All Outputs (112)

Try to see it my way: exploring the co-design of visual presentations of well-being through a workshop process (2019)
Journal Article

Aims: A 10-month project funded by the NewMind network sought to develop the specification of a visualisation toolbox that could be applied on digital platforms (web- or app- based) to support adults with lived experience of mental health difficultie... Read More about Try to see it my way: exploring the co-design of visual presentations of well-being through a workshop process.

Acknowledgement to reviewers of informatics in 2018 (2019)
Journal Article

Investigating a therapist-guided, parent-assisted remote digital behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents: 'Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics' (ORBIT) trial: protocol of an internal pilot study and single randomised controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article

Introduction Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorder are common, disabling childhood-onset conditions. Guidelines recommend that behavioural therapy should be offered as first-line treatment for children with tics. However, there are very few t... Read More about Investigating a therapist-guided, parent-assisted remote digital behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents: 'Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics' (ORBIT) trial: protocol of an internal pilot study and single randomised controlled trial.

Investigating user needs and integration of Remote Measuring Technologies into clinical practice (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Research continues to correlate physical signals with mental activity, as opposed to physical activity, with physiological sensors. Further, with the proliferation of wearable technology, it seems imminent that our smart watches can soon keep track o... Read More about Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker.

Power up: patient and public involvement in developing a shared decision-making app for mental health (2018)
Journal Article

Background: The importance of patient and public involvement (PPI) in designing interventions to support young people’s mental health is becoming a central tenet of the research process. Existing research has indicated that co-design with service use... Read More about Power up: patient and public involvement in developing a shared decision-making app for mental health.

Gesture, Signing and Tracking (2017)
Book Chapter

There is a wide and growing range of physical input devices for (or integrated into) PCs, mobile phones, games consoles, or other devices that depend on tracking bodily gestures, which promise to make computing, environmental control, and mobility mo... Read More about Gesture, Signing and Tracking.

Gesture, signing, and tracking (2017)
Book Chapter

Designing with and for people with dementia: developing a mindful interdisciplinary co-design methodology (2017)
Conference Proceeding

This paper reports on the development of a mindful interdisciplinary design methodology in the context of the MinD project research into designing for and with people with dementia, which takes the particular focus on supporting the subjective well-b... Read More about Designing with and for people with dementia: developing a mindful interdisciplinary co-design methodology.

A mobile phone app to support young people in making shared decisions in therapy (Power Up): study protocol (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Evidence suggests that young people want to be active participants in their care and involved in decisions about their treatment. However, there is a lack of digital shared decision-making tools available to support young people in child... Read More about A mobile phone app to support young people in making shared decisions in therapy (Power Up): study protocol.

Proportionate methods for evaluating a simple digital mental health tool (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Traditional evaluation methods are not keeping pace with rapid developments in mobile health. More flexible methodologies are needed to evaluate mHealth technologies, particularly simple, self-help tools. One approach is to combine a var... Read More about Proportionate methods for evaluating a simple digital mental health tool.

Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics (2017)
Journal Article

Background: With the expected increase in the numbers of persons with dementia, providing timely, adequate, and affordable care and support is challenging. Assistive and health technologies may be a valuable contribution in dementia care, but new cha... Read More about Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics.

Preferences of informal carers on technology packages to support meal production by people living with dementia, elicited from personalised AT and ICT product brochures (2017)
Journal Article

Assistive technology (AT) can help support the continued independence of people living with dementia, supported by informal carers. Opinions and preferences of informal carers towards a range of assistive and digital information and communication tec... Read More about Preferences of informal carers on technology packages to support meal production by people living with dementia, elicited from personalised AT and ICT product brochures.

Game features of cognitive training (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Cognitive training aimed at older adults is introduced and the issues of engagement and adhesion are discussed. Two examples of ‘brain training’ games are analysed, one with a health (non-leisure) focus that is currently being deployed in a clinical... Read More about Game features of cognitive training.

Human factors multi-technique approach to teenage engagement in digital technologies health research (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the use of multi-techniques for teenage HCI health research. Through four case studies we present information about adolescents as users of healthcare services and technologies, adolescent personal development and the human fact... Read More about Human factors multi-technique approach to teenage engagement in digital technologies health research.

Developing mHealth Remote Monitoring Technology for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Qualitative Study Eliciting User Priorities and Needs (2016)
Journal Article

Background: Guidelines in the United Kingdom recommend that medication titration for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should be completed within 4-6 weeks and include regular reviews. However, most clinicians think that weekly clinic c... Read More about Developing mHealth Remote Monitoring Technology for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Qualitative Study Eliciting User Priorities and Needs.

Early stage Healthcare Technology Assessment (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents an overview of HTA methods aiming to inform the research and development of new medical devices, here defined as early stage HTA methods. First, standard HTA methods are briefly introduced and their limits and weaknesses are dis... Read More about Early stage Healthcare Technology Assessment.

Computer games for user engagement in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) monitoring and therapy (2015)
Conference Proceeding

State-of-the-art computer games and psychological tests for symptom monitoring and therapy in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are explored and reviewed. Three foci for research studies are identified: task (human performance) focus; e... Read More about Computer games for user engagement in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) monitoring and therapy.

A systematic review of dementia focused assistive technology (2015)
Journal Article

This paper presents a systematic review which explores the nature of assistive technologies currently being designed, developed and evaluated for dementia sufferers and their carers. A search through four large databases, followed by filtering by rel... Read More about A systematic review of dementia focused assistive technology.

Government policy and healthcare management: proposal of a shared decision-making model (2015)
Journal Article

As a consequence of the current economic crisis many changes have been introduced to health systems on national levels to reduce expenditure and to introduce more cost-effective methods. Then recent developments in medical technology have led to a sh... Read More about Government policy and healthcare management: proposal of a shared decision-making model.