for You Tube channel under 'Engagement Activities') Presentation during 'Meet the Researchers' session at ukactive National Summit held 31 October 2019 (see entry for ukactive National Summit under 'Engagement Activities') Conference paper: Plangger, K., Campbell, C., Robson, K., Hao, J. and Montecchi, M. (2019) Understanding points collection and redemption behaviors in a gamified fitness program, in the proceedings of the World Marketing Congress, Edinburgh, UK. Additional funding applied for based on work done for this project: Innovate UK Grant Submission for Innovate UK Smart Grants: October 2019 Competition (Application number 48820) Findings of the research have immediate impact in that they are helping to inform the reward structure for the gamified system used at Kings College to promote physical activity, helping to promote an 'activity culture' at the university with consequent social, physical and mental health benefits for participants. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: improving adult health through gamification system and rewards (Plannger) |
Organisation | University of Windsor |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £47,887 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research is on our website, on YouTube, and was also disseminated via twitter. It is available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: This project aims to improve health by developing a gamification system where adults can earn points for physical activity and redeem them for real rewards. Our pilot study reveals that real rewards act as a motivational catalyst to encourage increased activity and, if sustained, this increased activity can become habit. We need to understand when and why real rewards are the most effective in increasing activity so that health benefits can be maximized. We need to make persuasive nudges that encourage increases in activity in order to improve health. We need to optimise these persuasive nudges in terms of their utility and cost-effectiveness in order to encourage increased activity and improved health. We will develop, make, and optimise real rewards and health messages that compel working adults to increase their activity and improve their health. We will develop real rewards and health messages in consultation with working adults to ensure their salience and relevance. We will make emails that promote real rewards and health messages in order to compel staff to increase their activity and improve health. We will test and optimise the real rewards and health messages through a randomised field experiment over several weeks using a gamification system and we will evaluate their utility and cost-effectiveness. We will develop a future research agenda focused on improving the health of other communities using persuasive nudges built on the outcomes of an industry stakeholder workshop that will reflect on the study's findings. |
Impact | Journal publication, Little Rewards Big Changes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S037872061930285X?via%3Dihub (see Publications Section) Video (see entry for You Tube channel under 'Engagement Activities') Presentation during 'Meet the Researchers' session at ukactive National Summit held 31 October 2019 (see entry for ukactive National Summit under 'Engagement Activities') Conference paper: Plangger, K., Campbell, C., Robson, K., Hao, J. and Montecchi, M. (2019) Understanding points collection and redemption behaviors in a gamified fitness program, in the proceedings of the World Marketing Congress, Edinburgh, UK. Additional funding applied for based on work done for this project: Innovate UK Grant Submission for Innovate UK Smart Grants: October 2019 Competition (Application number 48820) Findings of the research have immediate impact in that they are helping to inform the reward structure for the gamified system used at Kings College to promote physical activity, helping to promote an 'activity culture' at the university with consequent social, physical and mental health benefits for participants. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: mobile app for football fans (Rooksby) |
Organisation | European Healthy Stadia Network |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £47,080.37. Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on our website, on YouTube, promoted on twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: Men are often underrepresented in behavioural lifestyle interventions and are considered a hard-to-reach and underserved group [1]. One way to successfully engage men is via football clubs that they identify with [2]. Current work on engaging men in this way has used mobile technology for self-monitoring and social support within the context of a complex intervention [3], but we believe that the potential for designing mobile applications that support football fans to adopt healthier behaviours and practices requires significant further development. We also believe that there is much broader potential for creatively incorporating a variety of social and behavioural change techniques into mobile applications. The focus of this project will be on creating mobile technology to encourage middle-aged men to engage in light and moderate physical activity, and to encourage active travel to sporting events. We will take a co-design approach to the development of a mobile application that creatively combines self-monitoring, social support and other behavioural change techniques. We envisage an application that enables football fans to (i) make associations between their team identity, their levels of physical activity, and active travel to football matches; (ii) become role models for other fans; (iii) engage with other fans in action planning and problem solving; and, (iv) review discrepancies between goals and actual behaviour. The novelty of this research will be in designing a mobile-based intervention for football fans, creatively incorporating behavioural change techniques into a community specific design, and in designing technology for masculinity in positive lifestyle change. References [1] Robertson C, Avenell A, Stewart F, Archibald D, Douglas F, Hoddinott P, van Teijlingen E, Boyers D. Clinical Effectiveness of Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance Interventions for Men: A Systematic Review of Men-Only Randomized Controlled Trials (The ROMEO Project). Am J Mens Health 2017;11(4):1096-1123. |
Impact | Journal publicationa; Rooksby R, Cecchinato ME, Asadzadeh P, Phillpott M, Bunn C. (2020). Design Opportunities for Digital Men's Health: An Exploratory Study Focusing on Football Fandom. Project report on GetAMoveOn website. Research presented at ukactive Summit October 31 2019. John Rooksby, PI, is now Co-I on an NIHR granthttps://www.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR127665 that the GAMO funding was relevant to and helped secure. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: mobile app for football fans (Rooksby) |
Organisation | Northumbria University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £47,080.37. Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on our website, on YouTube, promoted on twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: Men are often underrepresented in behavioural lifestyle interventions and are considered a hard-to-reach and underserved group [1]. One way to successfully engage men is via football clubs that they identify with [2]. Current work on engaging men in this way has used mobile technology for self-monitoring and social support within the context of a complex intervention [3], but we believe that the potential for designing mobile applications that support football fans to adopt healthier behaviours and practices requires significant further development. We also believe that there is much broader potential for creatively incorporating a variety of social and behavioural change techniques into mobile applications. The focus of this project will be on creating mobile technology to encourage middle-aged men to engage in light and moderate physical activity, and to encourage active travel to sporting events. We will take a co-design approach to the development of a mobile application that creatively combines self-monitoring, social support and other behavioural change techniques. We envisage an application that enables football fans to (i) make associations between their team identity, their levels of physical activity, and active travel to football matches; (ii) become role models for other fans; (iii) engage with other fans in action planning and problem solving; and, (iv) review discrepancies between goals and actual behaviour. The novelty of this research will be in designing a mobile-based intervention for football fans, creatively incorporating behavioural change techniques into a community specific design, and in designing technology for masculinity in positive lifestyle change. References [1] Robertson C, Avenell A, Stewart F, Archibald D, Douglas F, Hoddinott P, van Teijlingen E, Boyers D. Clinical Effectiveness of Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance Interventions for Men: A Systematic Review of Men-Only Randomized Controlled Trials (The ROMEO Project). Am J Mens Health 2017;11(4):1096-1123. |
Impact | Journal publicationa; Rooksby R, Cecchinato ME, Asadzadeh P, Phillpott M, Bunn C. (2020). Design Opportunities for Digital Men's Health: An Exploratory Study Focusing on Football Fandom. Project report on GetAMoveOn website. Research presented at ukactive Summit October 31 2019. John Rooksby, PI, is now Co-I on an NIHR granthttps://www.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR127665 that the GAMO funding was relevant to and helped secure. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: mobile app for football fans (Rooksby) |
Organisation | University of Glasgow |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £47,080.37. Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on our website, on YouTube, promoted on twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: Men are often underrepresented in behavioural lifestyle interventions and are considered a hard-to-reach and underserved group [1]. One way to successfully engage men is via football clubs that they identify with [2]. Current work on engaging men in this way has used mobile technology for self-monitoring and social support within the context of a complex intervention [3], but we believe that the potential for designing mobile applications that support football fans to adopt healthier behaviours and practices requires significant further development. We also believe that there is much broader potential for creatively incorporating a variety of social and behavioural change techniques into mobile applications. The focus of this project will be on creating mobile technology to encourage middle-aged men to engage in light and moderate physical activity, and to encourage active travel to sporting events. We will take a co-design approach to the development of a mobile application that creatively combines self-monitoring, social support and other behavioural change techniques. We envisage an application that enables football fans to (i) make associations between their team identity, their levels of physical activity, and active travel to football matches; (ii) become role models for other fans; (iii) engage with other fans in action planning and problem solving; and, (iv) review discrepancies between goals and actual behaviour. The novelty of this research will be in designing a mobile-based intervention for football fans, creatively incorporating behavioural change techniques into a community specific design, and in designing technology for masculinity in positive lifestyle change. References [1] Robertson C, Avenell A, Stewart F, Archibald D, Douglas F, Hoddinott P, van Teijlingen E, Boyers D. Clinical Effectiveness of Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance Interventions for Men: A Systematic Review of Men-Only Randomized Controlled Trials (The ROMEO Project). Am J Mens Health 2017;11(4):1096-1123. |
Impact | Journal publicationa; Rooksby R, Cecchinato ME, Asadzadeh P, Phillpott M, Bunn C. (2020). Design Opportunities for Digital Men's Health: An Exploratory Study Focusing on Football Fandom. Project report on GetAMoveOn website. Research presented at ukactive Summit October 31 2019. John Rooksby, PI, is now Co-I on an NIHR granthttps://www.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR127665 that the GAMO funding was relevant to and helped secure. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: online assessment and feedback tool for PA in older adults |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £49,935.24 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on our website, on YouTube, promoted on twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators will carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: This project aims to improve older adults' health outcomes by developing a novel digital physical activity assessment and feedback tool using the Person-Based Approach pioneered by our research team [1]. Existing physical activity measures in older adults are unreliable, and accurate measurement (e.g. accelerometers) is expensive and often unfeasible. A brief digital tool that combines self-report and digital data will help improve measurement and provide an effective intervention to increase activity and reduce sedentary behaviour. In order to develop a successful digital tool we need to: 1. better understand exactly what a digital tool needs to include in order to accurately measure and increase physical activity in older adults. 2. collect evidence about the tool's reliability and validity as a measure of, and intervention for, older adults' physical activity. 3. optimise the digital tool by evaluating the acceptability and utility of its features and understanding the experiences of older adults who have used it. The project will employ qualitative and quantitative methods to develop, build and evaluate our new tool. Firstly, we will consult older adults, field experts from academia and industry and existing literature to fully understand what a digital tool needs to include in order to accurately measure and increase physical activity in older adults. Secondly, older adults will use the digital tool alongside existing self-report measures and gold-standard movement sensors, comparing these to assess the tool's reliability and validity as a measure and as a brief intervention. Finally, older adults will take part in qualitative interviews in order to evaluate the acceptability and utility of the tool's features, and modify it to maximise effective measurement, engagement and behaviour change. The project will produce a novel digital physical activity assessment and feedback tool that will enable older adults to move more and researchers to more accurately measure physical activity. |
Impact | Journal paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/21/7949 Report / blog post on GetAMoveOn website. Research was presented at the UKActive Summit on October 31st 2019. Max Western (PI) was subsequently awarded a GetAMoveOn Fellowship, which provides training and collaboration opportunities. Max Western is a collaborator on two projects awarded prize money for further development at the GAMO Fellows' collaboration event. This has led to the award of two seed funding projects of £5755.00 (exploring the role of wearable technologies in habit formation in cancer survivors) and £8565.00 (Smart exercise snacking - looking at using Smart technology for facilitating exercise snacking in the home environment). Max has also been part of a grant awarded by Bath Institute for Rheumatic Diseases of £k to conduct a person-based development of a tool to assess, self-monitor and improve symptoms of post-traumatic osteoarthritis in young adults. The work and writing of this funding application was heavily influenced by the lessons learned in the feasibility project. The total grant is £14,363.14 of which Max has 50% Academic Ownership. The ActivPAL physical activity monitoring equipment secured during the feasibility trial has been since used in three further studies looking at improving and understanding physical activity and exercise behaviour in older adults as part of a PhD studentship and undergraduate dissertation project. It is anticipated that all three of these studies will lead to publication in academic journals. Phase 2 of DAPPA study (following on from this project): 3/3/21: Ethical approval in place. Have recruited approximately 60 adults aged 50+ years so far for the study. Aim to have completed data collection by April and analysis and writing by the summer. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: online assessment and feedback tool for PA in older adults |
Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £49,935.24 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on our website, on YouTube, promoted on twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators will carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: This project aims to improve older adults' health outcomes by developing a novel digital physical activity assessment and feedback tool using the Person-Based Approach pioneered by our research team [1]. Existing physical activity measures in older adults are unreliable, and accurate measurement (e.g. accelerometers) is expensive and often unfeasible. A brief digital tool that combines self-report and digital data will help improve measurement and provide an effective intervention to increase activity and reduce sedentary behaviour. In order to develop a successful digital tool we need to: 1. better understand exactly what a digital tool needs to include in order to accurately measure and increase physical activity in older adults. 2. collect evidence about the tool's reliability and validity as a measure of, and intervention for, older adults' physical activity. 3. optimise the digital tool by evaluating the acceptability and utility of its features and understanding the experiences of older adults who have used it. The project will employ qualitative and quantitative methods to develop, build and evaluate our new tool. Firstly, we will consult older adults, field experts from academia and industry and existing literature to fully understand what a digital tool needs to include in order to accurately measure and increase physical activity in older adults. Secondly, older adults will use the digital tool alongside existing self-report measures and gold-standard movement sensors, comparing these to assess the tool's reliability and validity as a measure and as a brief intervention. Finally, older adults will take part in qualitative interviews in order to evaluate the acceptability and utility of the tool's features, and modify it to maximise effective measurement, engagement and behaviour change. The project will produce a novel digital physical activity assessment and feedback tool that will enable older adults to move more and researchers to more accurately measure physical activity. |
Impact | Journal paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/21/7949 Report / blog post on GetAMoveOn website. Research was presented at the UKActive Summit on October 31st 2019. Max Western (PI) was subsequently awarded a GetAMoveOn Fellowship, which provides training and collaboration opportunities. Max Western is a collaborator on two projects awarded prize money for further development at the GAMO Fellows' collaboration event. This has led to the award of two seed funding projects of £5755.00 (exploring the role of wearable technologies in habit formation in cancer survivors) and £8565.00 (Smart exercise snacking - looking at using Smart technology for facilitating exercise snacking in the home environment). Max has also been part of a grant awarded by Bath Institute for Rheumatic Diseases of £k to conduct a person-based development of a tool to assess, self-monitor and improve symptoms of post-traumatic osteoarthritis in young adults. The work and writing of this funding application was heavily influenced by the lessons learned in the feasibility project. The total grant is £14,363.14 of which Max has 50% Academic Ownership. The ActivPAL physical activity monitoring equipment secured during the feasibility trial has been since used in three further studies looking at improving and understanding physical activity and exercise behaviour in older adults as part of a PhD studentship and undergraduate dissertation project. It is anticipated that all three of these studies will lead to publication in academic journals. Phase 2 of DAPPA study (following on from this project): 3/3/21: Ethical approval in place. Have recruited approximately 60 adults aged 50+ years so far for the study. Aim to have completed data collection by April and analysis and writing by the summer. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: online assessment and feedback tool for PA in older adults |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%) £49,935.24 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which is on our website, on YouTube, promoted on twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators will carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as follows: This project aims to improve older adults' health outcomes by developing a novel digital physical activity assessment and feedback tool using the Person-Based Approach pioneered by our research team [1]. Existing physical activity measures in older adults are unreliable, and accurate measurement (e.g. accelerometers) is expensive and often unfeasible. A brief digital tool that combines self-report and digital data will help improve measurement and provide an effective intervention to increase activity and reduce sedentary behaviour. In order to develop a successful digital tool we need to: 1. better understand exactly what a digital tool needs to include in order to accurately measure and increase physical activity in older adults. 2. collect evidence about the tool's reliability and validity as a measure of, and intervention for, older adults' physical activity. 3. optimise the digital tool by evaluating the acceptability and utility of its features and understanding the experiences of older adults who have used it. The project will employ qualitative and quantitative methods to develop, build and evaluate our new tool. Firstly, we will consult older adults, field experts from academia and industry and existing literature to fully understand what a digital tool needs to include in order to accurately measure and increase physical activity in older adults. Secondly, older adults will use the digital tool alongside existing self-report measures and gold-standard movement sensors, comparing these to assess the tool's reliability and validity as a measure and as a brief intervention. Finally, older adults will take part in qualitative interviews in order to evaluate the acceptability and utility of the tool's features, and modify it to maximise effective measurement, engagement and behaviour change. The project will produce a novel digital physical activity assessment and feedback tool that will enable older adults to move more and researchers to more accurately measure physical activity. |
Impact | Journal paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/21/7949 Report / blog post on GetAMoveOn website. Research was presented at the UKActive Summit on October 31st 2019. Max Western (PI) was subsequently awarded a GetAMoveOn Fellowship, which provides training and collaboration opportunities. Max Western is a collaborator on two projects awarded prize money for further development at the GAMO Fellows' collaboration event. This has led to the award of two seed funding projects of £5755.00 (exploring the role of wearable technologies in habit formation in cancer survivors) and £8565.00 (Smart exercise snacking - looking at using Smart technology for facilitating exercise snacking in the home environment). Max has also been part of a grant awarded by Bath Institute for Rheumatic Diseases of £k to conduct a person-based development of a tool to assess, self-monitor and improve symptoms of post-traumatic osteoarthritis in young adults. The work and writing of this funding application was heavily influenced by the lessons learned in the feasibility project. The total grant is £14,363.14 of which Max has 50% Academic Ownership. The ActivPAL physical activity monitoring equipment secured during the feasibility trial has been since used in three further studies looking at improving and understanding physical activity and exercise behaviour in older adults as part of a PhD studentship and undergraduate dissertation project. It is anticipated that all three of these studies will lead to publication in academic journals. Phase 2 of DAPPA study (following on from this project): 3/3/21: Ethical approval in place. Have recruited approximately 60 adults aged 50+ years so far for the study. Aim to have completed data collection by April and analysis and writing by the summer. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: phone messages to encourage PA in urban Bangladesh (Jenkins) |
Organisation | Diabetic Association of Bangladesh |
Country | Bangladesh |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research: £49,991 (at 80%) Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which will go on our website, on YouTube, twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators will carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as set out in their proposal: Chronic diseases have evolved into a critical issue in Bangladesh. Even relatively small increases in physical activity can reduce the risk of chronic disease such as diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases and atheroscleritic diseases, as well as improve overall wellbeing. However, urban older adults in Bangladesh typically engage in very little physical activity, with little awareness, opportunity or motivation to be physically active. Over 90% of households in urban areas own a mobile phone, presenting an opportunity to reach people through mHealth interventions. We propose conducting formative research and a pilot study to adapt and establish the feasibility of an mHealth intervention to promote physical activity among older adults in urban Bangladesh. This builds on our experiences of developing, implementing and evaluating an mHealth intervention (voice messages, dramas and songs) to promote physical activity in rural areas (Trials2016: 17:600). Preliminary results from our on-going project indicate that the messages are well received and improve levels of physical activity among rural adults. Urban Bangladesh differs markedly from rural areas. Through interviews and focus group discussions we will identify barriers and enablers to physical activity in Faridpur town and will identify ways in which our intervention needs to be adapted to this urban context and the needs of older adults (55+) in particular. The process of message development, delivery and receipt will be piloted among a sample of older adults. Findings from this study will feed into the application for a Trial Development Grant under the 2018 MRC/Wellcome Joint Global Health Trials scheme. |
Impact | Publications to date: Research report on our website. Planned publications: PI is working on two papers - 1. Report on the feasibility study and implications (for Global Health Action). 2. Formative Research: barriers and enablers to physical activity amongst older adults in urban Bangladesh (target journal undecided) Work involving new contacts or partners made through this feasibility project: SSD-Tech in Bangladesh were a new partner for this project - they recorded and sent the messages. The researchers hope to work with them in the future. Any additional or further funding which GAMO feasibility funding, or the work done that, or knowledge/skills you gained from that, helped the researchers to secure; • Research grant (including intramural programme) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Impact Acceleration Grant for 17,000 GDP |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: phone messages to encourage PA in urban Bangladesh (Jenkins) |
Organisation | University College London |
Department | Institute For Global Health |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research: £49,991 (at 80%) Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which will go on our website, on YouTube, twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators will carried out a research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as set out in their proposal: Chronic diseases have evolved into a critical issue in Bangladesh. Even relatively small increases in physical activity can reduce the risk of chronic disease such as diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases and atheroscleritic diseases, as well as improve overall wellbeing. However, urban older adults in Bangladesh typically engage in very little physical activity, with little awareness, opportunity or motivation to be physically active. Over 90% of households in urban areas own a mobile phone, presenting an opportunity to reach people through mHealth interventions. We propose conducting formative research and a pilot study to adapt and establish the feasibility of an mHealth intervention to promote physical activity among older adults in urban Bangladesh. This builds on our experiences of developing, implementing and evaluating an mHealth intervention (voice messages, dramas and songs) to promote physical activity in rural areas (Trials2016: 17:600). Preliminary results from our on-going project indicate that the messages are well received and improve levels of physical activity among rural adults. Urban Bangladesh differs markedly from rural areas. Through interviews and focus group discussions we will identify barriers and enablers to physical activity in Faridpur town and will identify ways in which our intervention needs to be adapted to this urban context and the needs of older adults (55+) in particular. The process of message development, delivery and receipt will be piloted among a sample of older adults. Findings from this study will feed into the application for a Trial Development Grant under the 2018 MRC/Wellcome Joint Global Health Trials scheme. |
Impact | Publications to date: Research report on our website. Planned publications: PI is working on two papers - 1. Report on the feasibility study and implications (for Global Health Action). 2. Formative Research: barriers and enablers to physical activity amongst older adults in urban Bangladesh (target journal undecided) Work involving new contacts or partners made through this feasibility project: SSD-Tech in Bangladesh were a new partner for this project - they recorded and sent the messages. The researchers hope to work with them in the future. Any additional or further funding which GAMO feasibility funding, or the work done that, or knowledge/skills you gained from that, helped the researchers to secure; • Research grant (including intramural programme) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Impact Acceleration Grant for 17,000 GDP |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Feasibility study: wheelchair tracker (Farkhatdinov) |
Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funding: - funded the research (at 80%): £49,906 Profile: - Raised profile of the research project via our twitter feed and website. - Produced video of the research which will go on our website, on YouTube, twitter and will be available for the researchers to use to raise the profile of their research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our collaborators carried out the research project which will further the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+ as proposed in their grant application: There are around 1.2 million wheelchair users in the UK and many of them have limited access to social and healthcare due to limited mobility and increasing pressure on the NHS. A possible motivation for the wheelchairs users to keep fit is to introduce suitable mobility tracking technologies. Compare to walking trackers there are almost no feasible solutions for wheelchair users. We propose to develop a mobility tracker for wheelchair users. Such system will be user-centred, inexpensive and adaptable to passive and active wheelchairs. The tracker will be based on combining smartphone navigation data and wheelchairs kinematics. It will give an estimate of the user mobility during wheelchair propulsion (differences of the wheelchair and user movements) and overall navigation path and user efforts (total movement). The wheelchair movement will be tracked with the help of rotary sensor and a microcontroller wirelessly connected to the user's smartphone. Optional auditory and visual feedback will be used to inform the user about the tracking. Collected data will be automatically analysed and an estimate of the user's efforts will be available for the user and relevant social/healthcare professionals. With the help of our system, we shall investigate how different wheelchair propulsion patterns affect the fitness of their users. The outcomes of the project will have a direct impact on the wheelchair users (including elderly population) fitness and their motivation to increase their activities. |
Impact | Publications: Project report published on the GAMO website. Two journal papers based on the project are in preparation: - J Jobling, I Farkhatdinov, D Morrissey, S Miller, The effects of level and completeness of spinal cord injury on energy expenditure: A systematic review and meta-analysis. - J Jobling, I Farkhatdinov, D Morrissey, S Miller, Predicting energy expenditure in manual wheelchair users; a model validation study. Papers arising from follow-on work linked to the project: Perez NP, Tokarchuk L, Burdet E, Farkhatdinov I. Exploring User Motor Behaviour in Bimanual Interactive Video Games. In2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) 2019 Aug 20 (pp. 1-7). IEEE. Otaran A, Farkhatdinov I. Modeling and Control of Ankle Actuation Platform for Human-Robot Interaction. InAnnual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2019 Jul 3 (pp. 338-348). Springer, Cham. Farkhatdinov I, Ebert J, Van Oort G, Vlutters M, Van Asseldonk E, Burdet E. Assisting human balance in standing with a robotic exoskeleton. IEEE Robotics and automation letters. 2019 Jan 3;4(2):414-21. Neal BS, Lack SD, Barton CJ, Birn-Jeffrey A, Miller S, Morrissey D. Is markerless, smart phone recorded two-dimensional video a clinically useful measure of relevant lower limb kinematics in runners with patellofemoral pain? A validity and reliability study. Physical Therapy in Sport. 2020 Feb Additdional or further funding which this GAMO feasibility funding, the work involved, or knowledge/skills you gained helped you to secure: £9000 Promoting engagement with end-users in disability research. Public engagement grant, Queen Mary University of London. £2000 Cybathlon assistive technology competition travel grant, Cybathlon association. £2000 UK-Brazil travel grant, Assistive robotics. Queen Mary University of London. £500 Public engagement support grant, Festival of Communities 2019, Queen Mary University of London. £3000 Equipment support. Internal support. School of Electronics and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London. £1500 Student project grant. Assistive wheelchair. School of Engineering and Material Sciences, Queen Mary University of London. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Fellows collaboration prize project - Behaviour change theory-driven design: knowledge exchange workshops |
Organisation | Royal College of Art |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Prize money of £6680 awarded following pitching the project at the Fellow's collaboration workshop 4-6 Dec 2019 |
Collaborator Contribution | The collaborators will carry out their project as follows: What this project will do This project will develop a practical and accessible how-to-guide to facilitate the translation of behaviour change theory into the design of digital health interventions. Why it matters "If physical activity was a drug, we'd talk about it as a miracle cure" (UK Chief Medical Officer). Yet, physical inactivity is prevalent with major consequences to health and well-being, and substantial strain on the NHS. Behaviour science has been called "the future of public health". The problems it will address There is lack of design knowledge within behaviour science and a lack of theory-driven technology. Designers are not successfully navigating behaviour change theories to inform design interventions which support sustainable behaviours in physical activity technologies. We need to: • Know how behaviour change theory can address real-world issues through digital technology. • Create an accessible resource to support the development of theory-driven technology to support physical activity. • Share this toolkit throughout these different communities to allow this knowledge to be utilised. What it will involve This will be a knowledge exchange project. We will: • Conduct a workshop to bring together physical activity technology designers, physical activity practitioners and behaviour scientists to develop examples of how to implement behaviour change taxonomy into tangible features of digital interventions. • Use this shared knowledge to develop a practical how to guide of how behavour change theory can be used in the design of physical activity technology and tangible features of digital health interventions. • Disseminate the tool within the industry and the public sector service through organisations such as ukactive, PHE Digital and NHSX. What next? This new how-to guide will act as a starting point for further work into how we can support the adoption of behaviour change in the design of physical activity technology. Project team Joe Newbold, Paulina Bondaronek, Marion Lean Update 8/2/21: Progress to date: • Had digital workshop training • Ran a series of design workshops with experts in physical activity, behavioural science and design. • Gained insights on how these experts work together and how the behaviour change taxonomy can be used to prompt design thinking. • Used these to develop and prototype design for a digital tool to scaffold design BCT driven technologies. Next steps: • Currently writing up the research outcomes • Running a student design brief on using the BCT prompts to design technology for physical activity. Setting up a foundation for the next stages of this research (hopefully leading to further research funding) |
Impact | Outputs to date: - Developed and prototyped design for a digital tool to scaffold design BCT-driven technologies. This is a multidisciplinary project. It is a project about design, behavioural science and HCI. The multidisciplinary team consists of researchers in design (experience), behaviour science (behaviour change) and HCI (digital). They have a previous track record of using participatory design and workshop methods and working with practitioners, behavioural scientists and technology designers. They all have experience in working in multidisciplinary teams. Moreover, they will leverage our existing networks and partnerships both in the recruitment of the workshop, the development of the toolkit and its dissemination. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Fellows collaboration prize project - Behaviour change theory-driven design: knowledge exchange workshops |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Prize money of £6680 awarded following pitching the project at the Fellow's collaboration workshop 4-6 Dec 2019 |
Collaborator Contribution | The collaborators will carry out their project as follows: What this project will do This project will develop a practical and accessible how-to-guide to facilitate the translation of behaviour change theory into the design of digital health interventions. Why it matters "If physical activity was a drug, we'd talk about it as a miracle cure" (UK Chief Medical Officer). Yet, physical inactivity is prevalent with major consequences to health and well-being, and substantial strain on the NHS. Behaviour science has been called "the future of public health". The problems it will address There is lack of design knowledge within behaviour science and a lack of theory-driven technology. Designers are not successfully navigating behaviour change theories to inform design interventions which support sustainable behaviours in physical activity technologies. We need to: • Know how behaviour change theory can address real-world issues through digital technology. • Create an accessible resource to support the development of theory-driven technology to support physical activity. • Share this toolkit throughout these different communities to allow this knowledge to be utilised. What it will involve This will be a knowledge exchange project. We will: • Conduct a workshop to bring together physical activity technology designers, physical activity practitioners and behaviour scientists to develop examples of how to implement behaviour change taxonomy into tangible features of digital interventions. • Use this shared knowledge to develop a practical how to guide of how behavour change theory can be used in the design of physical activity technology and tangible features of digital health interventions. • Disseminate the tool within the industry and the public sector service through organisations such as ukactive, PHE Digital and NHSX. What next? This new how-to guide will act as a starting point for further work into how we can support the adoption of behaviour change in the design of physical activity technology. Project team Joe Newbold, Paulina Bondaronek, Marion Lean Update 8/2/21: Progress to date: • Had digital workshop training • Ran a series of design workshops with experts in physical activity, behavioural science and design. • Gained insights on how these experts work together and how the behaviour change taxonomy can be used to prompt design thinking. • Used these to develop and prototype design for a digital tool to scaffold design BCT driven technologies. Next steps: • Currently writing up the research outcomes • Running a student design brief on using the BCT prompts to design technology for physical activity. Setting up a foundation for the next stages of this research (hopefully leading to further research funding) |
Impact | Outputs to date: - Developed and prototyped design for a digital tool to scaffold design BCT-driven technologies. This is a multidisciplinary project. It is a project about design, behavioural science and HCI. The multidisciplinary team consists of researchers in design (experience), behaviour science (behaviour change) and HCI (digital). They have a previous track record of using participatory design and workshop methods and working with practitioners, behavioural scientists and technology designers. They all have experience in working in multidisciplinary teams. Moreover, they will leverage our existing networks and partnerships both in the recruitment of the workshop, the development of the toolkit and its dissemination. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Fellows collaboration prize project - Creating digital technology to support exercise 'snacking' for pre-frail older adults in the home setting |
Organisation | Cardiff University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Prize funding of £8565 awarded following pitching of the proposal at the Fellows' collaboration event on 4-6 Dec 2019. |
Collaborator Contribution | The collaborators will carry out a research project as follows: What this project will do This project will explore how we can embed ubiquitous technology in the home to help engage community-dwelling pre-frail older adults with innovative exercise 'snacking' (short sporadic functional exercise that requires no equipment) activities to improve strength and balance. This project builds on prior work that has demonstrated exercise snacking to be as effective as widely promoted resistance training but has the added benefit of overcoming barriers to engagement in physical activity for older adults. Why it matters Older adults are at increased risk of falls and injury due to age-related declines in physiological functioning. This can impinge on an individual's quality of life and independence, notwithstanding the financial implications of a growing aging population at the societal level. The problems it will address Older adults need to understand what exercise snacking is and motivated to engage, and we need to figure out how technology could support this. We need to understand: 1. The acceptability and feasibility of exercise snacking at home, supported with technology, for community dwelling pre-frail older adults. 2. What existing technologies can we utilize and what prototypes can be developed to facilitate exercise snacking at home. 3. Participants' experiences of using the educational materials and prototypes within the home setting. What it will involve This project will involve a co-design approach with service users. 1. We will carry out a workshop to co-design educational materials for exercise snacking and co-design technology to facilitate exercise snacking in the home environment. 2. Following the workshop, educational materials and prototypes will be developed and tested to finalise a design that can be used in the home setting. 3. Finally there will be a 1 week home testing period, involving service users, and a follow up workshop which will provide feedback on their experience of using the educational materials and prototypes, to guide further refinement and development. What next? We will produce a set of design requirements for developing a home-based exercise snacking system and conduct initial development and feasibility testing. This will inform future grant applications for further iterative development and evaluation utilising a complex intervention approach. Project team: Katarzyna Stawarz, Max Western, Lyndsay Alexander, Angela Carlin, Anjana Wijekoon Progress as at February 2021: Covid restrictions have impacted progress and timescales but progress to date is: • Workshops run in March 2020 • Analysed the data from these workshops • Built the prototypes • Got an ethics and additional health & safety approval to finally run the study • Started recruitment Next phase: run the studies: • Deploy at participants' homes (with contactless delivery/collection of the prototypes • Participants will use the prototypes at home for 3 days • Participant interviews • Online workshop • Analysis and write up before end May 2021 |
Impact | No outputs or outcomes yet. This is a multidisciplinary project: Katarzyna Stawarz has expertise in developing behaviour change technologies grounded in habit formation research and running co-design workshops. Being based at University of Bristol, she has access to the SPHERE house and the technical expertise of the researchers from the SPHERE project who may provide support with the development of final prototypes. Max Western has experience with the implementation of an exercise snacking activities that can have equivalent benefits to more traditional forms of resistance training commonly recommended by the UK CMO/ US ACSM. He also has a wealth of experience in researching older adults and using the person-based approach to optimise the usability, effectiveness and engagement with technology based interventions. Lyndsay Alexander has expertise in applied health research using mixed methodologies and has conducted previous research using co-design with older adults. She has previous experience in facilitating workshops and successfully managing and delivering projects within defined time frames. She has also conducted previous evidence syntheses on barriers and facilitators to physical activity in community dwelling adults in developed nations. Angela Carlin has expertise in the development and evaluation of physical activity interventions, from feasibility testing to wider scalability. She has experience in co-design, working with children and adolescents to design school-based physical activity programs. Angela has led a novel technology-based intervention examining the use of smart speakers to promote physical activity behaviours within the home setting, and has experience in qualitative process evaluations with service users. Anjana Wijekoon has expertise in design, development and deployment of self-management digital interventions for patients with chronic pain. She has been involved in co-creation workshops and iterative development of digital intervention in the forms of personalised notifications, personalised reminders and chatbots. She is also working towards automated exercise recognition adherence monitoring with multi-modal sensors. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Fellows collaboration prize project - Creating digital technology to support exercise 'snacking' for pre-frail older adults in the home setting |
Organisation | Robert Gordon University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Prize funding of £8565 awarded following pitching of the proposal at the Fellows' collaboration event on 4-6 Dec 2019. |
Collaborator Contribution | The collaborators will carry out a research project as follows: What this project will do This project will explore how we can embed ubiquitous technology in the home to help engage community-dwelling pre-frail older adults with innovative exercise 'snacking' (short sporadic functional exercise that requires no equipment) activities to improve strength and balance. This project builds on prior work that has demonstrated exercise snacking to be as effective as widely promoted resistance training but has the added benefit of overcoming barriers to engagement in physical activity for older adults. Why it matters Older adults are at increased risk of falls and injury due to age-related declines in physiological functioning. This can impinge on an individual's quality of life and independence, notwithstanding the financial implications of a growing aging population at the societal level. The problems it will address Older adults need to understand what exercise snacking is and motivated to engage, and we need to figure out how technology could support this. We need to understand: 1. The acceptability and feasibility of exercise snacking at home, supported with technology, for community dwelling pre-frail older adults. 2. What existing technologies can we utilize and what prototypes can be developed to facilitate exercise snacking at home. 3. Participants' experiences of using the educational materials and prototypes within the home setting. What it will involve This project will involve a co-design approach with service users. 1. We will carry out a workshop to co-design educational materials for exercise snacking and co-design technology to facilitate exercise snacking in the home environment. 2. Following the workshop, educational materials and prototypes will be developed and tested to finalise a design that can be used in the home setting. 3. Finally there will be a 1 week home testing period, involving service users, and a follow up workshop which will provide feedback on their experience of using the educational materials and prototypes, to guide further refinement and development. What next? We will produce a set of design requirements for developing a home-based exercise snacking system and conduct initial development and feasibility testing. This will inform future grant applications for further iterative development and evaluation utilising a complex intervention approach. Project team: Katarzyna Stawarz, Max Western, Lyndsay Alexander, Angela Carlin, Anjana Wijekoon Progress as at February 2021: Covid restrictions have impacted progress and timescales but progress to date is: • Workshops run in March 2020 • Analysed the data from these workshops • Built the prototypes • Got an ethics and additional health & safety approval to finally run the study • Started recruitment Next phase: run the studies: • Deploy at participants' homes (with contactless delivery/collection of the prototypes • Participants will use the prototypes at home for 3 days • Participant interviews • Online workshop • Analysis and write up before end May 2021 |
Impact | No outputs or outcomes yet. This is a multidisciplinary project: Katarzyna Stawarz has expertise in developing behaviour change technologies grounded in habit formation research and running co-design workshops. Being based at University of Bristol, she has access to the SPHERE house and the technical expertise of the researchers from the SPHERE project who may provide support with the development of final prototypes. Max Western has experience with the implementation of an exercise snacking activities that can have equivalent benefits to more traditional forms of resistance training commonly recommended by the UK CMO/ US ACSM. He also has a wealth of experience in researching older adults and using the person-based approach to optimise the usability, effectiveness and engagement with technology based interventions. Lyndsay Alexander has expertise in applied health research using mixed methodologies and has conducted previous research using co-design with older adults. She has previous experience in facilitating workshops and successfully managing and delivering projects within defined time frames. She has also conducted previous evidence syntheses on barriers and facilitators to physical activity in community dwelling adults in developed nations. Angela Carlin has expertise in the development and evaluation of physical activity interventions, from feasibility testing to wider scalability. She has experience in co-design, working with children and adolescents to design school-based physical activity programs. Angela has led a novel technology-based intervention examining the use of smart speakers to promote physical activity behaviours within the home setting, and has experience in qualitative process evaluations with service users. Anjana Wijekoon has expertise in design, development and deployment of self-management digital interventions for patients with chronic pain. She has been involved in co-creation workshops and iterative development of digital intervention in the forms of personalised notifications, personalised reminders and chatbots. She is also working towards automated exercise recognition adherence monitoring with multi-modal sensors. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Fellows collaboration prize project - Creating digital technology to support exercise 'snacking' for pre-frail older adults in the home setting |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Prize funding of £8565 awarded following pitching of the proposal at the Fellows' collaboration event on 4-6 Dec 2019. |
Collaborator Contribution | The collaborators will carry out a research project as follows: What this project will do This project will explore how we can embed ubiquitous technology in the home to help engage community-dwelling pre-frail older adults with innovative exercise 'snacking' (short sporadic functional exercise that requires no equipment) activities to improve strength and balance. This project builds on prior work that has demonstrated exercise snacking to be as effective as widely promoted resistance training but has the added benefit of overcoming barriers to engagement in physical activity for older adults. Why it matters Older adults are at increased risk of falls and injury due to age-related declines in physiological functioning. This can impinge on an individual's quality of life and independence, notwithstanding the financial implications of a growing aging population at the societal level. The problems it will address Older adults need to understand what exercise snacking is and motivated to engage, and we need to figure out how technology could support this. We need to understand: 1. The acceptability and feasibility of exercise snacking at home, supported with technology, for community dwelling pre-frail older adults. 2. What existing technologies can we utilize and what prototypes can be developed to facilitate exercise snacking at home. 3. Participants' experiences of using the educational materials and prototypes within the home setting. What it will involve This project will involve a co-design approach with service users. 1. We will carry out a workshop to co-design educational materials for exercise snacking and co-design technology to facilitate exercise snacking in the home environment. 2. Following the workshop, educational materials and prototypes will be developed and tested to finalise a design that can be used in the home setting. 3. Finally there will be a 1 week home testing period, involving service users, and a follow up workshop which will provide feedback on their experience of using the educational materials and prototypes, to guide further refinement and development. What next? We will produce a set of design requirements for developing a home-based exercise snacking system and conduct initial development and feasibility testing. This will inform future grant applications for further iterative development and evaluation utilising a complex intervention approach. Project team: Katarzyna Stawarz, Max Western, Lyndsay Alexander, Angela Carlin, Anjana Wijekoon Progress as at February 2021: Covid restrictions have impacted progress and timescales but progress to date is: • Workshops run in March 2020 • Analysed the data from these workshops • Built the prototypes • Got an ethics and additional health & safety approval to finally run the study • Started recruitment Next phase: run the studies: • Deploy at participants' homes (with contactless delivery/collection of the prototypes • Participants will use the prototypes at home for 3 days • Participant interviews • Online workshop • Analysis and write up before end May 2021 |
Impact | No outputs or outcomes yet. This is a multidisciplinary project: Katarzyna Stawarz has expertise in developing behaviour change technologies grounded in habit formation research and running co-design workshops. Being based at University of Bristol, she has access to the SPHERE house and the technical expertise of the researchers from the SPHERE project who may provide support with the development of final prototypes. Max Western has experience with the implementation of an exercise snacking activities that can have equivalent benefits to more traditional forms of resistance training commonly recommended by the UK CMO/ US ACSM. He also has a wealth of experience in researching older adults and using the person-based approach to optimise the usability, effectiveness and engagement with technology based interventions. Lyndsay Alexander has expertise in applied health research using mixed methodologies and has conducted previous research using co-design with older adults. She has previous experience in facilitating workshops and successfully managing and delivering projects within defined time frames. She has also conducted previous evidence syntheses on barriers and facilitators to physical activity in community dwelling adults in developed nations. Angela Carlin has expertise in the development and evaluation of physical activity interventions, from feasibility testing to wider scalability. She has experience in co-design, working with children and adolescents to design school-based physical activity programs. Angela has led a novel technology-based intervention examining the use of smart speakers to promote physical activity behaviours within the home setting, and has experience in qualitative process evaluations with service users. Anjana Wijekoon has expertise in design, development and deployment of self-management digital interventions for patients with chronic pain. She has been involved in co-creation workshops and iterative development of digital intervention in the forms of personalised notifications, personalised reminders and chatbots. She is also working towards automated exercise recognition adherence monitoring with multi-modal sensors. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Fellows collaboration prize project - Using EMAs to understand the impact of wearables on the PA of cancer patients |
Organisation | Cardiff University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have provided funding in the form of prize money of £5755 to carry out a project proposed at the Fellows' Collaboration event in Dec 2019. |
Collaborator Contribution | The prize recipients will carry out their proposed project as follows: What this project will do This project will use innovative ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to learn what impact using wearable physical activity technology has on key psycho-social predictors of habit formation in people living with and beyond cancer, develop a real-time intervention to support behavioural maintenance, and inform a just-in-time intervention to facilitate habit formation. Why it matters Maintaining physical activity throughout and post treatment for cancer is linked to better physical and mental health, and potentially better cancer outcomes. Wearable technologies can help many individuals better understand their behaviour and motivate increases in activity. However, they tend to be predominately used by young, healthy and often sporty individuals and neglect those who could benefit most. Moreover, wearables focus on self-tracking, which is a valid behaviour change technique, but it does not support habit formation which is necessary for maintaining the change in behaviour over long term The problems it will address To address this issue, we need to answer the following research questions: 1. We need to understand the key psycho-social variables that fluctuate over time and in particular how they interact with the key features of wearable devices (e.g. targets hit/missed), and how providing feedback from wearable technology over time influences the development of automaticity that is linked with habit strength. 2. Building on this, we need to gain a better understanding of user experiences of those using wearable devices to help us identify opportunities to intervene and support predictors of habit formation in real-time. 3. Lastly we need to understand how patients perceive a just-in-time adaptive intervention that is designed to go beyond supporting tracking by providing feedback to help people living with or beyond cancer develop habits. What it will involve The project will consist of three stages. We will: 1. Conduct an EMA study over a period of 6 weeks to learn how people living with and beyond cancer experience (cognitions, emotions) a commercial wearable tracker and how this predicts the development of automaticity that is linked with habit strength. 2. Carry out telephone interviews with participants to give us a deeper understanding of the experience of using wearable devices and help us to identify opportunities to intervene and support predictors of habit formation in real-time. 3. Explore prototype images of a just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) with target users to understand whether we can improve the functionality of wearable activity monitors for supporting long term habit formation. This will give us a fundamental understanding of how individuals who do not currently use wearable technology experience such devices and inform the development of a just-in-time adaptive intervention to help optimise their use in creating long lasting physical activity habits and improving health and wellbeing. What next? Subsequent work will focus on piloting the JITAI over a longer period and exploring the effectiveness and efficacy of this approach. Project team Cindy Forbes, Katarzyna Stawarz, Max Western, Daniel Harrison Update on progress as at Feb 2021: Project timeframe has been negatively impacted by Covid19. Completed: • Recruited 27 cancer survivors and collected 6 weeks of Fitbit and EMA data from 23 so far (following up with the final 4 to get archives). • Conducted 23 follow-up interviews of which 16 have been transcribed so far, the other 7 are in progress. • Anonymisation of transcripts to share with the team to then build an analysis plan. • Script developed to convert the Fitbit data to useable format for quantitative analyses. Next stage: • Complete analyses for both quant and qual studies. • Schedule and conduct Zoom/Miro workshops with participants to co-design intervention and feedback findings. |
Impact | No outputs or outcomes yet. This is a multidisciplinary project: Cindy Forbes' previous research has been in the development and evaluation of using digital technology (e.g. websites and integrated wearable trackers) to deliver tailored physical activity programmes to people living with and beyond cancer. Katarzyna Stawarz has expertise in habit formation research and evaluating digital technologies aiming to support behaviour change and habits. Max Western brings expertise in the use of wearable trackers for changing physical activity behaviour and in using ecological momentary assessment to analyse physical activity and related micro-processes. Daniel Harrison's research background in the use and abandonment of wearable exercise trackers. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Fellows collaboration prize project - Using EMAs to understand the impact of wearables on the PA of cancer patients |
Organisation | Northumbria University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have provided funding in the form of prize money of £5755 to carry out a project proposed at the Fellows' Collaboration event in Dec 2019. |
Collaborator Contribution | The prize recipients will carry out their proposed project as follows: What this project will do This project will use innovative ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to learn what impact using wearable physical activity technology has on key psycho-social predictors of habit formation in people living with and beyond cancer, develop a real-time intervention to support behavioural maintenance, and inform a just-in-time intervention to facilitate habit formation. Why it matters Maintaining physical activity throughout and post treatment for cancer is linked to better physical and mental health, and potentially better cancer outcomes. Wearable technologies can help many individuals better understand their behaviour and motivate increases in activity. However, they tend to be predominately used by young, healthy and often sporty individuals and neglect those who could benefit most. Moreover, wearables focus on self-tracking, which is a valid behaviour change technique, but it does not support habit formation which is necessary for maintaining the change in behaviour over long term The problems it will address To address this issue, we need to answer the following research questions: 1. We need to understand the key psycho-social variables that fluctuate over time and in particular how they interact with the key features of wearable devices (e.g. targets hit/missed), and how providing feedback from wearable technology over time influences the development of automaticity that is linked with habit strength. 2. Building on this, we need to gain a better understanding of user experiences of those using wearable devices to help us identify opportunities to intervene and support predictors of habit formation in real-time. 3. Lastly we need to understand how patients perceive a just-in-time adaptive intervention that is designed to go beyond supporting tracking by providing feedback to help people living with or beyond cancer develop habits. What it will involve The project will consist of three stages. We will: 1. Conduct an EMA study over a period of 6 weeks to learn how people living with and beyond cancer experience (cognitions, emotions) a commercial wearable tracker and how this predicts the development of automaticity that is linked with habit strength. 2. Carry out telephone interviews with participants to give us a deeper understanding of the experience of using wearable devices and help us to identify opportunities to intervene and support predictors of habit formation in real-time. 3. Explore prototype images of a just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) with target users to understand whether we can improve the functionality of wearable activity monitors for supporting long term habit formation. This will give us a fundamental understanding of how individuals who do not currently use wearable technology experience such devices and inform the development of a just-in-time adaptive intervention to help optimise their use in creating long lasting physical activity habits and improving health and wellbeing. What next? Subsequent work will focus on piloting the JITAI over a longer period and exploring the effectiveness and efficacy of this approach. Project team Cindy Forbes, Katarzyna Stawarz, Max Western, Daniel Harrison Update on progress as at Feb 2021: Project timeframe has been negatively impacted by Covid19. Completed: • Recruited 27 cancer survivors and collected 6 weeks of Fitbit and EMA data from 23 so far (following up with the final 4 to get archives). • Conducted 23 follow-up interviews of which 16 have been transcribed so far, the other 7 are in progress. • Anonymisation of transcripts to share with the team to then build an analysis plan. • Script developed to convert the Fitbit data to useable format for quantitative analyses. Next stage: • Complete analyses for both quant and qual studies. • Schedule and conduct Zoom/Miro workshops with participants to co-design intervention and feedback findings. |
Impact | No outputs or outcomes yet. This is a multidisciplinary project: Cindy Forbes' previous research has been in the development and evaluation of using digital technology (e.g. websites and integrated wearable trackers) to deliver tailored physical activity programmes to people living with and beyond cancer. Katarzyna Stawarz has expertise in habit formation research and evaluating digital technologies aiming to support behaviour change and habits. Max Western brings expertise in the use of wearable trackers for changing physical activity behaviour and in using ecological momentary assessment to analyse physical activity and related micro-processes. Daniel Harrison's research background in the use and abandonment of wearable exercise trackers. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Fellows collaboration prize project - Using EMAs to understand the impact of wearables on the PA of cancer patients |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have provided funding in the form of prize money of £5755 to carry out a project proposed at the Fellows' Collaboration event in Dec 2019. |
Collaborator Contribution | The prize recipients will carry out their proposed project as follows: What this project will do This project will use innovative ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to learn what impact using wearable physical activity technology has on key psycho-social predictors of habit formation in people living with and beyond cancer, develop a real-time intervention to support behavioural maintenance, and inform a just-in-time intervention to facilitate habit formation. Why it matters Maintaining physical activity throughout and post treatment for cancer is linked to better physical and mental health, and potentially better cancer outcomes. Wearable technologies can help many individuals better understand their behaviour and motivate increases in activity. However, they tend to be predominately used by young, healthy and often sporty individuals and neglect those who could benefit most. Moreover, wearables focus on self-tracking, which is a valid behaviour change technique, but it does not support habit formation which is necessary for maintaining the change in behaviour over long term The problems it will address To address this issue, we need to answer the following research questions: 1. We need to understand the key psycho-social variables that fluctuate over time and in particular how they interact with the key features of wearable devices (e.g. targets hit/missed), and how providing feedback from wearable technology over time influences the development of automaticity that is linked with habit strength. 2. Building on this, we need to gain a better understanding of user experiences of those using wearable devices to help us identify opportunities to intervene and support predictors of habit formation in real-time. 3. Lastly we need to understand how patients perceive a just-in-time adaptive intervention that is designed to go beyond supporting tracking by providing feedback to help people living with or beyond cancer develop habits. What it will involve The project will consist of three stages. We will: 1. Conduct an EMA study over a period of 6 weeks to learn how people living with and beyond cancer experience (cognitions, emotions) a commercial wearable tracker and how this predicts the development of automaticity that is linked with habit strength. 2. Carry out telephone interviews with participants to give us a deeper understanding of the experience of using wearable devices and help us to identify opportunities to intervene and support predictors of habit formation in real-time. 3. Explore prototype images of a just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) with target users to understand whether we can improve the functionality of wearable activity monitors for supporting long term habit formation. This will give us a fundamental understanding of how individuals who do not currently use wearable technology experience such devices and inform the development of a just-in-time adaptive intervention to help optimise their use in creating long lasting physical activity habits and improving health and wellbeing. What next? Subsequent work will focus on piloting the JITAI over a longer period and exploring the effectiveness and efficacy of this approach. Project team Cindy Forbes, Katarzyna Stawarz, Max Western, Daniel Harrison Update on progress as at Feb 2021: Project timeframe has been negatively impacted by Covid19. Completed: • Recruited 27 cancer survivors and collected 6 weeks of Fitbit and EMA data from 23 so far (following up with the final 4 to get archives). • Conducted 23 follow-up interviews of which 16 have been transcribed so far, the other 7 are in progress. • Anonymisation of transcripts to share with the team to then build an analysis plan. • Script developed to convert the Fitbit data to useable format for quantitative analyses. Next stage: • Complete analyses for both quant and qual studies. • Schedule and conduct Zoom/Miro workshops with participants to co-design intervention and feedback findings. |
Impact | No outputs or outcomes yet. This is a multidisciplinary project: Cindy Forbes' previous research has been in the development and evaluation of using digital technology (e.g. websites and integrated wearable trackers) to deliver tailored physical activity programmes to people living with and beyond cancer. Katarzyna Stawarz has expertise in habit formation research and evaluating digital technologies aiming to support behaviour change and habits. Max Western brings expertise in the use of wearable trackers for changing physical activity behaviour and in using ecological momentary assessment to analyse physical activity and related micro-processes. Daniel Harrison's research background in the use and abandonment of wearable exercise trackers. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Fellows collaboration prize project - Using EMAs to understand the impact of wearables on the PA of cancer patients |
Organisation | University of Hull |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have provided funding in the form of prize money of £5755 to carry out a project proposed at the Fellows' Collaboration event in Dec 2019. |
Collaborator Contribution | The prize recipients will carry out their proposed project as follows: What this project will do This project will use innovative ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to learn what impact using wearable physical activity technology has on key psycho-social predictors of habit formation in people living with and beyond cancer, develop a real-time intervention to support behavioural maintenance, and inform a just-in-time intervention to facilitate habit formation. Why it matters Maintaining physical activity throughout and post treatment for cancer is linked to better physical and mental health, and potentially better cancer outcomes. Wearable technologies can help many individuals better understand their behaviour and motivate increases in activity. However, they tend to be predominately used by young, healthy and often sporty individuals and neglect those who could benefit most. Moreover, wearables focus on self-tracking, which is a valid behaviour change technique, but it does not support habit formation which is necessary for maintaining the change in behaviour over long term The problems it will address To address this issue, we need to answer the following research questions: 1. We need to understand the key psycho-social variables that fluctuate over time and in particular how they interact with the key features of wearable devices (e.g. targets hit/missed), and how providing feedback from wearable technology over time influences the development of automaticity that is linked with habit strength. 2. Building on this, we need to gain a better understanding of user experiences of those using wearable devices to help us identify opportunities to intervene and support predictors of habit formation in real-time. 3. Lastly we need to understand how patients perceive a just-in-time adaptive intervention that is designed to go beyond supporting tracking by providing feedback to help people living with or beyond cancer develop habits. What it will involve The project will consist of three stages. We will: 1. Conduct an EMA study over a period of 6 weeks to learn how people living with and beyond cancer experience (cognitions, emotions) a commercial wearable tracker and how this predicts the development of automaticity that is linked with habit strength. 2. Carry out telephone interviews with participants to give us a deeper understanding of the experience of using wearable devices and help us to identify opportunities to intervene and support predictors of habit formation in real-time. 3. Explore prototype images of a just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) with target users to understand whether we can improve the functionality of wearable activity monitors for supporting long term habit formation. This will give us a fundamental understanding of how individuals who do not currently use wearable technology experience such devices and inform the development of a just-in-time adaptive intervention to help optimise their use in creating long lasting physical activity habits and improving health and wellbeing. What next? Subsequent work will focus on piloting the JITAI over a longer period and exploring the effectiveness and efficacy of this approach. Project team Cindy Forbes, Katarzyna Stawarz, Max Western, Daniel Harrison Update on progress as at Feb 2021: Project timeframe has been negatively impacted by Covid19. Completed: • Recruited 27 cancer survivors and collected 6 weeks of Fitbit and EMA data from 23 so far (following up with the final 4 to get archives). • Conducted 23 follow-up interviews of which 16 have been transcribed so far, the other 7 are in progress. • Anonymisation of transcripts to share with the team to then build an analysis plan. • Script developed to convert the Fitbit data to useable format for quantitative analyses. Next stage: • Complete analyses for both quant and qual studies. • Schedule and conduct Zoom/Miro workshops with participants to co-design intervention and feedback findings. |
Impact | No outputs or outcomes yet. This is a multidisciplinary project: Cindy Forbes' previous research has been in the development and evaluation of using digital technology (e.g. websites and integrated wearable trackers) to deliver tailored physical activity programmes to people living with and beyond cancer. Katarzyna Stawarz has expertise in habit formation research and evaluating digital technologies aiming to support behaviour change and habits. Max Western brings expertise in the use of wearable trackers for changing physical activity behaviour and in using ecological momentary assessment to analyse physical activity and related micro-processes. Daniel Harrison's research background in the use and abandonment of wearable exercise trackers. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Marion Lean - Stretch Orchestra Workshop with 'Haringey Rhinos' and 'Footfalls and Heartbeats' |
Organisation | Footfalls and Heartbeats |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Provided funding for the workshop (fully funded); promoted the workshop via our media channels; made a video of the workshop to publicise the workshop and its outcomes, which is on our website, YouTube channel and is also available for the organisers to embed in their own publicity materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | Ran a research workshop which took place at the White Hart Lane stadium clubhouse in Tottenham after a training session (rugby). The organiser (design researcher) introduced the purpose and the agenda as well as introducing a representative from an intelligent textiles company who demo-ed some products and invited workshop participants to interact with them. Players from the Haringey Rhinos RFC tried out textile sensor systems including connected smart socks and considered alternative non-screen-based, sensory data feedback systems for use on the field. The aim was to consider ways to develop methods that would allow exploration of the sensory and affective dimensions of digital health products. Workshop participants took on tasks using materials and discussed experiences and ideas about digital health products and their data. The discussion led to issues around affective impact of data presence using digital technologies to track data and ideation around speculative sensory feedback systems. |
Impact | Output and outcomes reported from this event include: Requests about (further) participation or involvement Plans made for further related activity Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours- discussion around technologies and data use Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions Decision made or influenced Requests for further information Involvement of research participants in 'methods' exercises and engagement in ideation workshop with discussion of issues around the themes of technology and exercise and use of new technologies in sports. Development of multidisciplinary research methodology involving designers, textiles researchers and technolgists to test ideas in the wider community. See also http://marionlean.co.uk/Methods-Testing-ideas-in-the-wider-community. Requests about (further) participation or involvement Plans made for further related activity Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours- discussion around technologies and data use Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions Decision made or influenced Requests for further information Other impacts not listed above - please list/summarise these: |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Marion Lean - Stretch Orchestra Workshop with 'Haringey Rhinos' and 'Footfalls and Heartbeats' |
Organisation | Haringey Rhinos RFC |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Provided funding for the workshop (fully funded); promoted the workshop via our media channels; made a video of the workshop to publicise the workshop and its outcomes, which is on our website, YouTube channel and is also available for the organisers to embed in their own publicity materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | Ran a research workshop which took place at the White Hart Lane stadium clubhouse in Tottenham after a training session (rugby). The organiser (design researcher) introduced the purpose and the agenda as well as introducing a representative from an intelligent textiles company who demo-ed some products and invited workshop participants to interact with them. Players from the Haringey Rhinos RFC tried out textile sensor systems including connected smart socks and considered alternative non-screen-based, sensory data feedback systems for use on the field. The aim was to consider ways to develop methods that would allow exploration of the sensory and affective dimensions of digital health products. Workshop participants took on tasks using materials and discussed experiences and ideas about digital health products and their data. The discussion led to issues around affective impact of data presence using digital technologies to track data and ideation around speculative sensory feedback systems. |
Impact | Output and outcomes reported from this event include: Requests about (further) participation or involvement Plans made for further related activity Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours- discussion around technologies and data use Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions Decision made or influenced Requests for further information Involvement of research participants in 'methods' exercises and engagement in ideation workshop with discussion of issues around the themes of technology and exercise and use of new technologies in sports. Development of multidisciplinary research methodology involving designers, textiles researchers and technolgists to test ideas in the wider community. See also http://marionlean.co.uk/Methods-Testing-ideas-in-the-wider-community. Requests about (further) participation or involvement Plans made for further related activity Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours- discussion around technologies and data use Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions Decision made or influenced Requests for further information Other impacts not listed above - please list/summarise these: |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Marion Lean - Stretch Orchestra Workshop with 'Haringey Rhinos' and 'Footfalls and Heartbeats' |
Organisation | Royal College of Art |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided funding for the workshop (fully funded); promoted the workshop via our media channels; made a video of the workshop to publicise the workshop and its outcomes, which is on our website, YouTube channel and is also available for the organisers to embed in their own publicity materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | Ran a research workshop which took place at the White Hart Lane stadium clubhouse in Tottenham after a training session (rugby). The organiser (design researcher) introduced the purpose and the agenda as well as introducing a representative from an intelligent textiles company who demo-ed some products and invited workshop participants to interact with them. Players from the Haringey Rhinos RFC tried out textile sensor systems including connected smart socks and considered alternative non-screen-based, sensory data feedback systems for use on the field. The aim was to consider ways to develop methods that would allow exploration of the sensory and affective dimensions of digital health products. Workshop participants took on tasks using materials and discussed experiences and ideas about digital health products and their data. The discussion led to issues around affective impact of data presence using digital technologies to track data and ideation around speculative sensory feedback systems. |
Impact | Output and outcomes reported from this event include: Requests about (further) participation or involvement Plans made for further related activity Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours- discussion around technologies and data use Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions Decision made or influenced Requests for further information Involvement of research participants in 'methods' exercises and engagement in ideation workshop with discussion of issues around the themes of technology and exercise and use of new technologies in sports. Development of multidisciplinary research methodology involving designers, textiles researchers and technolgists to test ideas in the wider community. See also http://marionlean.co.uk/Methods-Testing-ideas-in-the-wider-community. Requests about (further) participation or involvement Plans made for further related activity Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours- discussion around technologies and data use Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions Decision made or influenced Requests for further information Other impacts not listed above - please list/summarise these: |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Marion Lean - What does Health Feel Like? (Stretch Orchestra Exhibition) London Design Festival 2018 |
Organisation | Royal College of Art |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided funding for the workshop; promoted the workshop via our media channels; made a video of the workshop to publicise the workshop and its outcomes, which is on our website, YouTube channel and is also available for the organisers to embed in their own publicity materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | Marion Lean, a PhD textiles researcher, organised and hosted the exhibition at the London Design Festival. It was a public, interactive exhibition where visitors could learn about current collaborative research between GAMO and RCA and participate by considering alternative sensory ways to experience health data collected from wearable technologies. The purpose was to create a public engagement opportunity which would allow an open narrative around research of systems and technologies aimed to support behaviour change around physical activity. In collaboration with intelligent textiles innovators, Footfalls and Heartbeats an interactive installation as part of the London Design Festival proposed a felt experience of data generated by technology products designed to support wellbeing. The installation was open for 4 days with the designer present throughout to take visitors through a demonstration and collect feedback. A connected exercise pad made with textile sensors responded to your interaction by inviting you to experience physical activity data in a playful way; a giant marble run, designed to elicit a childlike feeling of wonder and satisfaction. The work was public facing therefore attracted visitors from many backgrounds, as well as children to try out a textile sensor system which recorded data and then feedback the data in a novel format to encourage consideration of alternative data feedback systems for bodily data collected from digital health products. A film showing previous workshops on the topic was also on show so that visitors could learn about the research methods and the context. The event took place during the London Design Festival (Sept 2018) which attracts thousands of international visitors from within the design industry as well public (930,773 visits in 2017). The installation was also recorded and shared via social media platforms to engage an extended network. The aim was to enable the public and wider design community group to reconsider the ways that risks of sedentary lifestyle is being tackled from perspective of materials and design. Visitors explored the ways that we could interpret health data from digital tracking devices using alternative sensory output as generated by the initial workshops and iterative design sessions. The intention was to generate feedback from visitors as to how they might like to feel, hear, interact, play and use their physical activity data in ways that would be more meaningful. |
Impact | The collaboration was multidisciplinary involving: Design, Textiles, Data Science,Human Computer Interaction. Outputs and outcomes: Requests about (further) participation or involvement Plans made for further related activity Requests for further information Public engagement: the event took place during the London Design Festival (Sept 2018) which attracts thousands of international visitors from within the design industry as well public (930,773 visits in 2017). The installation was also recorded and shared via social media platforms to engage an extended network. As a public engagement opportunity, it was well situated to draw in an audience from a non-typical demographic considering the 'health' angle. Feedback from within the design community was positive in relation to the consideration of varied and artistic responses to communicating health topics. Visitors reported that they enjoyed trying out the installation and were surprised that they had been 'tricked' into engaging in physical activity given the context of a 'design festival'. Conversations took place around personal experiences of health and bodily data tracking (digital and non digital). The impact was seen in visitors' responses to the interactive experience, both whilst using the system and in the discussion. The documentation of the event (films and imagery) has been used as a tool for discussion around the design of digital health and data experiences in subsequent events as well as online discussion. A significant outcome was an invitation to take part in future activities in relation to the alternative interface agenda for digital technologies. The installation also served as a catalyst for an educational program on the theme. Other outcomes and impacts: A film of the Stretch Orchestra Workshop and Marble Run installation Were exhibited in the section 'Collaboration and Cross disciplinary working' at Futurescan 4, Fashion Textiles Courses Conference exhibition 2019 at University of Bolton. A paper presentation titled 'How does health feel? Exploring Affective and Sensory Dimensions of Data' in the track 'Integrating and Connecting Digital Technologies' was presented at Futurescan 4. Programme: http://www.ftc-online.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/F4_Programme.pdf Abstract: http://www.ftc-online.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/F4_AbstractsBiographies_UPDATED.pdf The full paper was also published in 2019 by the conference. Learnings from both the workshop and installation were used in development of the 'Material Led Feedback System' cross programme short course at the Royal College of Art, November 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92lkpWalWIY Marion Lean has been awarded a UKRI grant to undertake a placement in central government where learnings from the workshop about how people engage with data will inform focus group sessions with members of the public and SMEs nationwide to gather qualitative data on the benefits of gigabit capable connections. The Stretch Orchestra Installation is now part of the 'Data Physicalisation' database dataphys.org contributing to an emerging field of research and practice. It is hosted in the section ' List of Physical Visualisations' http://dataphys.org/list/stretch-orchestra-marble-run/ Marion Lean was invited to exhibit and generate content for Graphic Hunters' S-H-O-W conference 2019 on the theme 'Emotions in data visualisations and Information Design'. https://graphichuntersshow.nl/ These projects will contribute to Marion Lean's submission for a practice based PhD in Design Research at the Royal College of Art supported by AHRC London Doctoral Consortium due to be completed by December 2019. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | ThinkPiece: A scoping review of Exertion Game Research in 2017 |
Organisation | University College Cork |
Department | Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre |
Country | Ireland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of £4000 (=80%) funding to Nottingham as a result of the first Call for Papers by the EPSRC-funded GetAMoveOn Network+ |
Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of a paper as follows: Title A scoping review of Exergame Research in 2017 Summary This study will provide a clear view of the scope of previous game-based interventions for movement and exercise, review the quality of evidence, and provide indications for where these interventions are likely to succeed. Collaborators Joe Marshall, University of Nottingham, Mixed Reality Lab, School of Computer Science, Lead investigator Conor Linehan, University College, Cork, Schoool of Applied Psychology, Co-investigator |
Impact | Paper was delivered 18th May 2017. Paper was presented at the first GetAMoveOn Symposium on 25th May 2017. Multidisciplinary: Computer Science Applied Psychology |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ThinkPiece: A scoping review of Exertion Game Research in 2017 |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of £4000 (=80%) funding to Nottingham as a result of the first Call for Papers by the EPSRC-funded GetAMoveOn Network+ |
Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of a paper as follows: Title A scoping review of Exergame Research in 2017 Summary This study will provide a clear view of the scope of previous game-based interventions for movement and exercise, review the quality of evidence, and provide indications for where these interventions are likely to succeed. Collaborators Joe Marshall, University of Nottingham, Mixed Reality Lab, School of Computer Science, Lead investigator Conor Linehan, University College, Cork, Schoool of Applied Psychology, Co-investigator |
Impact | Paper was delivered 18th May 2017. Paper was presented at the first GetAMoveOn Symposium on 25th May 2017. Multidisciplinary: Computer Science Applied Psychology |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ThinkPiece: Designing for Agency and Compassion: Critical Reflections on Technology to Support Physical Activity in Late Life |
Organisation | University of Copenhagen |
Department | Psychiatric Center Copenhagen |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of £3926.22 (=80%) funding to Lincoln as a result of the first Call for Papers by the EPSRC-funded GetAMoveOn Network+ |
Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of a research paper as follows: Title Designing for Agency and Compassion: Critical Reflections on Technology to Support Physical Activity in Late Life Summary This paper will outline challenges that need to be addressed in order to create technology that is compassionate, offers room for the lived experiences of older adults, and empowers them to re-gain ownership of their embodied experiences of PA. Collaborators Dr Kathrin Gerling, University of Lincoln, School of Computer Science, College of Science, Lead investigator Prof. Mo Ray, University of Lincoln, School of Health and Social Care, College of Social Sicence, Co-investigator Prof. Dr. Adam Evans, University of Copenhagen Denmark, Sport Individual and Society, Department of Nutrtion, Exercise and Sports, Co-investigator |
Impact | Research paper was delivered by 18th May 2017. Paper was presented at the first GetAMoveOn Symposium on 25th May 2017. Multidisciplinary: Computer Science Health and Social Care Nutrition, Exercise and Sports Science |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ThinkPiece: Designing for Agency and Compassion: Critical Reflections on Technology to Support Physical Activity in Late Life |
Organisation | University of Lincoln |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of £3926.22 (=80%) funding to Lincoln as a result of the first Call for Papers by the EPSRC-funded GetAMoveOn Network+ |
Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of a research paper as follows: Title Designing for Agency and Compassion: Critical Reflections on Technology to Support Physical Activity in Late Life Summary This paper will outline challenges that need to be addressed in order to create technology that is compassionate, offers room for the lived experiences of older adults, and empowers them to re-gain ownership of their embodied experiences of PA. Collaborators Dr Kathrin Gerling, University of Lincoln, School of Computer Science, College of Science, Lead investigator Prof. Mo Ray, University of Lincoln, School of Health and Social Care, College of Social Sicence, Co-investigator Prof. Dr. Adam Evans, University of Copenhagen Denmark, Sport Individual and Society, Department of Nutrtion, Exercise and Sports, Co-investigator |
Impact | Research paper was delivered by 18th May 2017. Paper was presented at the first GetAMoveOn Symposium on 25th May 2017. Multidisciplinary: Computer Science Health and Social Care Nutrition, Exercise and Sports Science |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ThinkPiece: Exploring the Relevance of Social Practice Theory to Informing the Design of Technologies for Encouraging More Physical Activity in Everyday Life |
Organisation | Lancaster University |
Department | Lancaster Environment Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of £3768.78 (=80%) funding to UCL as a result of the first Call for Papers by the EPSRC-funded GetAMoveOn Network+ |
Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of a research paper as follows: Title Exploring the Relevance of Social Practice Theory to Design for encouraging more Physical Activity in Everyday Life Summary The purpose of the proposed paper is to provide a review on the application of Social Practice theory (SPT) to the challenge of designing technology to encourage more physical activity (PA) in everyday life. Hadiza Ismaila, University College London, Interaction Centre, Lead investigator Professor Ann Blandford, University College London, Institute of Digital Health, Co-investigator Dr Edward Fottrell, University College London, Institute for Global Health, Co-investigator Prof. Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University, Department of Sociology, Co-investigator Dr Stanley Blue, Lancaster University, Department of Sociology, Co-investigator |
Impact | Paper to be delivered May 2018 Multidisciplinary: HCI Digital Health Sociology Epidemiology/population surveillance |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ThinkPiece: Exploring the Relevance of Social Practice Theory to Informing the Design of Technologies for Encouraging More Physical Activity in Everyday Life |
Organisation | University College London |
Department | UCL Interaction Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of £3768.78 (=80%) funding to UCL as a result of the first Call for Papers by the EPSRC-funded GetAMoveOn Network+ |
Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of a research paper as follows: Title Exploring the Relevance of Social Practice Theory to Design for encouraging more Physical Activity in Everyday Life Summary The purpose of the proposed paper is to provide a review on the application of Social Practice theory (SPT) to the challenge of designing technology to encourage more physical activity (PA) in everyday life. Hadiza Ismaila, University College London, Interaction Centre, Lead investigator Professor Ann Blandford, University College London, Institute of Digital Health, Co-investigator Dr Edward Fottrell, University College London, Institute for Global Health, Co-investigator Prof. Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University, Department of Sociology, Co-investigator Dr Stanley Blue, Lancaster University, Department of Sociology, Co-investigator |
Impact | Paper to be delivered May 2018 Multidisciplinary: HCI Digital Health Sociology Epidemiology/population surveillance |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ThinkPiece: Going beyond motivation! A framework for the design of technolog y for supporting physical activity where mobility is restricted. |
Organisation | University College London |
Department | UCL Interaction Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of £2672 (=80%) funding as a result of the first Call for Papers by the EPSRC-funded GetAMoveOn Network+ |
Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of research paper as follows: Title Of course, I want to be active! Going beyond motivation in technological approaches to physical activity. Summary Psychological and emotional barriers to activity are underexplored in behaviour change models and theories. We aim to stimulate discussion on theories, design of studies, methods and challenges in designing body-aware technologies that provide real time feedback to update people's self-perception of their body and its ability to move. Collaborators Aneesha Singh, University College London, Interaction Centre, Lead investigator Prof. Nadia Berthouze, University College London, Interaction Centre, Co-investigator Amanda Williams, University College London, Co-investigator Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Universidad Loyola Andalucía & Honorary Research Associate at UCLIC, Co-investigator |
Impact | Paper to be delivered 18th May 2017 Multidisciplinary: Psychoacoustics, neuroscience and computer sciences HCI Health psychology |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ThinkPiece: Physical activity interventions in older adults using digital technologies with special emphasis on Just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of £4000 (=80%) funding to Southampton University as a result of the first Call for Papers by the EPSRC-funded GetAMoveOn Network+ |
Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of a research paper as follows: Title Physical activity interventions in older adults using digital technologies with special emphasis on Just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) Summary We want to answer two questions: 1) What needs to be considered when making decisions about the six intervention components of a JITAI to promote improve physical activity in older adults? 2) What is the evidence base for JITAIs targeting physical activity in older adults (e.g., acceptability, feasibility, efficacy)? Collaborators Dr Andre Matthias Müller, University of Southampton, Centre for Applications of Clinical and Community Applications of Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, Lead investigator Professor Ian Craddock, University of Bristol, Faculty of Engineering, Co-investigator Professor Ann Blandford, University College London, Institute of Digital Health, Co-investigator Dr Leanne Morrison, University of Southampton, Centre for Applications of Clinical and Community Applications of Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, Co-investigator Prof. Lucy Yardley, University of Southampton, Centre for Applications of Clinical and Community Applications of Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, Co-investigator |
Impact | Paper to be delivered by 18th May 2017 Health Psychology Engineering/Data Science/sensor networks Digital Health/HCI |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ThinkPiece: The current state of self-tracking technologies and interventions for encouraging increased activity and how to assess them: a critical review |
Organisation | University College London |
Department | UCL Interaction Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of £1556.82 (=80%) funding to UCLas a result of the first Call for Papers by the EPSRC-funded GetAMoveOn Network+ |
Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of a research paper as follows: Title The current state of self-tracking technologies and interventions for encouraging increased activity and how to assess them: a critical review Summary The paper will present an overview of current PI technologies for measuring physical activity; research into engagement and use of these technologies and how this has impacted individuals, groups and society; considerations for using these devices in interventions; and finally, a critique of both the methods for studying PI systems, and the interventions using them, to provide new directions for future work. Collaborators Daniel Harrison, University College London, Interaction Centre, Lead investigator Prof. Nadia Berthouze, University College London, Interaction Centre, Co-investigator Paul Marshall, University College London, Interaction Centre, Co-investigator |
Impact | Research paper delivered 18 May 2017. The paper was presented at the first GetAMoveOn Symposium on 25th May 2017. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Thinkpiece: When wearable devices fail: Improving future digital health interventions |
Organisation | Lancaster University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of £2843.20 (=80%) funding to Lancaster as a result of the first Call for Papers by the EPSRC-funded GetAMoveOn Network+ |
Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of a research paper as follows: Title When wearable devices fail: Improving future digital health interventions Summary The paper will identify patterns and document the key reasons why wearables and other mobile technologies can fail to change behaviour. It will also consider how study designs and outcome measures may need to be adapted in the future. Collaborators: Dr David A. Ellis, Lancaster University, Lead investigator Dr Lukasz Piwek, University of Bath School of Management, Co-investigator |
Impact | Paper to was delivered by 18th May 2017. Paper was presented at the first GetAMoveOn Symposium on 25th May 2017. Multi-disciplinary: psychology, data science. The work done for this paper directly informed the development of the workshop, also funded by GetAMoveOn Network+ "Innovations in Primary Care' which is reported elsewhere in this section. This thinkpiece gave rise to a published paper (also in Publications section) Ellis, D. A. and Piwek, L. (2018). Failing to encourage physical activity with wearable technology: what next? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 111, (9), 310-313 Associated Altimetric score is here https://sage.altmetric.com/details/45418872. Both authors are involved with the CERST project (https://crestresearch.ac.uk/). The use of digital technologies for tracking/behaviour change is an area interest for the behavioural analytics strand of CERST which has been informed by the work done for this thinkpiece. (This core programme isn't on the website, but it did commence in October 2018.) The work done for this paper also informed a British Psychology Society Social Section symposium hosted with colleagues and attended by around 100 people in 2018: Levine M., Stuart, A., Koschate-Reis, M., Cooper, J., Wilkins, D., Philpot, R., Ellis, D. A., Piwek, L. and Joinson, A. (2018). Social Psychology, New Technologies and the Crisis of Relevance. Symposium presented at the British Psychology Society - Social Section Annual Conference - Addressing the Crisis, August 28-30, Keele, UK It also helped inform a public lecture given by one of the authors, David Ellis, attended by over 100 people. Ellis, D. A. (2018). Is Modern Technology Ruining Your Life? Public lecture presented as part of the Lancaster University Public Lecture Series, June 13, Lancaster, UK Additional funding proposals that have arisen from or are informed by the work done for this thinkpiece include: 1) Currently (early 2019) developing a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with industry to explore measurement of health outcomes from difficult to reach populations. 2) Working with Lancashire country council (early 2019) as part of a related Sport England Bid that aims to encourage physical activity. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Thinkpiece: When wearable devices fail: Improving future digital health interventions |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Department | School of Health Bath |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of £2843.20 (=80%) funding to Lancaster as a result of the first Call for Papers by the EPSRC-funded GetAMoveOn Network+ |
Collaborator Contribution | Delivery of a research paper as follows: Title When wearable devices fail: Improving future digital health interventions Summary The paper will identify patterns and document the key reasons why wearables and other mobile technologies can fail to change behaviour. It will also consider how study designs and outcome measures may need to be adapted in the future. Collaborators: Dr David A. Ellis, Lancaster University, Lead investigator Dr Lukasz Piwek, University of Bath School of Management, Co-investigator |
Impact | Paper to was delivered by 18th May 2017. Paper was presented at the first GetAMoveOn Symposium on 25th May 2017. Multi-disciplinary: psychology, data science. The work done for this paper directly informed the development of the workshop, also funded by GetAMoveOn Network+ "Innovations in Primary Care' which is reported elsewhere in this section. This thinkpiece gave rise to a published paper (also in Publications section) Ellis, D. A. and Piwek, L. (2018). Failing to encourage physical activity with wearable technology: what next? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 111, (9), 310-313 Associated Altimetric score is here https://sage.altmetric.com/details/45418872. Both authors are involved with the CERST project (https://crestresearch.ac.uk/). The use of digital technologies for tracking/behaviour change is an area interest for the behavioural analytics strand of CERST which has been informed by the work done for this thinkpiece. (This core programme isn't on the website, but it did commence in October 2018.) The work done for this paper also informed a British Psychology Society Social Section symposium hosted with colleagues and attended by around 100 people in 2018: Levine M., Stuart, A., Koschate-Reis, M., Cooper, J., Wilkins, D., Philpot, R., Ellis, D. A., Piwek, L. and Joinson, A. (2018). Social Psychology, New Technologies and the Crisis of Relevance. Symposium presented at the British Psychology Society - Social Section Annual Conference - Addressing the Crisis, August 28-30, Keele, UK It also helped inform a public lecture given by one of the authors, David Ellis, attended by over 100 people. Ellis, D. A. (2018). Is Modern Technology Ruining Your Life? Public lecture presented as part of the Lancaster University Public Lecture Series, June 13, Lancaster, UK Additional funding proposals that have arisen from or are informed by the work done for this thinkpiece include: 1) Currently (early 2019) developing a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with industry to explore measurement of health outcomes from difficult to reach populations. 2) Working with Lancashire country council (early 2019) as part of a related Sport England Bid that aims to encourage physical activity. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | eWorkLife |
Organisation | Northumbria University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PROJECT 1 - Help for Remote Workers Between 20th April 2020 and 24th September 2020, we surveyed 426 individuals who started working from home as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. We also conducted 25 follow-up interviews. This helped us achieve an in-depth understanding of the challenges that new home workers are experiencing, and the impact that this has on workers' wellbeing. We also developed a tool to deliver personal feedback and wellbeing advice to participants. Anna Cox has led and oversaw the project, provided funding from GetAMoveOn. She also participated in all stages of research development and dissemination. She has also engaged with the press and policymakers, as well as participating in public engagement on social media and through developing and maintaining the website. A Research Fellow, Anna Rudnicka, supported all stages of research and public and policy engagement. Communications and Impacts manager, Clare Casson, managed the project administration and comms. PROJECT 2 - Remote Work Radio Remote work radio will be an online webapp that promotes periods of focus and active breaks while people are working remotely. The platform will promote active breaks both through the use of music and providing educational content during breaks. Through this we will gather data on people's break-taking behaviour and use of the platform to better understand how music can be used to support remote work that's focused and active. The platform will also form the basis for our citizen science investigation on people's break-taking. Through the platform, we will track user's activity on the platform (when they open it, their interactions with it, when they close it), gather feedback on the system (using experience sampling methodology) and link out to further engagement materials. Funding is provided by GetAMoveOn. Anna Cox is leading and overseeing the project. |
Collaborator Contribution | PROJECT 1 - Help for Remote Workers Sandy JJ Gould provided additional funding and participated in all stages of research development and dissemination as well as engaging with the press, and participating in public engagement by developing the website. Marta E Cecchinato participated in all stages of research development and dissemination as well as participating in public engagement by developing the website. Joseph W Newbold participated in all stages of research development and dissemination as well as designing a citizen science longitudinal study, and participating in public engagement by developing the website. Dave Cook participated in data collection and writing-up as well as public engagement through authorship of popular science articles (e.g. in The Conversation). PROJECT 2 - Remote Work Radio The partners have led on specifying the system, designing the user-scenarios, and will carry out the data capture and analysis. |
Impact | PROJECT 1 - Help for remote workers: - The eWorkLife project has focused on studying and addressing the issues brought about by the sudden shift of many people to home working, as a result of the pandemic. Data collection • Collected both qualitative and quantitative data from 479 survey respondents. • Collected qualitative data from 25 interviewees. - Provision of work-life balance advice to participants - Publications (see publications section) - Policy - submission of written evidence (see policy section) - Invitation to Prof Anna Cox to speak to the UK Parliament Lords' Select Committee to inform their Covid-19 Inquiry (2020) - Attention from international media outlets including the London Evening Standard, The Wall Street Journal and CBS News in America. PROJECT 2 - remote work radio - No outputs or outcomes yet |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | eWorkLife |
Organisation | University of Birmingham |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PROJECT 1 - Help for Remote Workers Between 20th April 2020 and 24th September 2020, we surveyed 426 individuals who started working from home as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. We also conducted 25 follow-up interviews. This helped us achieve an in-depth understanding of the challenges that new home workers are experiencing, and the impact that this has on workers' wellbeing. We also developed a tool to deliver personal feedback and wellbeing advice to participants. Anna Cox has led and oversaw the project, provided funding from GetAMoveOn. She also participated in all stages of research development and dissemination. She has also engaged with the press and policymakers, as well as participating in public engagement on social media and through developing and maintaining the website. A Research Fellow, Anna Rudnicka, supported all stages of research and public and policy engagement. Communications and Impacts manager, Clare Casson, managed the project administration and comms. PROJECT 2 - Remote Work Radio Remote work radio will be an online webapp that promotes periods of focus and active breaks while people are working remotely. The platform will promote active breaks both through the use of music and providing educational content during breaks. Through this we will gather data on people's break-taking behaviour and use of the platform to better understand how music can be used to support remote work that's focused and active. The platform will also form the basis for our citizen science investigation on people's break-taking. Through the platform, we will track user's activity on the platform (when they open it, their interactions with it, when they close it), gather feedback on the system (using experience sampling methodology) and link out to further engagement materials. Funding is provided by GetAMoveOn. Anna Cox is leading and overseeing the project. |
Collaborator Contribution | PROJECT 1 - Help for Remote Workers Sandy JJ Gould provided additional funding and participated in all stages of research development and dissemination as well as engaging with the press, and participating in public engagement by developing the website. Marta E Cecchinato participated in all stages of research development and dissemination as well as participating in public engagement by developing the website. Joseph W Newbold participated in all stages of research development and dissemination as well as designing a citizen science longitudinal study, and participating in public engagement by developing the website. Dave Cook participated in data collection and writing-up as well as public engagement through authorship of popular science articles (e.g. in The Conversation). PROJECT 2 - Remote Work Radio The partners have led on specifying the system, designing the user-scenarios, and will carry out the data capture and analysis. |
Impact | PROJECT 1 - Help for remote workers: - The eWorkLife project has focused on studying and addressing the issues brought about by the sudden shift of many people to home working, as a result of the pandemic. Data collection • Collected both qualitative and quantitative data from 479 survey respondents. • Collected qualitative data from 25 interviewees. - Provision of work-life balance advice to participants - Publications (see publications section) - Policy - submission of written evidence (see policy section) - Invitation to Prof Anna Cox to speak to the UK Parliament Lords' Select Committee to inform their Covid-19 Inquiry (2020) - Attention from international media outlets including the London Evening Standard, The Wall Street Journal and CBS News in America. PROJECT 2 - remote work radio - No outputs or outcomes yet |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | 1st Symposium (2017) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The aim of the symposium was to bring together experts in sensor networks, data analytics, interactive visualisation, human computer interaction, online citizen engagement, behaviour change, sports and exercise with the aim of transforming health through enabling mobility. The event was planned to provide: • a forum for dissemination of ongoing research, including research directly funded by the Network+ • an opportunity to explore challenges in the area • an opportunity to contribute to the shaping of future initiatives and funding calls offered by the Network Content of the symposium 24th May: Registration, early evening drinks reception and symposium dinner. 25th May: We propose a mix of activities: some invited talks, panels, poster sessions, and presentations from both GetAMoveOn Network+ members and others working on related topics. Keynote speaker Dr Rafael A Calvo, University of Sydney Further information about he aims and content of the symposium: https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/symposium-2017 The agenda and abstracts can be downloaded here: https://getamoveon.ac.uk/content/5-events/1-symposium-2017/gamo-symposium-booklet.pdf 1st GetAMoveOn Symposium Delegate Analysis • Over-subscribed - 40 delegates compared to 30 originally planned of which 13 were PhD students/post-doc researchers • International event: most people attending from UK, but Europe, Scandinavia, Aus/NZ also represented. • 21 different institutions represented, with people attending from more than one department within some institutions • Wide range of disciplines and research interests represented including HCI, behaviour change, computer science & AI, data analytics, m-health/e-health/health tech, research design, exergames • We also had delegates with research interests relating to each of our key target groups: young people, older people, people at work, and also researchers specialising in PA for people with particular health conditions - cancer and mental ill health • 3 (out of 5) members of our Advisory Group attended. Social media engagement - Twitter stats for symposium 25th May: • 86 scheduled tweets from @GAMONetwork account • 13,733 impressions • 89 retweets • 73 likes • 2.5% engagement (average is 0.7% for major brands) • 13 link clicks (through to info about our workshop on 27th June - see separate entry) • 6 replies • 25 new followers Verbal feedback from the event was very positive, with participants finding particularly valuable: - The interdisciplinary nature of the event - Resulting insights into perspectives of researchers in other fields - Being challenged to think differently about their own research - The opportunity to network and make connections that could lead to new collaborations The following papers (detailed in Publications section) have arisen from research presented at the symposium: https://www.jmir.org/2019/2/e11253/ http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/failing-to-encourage-physical-activity-with-wearable-technology(29f54a21-b283-49c4-a2ae-0a5db61d5c58).html http://mhealth.amegroups.com/article/view/16492/16598 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/symposium-2017 |
Description | 1st Symposium proceedings publication |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Publication of symposium proceedings The proceedings booklet from our first symposium 2017 was published on the GetAMoveOn website. The main outcome from this is to raise awareness of: - The symposium itself - The range of research being done in the field - The key research challenges that people are engaging with - The kinds of areas of research we are interested in funding Also to: - Disseminate research findings for others to respond to and build on through their own research - Provide benefits to Network members and increase engagement with them by helping to raise their personal profiles as researchers - Enable other researchers to contact network members via the delegate list Unfortunately we were unable initially to track the number of downloads as at the time google analytics was not set up to track PDF downloads. Tracking since July 2017 indicates 28 downloads of the Proceedings to date (mid February 2018). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | Active Minds Workshop 18th and 19th July 2018 Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Active Minds was a two-day event focusing on how issues of mental health, accessibility, and neurodiversity intersect with technology and physical activity. The event had speakers from diverse areas. The keynotes were: • Dr. Gavin Doherty (Trinity College Dublin) Talk title: Designing better e-Health interventions. • Dr. Tadaaki Furuhashi (Nagoya University, Japan) Talk title: Hikikomori and "human movement consultation" • Dr Anja Thieme (Microsoft Research). Talk title: Design for Health and Wellbeing: How Technology can Meaningfully Assist People and why we should Extend their Unique Abilities • Dr William Simm (Lancaster University): Talk title: Co-creating empowering technologies for health self-management. The keynotes discussed relevant work from different perspectives, including Computer Science, Psychiatry, Health Informatics and industry research. Each keynote talk was followed by a question and answer session. We also had ten short talks about diverse issues. Topics and disciplines covered ranged from dentistry and its occupational mental health risk, technology design for depression, HCI and AI, lived and caring experience of psychosis and digital design for and with young people. Each speaker was also invited to sit on a panel for a discussion session with the audience. In addition to the talks and discussions, we had a discussion session in which we arranged the attendees into small groups and asked them to consider three questions: "If you were to spend three years doing a PhD in this area, what would it be on?", "if you were to spend 6 months do a collaborative project, what would it be on and who would it involve?", "If you were to work on a community initiative, what would it be and why?" This sparked interesting discussions with groups, and between groups at the end with diverse ideas being proposed. We also arranged for posters and demos to be presented, including a local collaboration between University of Glasgow and an NHS team. To conclude the event we organised a public lecture by Rohan Gunatillake (funded separately also by GetAMoveOn Network) to talk about his experience and insight into developing technologies for mindfulness that are used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Drawing on examples from professional athletes to ordinary everyday life, his lecture made a very fitting ending to our event that technology, mental wellbeing and a range of human movements each had a unique role to influence each other and to contribute to our overall wellbeing and quality of life. To support networking and discussion we organised several coffee breaks, and an evening meal in the West End of Glasgow. The impacts of this work are still emerging, and include: • We brought together 75 people including academics, industry professionals, health professionals, charity workers and members of the public with lived experience of mental health issues to discuss topics related to the concerns of the EPSRC Get A Move On+ • We organised a publicly accessible event at an NHS Hospital • We have changed the views of people on the relevance of mental health to the area of technology and physical activity and enabled people to see connections and parallels across different areas. • A grant application between several attendees will be made in late 2018 on issues relating to the workshop. Feedback from participants included: • "Really interesting" • "Made some good contacts" • "Interesting intersections were explored" • "Challenged to hear lived experiences of mental health challenges and how to embrace their perspectives in future research and workshops such as this event." Comments on Twitter: • "Thought-provoking and wide ranging discussions at this morning's #activeminds seminar on digital health, physical activity and mental wellbeing - seeing tech as enabling and enhancing, rather than replacing human support... and a focus on need to promote inclusion" @SyneDrum • "Looks like veterinarians suffer from very similar issues & challenges as #juniordoctors. Lots of similarities in Paul Andrew Eynon w/ what we found in @BurnoutDocs project around lack of support. Lots of practical suggestions on what could help. But who is responsible?" @martacecchinato • "Thanks Maki Rooksby & @johnrooksby for a very interesting @GAMONetwork workshop! Great way to meet new people and to spark ideas around supporting different forms wellbeing through technology #ActiveMinds" @jolacovides Event organisers were: Dr Maki Rooksby (University of Glasgow) Dr John Rooksby (Northumbria University) Prof Matthew Chalmers (University of Glasgow) Prof Helen Minnis (University of Glasgow) Dr Jonathan Delafield-Butt (University of Strathclyde) Dr Dave Murray-Rust (University of Edinburgh) 6 organisers 4 speakers 75 participants |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://Activeminds.xyz |
Description | Behaviour Change Workshop Report |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Publication of report on workshop: Behaviour Change Interventions to Address Sedentarism in Different Communities - published 16 April 2018. This report is based on keynote talks and discussions at the GetAMoveOn Network+ (GAMO) workshop, Behaviour Change Interventions to Address Sedentarism in Different Communities, that took place in February 2018. The workshop brought together experts to highlight the challenges and opportunities of using digital technology interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour in different communities. Impacts: Agenda setting: increased awareness among researchers in the field of research priorities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/publications/behaviour-change-sedentarism |
Description | CHI Imbodied Interaction Course 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Led by Prof mc schraefel 3 basics every HCI researcher needs to know about how bodies work to improve ANY design. From Ergonomics to Embodied Interaction, the body is a fundamental locus of interaction in HCI research and design. The body and all its awesome complexity, however, is largely treated as a black box where we focus on designing around the constraints of its input and output. If we crack open the lid of the box, however, to understand, for instance: • How sleep affects ability to see errors, or • How stress suppresses creativity or affects recall, or • How social interaction with movement enhances insight, we can immediately begin to explore new kinds of design challenges to help us perform better from general to specific contexts: Imagine the typical scenario of finishing the write up of a CHI paper. If we know something of goings on IN the body, how would we design a tool that identifies sleep and stress patterns to prompt counterintuitive but beneficial increase of social engagement prior to a critical deadline, for instance? That's a new kind of question, isn't it? for potentially new kinds of interactive designs/systems. The body is highly complex. No kidding. But in this course we explore how, by cracking the lid of the body black box via three accessible heuristics, we can begin to address these new kinds of questions to enable us to innovate better designs for human performance and enhanced quality of life for all. About the Course The premise of this course is that by learning more about how our bodies work - or more particularly how the 11 complex systems (shown in sidebars) that make up our bodies from bones to hormones - we will have the knowledge we need to take the leap forward necessary in the efficacy of our designs to make real and measurable differences in the world for human wellbeing and quality of life. Our goal is to explore how understanding more about our inbodied complexity can help inform design of systems to support our embodied complexity. This focus for HCI researchers to become more self-reliant about the body, to enable us to begin to look inside the body ourselves to see how that informs what we do in terms of designing for interactions with the body is a New Thing. Some people may say that we do not need to gain this expertise: we can continue to collaborate with doctors or physiologists or whomever who have this expertise. Yes, we can of course, but HCI is an interdisciplinary field, where computer scientists learn about visual perception and cognition, where psychologists learn to code, and sociologists how to design. At the very least, with the approach this course offers, participants will be able to ask better questions and have more informed conversations with those domain experts. Approach and Outcomes To come to grips with all the awesome complexity from physiology to endocrinology with some microbiota in between, takes years of study to gain expert knowledge. We have 160 mins. The focus of this course is to give participants a sufficient introduction to the complexity of the body's interconnected systems that it is both accessible and of immediate and practical use. To this end, the course will present and practice a set of three concepts through which to start to develop better knowledge of the relationship of our inner processes on our outer practices. These concepts are: • Inbodied interaction • The in5 map of inbodied interactions • The binary body: the fundamental inbodied interaction |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration Workshop - GAMO Fellows - 4-6 Dec 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | A workshop to provide GAMO fellows with insights into unlocking the key to successful collaborations. This workshop was run by Dr Jon Bird. Jon has successfully collaborated with researchers across many areas of digital health. The workshop explored how to develop and sustain successful academic partnerships. Fellows worked together to develop collaborations between themselves, put together a research proposal and compete for prize money to take their ideas forward. Fellows were able to spend dedicated time with other Fellows learning about: - Benefits of collaboration - productivity, moving your field forward and even creating new disciplines, opening up new funding streams, creating more opportunities for impact - Successful collaboration strategies & tactics to maximise the benefits and avoid common pitfalls - growing your network and building the right relationships; identifying what your project needs and getting the right mix of disciplines, skills and personal attributes; setting a common goal; communications and project management- The role of leadership - importance of leadership to creating a collaboration where the whole is more than the sum of the parts; how to get the support you need and also: - Developing ideas for an multidisciplinary project - Pitching a funding idea to a panel for the chance to win prize money to take their projects forward. Prizes were awarded to all three projects pitched, approximately £7k to each project, to take the projects forward as a group: 1) Creating digital technology to support exercise snacking for pre-frail older adults in the home setting 2) Behaviour change theory-driven design: knowledge exchange workshops 3) Using EMAs to understand the impact of wearables on physical activity of cancer patients Details of these projects are reported in the Collaborations section. The outcomes and impacts of this workshop and associated prize funding will be: Capacity building: developing Fellows' networking, collaboration, grant-writing and pitching skills Academic impacts: enhancing impact of Fellows' existing knowledge and research outputs (all the projects pitched built on this); increasing knowledge and understanding in the areas explored by the projects Economic: increased ability of participants to attract funding to their institutions and into the UK research community Longer term: Social/cultural: contribution of the work funded towards encouraging a culture of physical activity in the general population and enabling people to be more physically active Health: improved physical and mental health resulting from increased physical activity Economic: improved productivity and reduced sickness absence and presenteeism as a result of increased levels of physical activity Attendees: 10 Fellows 1 presenter in addition to GAMO PI Anna Cox |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/fellowship |
Description | Course on Imbodied Interaction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Inbodied Interaction Course: Programme leader: m.c. schraefel The workshop was attended by 14 delegates at CHI2017, 66 at the RCA, and 45 at the Data Science department at Southampton University. Overview The programme covers the three basics every HCI researcher needs to know about how bodies work to improve ANY design. From Ergonomics to Embodied Interaction, the body is a fundamental locus of interaction in HCI research and design. The body and all its awesome complexity, however, is largely treated as a black box where we focus on designing around the constraints of its input and output. If we crack open the lid of the box, however, to understand, for instance: • How sleep affects ability to see errors, or • How stress suppresses creativity or affects recall, or • How social interaction with movement enhances insight, we can immediately begin to explore new kinds of design challenges to help us perform better from general to specific contexts: Imagine the typical scenario of finishing the write up of a CHI paper. If we know something of goings on IN the body, how would we design a tool that identifies sleep and stress patterns to prompt counterintuitive but beneficial increase of social engagement prior to a critical deadline, for instance? That's a new kind of question, isn't it? for potentially new kinds of interactive designs/systems. The body is highly complex. No kidding. But in this course we explore how, by cracking the lid of the body black box via three accessible heuristics, we can begin to address these new kinds of questions to enable us to innovate better designs for human performance and enhanced quality of life for all. About the Course The premise of this course is that by learning more about how our bodies work - or more particularly how the 11 complex systems (shown in sidebars) that make up our bodies from bones to hormones - we will have the knowledge we need to take the leap forward necessary in the efficacy of our designs to make real and measurable differences in the world for human wellbeing and quality of life. Our goal is to explore how understanding more about our inbodied complexity can help inform design of systems to support our embodied complexity. This focus for HCI researchers to become more self-reliant about the body, to enable us to begin to look inside the body ourselves to see how that informs what we do in terms of designing for interactions with the body is a New Thing. Some people may say that we do not need to gain this expertise: we can continue to collaborate with doctors or physiologists or whomever who have this expertise. Yes, we can of course, but HCI is an interdisciplinary field, where computer scientists learn about visual perception and cognition, where psychologists learn to code, and sociologists how to design. At the very least, with the approach this course offers, participants will be able to ask better questions and have more informed conversations with those domain experts. Approach and Outcomes To come to grips with all the awesome complexity from physiology to endocrinology with some microbiota in between, takes years of study to gain expert knowledge. We have 160 mins. The focus of this course is to give participants a sufficient introduction to the complexity of the body's interconnected systems that it is both accessible and of immediate and practical use. To this end, the course will present and practice a set of three concepts through which to start to develop better knowledge of the relationship of our inner processes on our outer practices. These concepts are: • Inbodied interaction • The in5 map of inbodied interactions • The binary body: the fundamental inbodied interaction Read more here: http://inbodiedinteraction.tumblr.com/ Course Organization The approach of the course will be a mix of instruction and practicum across each of the two 80 minute sessions. Session One will cover Inbodied Interaction and an introduction to the in5 model. Session Two Will go into more detail of in5 in terms of connecting these processes to internal systems. We will also cover the Binary Body evaluation model and practice this assessment. After instruction in each component, we will have small group practice sessions to develop a new interaction approach demonstrating an application of the concepts just learned. By the end of the two sessions participants will have practical experience with these three approaches, and potentially both a novel interaction to explore with new collaborators. Course Instructor The course is developed and delivered by m.c. schraefel. m.c. is a professor of computer science and human performance at the University of Southampton http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mc/ where she runs the WellthLab (mission: make better normal). m.c. is also a certified, practicing strength and conditioning coach, nutritionist and functional neurology practitioner and coach. m.c.'s research and publications in HCI are related to information systems design and health interaction; on the physiological side her research is around active mechanisms to alleviate workplace pain https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=schraefel More information can be found on m.c.'s websites http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mc/ http://www.begin2dig.com/ and youtube.com/begin2dig |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://inbodiedinteraction.tumblr.com/ |
Description | David Ellis Workshop: Innovations in Primary Care |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | As part of our getamoveon funded 'thinkpiece', we considered how future wearable interventions might be improved or re-designed from the ground up in order to maximise their success. This included the idea of trialling a practitioner-based approach when considering how wearable technologies might best serve specific domains in health or occupational settings. In July of this year, we hosted a workshop at Lancaster University that focused on the role that wearable interventions might play as part of a primary care intervention. We first heard from Professor Philip Wilson (Medicine) who spoke candidly of recent interactions with challenging patients, who might benefit from interventions to help them become more active. This provided a unique perspective because while Professor Wilson remains research active, he continues to practice as a GP. Academics in the room asked many questions regarding how new developments in wearable technology might become prescribed by primary care practitioners in the future. Dr Lukasz Piwek (Data Science) then presented an overview of research, which makes many promises regarding how wearable technology can diagnose and help patients become more active. This highlighted large gaps between the promise of basic research and how this might be applied within a primary care domain. Several attendees were quick to point out that modern technology may inadvertently be causing harm (e.g., physical inactivity due to time spent sitting in front of a screen). However, others were quick to point out that this shouldn't diminish new attempts to use technology that encourages mobility. After a short break, Dr John Hardy (Chemistry) provided an overview regarding what new wearable technologies might be around the corner. Specifically, materials science has already pioneered the development of fabrics and devices, which appear in other medical interventions. Finally, Dr David Ellis (Psychology) presented recent findings from his own programme of research, which argues that keeping wearable interventions comparatively simple might provide a more straightforward point of access when transferring lab-based findings into the NHS. Over lunch, discussions continued around the promises and barriers afforded by these new technologies, and delegates spent much of the afternoon designing some new interventions of their own. Highlights included a scheme entitled 'Home Walk', which aimed to gamify the walk home from school in a similar style to Pokemon Go. Another aimed to merge Tango Dancing with wearable trackers, which could monitor performance as part of a series of classes aimed at the elderly. While it became clear that moving new technological developments into the hands of primary care practitioners is less than straightforward, the day nevertheless allowed researchers and service providers to share ideas in a relaxed and constructive space. The overall goal - to encourage more physical activity - is universally accepted as something that should be encouraged, and this helped drive discussions forward both during and after the event. Delegates have continued to meet and discuss some of these ideas at length following this workshop, and we will hope this leads to a related funding application shortly. 30 participants 2 presenters |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://drive.google.com/open?id=17lr5e5EmaZT39BJur1zEPCjAZgU41oC2 |
Description | David Ellis workshop: What does health look like? Exploring visual feedback from wearables |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | In line with the aims of GetAMoveOn, this event allowed members of the public to develop simple wearable movement trackers that generate unique visual outputs. Specifically, activities were designed to challenge current thinking on what might constitute a valuable piece of feedback, which could, in turn, feed into future behaviour change interventions. The event took place in September of this year, and began with an introduction from Laura Pullig who provided an overview of what the day would entail. David Ellis then introduced the underlying aims of the GetAMoveOn network and how participants could find out more about future events. Participants were provided with materials and guidance that allowed them to create two wearable movement trackers from scratch. The first was a pressure sensor, which could be placed in a shoe. A second, stretch sensor, could be attached or stitched into fabric. Once these devices were communicating wirelessly with a computer, movements were converted it into visuals with pre-written computer code, which participants could customise. Different movements altered the final visualization in real-time, and experimenting with the sensors to generate new responses helped participants to see, quite literally, what each sensor was recording. This helped illuminate the relationship between movement and visual representation. A static capture of these unique visuals was then transferred onto a t-shirt or mug. While experimenting with the sensors and displays was fun for participants, we hope that these activities will encourage new ways of thinking when health-related data is utilised as part of a future intervention or public engagement event that aims to get people moving. A second group-led activity with work with local dancers to create e-textile movement responsive displays. These will light up or change appearance in response to different movements. Sensors will be made with materials that can be incorporated into clothing and costumes such as conductive fabrics, threads, metals beads, and pressure sensitive materials. We hope to display devices developed following both events as part of an interactive exhibition at future GetAMoveOn or related events. These may challenge current thinking in terms of what might constitute useful and engaging feedback that helps encourage people to become genuinely interested in their activity levels. In turn, developing interventions that go beyond traditional wearable devices (e.g., wrist-based) and feedback metrics (e.g., step counts) could provide several new research opportunities. Outputs and outcomes: Public engagement: 30 people attended. They were overwhelmingly positive about the day, with 100% of participants reporting that they were happy and satisfied with the event in writing or in conversation with the organisers. 100% who completed the feedback survey said they would recommend the event to others. No delegate reported feeling unsatisfied about any aspect of the event. Engaging young people and stimulating interest in STEM careers: Many children attended the event with their parents. Some were already learning to code in school, but others had little previous experience with electronics. Regardless, they enjoyed building and programming devices (often requiring less assistance than their parents). Therefore, these activities can help children develop an interest in engineering, science and health more generally. Awareness raising: Many people tweeted during the day with the @DoESLiverpool account being especially active. Capacity building: Influenced development of a creative hub at Lancaster University to help build capacity in tech design skills: Event organisers reported that, "There appears to be a large skills gap when developing and prototyping wearable devices as part of interventions that aim to encourage physical activity. Specifically, those working within digital health don't always have the technical knowledge to build simple, but highly-customised sensors. This has become such an issue that Lancaster University is in the process of investing in a 'maker space', which will provide a creative hub for interested students and researchers who are developing prototype devices. The activities outlined previously have helped guide these recent developments and illuminated how this new space will become more productive. First, it is possible for anyone to quickly understand and practice the basic technical skills associated with sensor development. Second, those working with digital textiles and interactive art exhibits already have many skills that could translate across to health and computational social science. We intend to explore this interdisciplinary avenue further as it appears that research cultures and practices are converging when developing digital health interventions." 30 participants 2 presenters |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudWfDCEZEQ&t=185s |
Description | Exploring affective and sensory dimensions of data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Who is this workshop for? Academics, practitioners, designers, technologists involved in the development of future technology interventions, applications products and experiences designed to influence our personal decision making in response to data feedback. What is it about? This workshop is concerned with our relationship with materials, touch and physicality in a digital age. How can materials be used to explore the experience of systems and technologies designed to aid behaviour change in health and wellbeing? The premise of the workshop is to test a platform which proposes moving away from the typical screen-based interface of digital technologies to consider alternative sensory feedback systems and their application potential. Using a novel textile sensor system to generate physical activity data, participants in multidisciplinary teams will develop prototypes for alternative data experience. What will I get from it? The takeaway from the workshop will be methods to consider expressive and sensorial feedback systems in projects which engage digital technologies; immaterial concepts; representation of data. These processes would be valuable for those considering the development of future technology interventions, applications products and experiences designed to influence our personal decision making in response to data feedback. This workshop is supported by LDoc Design in collaboration with Footfalls and Heartbeats hosted at The Royal College of Art during London Design Festival, 2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | GAMO newsletter - Year 2 - February 14th 2018 workshop reminder + announcement of other events |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter sent on February 14th 2018 announced our second Small Events call inviting proposals for small events and activities which support the 'the aim of transforming health through enabling mobility' which support the network's aims of collaboration and impact, and offering grants of up to £2,500. There was also a reminder about the deadline for submitting an Intention to Submit for our first Feasibility Call with grants up to £50k to provide short term support to allow initial investigation of new ideas which are strongly aligned to the GetAMoveOn Network+ aims and research challenges. Total recipients for February 14th 2018 newsletter: 204 (143 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 36.8% (industry average 15.4%) % recipients who clicked: 5.9% (industry average 1.5%) The number of additions to our mailing list (recipients) indicates continuing growth in the Network during Year 2, reflecting increasing awareness of the network and engagement with our agenda. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/funding-calls/small-events-2 |
Description | GAMO newsletter - Year 2 - January 24th 2018 workshop reminders |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter sent on January 24th 2018 included reminders about the deadlines for our Summer/Winter School call for proposals and our two forthcoming workshops: Firstly, our Workshop on Behaviour Change to Address Sedentarism in different communities to be held on Tuesday 20th February 2018 at UCL with GAMO PI Anna Cox and GAMO Co-I Ann Blandford facilitating. The workshop was being held in association with the 4th Annual Digital Behaviour Change Conference - Behaviour Change for Health: Digital & Beyond; secondly, a workshop being hosted at CHI 2018 by GAMO Co-I m.c. schraefel, Elise van den Hoven University of Technology Sydney, Australia and Josh Andres IBM Research Australia & Exertion Games Lab RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, to explore how increased understanding of the human body by HCI researchers might be applied in to innovation in design and research. The newsletter also trailed the announcement of our first Feasibility Call going live on 31st January. Total recipients for January 24th 2018 newsletter: 191 (130 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 37.2% (industry average 15.3%) % recipients who clicked: 9.4% (industry average 1.5%) The number of additions to our mailing list (recipients) indicates continuing growth in the Network during Year 2, reflecting increasing awareness of the network and engagement with our agenda. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | GAMO newsletter - Year 2 - January 31st 2018 - Feasibility Call 1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter sent on January 31st 2018 announced our first Feasibility Call with grants up to £50k to provide short term support to allow initial investigation of new ideas which are strongly aligned to the GetAMoveOn Network+ aims and research challenges. We also announced the two workshops that will be going ahead as a result of our first Small Events call:3"Active minds: physical activity, mental health and digital technology" and "An innovation workshop to aid the development of wearable interventions within primary care" both scheduled for June/July 2018 (dates t.b.c.). There was also a reminder for our Behaviour Change workshop on 20th February and our workshop at CHI 2018 in April. Total recipients for January 31st 2018 newsletter: 191 (132 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 36.1% (industry average 15.4%) % recipients who clicked: 17.6% (industry average 1.5%) The number of additions to our mailing list (recipients) indicates continuing growth in the Network during Year 2, reflecting increasing awareness of the network and engagement with our agenda. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. The particularly high click-through rate indicated significant positive interest in the feasibility funding call. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/funding-calls/feasibility-funding-call-1 |
Description | GAMO newsletter - Year 2 - June 20th 2017 workshop reminder + announcement of other events |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter sent out on June 20th included a last call for workshop registrations, a report on the 1st Symposium which took place the previous month with links to the proceedings booklet and the Storify compilation of tweets on the GAMO website, plus announcements of two events - not run by the Network but likely to be of interest and relevance to our membership: Firstly, a seminar on Co-Design in Digital Health as part of the TechSharing Seminar Series, organised by our early-career researcher colleagues from UCL Interaction Centre, the eHealth Unit, the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, and the Department of Behavioural Science and Health. Secondly, the Disability Innovation Summit, organised by the Global Disability Innovation Hub, which place alongside London's 2017 Para Athletics to explore the latest global technologies and research, ideas, products and innovations from across the technology, sports, art, corporate, development and design fields. Dr Anna Cox, the Principal Investigator for the GetAMoveOn Network+ was one of the speakers. Total recipients for June 20th newsletter: 171 (110 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 32.9% (industry average 15.6%) % recipients who clicked: 4.1% (industry average 1.6%) The number of additions to our mailing list (recipients) indicates continuing growth in the Network during Year 2, reflecting increasing awareness of the network and engagement with our agenda. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. Four abstracts were submitted for the workshop, all of which were accepted and presented at the workshop. There were 31 registrations for the workshop which was on target (30), including 22 academic researchers, 5 students/PhD students/Post-doc researchers, 2 industry private sector (1 consultant advising NHS; 1 consultant working in public health & third sector), 1 from older people's charity, 1 funder) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | GAMO newsletter - Year 2 - March 16th 2017 announcing first workshop (older adults and PA) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter, sent on March 16th 2018, announced our first workshop on using technology to help older adults be physically active, taking place in June 2017, and the associated call for abstracts to be presented at the workshop. Total recipients for March 16th newsletter: 148 (87 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 45.9% (industry average 15.6%) % recipients who clicked: 7.4% (industry average 1.6%) The number of additions to our mailing list (recipients) indicates rapid growth in the Network in the early part of Year 2, attributed to activities starting to get underway. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. As a result of this email announcement four abstracts were submitted, all of which were accepted and presented at the workshop. There were 31 registrations for the workshop which was on target (30), including 22 academic researchers, 5 students/PhD students/Post-doc researchers, 2 industry private sector (1 consultant advising NHS; 1 consultant working in public health & third sector), 1 from older people's charity, 1 funder) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/workshop-1 |
Description | GAMO newsletter - Year 2 - November 30th 2017 announcement of summer schools |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter sent on 30th November 2017 announced our intention to sponsor a series of Winter and Summer Schools to be held in 2018 and 2019, for the benefit of both early career and established researchers. The Schools would provide a program of lectures, classes, tutorials, hands on technology sessions, exercises or group work organised by Network+ members for the benefit of early and established researchers. Applications were encouraged on topics aligned with the GetAMoveOn Network+ agenda and our aim of 'transforming health through enabling mobility with the help of digital technologies'. Applications to run programs on sensor networks, data analytics, interactive visualisation, human computer interaction, online citizen engagement, behaviour change, sports and exercise, were particularly encouraged but any relevant applications were welcomed. A call was issued in November 2017 and closed at the end of Jan 2018. We didn't receive any applications, which we believe may reflect that fact that there are no obvious rewards for academics to run this kind of activity (non profit-making, and run for the benefit of delegates). We had been contacted by one potential applicant but it took several weeks before EPSRC were able to clarify whether or not his proposal might be eligible, by which time it was too late for him to apply. However, he may still be interested, and we have also subsequently been contacted by someone else who missed the deadline, so are exploring the possibilities for him to run an event for PhD students and early career researchers. Total recipients for November 30th newsletter: 187 (126 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 29.7% (industry average 15.6%) % recipients who clicked: 8.1% (industry average 1.5%) The number of additions to our mailing list (recipients) indicates continuing growth in the Network during Year 2, reflecting increasing awareness of the network and engagement with our agenda. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | GAMO newsletter - Year 2 - August 23rd 2017 small events call 1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter sent on 23rd August 2017 announced our next funding call, inviting applications for funding to run small events. It also announced the publication of more of our thinkpieces, and a seminare, not run by the Network but likely to be of interest and relevance to our membership: The final TechSharing Seminar of 2017: Is it worth it? Getting your digital product into the NHS (or choosing not to), organised by early-career researchers from UCL Interaction Centre, the eHealth Unit, the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, and the Department of Behavioural Science and Health. The seminar explored the pros, cons and requirements of developing digital products for the NHS with speakers and panelists including Yinka Makinde (Digital Health. London), Professor Elizabeth Murray (UCL eHealth Unit), Dr Anne Bruinvels (NHS Innovation Fellow/OWise), Dr Indra Joshi (NHS England/One HealthTech) and Felix Greaves (Public Health England). Total recipients for August 23rd newsletter: 185 (124 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 45.7% (industry average 15.6%) % recipients who clicked: 9.2% (industry average 1.6%) The number of additions to our mailing list (recipients) indicates continuing growth in the Network during Year 2, reflecting increasing awareness of the network and engagement with our agenda. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | GAMO newsletters - Year 2 - March 3rd 2017 - Symposium call for abstracts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter, sent on 3rd March 2017, announced the call for abstracts and posters to be presented at our Symposium in May 2017. Linked to this were three subsequent reminders about the call. Total recipients for March 3rd newsletter: 147 (86 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 42.10% (industry average 15.6%) % recipients who clicked: 8.30% (industry average 1.6%) The number of additions to our mailing list (recipients) indicates rapid growth in the Network in the early part of Year 2, attributed to activities starting to get underway. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. As a result of this email campaign, 20 abstracts were submitted, all of which were accepted and presented at the symposium. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/content/4-events/6-symposium-2017/gamo-symposium-booklet.pdf |
Description | Impacts workshop: GAMO Fellows - FastTrack your Impacts 12th June 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Overview A one day intensive workshop - Fast Track the Impact of Your Research on 12th June 2019 at UCL in London. This workshop is a follow-on from our Successful Grants workshop. The aim was to enable researchers to write winning impacts sections for grant applications and maximise the impact of their research arising from successful applications. Learnings are also applicable to REF2021 case studies. The programme was delivered by Fast Track Impact: "People leave our training armed with powerful tools and techniques that they can implement immediately to create a step change in the impact of their research." Purpose The primary audience for this workshop was the GetAMoveOn Fellows but as there were 30 places available it was opened up more widely. This workshop was aimed at academics at all levels - from PhD candidates and ECRs to established researchers - and was designed to provide them with time-efficient tools they could use immediately to achieve genuine and lasting impacts - without having to work longer hours. The Fast Impact course was originally co-designed with the UK Research Councils to ensure relevance across all research fields, and is continually being developed to reflect good practice and emerging strategies for developing and claiming impacts from across the UK's academic sector, so was applicable to researchers from all disciplines. Aims The aims of the course were to enable delegates to: • Write better impact sections for your grant applications • Maximise the impacts of research arising from your successful grant applications • Improve how you record and communicate those impacts You will be able to apply what you learn to increase the impact of any research projects you are involved with, and your REF2021 case studies. Course leader The course was run by Prof Mark Reed from Fast Track Impact https://www.fasttrackimpact.com/ Mark is a recognized international expert in research impact with more than 150 publications to his name that have been cited over 13,000 times, and he has won awards for the impact of his own research. Content The programme was based on the programme set out here https://www.fasttrackimpact.com/standard-course and included: • What is impact? • What works? 5 evidence-based principles that generate impact and save time • Tools to prioritise stakeholders and publics, generate impact efficiently, and take the pain out of impact tracking • How to write a winning pathway to impact and a top-scoring impact case study • How to harness your digital footprint to engage stakeholders and generate impacts without spending all day online or risking your reputation • Professional tips and tricks that will equip you to lead and facilitate powerful and enjoyable meetings and events (including ways to manage difficult individuals without confrontation, even if they are significantly more powerful than you!) • How to identify and work with the right people in the policy community so that you can disseminate and keep control of your research messages, write effective briefings, and get your research into policy Delegates also received: • A free copy of the acclaimed Research Impact Handbook (pp 375) based on the latest research, plus the Fast Track Impact Magazine and a handout pack with worksheets (worth £24.99). • A free 5 week follow-up programme, with a 6 minute video each week plus accompanying text and tasks. This will help you to apply what you learn, and significantly increase your chances of achieving impacts. Feedback: The primary audience for this was the GetAMoveOn Fellows. All those who attended reported that it had been very useful, changed how they thought about impact and/or gave them new perspectives on it, and they would definitely use what they had learned in their grant applications and research. Impacts: The impact of this workshop will be to improve the quality of further grant applications from network members both to GAMO and other funding sources. It will also enable our feasibility grant holders to maximise the impacts of their research, including production of high quality REF2021 case studies. 26 participants 1 presenter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/fast-track-impact |
Description | Lucy Yardley Workshop summer 2019: How can we use digital technology in the workplace to combat physical inactivity? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | According to the Government, the UK's top economic issue is productivity. Businesses, hospitals and schools are held back by low levels of mental and physical wellbeing, high levels of sickness absence and high levels of presenteeism. With The 'Future of Work' high up the national agenda we need to take action to make our workplaces happier, healthier and more creative - places where people of all ages and cultures can achieve their highest potential. This workshop brought together national and international thought leaders across health, technology, behavioural science and design to consider how new digital technologies can support this mission. Keynote address was by Professor James Levine - world leading expert in sedentary behaviour and inventor of the treadmill desk Invited speakers included Dr Holly Blake, University of Nottingham; Dr Marco Bardus, American University of Beirut; Dr Laura Brocklebank, University of Bristol Abstracts were invited for brief (3 min) presentations from workshop delegates Workshop activities & themes - learn from experts about recent and ongoing work in this field, some of the challenges, and potential ways of addressing these - opportunity to present your research or workplace experiences and ideas - opportunity to work in small groups to develop plans for future funding proposals that will help move this field forward The workshop took the format of a mixture of presentations and small group networking throughout the day - and of course some physical activity This was an interdisciplinary event. The organisers came from health psychology and digital health. The speakers came from: Behavioural science; health communication, health promotion & use of health tech for lifestyle change; psychology. Delegates came from: HCI, Behavioural Science, health tech research, built environment and health, workplace wellbeing, digital health, mental health, citizen engagement, physiotherapy, AI, workplace productivity, health prevention, public health, cyber security. No feedback survey conducted. Anecdotal evidence that participants gained a lot from the speakers, with numourous requests for presentations to be shared with them. 40 attendees 4 presenters in addition to GAMO Co-I Lucy Yardley |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/workplace-inactivity |
Description | Marion Lean - Stretch Orchestra Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The event took place at the White Hart Lane stadium clubhouse in Tottenham after a training session (rugby). The organiser (design researcher) introduced the purpose and the agenda as well as introducing a representative from an intelligent textiles company who demo-ed some products and invited workshop participants to interact with them. Players from the Haringey Rhinos RFC tried out textile sensor systems including connected smart socks and considered alternative non-screen-based, sensory data feedback systems for use on the field. The aim is to consider ways to develop methods that would allow exploration of the sensory and affective dimensions of digital health products. A workshop took place where participants took on tasks using materials and discussed experiences and ideas about digital health products and their data. The discussion led to issues around affective impact of data presence using digital technologies to track data and ideation around speculative sensory feedback systems. The context of the community sports group was intended to set the scene for uses of new textile tracking technology in physical activity. The group were very engaged and interested to chat about their experiences. It was beneficial to have a representative from the textiles company present to answer questions but the textile sensor systems themselves and about the applications and current projects. The group were able to take part in the 'methods' exercises and then apply the experience of interacting with sensors and material exploration exercises into the discussion and ideation workshop. Feedback from the participants was that the session was 'something different' and they enjoyed interacting with materials, some questioned if they had been doing the 'right thing' which is a great results as research through design practice can take varied approaches and it is appropriate that sports people who had been playing in the field just before the workshop could take forward the notion of play into the workshop setting as a tool to explore issues and encourage discussion around the set themes of technology and exercise. Trialling the textile technologies was a new experience and created opportunities for further questions and discussion around the use of new technologies in sports. 18 participants 3 presenters |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.marionlean.co.uk/Methods-Testing-ideas-in-the-wider-community |
Description | Marion Lean - What Does Health Feel Like (Stretch Orchestra exhibiiton) London Design Festival 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A public, interactive exhibition where visitors could learn about current collaborative research between GAMO and RCA and participate by considering alternative sensory ways to experience health data collected from wearable technologies. The purpose was to create a public engagement opportunity which would allow an open narrative around research of systems and technologies aimed to support behaviour change around physical activity. In collaboration with intelligent textiles innovators, Footfalls and Heartbeats an interactive installation as part of the London Design Festival proposed a felt experience of data generated by technology products designed to support wellbeing. The installation was open for 4 days with the designer present throughout to take visitors through a demonstration and collect feedback. A connected exercise pad made with textile sensors responded to your interaction by inviting you to experience physical activity data in a playful way; a giant marble run, designed to elicit a childlike feeling of wonder and satisfaction. The work was public facing therefore attracted visitors from many backgrounds, as well as children to try out a textile sensor system which recorded data and then feedback the data in a novel format to encourage consideration of alternative data feedback systems for bodily data collected from digital health products. A film showing previous workshops on the topic was also on show so that visitors could learn about the research methods and the context. The event took place during the London Design Festival (Sept 2018) which attracts thousands of international visitors from within the design industry as well public (930,773 visits in 2017). The installation was also recorded and shared via social media platforms to engage an extended network. The aim was to enable the public and wider design community group to reconsider the ways that risks of sedentary lifestyle is being tackled from perspective of materials and design. Visitors explored the ways that we could interpret health data from digital tracking devices using alternative sensory output as generated by the initial workshops and iterative design sessions. The intention was to generate feedback from visitors as to how they might like to feel, hear, interact, play and use their physical activity data in ways that would be more meaningful. As a public engagement opportunity, it was well situated to draw in an audience from a non-typical demographic considering the 'health' angle. Feedback from within the design community was positive in relation to the consideration of varied and artistic responses to communicating health topics. Visitors reported that they enjoyed trying out the installation and were surprised that they had been 'tricked' into engaging in physical activity given the context of a 'design festival'. Conversations took place around personal experiences of health and bodily data tracking (digital and non digital). The impact was seen in visitors' responses to the interactive experience, both whilst using the system and in the discussion. The documentation of the event (films and imagery) has been used as a tool for discussion around the design of digital health and data experiences in subsequent events as well as online discussion. A significant impact was an invitation to take part in future activities in relation to the alternative interface agenda for digital technologies. The installation also served as a catalyst for an educational program on the theme. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.marionlean.co.uk/Methods-Collaboration-Interactive-installation |
Description | Media / Visibility workshop - GAMO Fellows - 16/17 May 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This workshop on was held on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th May 2019 and was facilitated by media experts and science communicators Helen Pilcher, Greg Foot and Toby Murcott. The aim of the workshop was to equip the GetAMoveOn Fellows (see "Other" outputs for details of the Fellows network) to interact confidently with the media, raise their academic profile and disseminate their work more effectively. Specifically to: • communicate science in writing to non-specialist audiences • use story telling techniques to get their messages across • understand which stories are picked up by the media and why • interact confidently with the media • use social and digital media to promote research • record a video of themselves talking about their research Impacts: By enabling Fellows to interact confidently in the media and better disseminate their work into non-academic fields and practice, we help them to maximise the impacts of their work: the benefits of increased physical activity on health (improved quality of life; reduced healthcare costs) and economic productivity are more likely to be realised to a greater extent and more quickly. Equipping Fellows to enhance their academic profile helps create the conditions for attracting more research funding into the UK, and indeed UK funding which can potentially create IP and other products and services that create value for the economy and help to resolve problems that are a drain on economic resources such as poor wellbeing. Attendees: 10 GAMO Fellows 3 presenters in addition to PI Anna Cox |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/fellowship |
Description | Mindfulness on the go (Public Lecture) 19th July 2018 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Glasgow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This event took place in conjunction with the Active Minds workshop, organised by the same team: Dr Maki Rooksby (University of Glasgow) Dr John Rooksby (Northumbria University) Prof Matthew Chalmers (University of Glasgow) Prof Helen Minnis (University of Glasgow) Dr Jonathan Delafield-Butt (University of Strathclyde) Dr Dave Murray-Rust (University of Edinburgh) Disciplines represented amongst the researchers/organisers: • Computer Science • Psychology • Health and Wellbeing (Psychiatry) It was funded the by GetAMoveOn Network as a separate public lecture. The public lecture was placed on the final day of Active Minds, a two-day event focusing on how issues of mental health, accessibility, and neurodiversity intersect with technology and physical activity. The public lecture was to summarise and to conclude the event. The speaker was Rohan Gunatillake, the founder of Mindfulness Everywhere to talk about his experience and insight into developing technologies for mindfulness that are used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Drawing on examples from professional athletes to ordinary everyday life, his lecture made a very fitting ending to our event that technology, mental wellbeing and a range of human movements each had a unique role to influence each other and to contribute to our overall wellbeing and quality of life. To support networking and discussion we organised coffee breaks before and after the lecture, with some poster presentations outside the lecture theatre at the end. Disciplines represented amongst the researchers/organisers: • Computer Science • Psychology • Health and Wellbeing (Psychiatry) Disciplines represented amongst speakers: • Mindfulness • Digital health • Mobile health Disciplines represented amongst audience: • Computer science • Dentistry • Veterinary science • Public health • Artist • Nursery Teacher • Secretary • Design • Coaching • Health Professions • Health Informatics • Medicine • Cancer care • Activist • Data Science • Health promotion • Project officer • Project management • Technology Industry Professional • Lived Experience (Members of public) The impacts of this work are still emerging, and include: • We brought together 75 people including academics, industry professionals, health professionals, charity workers and members of the public with lived experience of mental health issues to discuss topics related to the concerns of the EPSRC Get A Move On+ • We organised a publicly accessible event at an NHS Hospital • We have changed the views of people on the relevance of mental health to the area of technology and physical activity and enabled people to see connections and parallels across different areas. 40 participants 1 presenter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://Activeminds.xyz |
Description | Newsletter Year 3 - CBC abstracts submission date notice - November 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter sent on 12th November 2018 announced the Call for Abstracts for the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change - 5th Annual Conference, and call for entries for the #CBCCONF19 awards. Total recipients for the newsletter: 309 (248 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 36.4% (industry average 15.9%) % recipients who clicked: 2.9% (industry average 1.5%) The cumulative growth in our Network mailing list (recipients) reflects continuing growth in the Network during Year 3, and increasing awareness of the network and engagement with our agenda. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Newsletter Year 3 - funding announcements & launch of new videos - November 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter sent on 22nd November 2018 included a round-up of the summer's activities, announcement of the projects funding as a result of our second round of feasibility funding and gave advance notice of a planned summer school. Total recipients for the newsletter: 310 (249 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 33.4% (industry average 15.9%) % recipients who clicked: 12.3% (industry average 1.5%) The cumulative growth in our Network mailing list (recipients) reflects continuing growth in the Network during Year 3, and increasing awareness of the network and engagement with our agenda. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. The particularly high click-through rate for this newsletter indicates a high level of engagement with our agenda, with recipients primarily interested in the outcome of the feasibility funding. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Newsletter - Year 3 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter sent on 30th June 2018 announced our series of summer events resulting from our Small Events calls inviting proposals for small events and activities which support the 'the aim of transforming health through enabling mobility' which support the network's aims of collaboration and impact, and offering grants of up to £2,500. Total recipients for the newsletter: 296 (235 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 30.4% (industry average 15.8%) % recipients who clicked: 3.4% (industry average 1.5%) The cumulative growth in our Network mailing list (recipients) reflects continuing growth in the Network during Year 2, and increasing awareness of the network and engagement with our agenda. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/time:past |
Description | Newsletter - Year 4 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. In the reporting period March 2019 to end Feb 2020 5 newsletters were sent to between 317 and 318 Network+ members. We now have 324 members. The newsletters were promoting our call for applicants to our Fellows programme, announcing our workshops and summer-school, and updating members on our feasibility grants & publications. The open rate was 29.8% which compares very well to the industry average of 17.1% and click-through rate to the website was 5.1% which compares very well to the industry average of 1.8% indicating that the content is well targeted and of interest to our members. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
Description | Newsletter 1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | First newsletter issued. Aim was to launch the Network+ and announce the first Call for Papers; issued to mailing list of 61 contacts already known to the investigators. • Issued 22nd December 2017 • Aim: to generate applications for an initial series of up to ten thinkpieces or short whitepapers, to help scope and define approaches, and stimulate debate about the role of current and future technologies in enhancing levels of activity and movement in one of our three target groups: schools, workplaces, communities of older adults. Applications: - 11 applications received from 7 separate lead institutions. - 8 of the applications were from collaborators in more than one institution. - Co-investigators involved in collaborations were from a total of 11 institutions across 4 different countries (including England). Grants made: - 7 papers were funded, representing 5 separate lead institutions. - 5 of the applications funded were from collaborators in more than one institution. - Co-investigators came from a total of 6 institutions across 3 countries (including England). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/funding-calls/think-pieces-and-white-papers-2016 |
Description | Newsletter 2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Purpose was to follow up on initial newsletter and encourage applications for first call for papers. See under Newsletter 1 for details. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Newsletter 3 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Newsletter to announce the 1st GetAMoveOn Network+ Annual Sympoisum, issued to a wider membership list of 146 - grown since the launch of the Network (see Network Growth). Aim: to create awareness of the symposium and generate submission of abstracts for papers to be presented at the symposium. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/symposium-2017 |
Description | Newsletter 4 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Newsletter to remind people about the submission deadline for abstracts for papers to be presented at the 1st GetAMoveOn Network+ Annual Symposium and generate submissions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Newsletter Year 3 - Grants workshop announcement - July 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Regular newsletters are sent out. The purpose is to keep the network informed of activities by members, announce events, announce funding calls etc. Members are encouraged to forward the newsletter to anyone they think may be interested in it, to help grow the network. This newsletter sent on 30th July 2018 announced our planned grant writing workshop: Secrets of Successful Grant Applications - a one-day, intensive course on how to write great research grant applications and maximise your chances of success when applying for a grant; aimed at academics at all levels, from PhD students and ECRs to PIs and professors; led by Andrew Derrington. Total recipients for the newsletter: 299 (238 additions to list since GAMO launch) % recipients who opened: 33.9% (industry average 15.9%) % recipients who clicked: 11.5% (industry average 1.5%) The cumulative growth in our Network mailing list (recipients) reflects continuing growth in the Network during Year 3, and increasing awareness of the network and engagement with our agenda. Above-average open rates and click rates indicate well-targeted, relevant content and an engaged membership who are responsive to the content that we send to them. This newsletter had particularly high click-through rates indicating a well-targeted workshop with a high degree of relevance for our Network. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Older adults and physical activity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The purpose of the workshop was to bring together researchers across the UK with an interest in using technology to support physical activity in older people. Through a combination of brief presentations and large and small group discussions, participants shared ideas and experiences and built new contacts for future collaborations. Keynote speaker: Professor Nanette Mutrie, University of Edinburgh |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Research Challenges Video |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | In May 2017 the 1st GAMO Symposium took place with the aim to bring together a range of experts to help to scope and define approaches, and stimulate debate, about the role of current and future technologies in enhancing levels of activity and movement in one of our three target groups: schools, workplaces, and communities of older adults. The symposium closed with a workshop in which delegates were asked to write down individually what they considered to be the main research challenges and goals for GAMO, and then took part in a group activity to brainstorm research questions related to the challenges and the target groups. They also worked in groups to brainstorm ideas for solutions to engage people in more physical activity. This workshop outputs were written up as a report which was published on the GetAMoveOn website (see separate entry). We also produced a short video giving an overview of the research challenges identified, which was uploaded to YouTube and also embedded in the website. The purpose of the video is to provide a quick overview for researchers and funding applicants of some of the areas we are interested in funding, and to make the GetAMoveOn Network+ remit more accessible to non-research practitioners and other professionals with an interest in the field. We promoted the report and video in tweets and our newsletter. Tweets & direct retweets mean the announcement went to a minimum of 24,897 people. The YouTube video has viewed there 18 times. There have been over 100 visits to the page where the video is embedded on our website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Secrets of Successful Grant Applications workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | An intensive one-day public event intended to help participants write great research grant applications and maximise their chances of success, plus a day of 1:1 coaching sessions for applicants whose feasibility projects had been shortlisted but not funded. Those applicants had been invited to attend the course, rewrite their applications and then resubmit them for consideration by a second panel. The public course was on 13th September 2018 and the day of coaching sessions was on 14th September 2018. Both sessions were free to participants. There were 48 delegates who actually attended on the day, so that was the direct reach for the event, but live tweets on the day achieved 6262 impressions, so total reach likely to be at least 500. Registered delegates were as follows: ECRs 23 Established researchers 15 PhD students 15 Other 3 Reach covered a broad range of academics with research interests relevant to different aspects of GAMO's work. Research interests represented amongst registered delegates included: HCI & research methods HCI User studies User centred design Interaction design Qualitative research Design research Research in the wild Conditions / communities of interest Mental Health Chronic pain/rehab Adolescent wellbeing Older adults Health and wellbeing Sleep quality Technology Digital Games Persuasive tech Personal wellbeing tech Ubiquitous technologies Wearables Digital Health Diagnostic screening Computer science Natural language processing Machine learning Data science AI Language learning / processing Interactive systems Knowledge representation Signal processing Robotics IoT Cross-device interaction Gaming Physical computing Electronic textiles / flexible electronics Cloud mobile Big data Data science Cyber-security Multi-sensory computing Information systems Digital preservation Educational technology Applied maths Mobile tech Smart toys Educational tech Affective computing Ubicomp Physical computing State-of-the-art tech in relation to behaviour change Personal informatics Consumer health tech Auditory data display E-health Digital health for self-management of health Psychology, behaviour, behaviour change Behaviour change Behaviour change motivation Physical activity behaviour Activity interventions Digital interventions Physical activity Exercise Eating behaviour Health psychology Social psychology Neuroscience The course was led by Andrew Derrington who won his first grant in 1978 and succeeded in funding a 30-year research career through fellowships, project grants and programme funding. He has served on research grant committees for several UK research councils and the Wellcome Trust. The approach that he teaches is based on his extensive experience and analysis of how grant committees make funding decisions. The course was aimed at academics at all levels, from PhD students and ECRs to PIs and professors. Learning objectives for the course were: - How the grant application process works and what this means for you. - What you absolutely must do before you even start writing. - Why you need a good introduction and how to write it. - The four essential propositions you must include to convince the panel to fund your project. - What to avoid: the traps and bad habits that can stymie your proposal. - How to write your applications quickly and efficiently so you can meet deadlines without burning the midnight oil. -How to set yourself up to respond quickly to calls and develop a sustainable approach to grant funding. The feedback survey (completed by 33 out of 48 delegates) was very positive: 96.7% were academics 69% were ECRs and the rest established 88% said they increased their knowledge of the topic 79% said they increased their grant-writing skills 20% made new contacts / met potential collaborators Overall satisfaction was 4.5 out of 5 (4 = satisfied and 5 = very satisfied). 79% were very satisfied with the overall content and another 15% were satisfied with the overall content, meaning: 94% were satisfied or very satisfied with the overall content. 48 % were very satisfied with the interactive sessions and another 39% were satisfied, meaning: 87% were satisfied or very satisfied with the interactive sessions. 100% would recommend the workshop to others. COMMENTS (these are all the comments, unedited): The presenter, Andrew, was like Michael Jordan in that he was arrogant, but brilliant enough to feel like the arrogance was well deserved. I liked him a lot and felt the whole thing was excellent. The agenda was good, the day moved at a good pace with timely intervals. The content was very engaging and incitelful, held my attention throughout the day and provided me with a lot of usable skills. It was also well-pitched at the multidisciplinary audience in attendance and allowed opportunities for discussion. The only thing that may have improved it, although this isn't a criticism as the course objectives were very well met, would have been an opportunity to speak to and get to know some of the other delegates (I.e. over a networking lunch). Overall, it felt like the material could have been covered in half a day as there was some repetition and the concept was fairly simple. It would have been better to spend more time on attempting to work with examples or write our own examples as this bit felt rushed at the end. It would have been great to also have more time to get to know the other participants and maybe find potential collaborators. The sessions were very interactive which helped to consolidate the learning. Really excellent day, I feel I have learned so much and will be more confident with my next grant applications. Thank you. Agenda was up to my expectations. Content was excellent, I was really pleased I attended this event, and I think I have learnt a lot, much more than in any other similar event I attended. Not that much in terms of developing my skills but in terms of understanding what is really going on in the project evaluation process. However, I do hope that by applying the rules/strategies and accepting the advice we were given, I 'll also be able to develop my skills in writing up good or better proposals. This course was absolutely fantastic, and I think will have the biggest impact upon my professional practice moving forward of any that I have attended. I thought the material was great and Andrew was a very engaging presenter. My only gripe was that in the workshop type exercises, his responses to questioning was sometimes a little sharp/condescending towards the person offering up their work for critique. I thought Andrew was great and I'm looking forward to putting his suggestions into practice. Highly recommended him. It would have been nice to have had more than one exercise but it would have required a much longer event and that may not necessarily be a good idea. Really excellent. Excellent day, worth the making the trip for. This was a fantastic experience that will be of use in all my grant writing going forward. Excellent thanks so much. For ECR's looking for assistance on proposal writing, I think this seminar was spot on. Many thanks. Maybe have a session on possible projects that could be pitched to the network or a project development session. Regarding the 1-1 sessions on day 2, this could have probably been done remotely, or even just a group session at the end of day one emphasising what to put in section (I felt what I was told in the 1-1 was fairly generalised so would apply to any applicant). The session was hosted in an ideal location from Euston train station. It would have been good to have a round-robin of who was in the room, and expertise/interests that were there as you didn't know who to specifically go to talk to as you didn't know who people were. One idea would be to ask delegates consent if you can circulate list of those attending, so individuals can research those attending to seek more targeted discussions in order to build new collaborations. Great speaker and very relevant event. Thanks GAMONetwork, Anna Cox and Clare Casson. As I said, this was an excellent workshop, I think particularly due to the knowledge, expoerience and the personality of the speaker who was able to share the wealth of his knowledge on grant writing and evaluation, as well as his own experiences, in a very interesting and fun manner. As this was a London based event, a 10:30-11 start would be great, as trains in to London for a 10 start for an event are extremely expensive as this requires peak time travel. I saw the live tweeting - you did a great job. Thanks :-) AC Well done! It was really great, thanks so much for putting this on. I learned a huge amount, which will be really useful! Copies of slides on the day so we could annotate them Thanks excellent event :) 48 attendees 1 presenter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/grant-writing |
Description | Storify - Older Adults workshop June 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Storify brings together twitter activity into a story to encapsulate the proceedings of an event. Twitter activity: Workshop on using technology to enable older adults to be physically active June 27th 2017 The purpose of tweeting from the workshop was to: - Create a sense of anticipation and excitement - Raise awareness of the GAMO Network+ - Enable people to see the kind of work we and our members are engaged in - Increase engagement with our followers - Increase our following The following statistics show the outputs and outcomes of activity on the day and demonstrate meaningful engagement for what was a small and relatively low-key event. Of particular note: - We reached over 7611 people on twitter - 17 more people viewed our profile and we increased our following by 11 - The engagement rate for the day was more than double the average achieved by major brands. Twitter output and outcome (engagement) stats for workshop 27th June Outputs 99 tweets from @GAMONetwork account Outcomes 7611 impressions 54 retweets 31 likes 1.6 engagement (average is 0.7% for major brands) 10 link clicks/expansions 4 replies 17 views of our profile 11 new follows A compilation of tweets from the day was 'Storified' and published on the website to give people who couldn't attend a flavour of what went on. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/workshop-1/workshop2017-storify |
Description | Storify - Symposium 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Storify brings together twitter activity into a story to encapsulate the proceedings of an event. The purpose of tweeting from the symposium on May 25th was to: - Create a sense of anticipation and excitement - Raise awareness of the GAMO Network+ - Enable people to see the kind of work we and our members are engaged in - Increase engagement with our followers - Increase our following The following statistics show the outputs and outcomes of activity on the day and demonstrate meaningful engagement. Of particular note: - We reached over 13,000 people on twitter - Increased our following by 25. - The engagement rate for the day was almost 4 times the average achieved by major brands. Twitter output and outcome (engagement) stats for symposium 25th May Outputs 158 tweets from @GAMONetwork account of which 86 scheduled Outcomes 13,733 impressions 89 retweets 73 likes 2.5% engagement (average is 0.7% for major brands) 13 link clicks (through to info about Lucy's workshop on 27th) 6 replies 25 new followers Tweets from the day were 'Storified' and posted on the website to give people who missed the event a flavour of what went on (see link below). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/symposium-2017/symposium-storify |
Description | ThinkPiece publications |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A number of 'thinkpieces' were funded as part of the start-up phase of the GetAMoveOn Network+ to help scope and define approaches and stimulate debate about the role of current and future technologies in enhancing levels of activity and movement in one of our three target groups: schools, workplaces, communities of older adults. It was our intention that these papers would address theoretical, methodological, policy, business or other practical aspects, or identify topics and research agendas that could subsequently be developed into pilot projects or larger research collaborations. The resulting papers were presented at our 1st Symposium in May 2017, and have been published through the second half of 2017 as the review process has been completed. The main outcome from this has been that the thinkpieces have served as a guide for grant applicants to GAMO's remit and the kinds of areas of research we are interested in funding. There have been 250 visits to the ThinkPieces page on the website and 113 downloads of our thinkpieces from July 2017 to mid February 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/publications/thinkpieces |
Description | Twitter Activity - Year 3 - March 2018 to Feb 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Daily tweets have been going out from the GAMONetwork account. Follower numbers have increased from 23 in Nov 2016 to 831 at end of Feb 2020 (up 191 in last 12 months). We are achieving around 32,000 tweet impressions/month. The engagement rate averages 1.67% which is higher than the estimated average of 0.7% for major brands (range 0.5% to 1%) The purpose of our twitter activity is to: - Raise general awareness of the GAMO Network+ - To raise awareness of specific events and activities e.g. workshops, calls for papers etc. - To publicise closing dates and help 'reel in' abstract submissions, funding applications etc. - Create a sense of anticipation and excitement around events - Enable people to see the kind of work we and our members are engaged in - Raise awareness of the broad subject of physical activity, how to get people moving more, research going on in this area, interesting initiatives etc. - Increase engagement with our followers - Increase our following Output metrics - monthly average for last quarter Number of tweets: 54 Outcomes - engagement metrics - monthly average for last quarter Engagements Impressions: 32,000 Retweets: 53 - these act as multipliers to significantly increase our reach Number of engagements: 350 Quarterly average engagement rate is 1.67% (more than double the average for major brands which is 0.7%). Profile visit: 168 Totals for March 2019to Feb 2020 Tweets 424 Impressions 334,846 Engagements 5826 Retweets 584 Likes 1116 Link clicks 1504 Profile visits 1696 Average engagement rate 1.3% (almost double the average for major brands which is 0.7%). - Figures demonstrate significant reach, engagement and influence month by month and across they ear - It is clear that tweeting in the lead up to events and during events gives a significant up-lift in engagement. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019 |
URL | https://twitter.com/gamonetwork |
Description | Twitter activity - March 2017 to Feb 2018 (Year 2) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Twitter 2017/2018 Daily tweets have been going out from the GAMONetwork account. Follower numbers have increased from 23 in Nov 2016 to 358 in Feb 2018. We are now achieving around 45,000 tweet impressions/month. The engagement rate averages 1.2% which is higher than the estimated average of 0.7% for major brands (range 0.5% to 1%) The purpose of our twitter activity is to: - Raise general awareness of the GAMO Network+ - To raise awareness of specific events and activities e.g. workshops, calls for papers etc. - To publicise closing dates and help 'reel in' abstract submissions, funding applications etc. - Create a sense of anticipation and excitement around events - Enable people to see the kind of work we and our members are engaged in - Raise awareness of the broad subject of physical activity, how to get people moving more, research going on in this area, interesting initiatives etc. - Increase engagement with our followers - Increase our following Additional output metrics Number of tweets: peak was in Feb 2018 (118) due to promotion of 1st Feasibility Call. Outcomes - engagement metrics Engagements Tweet impressions; average 20,142/month (March 2017 to Feb 2018) peaking at 45,600 due to promotion of the 1st Feasibility Call Retweets act as multipliers to significantly increase our reach, so, for example, retweets of a single tweet promoting our 1st Symposium Workshop Report potentially extended our reach to an additional 25,383 people Number of engagements: 4867 total averaging 405/month and peaking in February with 950 due to promotion of the 1st Feasibility call Quarterly average engagement rate is 1.4% (average for major brands is 0.7%). This is slightly lower than last year (1.5%) but as the number of followers and impressions grows, it is harder to maintain engagement rates as to do so, the absolute numbers of people engaged have to increase in line with impressions. There have been 3090 visits to the GAMO twitter profile over the last 12 months. This is significant as it raises awareness of the GAMONetwork and our agenda. - Figures demonstrate increasing reach, engagement and influence - It is clear that tweeting in the lead up to events and during events gives a significant up-lift in engagement. https://twitter.com/GAMOnetwork |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
URL | https://twitter.com/GAMOnetwork |
Description | Twitter activity - Nov 2016 to Feb 2017 (Year 1) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Social media Daily tweets have been going out from the GAMONetwork account. Follower numbers have increased from 23 in November 2016 to 81 in March 2017. We are now achieving around 20,000 tweet impressions/month. The engagement rate averages 1.1% which is higher than the estimated average of 0.7% (range 0.5% to 1%) for major brands. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Twitter activity Year 5 March 2020 to Jan 31st 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Intended outcomes and impacts of twitter activity are to disseminate our research, events, website content and engage researchers who are interested in using digital technology physical activity. Followers 978 - a significant following given we are tweeting on a narrow 'niche' interest, average follower number is 700 and only 2% of twitter accounts have more than 1000 followers. Key stats to date indicate significant reach and engagement with audiences, demonstrating achievement of intended outcomes and impacts. Tweets (including reteweets) 4856 Impressions (number who saw tweets) 1.15 million Engagements 20226 Profile visits 9946 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021 |
URL | https://twitter.com/GAMONetwork |
Description | Website - Year 1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A website has been created at www.getamoveon.ac.uk with information on the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+, news about funding calls and network events. This provides a repository of information to link to from social media, newsletters etc. so plays a pivotal role in other engagement activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2017 |
URL | http://www.getamoveon.ac.uk |
Description | Website - Year 2 March 2017 to Feb 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The purpose of the website is to provide information about the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+, news about funding calls and network events. It provides a repository of information to link to from social media, newsletters etc. so plays a pivotal role in other engagement activities. Key website stats Average of 600 page views per month 1.41 average dwell time Average view 2.5 pages per session Most popular content is that which we most want people to engage with: events, funding calls, thinkpieces, other publications. Most visitors are from the UK but we also have international visitors, the top 20 countries being as follows (excluding those with 100% bounce rate indicating they had come to the wrong place): United States, India, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, Cyprus, Mexico, Spain, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Morocco, Pakistan Main updates to the website for the year March 2017 to Feb 2018 are: CALLS FOR PAPERS Call for abstracts - March 2017 A Call for Abstracts to be presented at our first symposium (May 2017) was published on the website in March 2017, with early career researchers particularly encouraged to apply. The call was promoted to our mailing list and twitter. Outcome: 20 abstracts received. Target was 10. Impacts: Wide range of disciplines represented in presentations and posters, promoting interdisciplinary understanding and ideas for new collaborations amongst delegates. 9 PhD students and other early career researchers got the opportunity to present their research in poster form providing important learning opportunities from discussion of research with other delegates and feedback received 11 other researchers, mostly early career researchers likewise benefited from feedback and discussion of the research they presented, which will help to shape and influence positively their future research in this area. CALLS FOR PROPOSALS (FUNDING CALLS) The following funding calls have been published on the website from March 2017 to end February 2018: Small Events funding call (1) - August 2017 This invited applications for funding up to £2500 to run workshops or other activities to further GAMO aims. Outcomes: We received 2 applications both of which were funded (see Other Outputs & Knowledge/Steps). Summer School funding call - November 2017 This invited applications to run summer schools aimed at PhD students and early career researchers focusing on GAMO themes and audiences. Outcomes: We didn't receive any applications by the deadline but are in conversation with two academics who are interested in running a school but were not able to make the deadline. Feasibility Funding Call - 31st January 2018 Details of our first call for Feasibility Projects went live on January 31st. The purpose of this Feasibility Funding is to provide short term support to allow initial investigation of new ideas which are strongly aligned to the GetAMoveOn Network+ aims and research challenges. Outcomes: In the first two weeks after publication (to date) there were: - Applicant information: 78 downloads - Intention to Submit form: 56 downloads - Full application/proposal form: 28 downloads At the time of writing the call is still open so it is not possible yet to report on outcomes in terms of proposals received. Small Events funding call (2) - 14th February 2018 Our second call inviting applications for funding up to £2500 to run workshops or other activities to further GAMO aims. At the time of writing, the call has only just been launched (today). There have been 6 downloads of applicant information/application forms. The call will not close until the end of March so it is not possible yet to report on outcomes in terms of proposals received. ONLINE PUBLICATIONS Symposium proceedings - See separate entry for details Symposium Workshop Report June 2017 - See separate entry Research Challenges video - See separate entry Thinkpieces - See separate entry for details Workshop presentations - Older Adults and Physical Activity - June 2017 - See separate entry for details INFORMATION ABOUT OUR EVENTS Publication of information about our workshops: - Older adults and physical activity (held June 2017) - Inbodied Interaction @CHI2017 (held May 2017) - Behaviour Change to address sedentarism (held February 2018) - Exploring Inside & Around Body Boundaries for Body-Centric Computing Design CHI 2018 (to be held April 2018) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk |
Description | Website - Year 3 March 2018 to Feb 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The purpose of the website is to provide information about the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+, news about funding calls and network events. It provides a repository of information to link to from social media, newsletters etc. so plays a pivotal role in other engagement activities. Key website stats from launch to 6/3/19 Visitor sessions: 7271 Users: 4658 Page views: 16880 Most popular content is that which we most want people to engage with: events, funding calls, thinkpieces, other publications Most visitors are from the UK but we also have international visitors, including from the major European countries, USA, Canada, Australia Main updates to the website for the year March 2018 to Feb 2019 were: ONLINE PUBLICATIONS Behaviour Change Interventions to Address Sedentarism in Different Communities - published 16 April 2018: see separate entry for details. Impacts: Agenda setting: increased awareness amongst researchers in the field of research priorities. Thinkpiece - publication of our final thinkpiece: see separate entry for details. Blog posts - to help promote our events, we published a series of blog posts: Mindfulness on the Go; Technology, Mental Health and Physical Activity; What's In Store for Wearables; We also published a progress report on Year 1 and Year 2: this was designed to be accessible and to give an at-a-glance view of our major activities and progress to date, using key stats and graphics. UPDATES ON ACTIVITIES Feasibility Funding Call Details of our first call for Feasibility Projects went live in the previous reporting period - on January 31st 2018. At the end of the last reporting period the call was still open so it was not possible. to report on outcomes in terms of proposals received. Those outcomes were as follows: Intention to submit forms received: 34 Full submissions received: 30 Projects funded - announcement of projects funded was published July 2018 (first round of funding) and October 2018 (second round). EVENTS Publication of information about a series of academic workshops and public engagement events held over summer 2018 (see individual entries for details): Academic / practitioner workshop 13th July 2018: Innovation workshop - wearables in primary care + 29th September - Linked public engagement event: What does health look like? Exploring visual feedback from wearables Academic / practitioner workshop 18th & 19th July 2018: Active minds: physical activity, mental health & digital technology + 19th July - Linked public engagement event: Mindfulness on-the-go with Rohan Gunatillake Research workshop 16th August 2018: What does health feel like? Stretch Orchestra + 19th - 23rd September 2018 - Linked public event: What does health feel like? Exploring sensory feedback from wearables. Workshop 13th September: Secrets of Successful Grant Applications NEW SECTIONS Section to showcase our YouTube videos of events and funded projects. These are detailed in separate entries. Section to promote GAMO Fellowship |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/ |
Description | Website - Year 4 March 2019 to Feb 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The purpose of the website is to provide information about the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+, news about funding calls and network events. It provides a repository of information to link to from social media, newsletters etc. so plays a pivotal role in other engagement activities. Key website stats from launch to 25/2/20 Visitor sessions: 12175 Users: 8077 Page views: 27100 Downloads of PDFs and other documents 1492 Most popular content is that which we most want people to engage with: events, funding calls, thinkpieces, other publications, Fellows/Find an Expert, blog Most visitors are from the UK but we also have international visitors, including from the major European countries, USA, Canada, Australia Main updates to the website for the year March 2019 to Feb 2020 were: ONLINE PUBLICATIONS Rapid Response document - consultation response to government's Prevention Green Paper Blog posts - a series of Deep Dive blog posts linked to our Policy Dialogue engagement event NEW SECTIONS Find an Expert - created following our Visibility / Media workshop for GAMO Fellows, to showcase their research profiles OTHER CONTENT Information about events such as our impacts workshop and grant writing workshop. Additional videos were added to our video section as well as to YouTube. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/ |
Description | Website Year 5 March 2020 to Feb 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The purpose of the website is to provide information about the aims of the GetAMoveOn Network+, news about funding calls and network events. It provides a repository of information to link to from social media, newsletters etc. so plays a pivotal role in other engagement activities. Key website stats from launch to 31/1/21 Visitor sessions: 14831 Users: 10204 Page views: 32181 Downloads of PDFs and other documents 1823 Thinkpiece downloads 294 Feasibility report downloads 117 Downloads of Prevention Green Paper response 120 Visits to expert/directory pages 390 Individual expert profile visits and tag searches for experts 414 Main updates to the website for the year March 2020 to Feb 2021 were: PUBLICATIONS Submissions for Parliamentary inquiries; feasibility study reports and journal papers; blog posts |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021 |
URL | http://www.getamoveon.ac.uk |
Description | Wellcomm2019 at CSCW2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | WORKSHOP QUESTION: How do we design kit that can help groups build healthier workplace cultures? And by health we mean health holism: physical, social and mental wellbeing - including what the BMJ calls "the ability to adapt and self-manage" in particular " in the face of social, physical, and emotional challenges". That definition seems to open much scope for interactive tech to support such skills. Our focus is also not primarily tech for the physical environment - though that may certainly be part of it - but how to design interactive tech to enable groups to explore, engage, shape their own work culture itself to align their cultural "normals" around holistic health. Most health tech for daily health and wellbeing is focused on individuals. And yet, we are rarely alone. We are in fact social creatures, born into families, working and living in the vast majority in communities. So, how do we design interactive technology to enable diverse workplace groups, from personal assistants, to hotel housekeeping staff, to restaurant workers, to teachers and first responders, to gain the resources they need to bring together a group to explore, test, build, and create evidence of success to support processes that will both improve their wellbeing, and work within their groups? If we focus on with caring about physical health support for groups at work, we should get productivity and creativity and all other desirable -ivities more effortlessly -almost as side effects. Our questions in this workshop are: what would be in the magic interactive techno Do-it-Ourselves tool box that would help groups at work, for example • explore what kinds of actions might support health at work? • how that practice might work in their own environment • develop agreement around evidence to support the change • produce that data as effortlessly as possible • create alternatives to "always on" data capture Topics of interest: Where and how can technology-as-resource for exploration be developed to support groups explore culture change towards health? • How explore Health for sustained benefit within a group (eg there are Group 12 week Fitness Challenges- but we see effects don't necessarily endure - are their roles for tech here?) • what do we know works well for workplace health and wellbeing (beyond 12 week challenges for example that tend to slip away post challenge)? • Design of Interactive Assets for Work-cultures/groups - are their toolkits for the health/culture discovery process - vs tools/devices/assets for supporting cultural decisions (eg we're exploring walking meetings - tools for that vs - we have walking meetings within our culture - what do we need to support these for all weather?) • Is this a kind of participatory design - but without the designer - where the group creates its own lead from a box of options? - • what are non-technical examples to draw on of tools for groups to lead themselves that should be a foundation? • Pervasive and potentially Passive assets (a wall clock is pretty passive and pervasive but useful) • Methodologies to inform asset design to enable groups to explore health topics together and explore options • PROBES for understanding group asset design Outcomes: 1. forming a community of interest 2. forming an initial research agenda for the area towards full papers, project proposals, etc through 2020 and beyond. 40 participants 2 organisers/presenters in addition to GAMO Co-I m.c. schraefel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.wellthlab.ac.uk/wellcomm2019/ |
Description | Workshop Feb 2018 - Behaviour change - publication of presentations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The presentations made at our workshop on 20th February 2018, 'Behaviour Change to Address Sedentarism', were published on the GetAMoveOn website. The purpose was to: Raise awareness of: - The workshop itself - The range of research being done in the field - The key research challenges that people are engaging with Also to: - Disseminate research findings for others to respond to and build on through their own research - Provide benefits to Network members and increase engagement with them by helping to raise their personal profiles as researchers - Enable other researchers to contact network members via their contact details in presentations The publication of the presentations was tweeted. This achieved 3359 impressions. Retweets achieved potentially 13,814 additional impressions. At the time of writing, 5 days after publication of the presentations, there have been 25 visits to the download page. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/behaviour-change |
Description | Workshop June 2017 - publication of presentations - older adults |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Publication of workshop presentations June 2017 The presentations made at our workshop on June 27th 2017, 'Using Technology to Help Older Adults by Physically Active', were published on the GetAMoveOn website. The purpose was to: Raise awareness of: - The workshop itself - The range of research being done in the field - The key research challenges that people are engaging with Also to: - Disseminate research findings for others to respond to and build on through their own research - Provide benefits to Network members and increase engagement with them by helping to raise their personal profiles as researchers - Enable other researchers to contact network members via their contact details in presentations Unfortunately we were unable initially to track the number of downloads as at the time google analytics was not set up to track PDF downloads. Since July 2017 to date (mid-February 2018) there have been 258 visits to the workshop page and 31 downloads of presentations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | Workshop June 2017: Using technology to help older adults be physically active |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Get A Move On Network + One Day Workshop: Using technology to help older adults be physically active June 27th 2017, University College London, 10.00-16.00 On June 27th 2017 we held a workshop on using technology to help older adults to be physically active. We heard findings from some of the most recent research on the topic, focusing on different technologies, different user groups, and different types of physical activity; we learned about on-going research that hasn't reported yet; had some lively, stimulating and challenging discussions, and forged new relationships with researchers from a whole range of disciplines, from HCI, to computer science, to health psychology. Details as follows: Keynote speaker Professor Nanette Mutrie, University of Edinburgh Organiser and Chair Professor Lucy Yardley, University of Oxford and University of Southampton About the workshop The purpose of the workshop was to bring together researchers across the UK and beyond with an interest in using technology to support physical activity in older people. The topic is intended to include a wide range of types and uses of technology, diverse populations and varied kinds of physical activity. The workshop was designed to stimulate discussion and collaboration on this topic through a mixture of short presentations of recent and ongoing research, and small group networking. Participants were involved in sharing ideas and experiences, building collaborations and developing plans for funding proposals. Agenda 10.00 Coffee/Tea 10.15 Welcome and introductions 10.30 Nanette Mutrie: Helping older adults sit less and walk more: pedometers; SitFITs and other devices 11.30 General Discussion 12.00 Lunch 12.45 Cindy Gray: STARFISH: a team-based smartphone app to increase physical activity in older adults and stroke survivors 1.10 Paul Curzon: Supporting physical activity as part of intelligent digital management of chronic conditions 1.35 m.c. schraefel: Elder everyday athletes: building resilience 2.00 Coffee/Tea 2.30 Kathrin Gerling: Designing for older users: understanding the relationship between playful technology, physical activity and vulnerability 2.55 Kirsten Smith: Iterative development and modification of a digital physical activity and a diet intervention for older cancer survivors 3.20 Eiman Kanjo: Persuasive technologies for older adults to increase physical activities 3.45 General discussion: future directions 4.00 CLOSE Help with travel expenses A limited fund was made available to reimburse costs incurred for travel to and from the workshop. Event report Overview • 31 registrations which was on target (30), including 22 academic researchers, 5 students/PhD students/Post-doc researchers, 2 industry private sector (1 consultant advising NHS; 1 consultant working in public health & third sector), 1 from older people's charity, 1 funder • Registered delegates were almost exclusively from UK, which is perhaps to be expected for a 1 day workshop. • 21 different institutions represented, with people attending from more than one department within some institutions • Wide range of disciplines and research interests represented including HCI, health psychology, physical therapy, behaviour change, computer science & AI, data analytics, m-health/e-health/health tech • By definition, workshop delegates were interested in 1 of our target groups - older adults - though some had a particular interest in health challenges that are prevalent in this group such as cancer, dementia, general health and wellbeing. Details Attendees • Registered: 31 (22 + 7 speakers) • Attended: 14 + 7 speakers = 21 • No-shows: 10, of which 4 cancelled in advance or sent apologies One of the disadvantages of making a workshop free is that there is no disincentive to delegates to prioritise something else if there are other calls on their time. Attendees supported by travel grants All delegates were invited to apply for support for travel costs, provided they could demonstrate that they would make a significant contribution to the workshop e.g. as a speaker, by sharing particular expertise etc. Five awards were made ranging from £50 to £250. Countries represented Registered delegates were almost exclusively from UK, which is perhaps to be expected for a 1 day workshop. 3 countries represented: • UK (Including England, Scotland, Wales) • Finland • Italy Institutions 21 organisations were represented, with delegates from more than one department within some organisations: 1. Centre for Ageing Better 2. Coventry University 3. EPSRC 4. G&G Projects 5. King's College London 6. Loughborough University 7. Newcastle University 8. Nottingham Trent University 9. Queen Mary University of London 10. Swansea University 11. Univeristy of Milano Bicocca 12. University College London 13. University of Birmingham 14. University of Cambridge 15. University of Edinburgh 16. University of Glasgow 17. University of Helsinki 18. University of Lincoln 19. University of Oxford 20. University of Southampton 21. University of Surrey Departments Delegates were from a range of different departments and research groups - many of which are themselves inter-disciplinary e.g. • Social Research • Public Health • Communications • Assistive Technology • Computing Science • Sport and Exercise Sciences • Behavioural Science & Health • Health Psychology • Primary Care and Population Health • Nutritional Sciences The following research centres and institutes were represented: Physical Activity for Health Research Centre University of Edinburgh Institute of Health and Wellbeing University of Glasgow UCL Interaction Centre University College London Institute of Public Health University of Cambridge Centre for Technology Enabled Health Research Coventry University Centre for Ageing Better Disciplines and research interests A wide range of disciplines and research interests was represented. The most frequently mentioned areas of interest were: • Older adults' health • Interestingly, only about half of registrants stated a specific interest in older people, though possibly some thought that was implied by attending a specialist workshop. Some had a particular interest in health challenges that are prevalent in this group such as cancer, dementia, general health and wellbeing. • eHealth, mHealth • HCI • Physical activity for health • Behaviour change • Health psychology More 'techie' interests were less often mentioned but were represented: • AI, data science, sensors • Assistive technologies • Affective computing • Biomedical engineering • Playful tech • Biomedical / biomechanical engineering • App development There were also representatives from EPSRC (funder) and someone working in physical rehabilitation Key learnings from workshop feedback to consider for future workshops • The opportunity to discuss research findings and issues raised is very important to most delegates. It was suggested that there should be more participative/interactive sessions and fewer formal presentations. • It was also suggested that there should be more time allowed for Q&A and discussion after presentations (10 minutes was allocated after 20 minute presentations), and also more formal, structured, active chairing of discussions to help bring out key themes and research issues • The networking opportunities were important to delegates but time is necessarily limited. One suggestion was to provide more structured networking opportunities e.g. speed networking • The opportunity to make new cross-disciplinary contacts and discuss potential collaborations was also highly valued. One suggestion was to programme in more structured discussion about collaborating on future funding applications and/or providing some kind of 'matching' service to help potential collaborators from different disciplines to meet |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/events/workshop-1 |
Description | Workshop Report from 1st Symposium (2017) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | In May 2017 the 1st GAMO Symposium took place with the aim to bring together a range of experts to help to scope and define approaches, and stimulate debate, about the role of current and future technologies in enhancing levels of activity and movement in one of our three target groups: schools, workplaces, and communities of older adults. The symposium closed with a workshop in which delegates were asked to write down individually what they considered to be the main research challenges and goals for GAMO, and then took part in a group activity to brainstorm research questions related to the challenges and the target groups. They also worked in groups to brainstorm ideas for solutions to engage people in more physical activity. This report is based on a thematic analysis of the handwritten notes of the discussions which took place, and the flip-chart posters produced during the group activities. The structure of the text is based on the key themes that have been identified (which are reflected in the 'topic cloud' on the first page; the font size represents their occurrence frequency). The report aims to incorporate and represent the different perspectives from the researchers involved as well as the different domains. The report is set out as follows: Section 1 - Research Components: Areas and Levels of Research In this section, we present a model which conceptualises the research challenges identified in the workshop discussions, organising them into a number of 'areas' of research and 'levels' of intervention, defining the scope of each, and how they relate to each other in terms of an overall 'research lifecycle'. Section 2 - Summary of Research Challenges and Goals Identified In this section, we summarise the discussions which took place in the workshop. They are grouped thematically, according to the research challenges and goals identified by participants, at each level of intervention, and in relation to the overall 'research lifecycle'. Section 3 - Outputs of group work: Research Questions Identified, and Ideas for Solutions to Engage People in More Physical Activity In this section, we present the specific research questions identified during the group activities, the outline concepts which arose from the brainstorming activities to develop ideas for solutions to engage people in physical activity, and some specific research questions that would need to be addressed to develop those concepts further. The report was published on the GetAMoveOn website. We also produced a short video (see separate entry) giving an overview of the research challenges identified, which was uploaded to YouTube and also embedded in the website. We promoted these in tweets and our newsletter. Tweets & direct retweets mean the announcement had a reach of at least 25,383 people, potentially many more if retweets were retweeted. Our own tweet achieved an engagement rate of 4.7% The main outcomes from the report are that it as a guide in its own right for grant applicants to some of GAMO's funding priorities, and it also served as the main input into workshop activities at our Workshop on Behaviour Change to Address Sedentarism in Different Communities held on 20th February 2018. The report findings were further developed to form the foundations of a roadmap summarising current knowledge, research challenges and future opportunities for reducing sedentary behaviour across communities and populations. This is currently being developed and is scheduled for delivery in Q2 2018. The intended outcome from this will be clearer guidance for the research community on priority areas for investigation, to enable more efficient deployment of research effort and resources such as funding, including more focused guidance for applicants for GAMO funding, and identification of opportunities for collaboration and inter-disciplinary working. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/publications |
Description | Workshop on Behaviour Change to Address Sedentarism in Different Communities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Workshop on Behaviour Change to Address Sedentarism in different communities Held on Tuesday 20th February 2018 from 10am-4pm at UCL Facilitators: Profs Ann Blandford & Anna Cox Overview The workshop was held in association with the 4th Annual Digital Behaviour Change Conference - Behaviour Change for Health: Digital & Beyond It included talks and working group activities focusing on the role of behaviour change and other theories that support reasoning about the social and community contexts within which behaviour takes place. The focus was on reducing sedentarism across communities (e.g., schools, work places, care homes) where it is possible to introduce digitally enabled interventions to shape individual and group practices. Participants learned about various theoretical and empirical approaches to behaviour change as applied to the challenge of reducing sedentarism within communities. Another key workshop activity was to build on the report of the workshop we held at our 1st Symposium, which identified a significant number of research challenges in the field, as the basis for creating our Research Roadmap. This is currently being developed and will be finalised in Q2 of 2018. Speakers KEYNOTE Professor Shailey Minocha, Open University, Centre for Research in Computing: "Role of activity monitors in adopting an active and healthy lifestyle". Dr Stanley Blue, Lancaster University: "Theories of practice and public health: from the obesogenic environment to healthy everyday life". Dr Jacqueline Mair, Napier University, Sports, Exercise and Health Science Research Group: "Using technology to reduce sedentary behaviour in the workplace". Dr Max Western, Southampton University: "Developing online resources to support reduction of sedentary behaviour in older people in the community". Workshop content Working groups (5-6 people per group) worked in parallel on particular communities (schools, workplaces, post-retirement communities), focusing on different stages of change: • Pre-contemplation / contemplation / preparation: what makes people consider changing lifestyle? • Action: theories and techniques to help people transition in to action • Maintenance: theories and techniques to support maintenance of behaviour (habits, engagement) The working groups addressed the following questions: what theories and techniques have been shown to be effective, or show promise? What are future possibilities at 3 years, 10 years, 25 years? There was also an open-mic session at which delegates talked about their own work including: • Testing a physical activity promotion program in three versions and comparing effects of telephone coaching and SMS prompting. • Introduction to 'Living Streets' and their mission to get people walking more • Research looking at how we can apply smartphone technology to encourage behaviour change in relation to air pollution, including encouraging a shift to walking and cycling from private car use • An intervention involving a mobile phone game to increase walking. Workshop outputs & outcomes The main output - a report and roadmap that summarises current knowledge, research challenges and future opportunities for reducing sedentary behaviour across communities and populations, is being developed and is scheduled for delivery in Q2 2018. The intended outcome from this will be clearer guidance for the research community on priority areas for investigation, to enable more efficient deployment of research effort and resources such as funding, including more focused guidance for applicants for GAMO funding, and identification of opportunities for collaboration and inter-disciplinary working. Benefits and outcomes for delegates of attending included: • Expanded and deepened their knowledge of the latest theoretical and empirical approaches to behaviour change interventions and related approaches to address sedentarism • An opportunity to shape the GetAMoveOn research agenda & find out about future funding opportunities • Make new contacts with a view to collaborating on future proposals for funding from the GAMO Network+ • Open mic session during which delegates were able to disseminate their own research DELEGATES NUMBERS Registered: 31 registered + 4 speakers = 35 SENIORITY / CAREER STAGE Analysis of job titles indicates a wide range of delegates from different career stages. Registered job titles included: • Academic GP • Assistant Professor • Behavior Change Design Director • Director of Clinical Development • Director of Research • Human Factors Consultant • Learning and Impact Manager • Lecturer • PhD Researcher • PhD student • Post-doctoral researcher • Professional Lead - Physical Activity • Research Associate • Research Fellow • Senior Manager • Senior Research Fellow • Senior Strategic Consultant • Waste prevention officer INTERNATIONAL REACH Registered delegates were mostly from UK, which is perhaps to be expected for a 1 day workshop but did include some European delegates: Austria - 1 Finland - 1 Germany - 1 Swizerland - 1 UK - all others Organisations , Disciplines & Research interests represented Organisations Sectors represented included health insurance, NHS, university, voluntary/third sector, local authority and the private sector, as follows. At least 20 different organisations were represented. This is not a full list as details of on 23 delegates were captured during the registration process. 1. Bradford NHS Teaching Hospitals 2. Bupa 3. Everyone Health 4. Imperial College London 5. University of Jyväskylä 6. King's College London 7. Living Streets 8. Mad*Pow 9. Mersyside Recycling and Waste Authority 10. Mott MacDonald 11. Surrey University 12. The Behavioural Architects 13. The University of Warwick 14. University of Basel, DSBG 15. University of Birmingham 16. University of Bristol 17. University of Cambridge 18. University of Graz 19. University of Kent 20. University of Mannheim Research interests / discipline Research & professional interests included the following. This is not a full list as details of on 23 delegates were captured during the registration process. • Digital health for behaviour change at a community level • Digital coaching, sport technology, sport and exercise psychology • Active travel • Incentives based behaviour change • Physical activity promotion, reduction of sedentary behaviour, remote communication, coaching based on BCTs, Apps and Web-pages implementing essential BCTs to promote an active lifestyle • personal informatics, activity tracking, reflection, older adults, sedentary behaviour • Sedentary behaviour • Which components in mHealth interventions lead to increased physical activity and how we can build components based on Social Psychological theories and principles. • Physical activity, • Physical activity, nutrition, weight loss • Preventing household waste FEEDBACK The overall feedback, both anecdotal and from the feedback survey, was very good. Notable highlights Respondents were 'satisfied' or 'very satisfied' with all aspects of the workshop content (length and content of presentations, workshop discussions, interactive sessions etc.). Each aspect scored over 4 out of 5. Respondents achieved a wide range of objectives, with highest scores going to two of the key objectives for the GAMO Network, which were outcomes for 71% of participants: making contacts and exchanging ideas with delegates in other disciplines or sectors, and meeting potential new collaborators in other disciplines or sectors. 57% increased their knowledge of research and other work going on in this field and learned about other's work in their own and other disciplines/sectors (though as a high proportion were researchers in the field it is likely they already had a good overview of work in the field) 57% exchanged ideas and made new contacts/met potential collaborators in their own disciplines/sector 71% did so with people in other disciplines/sectors 28% were inspired with new ideas for research projects and/or funding applications 31 delegates 4 speakers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Workshop: Let's get Uncomfortable! UBICOMP 2019 London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Let's get Uncomfortable! UBICOMP 2019 London Tue 9 Sept 2019 ORGANISERS Organizers: m.c. schraefel, Adrian Friday, Scott Bateman, Josh Andres m.c. schraefel is Professor, Computer Science and Human Performance Director, wellthLab and Living Lab at University of Southampton. Adrian Friday is Professor of Computing and Sustainability, and Head of School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University. Scott Bateman is Associate Professor, Computer Science, Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab,University of New Brunswick. Josh Andres is IBM Research Australia, Human-Computer Interaction Researcher, User Experience/Interface Lead, DT Coach, Melbourne, AUS This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first HCI/Pervasive workshop to consider the concept of what we might call "discomfort design" - leveraging human discomfort deliberately as a design component, particularly with an eye to the side effects of discomfort around both health and sustainability. Being Uncomfortable - from time to time - is not just good for us, it's how we're wired to learn and to be health resilient creatures - so why not embrace discomfort in our designs? Working with this discomfort has keen effects on our physical, mental and cognitive wellbeing and performance; working with this discomfort has multiple positive side effects to enhance sustainability. For example: • being a little cooler than the standard 22C office can both save energy and improve physiological performance. • being a little hotter (like traditions and practices from sweat lodges to finnish saunas) seems to have profound effects on cognition wellbeing and longevity • Fasting for certain periods not only has significant benefits around wellbeing and longevity, it has knock on effects for energy/food production. These are just a few examples of a connexion between the health and sustainability domains: that we are wired to thrive by engaging in cycles of various kinds of discomfort, including thermal discomfort, hunger, social discomfort, fatigue to name a few. Consider improving at any skill: deliberate practice for example includes a focus not on the easy but the challenging parts of the skill - like a musician working through the challenging parts of a piece; the math student working through the challenging bits of a quadratic with practice practise practise; an athlete going for that one more rep than the day before - that is not easy or fun. Our question in Discomfort Design: How do we design interactive tech to support / help INDIVIDUALS and GROUPS explore/use discomfort for personal benefit and social good? Our guiding question for this workshop is: How do we design interactive tech to prepare, practice and perform discomfort, brilliantly and perhaps especially when under pressure (that's pretty often uncomfortable, eh)? If you are interested in either sustainability or health or both, this workshop is very much for you: come get uncomfortable with us. We will use Design Jams as a key activity. Outcomes: • Participants to explore and build up new Uncomfortable Design Methodology. • Participants develop uncomfortable design ideas. The best 15 as judged by organisers will be included in the ACM digital Library. These will act as kindling for the participants to take the work forward into their own work, and share ideas with their colleagues. Thus,the workshop will seed forward ideas for this approach which we anticipate seeing in both health and wellbeing as well as in sustainability projects in the coming year. • Curated Blog, seeking submissions of ideas and videos of prototypes that blend together discomfort and sustainability. • Hosting Calls for Proposals, and working with industry like IBM, Facebook, Amazon and other collaborators to contribute Prizes for Uncomfortable Projects. • Follow on workshop Group Discomfort for CSCW, where we will be seeking more formed research papers from participants, towards full papers for CHI 2021 (timescale now postponed 1+ year due to Covid-19). • We are also keen to ensure that this approach connects with industry, hence we are actively engaging with these industry partners to offer keynotes and to feature examples from the workshop and help these industries discover new talent in this new area of discomfort for sustainability, in particular in terms of co-design of prepare, practice and perform brilliantly and deliberately in discomfort - even under pressure. 40 participants 3 presenters/organisers in addition to GAMO Co-I m.c. schraefel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.wellthlab.ac.uk/uncomfortable2019/ |
Description | Writing retreat - GAMO Fellows - March 4-6 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Date: 4th to 6th March 2020 Workshop for the GetAMoveOn Fellows: an opportunity to experience a highly effective 'structured writing retreat' model known to increase productivity and well-being whilst: - learning how to increase your chances of writing winning grant proposals - gaining experience of positive writing practices and habits - writing a first draft grant proposal Prior to the workshop, participants were asked to: Before you come to Scotland there are a few things you need to do to prepare: ? Decide on a writing project ? Outline the structure of your paper/chapter/proposal ? Complete the retreat schedule/planner below ? Plan writing tasks/goals for each time-slot ? Do reading and other preparation ? Get notes, plans, outlines etc. together ? Download what you need (there is WiFi in the room where we write but download what you need anyway in case it drops out for some reason) ? Read Murray and Newton (2009) article on structured writing retreats The workshop was led by Prof. Anna Cox. Feedback: The audience for this was the GetAMoveOn Fellows. All those who attended reported that it had been very useful in giving them a structured approach to writing and providing dedicated time and space. They also valued the emphasis on wellbeing and the importance of attending to this as part of effective writing practice, as well as creating time and space for writing. They all plan to use this approach to create dedicated writing time in future and help make their writing more efficient. Impacts: The impact of this workshop will be to help Fellow to be more efficient writers and also to produce better quality work, which will improve the quality of further grant applications, journal and conference submissions, which will in turn help them to maximise the impacts of their research. Attendees: 10 GAMO fellows 1 presenter in addition to GAMO PI Anna Cox |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/fellowship |
Description | YouTube channel - Year 3 - March 2018 to Feb 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | We have produced 5-minute videos of all the events we have funded and for each of our feasibility projects. Videos published on our YouTube channel in Year 3 include: - Get A Move On Network Research Challenges - How do we get people to move more? Behaviour Change Workshop report - ActiveMinds - Mindfulness on the Go - Wearables in primary care: Innovations workshop - What does health look like? Visualising health stats from wearables - What does health feel like? Part 1 - exploring our health data with smart materials - What does health feel like? Part 2 - exploring sensory feedback from wearables - Rise and Recharge These are videos published on a dedicated section of our website and on the individual event/project page, as well as on our own dedicated GetAMoveOn Network YouTube channel. Outcomes and impacts: - Increased awareness among researchers of GAMO agenda, research challenges & related activities (e.g. by tweeting the videos, as well as simply their presence on line). - Wider public audience reached via YouTube - Resources for our collaborators/funded researchers to raise the profile of their projects: multiplies our reach & awareness impacts YouTube stats (as at 6/3/19) Total views: 675 Total watch time: 1628 mins = 27 hours Average view time: 2.24 Likes: 15 Shares: 59 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl5kP4g3Q9oifBzbQYIk_8g/featured |
Description | YouTube channel - Year 4 - March 2019 to Feb 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | We have produced 5-minute videos of all the events we have funded and for each of our feasibility projects. Our Fellows have also created personal profile videos which are included on our channel. Videos published on our YouTube channel in Year 4 include: Is your activity tracker really helping you? Reduced to numbers: how does our health data make us feel? Transforming pain management with tech-enabled physio care There are over 300000 health apps so why aren't we all fit? Improving health using gamification A new online tool to help older adults sit less and move more A new rehab app for home-based physio support after knee surgery Active audio in urban Bangladesh: can mobile messages help you move more? How to get healthier with Alexa Could talking fitness trackers help older adults be more active? Better health for people with cancer - wherever and whenever they are Does tracking actually help us change our habits? Music at work: get moving while staying productive Can Alexa help us move more? Designing a new app to help football fans get match fit Get moving to manage stress Developing a next generation activity tracker for wheelchair users These videos are published on a dedicated section of our website and on the individual event/project page or in our Find an Expert section, as well as on our own dedicated GetAMoveOn Network YouTube channel. Outcomes and impacts: - Increased awareness among researchers of GAMO agenda, research challenges & related activities (e.g. by tweeting the videos, as well as simply their presence on line). - Wider public audience reached via YouTube - Resources for our collaborators/funded researchers to raise the profile of their projects: multiplies our reach & awareness impacts YouTube stats (as at 27/2/20) Total videos in channel: 26 Total views: 3443 Total watch time: 133 hours Average view time: 2.19 Likes: 34 Shares: 194 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl5kP4g3Q9oifBzbQYIk_8g?view_as=subscriber |
Description | YouTube channel Year 5 March 2020 to Feb 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The intended outcomes and impacts for the YouTube channel are to disseminate our research to a wider audience and engage that audience in our work. We have produced 5-minute videos of all the events we have funded and for each of our feasibility projects. Our Fellows have also created personal profile videos which are included on our channel. We now have 26 videos in our channel. These videos are published on a dedicated section of our website and on the individual event/project page or in our Find an Expert section, as well as on our own dedicated GetAMoveOn Network YouTube channel. Outcomes and impacts: - Increased awareness among researchers of GAMO agenda, research challenges & related activities (e.g. by tweeting the videos, as well as simply their presence on line). - Wider public audience reached via YouTube - Resources for our collaborators/funded researchers to raise the profile of their projects: multiplies our reach & awareness impacts Outcomes - engagement stats YouTube stats (as at 8/2/21 Total videos in channel: 26 Total views: 7001 (approximately double figure for last year) Total watch time: 233 hours (ditto) Average view time: 2.00 Likes: 68 Subscriptions 38 Shares: 215 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl5kP4g3Q9oifBzbQYIk_8g |
Description | eWorkLife - pretent commute media - CBS radio news |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An interview with Prof Anna Cox was published by the Evening Standard on 19 Nov 2020 (see separate entry) about eWorkLife/GAMO Covid-19 research (reported under 'Collaborations"). It cited Prof Cox's suggestion that home workers could be encouraged to do a 'pretend commute' i.e. compensate for loss of commuting-related activity and create work-lfe/home-life separation by taking a short work before and after work. CBS News Radio in the US picked up on the article and did an interview with Prof Cox which ran across more than 700 CBS News affiliated radio stations in the US on January 18th, and also streams live via SoundCloud. We can reasonably assume that the interview will have influenced some listeners and led to them deciding to instigate their own 'pretend commute'. We can also reasonably assume that we engaged 'other audiences' such as policy-makers, business leaders and professional practitioners as these people are also consume media. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.cbsnews.com/radio/ |
Description | eWorkLife - pretent commute media - Evening Standard |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview with Evening Standard (ES) published 19th November 2020 about eWorkLife Covid-19 research (reported under 'Collaborations") which included a citizen science project gathering data about the experience of switching to remote work and simultaneously providing remote workers with personalised research-informed advice about how to best cope with remote working. That research informed submissions of written evidence to the UK Parliamentary Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, in response to the evidence call, "The impact of coronavirus on businesses and workers" (August 2020). The ES picked up on a suggestion in the submission that home workers could be encouraged to do a 'pretend commute' i.e. compensate for loss of commuting-related activity and create work-lfe/home-life separation by taking a short work before and after work. The result was a 400 word article which appeared in the print version (reach c850k / week) and online version (reach c3m / week). The idea captured the imagination of other journalists and led to Prof Cox being interviewed and quoted by the Wall Street Journal & CBS News (see separate entries). We can reasonably assume that the articles will have influenced some readers / listeners and led to them deciding to instigate their own 'pretend commute'. We can also reasonably assume that we engaged 'other audiences' such as policy-makers, business leaders and professional practitioners as these people are also consume media. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/londoners-pretend-commute-coronavirus-lockdown-protect-health... |
Description | eWorkLife - pretent commute media - Wall Street Journal |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An interview with Prof Anna Cox was published by the Evening Standard on 19 Nov 2020 (see separate entry) about eWorkLife/GAMO Covid-19 research (reported under 'Collaborations"). It cited Prof Cox's suggestion that home workers could be encouraged to do a 'pretend commute' i.e. compensate for loss of commuting-related activity and create work-lfe/home-life separation by taking a short work before and after work. The Wall Street Journal picked up on the article and published their own, on Jan 11 2021, "Welcome to the Fake Office Commute" which quoted Prof Cox and appeared in the print version (circulation c754K/day) and the online version (c2.26m/day). We can reasonably assume that the articles will have influenced some readers / listeners and led to them deciding to instigate their own 'pretend commute'. We can also reasonably assume that we engaged 'other audiences' such as policy-makers, business leaders and professional practitioners as these people are also consume media. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.wsj.com/articles/welcome-to-the-fake-office-commute-turns-out-people-miss-the-routine-11... |
Description | mc schraefel 2019 Summer School on Inbodied Interaction - Designing Technology with the Body |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | A 4 day summer school specifically designed for HCI researchers - from post docs to academics - whose designs touch the body. Focus on mission-critical knowledge about how the body works as a complex system of systems and how this can be leveraged to support the design of new health and wellbeing technology. Addressing questions such as: • What is "the body"? • What does movement actually do for the brain? • What are hormones and how are they influenced? • What is "pain" and where is pain located? • How do we FEEL? • How and why is the gut the second brain? • What is epigenetics? • What parts of the brain mediate/integrate movement? • How is the state of the body connected to creativity? • How does light work within the body and around it? • What is the microbiome, and how does it mediate gut health, depression, fetal health? It was an interdisciplinary event including organisers from Computer Science & Human Performance; exergames; HCI; biomechanical engineering; presenters from Exercise medicine, nutrition, sleep science, epigenetics, microbiology (microbiome); delegates from design, medicine, biology, engineering, computer science/hci, software engineering Outcomes for participants: - A deeper, improved knowledge of how the body works as a set of interconnected complex systems, - Practice in how this knowledge can open up the design/research space for health, wellbeing, performance - An enriched network of international colleagues - Opportunities right away to build, own, claim leadership in a new area of HCI. All the following outcomes and impacts apply: Requests about (further) participation or involvement Plans made for further related activity Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions Decision made or influenced Requests for further information Delegate feedback: All of them responded positively saying they would come to the next school All of them said they would encourage other people to come They were looking forward to the workshop related to the school at CHI They suggested areas where they would like to go deeper in the topic. 45 participants 6 presenters in addition to GAMO Co-I m.c. schraefel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://wellthlab.soton.ac.uk/in5-2019/ |
Description | mc schraefel CHI BAAST workshop on Inbodied Interaction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This workshop took place at CHI 2019 on Sunday 5th May to explore the Body As a Starting Point for interactive technology design, organised by m.c. schraefel, GetAMoveOn Network+ and University of Southampton, UK; Josh Andres, IBM, Australia; Aaron Tabor, UNB, Canada; and Erik Hekler, Health Design Lab, UCSD, USA. As well as the audiences listed above, ECRs attended. A growing area in HCI is the creation of tools to support health and performance. As the field moves in this domain, there is a meta-structural problem emerging: health is a holistic concept that requires an understanding of the many systems involved and their dynamic interactions, but the HCI community, at present, is producing technological artefacts that are largely fragmenting health and lack grounding in basic understanding of human physiology, neurology, etc. This fragmentation is compromising the field's ability to advance in this important domain. So how might we advance a new form of design that enables the emergence of more holistic tools and perspectives for advancing proactive and preventative health? If we approach designs that will touch bodies from an understanding of how those bodies operate (from macro processes like sleep to micro processes like hormonal signalling of melatonin) how might this knowledge inform/change our designs for health, wellbeing, and performance? This workshop built on the workshop at CHI 2019 - The Body as a Starting Point workshop and explored: How might we better account for inbodied systems (within the body) when building tools that target em-bodied actions (individual actions and behaviours)? How can we, for instance, better understand that which is functioning circum-bodied (contextual factors, outside the body)? Are there mappings between IOT, wearables, and particular aspects of this? How do we build in such a way that technology artefacts can continually be advanced towards a more holistic perspective rather than foster further fragmentation and confusion? This was an interdisciplinary workshop with delegates from engineering, computer science, software engineering, exergames; HCI; biomechanical engineering. Outcomes: - Understanding of what Inbodied design can offer to HCI in the next wave of research. - Knowledge and understanding of use of the in5 lenses to build novel applications that support aspirations for human performance. - Generate and develop Inbodied design ideas to further develop and grow this emerging area in HCI. - A community offering a cross domain online space to connect with others who are interested in this area. Anectodal feedback was very positive and all the following outcome/impacts apply: Requests about (further) participation or involvement Plans made for further related activity Audience reported change in views, opinions or behaviours Own/colleagues reported change in views or opinions Decision made or influenced Requests for further information 40 participants Presenter GAMO Co-I m.c. schraefel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://bodyasstartingpoint.tumblr.com/ |
Description | ukactive National Summit 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The publication of the government's Prevention Green Paper, Better Health for All - Prevention in the 2020s, in July 2019 presented an opportunity for us to highlight the evidence for how digital technologies can help to increase physical activity, thereby reducing physical and mental health risks. We secured funding from UCL's EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award (IAA) to produce a Rapid Response to the green paper and submitted a formal response to the policy consultation. We also produced a briefing document with key evidence, case studies from our researchers and infographics. This was aimed at a wider audience of public and private sector organisations and individuals involved in policy-making, service commissioning and delivery. It was disseminated through ukactive, a 4000-strong campaigning, research and membership organisation, and one of our partners on the GetAMoveOn project, whose aim is 'more people, more active, more often'. Allied to this we secured additional IAA funding to hold a Policy Dialogue as one of the breakout sessions at the ukactive Summit in October 2019 - a major policy conference, attended by around 700 delegates from local and national government, think-tanks, business and physical activity service providers. The Policy Dialogue was attended by around 200 delegates who took part in a lively discussion on Delivering the Ambitions of the Green Paper and the role of digital technologies in preventative health, with a panellists from Vitality Health, SweatCoin, and the Behavioural Insights Team, chaired by Lord Andrew Lansley, former Secretary of State for Health. Aims: 1. Facilitate knowledge exchange and share best practice between academics and other stakeholders beyond the academic community, focusing on the implications for policy and practice of recent research funded by GetAMoveOn and other research carried out by our Network members. Specifically to: • inform non-academic stakeholders about the evidence base for the role of physical activity in preventative health, the role for digital technologies to enable this, and examples of successful interventions that could inform commissioning and service delivery, and • to learn from those stakeholders about the relevance or otherwise of our research to them, and the challenges of incorporating technology-based approaches to increasing physical activity into public health commissioning policy and prescribing practice. 2. Leverage our relationship with ukactive to reach stakeholders beyond our existing network. (ukactive is a campaigning, membership and research organisation with its roots in the physical activity sector whose vision and target communities are closely aligned with those of the GetAMoveOn Network+.) 3. Enhance awareness and impact of the work funded through the GetAMoveOn Network+ and other work which is being done by Network members. What we achieved: 1. To facilitate knowledge exchange and share best practice, we held two events as part of the ukactive National Summit in October 2019: • A breakout session • A Meet-the-Researchers event with a poster display of relevant research in the exhibition area and the authors on hand to discuss their work with other delegates. 2. We leveraged our relationship with ukactive to hold our Policy Dialogue as part of their National Summit, which enabled us to reach stakeholders beyond our existing network that it would otherwise have been very challenging for us to reach at anything like the same scale. The Summit was attended by 671 people including policy makers, commissioners, clinicians, business leaders, service providers and practitioners. Our breakout session was attended by over 200 people. The Meet-the-Researchers event represented 5.5 hours of dialogue between academics and other stakeholders (based on an estimate of 30 mins actual dialogue per academic during coffee breaks and lunch totally 2 hours). 3. We enhanced awareness and impact of GetAMoveOn research through the breakout session, Meet-the-Researchers conversations and event app which drove traffic to our website. There was an increase in activity on our website from 25th Oct (when the event app was launched) and 2nd Nov (2 days after the event). During this time, we had 97 users, 87 of whom (82%) were new, with most the day of the event being from London, indicating they were probably at the event. They made 233 page views, mostly to our publications, project and experts pages, and there were 12 actual downloads of our publications. We have also written a series of blog posts providing a 'deep dive' into some of the issues raised at the event, based on the research we have funded and that has been produced by our Network members. We will begin publishing these at the end of January 2020. Feedback from our researchers who participated provides evidence for what we achieved : • I feel that the summit provided a useful setting to achieve all of the goals I set out to achieve. • It was a good opportunity to see the state of PA awareness in UK that could lead to research opportunities • The event provided an opportunity to speak with non-academic stakeholders. • It allowed me to broaden my perspective on my research area and its implications for policy and practice. • There were interesting discussions with delegates. • Made connections with potential project collaborators (academic and non-academic). • It was very interesting to hear what the non-academic community thought about prevention and management of disease using activity. • Poster presentation provided opportunity to reflect and focus on key messages for non-academic audiences, the plenary sessions provided excellent discussion points and ideas for future research questions. In addition, a number of the keynote speakers were extremely inspirational and provided great take home messages around inclusivity and diversity, which is important from a research perspective also. • The summit provided me with a fantastic opportunity to disseminate my research, meet other academics as well as network with key industry partners. I met a number of useful contacts, exchanged details and will be continuing discussions to establish the possibility of future collaborations. • Grateful for the opportunity to attend, and the network provided great exposure of our research - stand received a good deal of interest and interesting discussions with delegates. Our intended audiences were non-academic stakeholders with an interest in increasing physical activity: policy makers at local and national level, public health officials, local government commissioners, clinicians, social prescribers, business leaders, workplace wellbeing managers, service providers and practitioners. While all of these groups of people attended the event, it wasn't possible to monitor who engaged or to measure engagement rates of different categories of delegate. There is anecdotal evidence from the researchers who took part in Meet the Researchers. See above for feedback on their engagement with delegates. In addition, they reported that they achieved the following objectives: • Disseminate my research findings beyond the academic community (to policy makers, business etc.) • Broaden my perspective on my research area and its implications for policy and practice • Develop my skills in communicating my research to diverse and non-academic audiences • Network and make new contacts with potential academic research partners • Network and make new non-academic contacts e.g. policy-makers, business, service providers etc. So we are confident that at least some of the researchers who attended will have developed a greater understanding of the perspective of policy and other stakeholders, which will enable them to engage more effectively in the future, and some also made new personal contacts amongst policy makers and other stakeholders that they will be able to develop. 671 practitioners, policy officials and business leaders attended the UKactive Summit Policy Dialogue event attended by over 200, discussing implications of our research for policy and practice. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://getamoveon.ac.uk/blog/deep-dive-series |