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Best Practices And Recommendations In Education To Enable The Integration Of Refugees Into The European Union Health Care Provision Systems (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Valero-Ramon, Z., Segura, M., Karlgren, K., Stathakarou, N., Harjani, M., Dratsiou, I., …Traver, V. (2024). Best Practices And Recommendations In Education To Enable The Integration Of Refugees Into The European Union Health Care Provision Systems. In INTED 2024 Proceedings: 18th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (4273-4280). https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2024.1100

Access to healthcare services is one of the main obstacles to migrants' and refugees' integration and inclusion in the host countries. They face challenges accessing healthcare services when arriving in European Union (EU) countries. The Refugee Heal... Read More about Best Practices And Recommendations In Education To Enable The Integration Of Refugees Into The European Union Health Care Provision Systems.

CO-CREATION OF A VIRTUAL INTERACTIVE TEACHING PACKAGE FOR AUDITORS OF HEALTHCARE PLACEMENTS – TOWARDS ASSURANCE OF QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE TRAINEESHIPS (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Konstantinidis, S., Tilley, Z., Ko, S., Henderson, J., Cunningham, S., Hodge, P., …Hall, C. (2023). CO-CREATION OF A VIRTUAL INTERACTIVE TEACHING PACKAGE FOR AUDITORS OF HEALTHCARE PLACEMENTS – TOWARDS ASSURANCE OF QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE TRAINEESHIPS. In EDULEARN23 Proceedings (3189-3195). https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2023.0886

To provide medical and allied health professionals students with the best clinical learning environments, quality processes must be in place, and these require innovation to assure audit material resources that are fit for purpose, can work well with... Read More about CO-CREATION OF A VIRTUAL INTERACTIVE TEACHING PACKAGE FOR AUDITORS OF HEALTHCARE PLACEMENTS – TOWARDS ASSURANCE OF QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE TRAINEESHIPS.

It's Snazzy, but is it Useful? Practitioner's Views on Meaningful Use Cases for Healthcare XR (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Antoniou, P., Reppou, S., Konstantinidis, S. T., Stathakarou, N., Economou, D., Jonathon, R., & Bamidis, P. (2023). It's Snazzy, but is it Useful? Practitioner's Views on Meaningful Use Cases for Healthcare XR. In Practitioner Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN 2023). https://doi.org/10.56198/itig2ulbj

The global virtual reality (VR) market size, valued at 21.83 billion USD in 2021, is expected to expand with an annual growth rate of 15.0% from 2022 to 2030. Virtual Reality, although massively known for immersive gaming and entert... Read More about It's Snazzy, but is it Useful? Practitioner's Views on Meaningful Use Cases for Healthcare XR.

Evaluation of Virtual Reality via 360° videos Reusable e-Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Schiza, E., Frangoudes, F., Pattichis, C., Pears, M., Konstantinidis, S., & Gkougkoudi, E. (2023). Evaluation of Virtual Reality via 360° videos Reusable e-Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula. In 2023 24th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1109/dsp58604.2023.10167929

Recent advancements in Virtual Reality (VR) immersive technologies provide new tools for the development of novel and promising applications for Medical Education courses. This paper presents an evaluation process for teaching the clinical skills cou... Read More about Evaluation of Virtual Reality via 360° videos Reusable e-Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula.

Learning analytics of TOTEMM virtual learning resources – transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model (2023)
Conference Proceeding
PEARS, M., Henderson, J., Smit, A., Van Oost, M., Borrelli, S., Walker, L., …Konstantinidis, S. .. (2023). Learning analytics of TOTEMM virtual learning resources – transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model. In Proceedings of INTED2023 Conference 6th-8th March 2023 (8021-8030). https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2023

Equality, social inclusion, and participation of non-mobile midwifery students studying in England, Italy, Estonia and the Netherlands was of interest in this project. Five Virtual Learning Packages (VLPs) were created to address needs within materni... Read More about Learning analytics of TOTEMM virtual learning resources – transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model.

Ensuring quality healthcare practice for doctors and medical allied professionals through a digital interactive audit platform (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Papamalis, F. E., Cunningham, S., Hodges, P., Grochowska, A., Stefanowicz-Kocol, A., Poultourtzidis, I., …Bamidis, P. (2023). Ensuring quality healthcare practice for doctors and medical allied professionals through a digital interactive audit platform. In Proceedings of INTED2023 Conference 6th-8th March 2023 (5825-5831). https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2023.1529

Internationally there are different requirements for measuring and monitoring health care practice and cross-border clinical placement. However, the quality of the clinical training settings has a significant impact on student experience and knowledg... Read More about Ensuring quality healthcare practice for doctors and medical allied professionals through a digital interactive audit platform.

Feasibility and Acceptance of Virtual Reality Reusable e- Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Pears, M., Henderson, J., Antoniou, P. E., Ntakakis, G., Nikolaidou, M., Bamidis, P. D., …Konstantinidis, S. T. (2022). Feasibility and Acceptance of Virtual Reality Reusable e- Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula. In 2022 International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET) : proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/imet54801.2022.9929810

The use of Virtual Reality in healthcare education is still uncommon. Measuring the feasibility of such resources into formal training is critical for quality, satisfaction, and ultimately improved efficacy over other methods. The Co-creation of Virt... Read More about Feasibility and Acceptance of Virtual Reality Reusable e- Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula.

Development of a Bespoke Chatbot Design Tool to Facilitate a Crowd-based Co-creation Process (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Henderson, J., Pears, M., Bamidis, P. D., Tsoupouroglou, I., Schiza, E., Pattichis, C. S., …Konstantinidis, S. T. (2022). Development of a Bespoke Chatbot Design Tool to Facilitate a Crowd-based Co-creation Process. In 2022 International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET) : proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/imet54801.2022.9929752

Developing an effective educational chatbot is a challenging and time-consuming process. One of the main challenges in a co-creation process, is ensuring multiple stakeholders, as professionals in a variety of roles such as academics, learners, resea... Read More about Development of a Bespoke Chatbot Design Tool to Facilitate a Crowd-based Co-creation Process.

Immerse Yourself in ASPIRE - Adding Persuasive Technology Methodology to the ASPIRE Framework (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Taylor, M., Wharrad, H., & Konstantinidis, S. (2022). Immerse Yourself in ASPIRE - Adding Persuasive Technology Methodology to the ASPIRE Framework. 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 (1106-1117). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93907-6_116

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.

Repurposing a Reusable Learning Object on Effective Communication with Adolescents to an Interactive 360° Immersive Environment by Adapting the ASPIRE Framework (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Pears, M., Henderson, J., & Konstantinidis, S. (2022). Repurposing a Reusable Learning Object on Effective Communication with Adolescents to an Interactive 360° Immersive Environment by Adapting the ASPIRE Framework. 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 (1096-1105). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93907-6_115

The efficacy of home visiting of adolescent who are at risk of self-harm has a great dependency on the communication between the patient and the healthcare professional. Face-to-face encounters with health care professional and patients have heighten... Read More about Repurposing a Reusable Learning Object on Effective Communication with Adolescents to an Interactive 360° Immersive Environment by Adapting the ASPIRE Framework.

Digital Soft Skills of Healthcare Workforce – Identification, Prioritization and Digital Training (2022)
Conference Proceeding
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.

Co-creation of chatbots as an educational resource: training the trainers workshop (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Pears, M., Henderson, J., Bamidis, P., Pattichis, C., Karlgren, K., Wharrad, H., & Konstantinidis, S. (2021). Co-creation of chatbots as an educational resource: training the trainers workshop. In INTED2021 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.1570

BACKGROUND There is growing need for personalised individual student support in healthcare curricula. A key limitation to providing quality support surrounds large student-to-lecturer ratios. This can result in attenuation of lecturer's efforts to pr... Read More about Co-creation of chatbots as an educational resource: training the trainers workshop.

The role of stakeholders' evaluation on the quality of reusable learning objects following the ASPIRE participatory framework (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Ho, M., Taylor, M., Mcsharry, E., Bergmann-Tyacke, I., Santos, M. R., Dhaeze, M., …Konstantinidis, S. (2021). The role of stakeholders' evaluation on the quality of reusable learning objects following the ASPIRE participatory framework. In INTED2021 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.1605

As the population is becoming increasingly culturally diverse, there is a growing need for nurses to provide culturally competent care. It has been suggested that health disparities exist within in ethnic minorities and by providing culturally compet... Read More about The role of stakeholders' evaluation on the quality of reusable learning objects following the ASPIRE participatory framework.

Co-creation of Virtual Reality Re-usable Learning objectives of 360° video scenarios for a Clinical Skills course (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Schiza, E. C., Hadjiaros, M., Matsangidou, M., Frangoudes, F., Neocleous, K., Gkougkoudi, E., …Pattichis, C. S. (2020). Co-creation of Virtual Reality Re-usable Learning objectives of 360° video scenarios for a Clinical Skills course. In 20th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE MELECON 2020) (364-367). https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON48756.2020.9140530

This paper presents a new approach for teaching the clinical skills course by exploiting the potential of a Virtual Reality application utilizing 360° videos with medical content for an undergraduate level course. We discuss the methodology prospects... Read More about Co-creation of Virtual Reality Re-usable Learning objectives of 360° video scenarios for a Clinical Skills course.

STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS FOR USING REUSABLE LEARNING OBJECTS IN EUROPEAN HEALTHCARE CURRICULA TO ENHANCE CULTURAL SENSITIVITY (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Brown, M., Taylor, M., Hall, C., & Konstantinidis, S. (2019). STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS FOR USING REUSABLE LEARNING OBJECTS IN EUROPEAN HEALTHCARE CURRICULA TO ENHANCE CULTURAL SENSITIVITY. In INTED2019 Proceedings (8467-8475). https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2019

Health care is becoming increasingly culturally diverse and there is a growing need for nurses to deliver culturally competent care patient centred care. Therefore, it is imperative that nurses are equipped with an awareness of what it means to posse... Read More about STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS FOR USING REUSABLE LEARNING OBJECTS IN EUROPEAN HEALTHCARE CURRICULA TO ENHANCE CULTURAL SENSITIVITY.

Internet of Things in Health Trends Through Bibliometrics and Text Mining (2017)
Conference Proceeding
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.

GameUp: Exergames for mobility – a project to keep elderly active (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Brox, E., Konstantinidis, S. T., Evertsen, G., Fernandez-Luque, L., Remartinez, A., Oesch, P., & Civit, A. (2016). GameUp: Exergames for mobility – a project to keep elderly active. In E. Kyriacou, S. Christofides, & C. S. Pattichis (Eds.), XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016 (1225–1230). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_235

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. A big challenge for Europe is the demographic shift towards an aging population. Resources in the health care sector are limited, so it is important that the seniors of tomorrow will be able to st... Read More about GameUp: Exergames for mobility – a project to keep elderly active.

GameUp: Exergames for Mobility – A Project to Keep Elderly Active (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Brox, E., Konstantinidis, S., Evertsen, G., Fernandez-Luque, L., Remartinez, A., Oesch, P., & Civit, A. (2016). GameUp: Exergames for Mobility – A Project to Keep Elderly Active. XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016 (1225-1230). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_236

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Early detection of cognitive and physical status deterioration for elderly people has been much dependent on gait analysis lately. However, much of the recent literature focuses on gait analysis m... Read More about GameUp: Exergames for Mobility – A Project to Keep Elderly Active.