Outputs (10)

Development of a Concourse for Two Q- Method Studies Exploring Perspectives of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Healthcare Professionals on the Use of Wearable Technology - Lessons Learnt (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsulami, S., Konstantinidis, S. T., & Wharrad, H. (2024, August). Development of a Concourse for Two Q- Method Studies Exploring Perspectives of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Healthcare Professionals on the Use of Wearable Technology - Lessons Learnt. Presented at 34th Medical Informatics Europe Conference: Digital Health & Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems (MIE2024), Athens, Greece

This paper presents the generation of a Q-set for two Q studies investigating the perspectives of (1) patients with multiple sclerosis and (2) their healthcare professionals on the use of wearable technology. It describes the adopted Q methodology an... Read More about Development of a Concourse for Two Q- Method Studies Exploring Perspectives of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Healthcare Professionals on the Use of Wearable Technology - Lessons Learnt.

Eliciting Co-Creation Best Practices of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources (2023)
Journal Article
Antoniou, P. E., Pears, M., Schiza, E. C., Frangoudes, F., Pattichis, C. S., Wharrad, H., …Konstantinidis, S. T. (2023). Eliciting Co-Creation Best Practices of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources. Virtual Worlds, 2(1), 75-89. https://doi.org/10.3390/virtualworlds2010005

Immersive experiential technologies find fertile grounds to grow and support healthcare education. Virtual, Augmented, or Mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) have proven to be impactful in both the educational and the affective state of the healthcare student’s... Read More about Eliciting Co-Creation Best Practices of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources.

The journey from co-creation to impact for digital resources in healthcare (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pears, M., Henderson, J., Wharrad, H., & KONSTANTINIDIS, S. (2022, September). The journey from co-creation to impact for digital resources in healthcare. Presented at ALT Annual Conference 2022, Manchester, UK

Co-creating digital resources in healthcare has many processes, pitfalls, and parameters. The development and transition from co-creation to impact requires effective knowledge exchange. This discussion panel will provide opportunity for attendees to... Read More about The journey from co-creation to impact for digital resources in healthcare.

Immerse Yourself in ASPIRE - Adding Persuasive Technology Methodology to the ASPIRE Framework (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor, M., Wharrad, H., & Konstantinidis, S. (2021, September). Immerse Yourself in ASPIRE - Adding Persuasive Technology Methodology to the ASPIRE Framework. Presented at 24th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2021), Dresden, Germany

With their ability to captivate learners and simulate real world scenarios it is little wonder that healthcare education is experiencing rapid growth in the use of Immersive technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Extend... Read More about Immerse Yourself in ASPIRE - Adding Persuasive Technology Methodology to the ASPIRE Framework.

Digital Soft Skills of Healthcare Workforce – Identification, Prioritization and Digital Training (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Konstantinidis, S., Leonardini, L., Stura, C., Richter, P., Tessari, P., Winters, M., …Wharrad, H. (2022). Digital Soft Skills of Healthcare Workforce – Identification, Prioritization and Digital Training. In Mobility for Smart Cities and Regional Development - Challenges for Higher Education Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2021), Volume 2 (1118-1129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93907-6_117

Digital technologies are increasingly embedded into healthcare aiming to improve quality of patient care, enhance patients’ safety and cut down economical costs. Healthcare professionals’ digital skills are indeed need enhancement with policies and i... Read More about Digital Soft Skills of Healthcare Workforce – Identification, Prioritization and Digital Training.

Prioritising topics for developing e-learning resources in healthcare curricula: A comparison between students and educators using a modified Delphi survey (2021)
Journal Article
Lim, H. M., Ng, C. J., Teo, C. H., Lee, P. Y., Kassim, P. S. J., Nasharuddin, N. A., …Wharrad, H. (2021). Prioritising topics for developing e-learning resources in healthcare curricula: A comparison between students and educators using a modified Delphi survey. PLoS ONE, 16(6), Article e0253471. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253471

Background Engaging students in the e-learning development process enhances the effective implementation of e-learning, however, students’ priority on the topics for e-learning may differ from that of the educators. This study aims to compare the dif... Read More about Prioritising topics for developing e-learning resources in healthcare curricula: A comparison between students and educators using a modified Delphi survey.

Improving occupational therapists’ confidence in completing the Allied Health Professions Health and Work Report: Results from the CREATE feasibility study (2021)
Journal Article
Ablewhite, J., Coole, C., Konstantinidis, S. T., Fecowycz, A., Khan, S., & Drummond, A. (2021). Improving occupational therapists’ confidence in completing the Allied Health Professions Health and Work Report: Results from the CREATE feasibility study. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 84(8), 516-525. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022621998582

Introduction: There is a concern that occupational therapists lack confidence in advising on fitness to work. The aim of this study was to compare two training methods of improving occupational therapists’ confidence in completing the Allied Health P... Read More about Improving occupational therapists’ confidence in completing the Allied Health Professions Health and Work Report: Results from the CREATE feasibility study.

Training the trainers curriculum on co-creation of virtual reality reusable e-resources (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Konstantinidis, S. T., Wharrad, H., Nikolaidou, M. M., Antoniou, P., Neokleous, K., Schiza, E., Matsangidou, M., Frangoudis, F., Hatziaros, M., Avraamides, M., Bamidis, P. .., & Pattichis, C. S. (2020, July). Training the trainers curriculum on co-creation of virtual reality reusable e-resources. Presented at 12th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Online Conference

Clinical skills labs exist in many Universities and University Hospitals, having a high maintenance cost and not always offering to the medical and nursing students a fully immersive experience. In recent years there has been an expansion of ICT in h... Read More about Training the trainers curriculum on co-creation of virtual reality reusable e-resources.

Co-creation of Virtual Reality Re-Usable Learning objectives for 360° video scenarios for the surgical excision of skin lesion (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neokleous, K., Gkougkoudi, E., Hatziaros, M., Schiza, E., Matsangidou, M., Avramides, M., …Pattichis, C. (2019, May). Co-creation of Virtual Reality Re-Usable Learning objectives for 360° video scenarios for the surgical excision of skin lesion. Poster presented at IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI'19), Dorin Forum, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

This short paper describes an educational scenario using a 360° video for the surgical excision of a skin lesion. This scenario, developed in the context of the CoViRR Erasmus+ project, offering new insights for the digital integration in learning an... Read More about Co-creation of Virtual Reality Re-Usable Learning objectives for 360° video scenarios for the surgical excision of skin lesion.

Internet of Things in Health Trends Through Bibliometrics and Text Mining (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Konstantinidis, S., Billis, A., Wharrad, H., & Bamidis, P. D. (2017). Internet of Things in Health Trends Through Bibliometrics and Text Mining. In Informatics for Health: Connected Citizen-Led Wellness and Population Health (73-77). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-753-5-73

Recently a new buzzword has slowly but surely emerged, namely the Internet of Things (IoT). The importance of IoT is identified worldwide both by organisations and governments and the scientific community with an incremental number of publications du... Read More about Internet of Things in Health Trends Through Bibliometrics and Text Mining.