BIG::Health is for Everyday Health and Care

We thrive to understand how health, care and wellbeing technologies are used and not used in everyday contexts through user studies and participatory approaches to design research.

BIG::Health Members

Doctoral Students

Faculty

Researchers

Visiting & Honorary

BIG::Health Recent Publications

  • Challenges and Opportunities for the Design of Inclusive Digital Mental Health Tools: Understanding Culturally Diverse Young People's Experiences

    Ewan Soubutts, Pranita Shrestha, Brittany Davidson, Chengcheng Qu, Charlotte Mindel, Aaron Sefi, Paul Marshall & Roisin Mcnaney
    Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024.

    Summary | Full Version

  • Autoethnography of Living with a Sleep Robot

    Immi Biswas, Erin Dooley, Elizabeth Coulthard & Anne Roudaut
    Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2024.

    Summary | Full Version

  • CounterSludge in Alcohol Purchasing on Online Grocery Shopping Platforms

    Eszter Vigh, Angela Attwood & Anne Roudaut
    Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2024.

    Summary | Full Version

  • The perspective of soft-robotics for people with neurodegenerative diseases: Can we develop robotic solutions using soft material?

    Immi Biswas, Elizabeth Coulthard & Anne Roudaut
    Alzheimer's Association International Conference, 2024.

    Summary | Full Version

  • Alcohol Interventions on Online Grocery Shopping Platforms

    Eszter Vigh, Angela Attwood & Anne Roudaut
    International Journal of Population Data Science, 2024.

    Summary | Full Version

  • Exploring the nexus of Social Media Networks and Instant Messengers in Collaborative Type 2 Diabetes care: A Case Study of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

    Timeyin Arueyingho, Aisling O'Kane, Jonah Aprioku & Paul Marshall
    Proceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference, 2024.

    Summary | Full Version

  • “I think it saved me. I think it saved my heart”: The Complex Journey From Self-Tracking With Wearables To Diagnosis

    Rachel Keys, Paul Marshall, Graham Stuart & Aisling O'Kane
    Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024.

    Summary | Full Version

  • Using and Appropriating Technology to Support The Menopause Journey in the UK

    Emily Lopez, Marianela Ciolfi & Aisling O'Kane
    Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024.

    Summary | Full Version

  • Explanation before Adoption: Supporting Informed Consent for Complex Machine Learning and IoT Health Platforms

    Rachel Eardley, Emma Tonkin, Ewan Soubutts, Amid Ayobi, Gregory Tourte, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Ian Craddock & Aisling O'Kane
    Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., 2023.

    Summary | Full Version

  • Social Virtual Reality as a Mental Health Tool: How People Use VRChat to Support Social Connectedness and Wellbeing

    Mairi Deighan, Amid Ayobi & Aisling O'Kane
    Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023.

    Summary | Full Version