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Ethical Considerations for Participatory Health through Social Media: Healthcare Workforce and Policy Maker Perspectives (2020)
Journal Article
Rivera-Romero, O., Konstantinidis, S., Denecke, K., Gabarrón, E., Petersen, C., Househ, M., …Mayer, M. Á. (2020). Ethical Considerations for Participatory Health through Social Media: Healthcare Workforce and Policy Maker Perspectives. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 29(1), 71-76. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1701981

OBJECTIVES: To identify the different ethical issues that should be considered in participatory health through social media from different stakeholder perspectives (i.e., patients/service users, health professionals, health information technology (If... Read More about Ethical Considerations for Participatory Health through Social Media: Healthcare Workforce and Policy Maker Perspectives.

Comparing face-to-face with online training for occupational therapists in advising on fitness for work: Protocol for the CREATE study (2020)
Journal Article
Coole, C., Konstantinidis, S. T., Ablewhite, J., Radford, K., Thomson, L., Khan, S., & Drummond, A. (2020). Comparing face-to-face with online training for occupational therapists in advising on fitness for work: Protocol for the CREATE study. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 83(3), 172-178. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022619893563

© The Author(s) 2020. Introduction: Occupational therapists play a key role in advising on fitness for work; however, there is a concern that they lack knowledge and confidence in using the Allied Health Professions health and work report (formerly t... Read More about Comparing face-to-face with online training for occupational therapists in advising on fitness for work: Protocol for the CREATE study.

The Effectiveness of Digital Interventions for Psychological Well-Being in the Workplace: A Systematic Review Protocol (2019)
Journal Article
Armaou, M., Konstantinidis, S., & Blake, H. (2019). The Effectiveness of Digital Interventions for Psychological Well-Being in the Workplace: A Systematic Review Protocol. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010255

Objective: Psychological well-being has been associated with desirable individual and organisational outcomes. This systematic review aims to assess the effectiveness of digital interventions for the improvement of psychological well-being and/or the... Read More about The Effectiveness of Digital Interventions for Psychological Well-Being in the Workplace: A Systematic Review Protocol.

Guest Editorial Small Things and Big Data: Controversies and Challenges in Digital Healthcare (2019)
Journal Article
Bamidis, P. D., Konstantinidis, S. T., Rodrigues, P. P., Antani, S., & Giordano, D. (2019). Guest Editorial Small Things and Big Data: Controversies and Challenges in Digital Healthcare. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 23(6), 2208-2210. https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2019.2944776

The papers in this special section focus on the challenges faced in the digital healthcare market. Recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), as well as biomedical engineering, sensor technology and data science, have acted... Read More about Guest Editorial Small Things and Big Data: Controversies and Challenges in Digital Healthcare.

Internet of Things in Education (2019)
Book Chapter
Konstantinidis, S. (2019). Internet of Things in Education. In S. Konstantinidis, P. Bamidis, & N. Zary (Eds.), Digital Innovations in Healthcare Education and TrainingElsevier

Healthcare Education is continuously looking for new ways of delivering learning and teaching. Recently the Internet of Things came into the foreground envisioning a future in which digital and physical entities can be linked. While the idea of perva... Read More about Internet of Things in Education.

Education Program for Carers in Facilities with Neuro Disabled Subjects EPoCFiNDS (2019)
Journal Article
Dionyssiotis, Y., Vellidou, E., Konstantinidis, S. T., Sarafis, P., Artemi, S., Stergiopoulou, K., …Koutsouris, D. (2019). Education Program for Carers in Facilities with Neuro Disabled Subjects EPoCFiNDS. Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls, 4(2), 45-50. https://doi.org/10.22540/JFSF-04-045

The prevalence of chronic illness and the disabilities they cause are strongly associated with age. According to the United Nations, in most countries around the world, 8-10% of the population has some form of disability. Carers are helping subject... Read More about Education Program for Carers in Facilities with Neuro Disabled Subjects EPoCFiNDS.

Co-creation of Virtual Reality Re-Usable Learning objectives for 360° video scenarios for the surgical excision of skin lesion (2019)
Presentation / Conference
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.

Artificial intelligence for participatory health: applications, impact and future implications (2019)
Journal Article
Denecke, K., Gabarron, E., Grainger, R., Househ, M., KONSTANTINIDIS, S., Lau, A., …Merolli, M. (2019). Artificial intelligence for participatory health: applications, impact and future implications. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 28(01), 165-173. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1677902

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart. OBJECTIVE: Artificial intelligence (AI) provides people and professionals working in the field of participatory health informatics an opportunity to derive robust insights from a variety of online sources. The object... Read More about Artificial intelligence for participatory health: applications, impact and future implications.

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.

A proposed learner activity taxonomy and a framework for analysing learner engagement versus performance using big educational data (2017)
Journal Article
Konstantinidis, S., Fecowycz, A., Coolin, K., Wharrad, H., Konstantinidis, G., & Bamidis, P. (in press). A proposed learner activity taxonomy and a framework for analysing learner engagement versus performance using big educational data. Proceedings / IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems,

The inclusion of information and communication technologies in Healthcare and Medical Education is a fact nowadays. Furthermore numerous virtual learning environments have been established in order to host both educational material and learner’s onli... Read More about A proposed learner activity taxonomy and a framework for analysing learner engagement versus performance using big educational data.

Actions to empower digital competences in healthcare workforce: a qualitative approach (2017)
Journal Article
Konstantinidis, S., Li, S., Traver, V., Zary, N., & Bamidis, P. (2017). Actions to empower digital competences in healthcare workforce: a qualitative approach. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 238, 253-256. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-781-8-253

While healthcare systems are taking advantage of the ICT to improve healthcare services, healthcare workforce needs additional competencies in order to continue the provision of the best achievable care. In this paper emphasis is given to an active r... Read More about Actions to empower digital competences in healthcare workforce: a qualitative approach.

Semantic web, reusable learning objects, personal learning networks in health: key pieces for digital health literacy (2017)
Journal Article
Konstantinidis, S., Wharrad, H., Windle, R., & Bamidis, P. (2017). Semantic web, reusable learning objects, personal learning networks in health: key pieces for digital health literacy. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 238, https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-781-8-219

The knowledge existing in the World Wide Web is exponentially expanding, while continuous advancements in health sciences contribute to the creation of new knowledge. There are a lot of efforts trying to identify how the social connectivity can endor... Read More about Semantic web, reusable learning objects, personal learning networks in health: key pieces for digital health literacy.

Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement (2017)
Journal Article
Li, S., Bamidis, P., Konstantinidis, S. T., Traver, V., Car, J., & Zary, N. (2019). Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement. Health Informatics Journal, 25(1), 174-185. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458217704257

© The Author(s) 2017. A major challenge for healthcare quality improvement is the lack of IT skills and knowledge of healthcare workforce, as well as their ambivalent attitudes toward IT. This article identifies and prioritizes actions needed to impr... Read More about Setting priorities for EU healthcare workforce IT skills competence improvement.

User-Centered Design of Serious Games for Older Adults Following 3 Years of Experience With Exergames for Seniors: A Study Design (2017)
Journal Article
Brox, E., KONSTANTINIDIS, S., & Evertsen, G. (2017). User-Centered Design of Serious Games for Older Adults Following 3 Years of Experience With Exergames for Seniors: A Study Design. JMIR Serious Games, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.2196/games.6254

Background: Seniors need sufficient balance and strength to manage in daily life, and sufficient physical activity is required to achieve and maintain these abilities. This can be a challenge, but fun and motivational exergames can be of help. Howeve... Read More about User-Centered Design of Serious Games for Older Adults Following 3 Years of Experience With Exergames for Seniors: A Study Design.

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.

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.

Why decision support systems are important for medical education (2016)
Journal Article
Bamidis, P. D., Konstantinidis, S. T., Konstantinidis, S., & Bamidis, P. (2016). Why decision support systems are important for medical education. Health Technology Letters, 3(1), 56-60. https://doi.org/10.1049/htl.2015.0057

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2016. During the last decades, the inclusion of digital tools in health education has rapidly lead to a continuously enlarging digital era. All the online interactions between learners and tutors, the d... Read More about Why decision support systems are important for medical education.

Online Social Exergames for Seniors: A Pillar of Gamification for Clinical Practice (2015)
Book Chapter
Konstantinidis, S. T., Brox, E., Kummervold, P. E., Hallberg, J., Evertsen, G., & Hirche, J. (2015). Online Social Exergames for Seniors: A Pillar of Gamification for Clinical Practice. In N. Daniel, B. Tulu, & H. Brendryen (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Holistic Perspectives in Gamification for Clinical Practice (245-276). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9522-1.ch012

© 2016 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. The population is getting older, and the resources for care will be even more limited in the future than they are now. There is thus an aim for the society that the seniors can manage themselves as long as p... Read More about Online Social Exergames for Seniors: A Pillar of Gamification for Clinical Practice.