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
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Aisling O'Kane
Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction for Health -
Paul Marshall
Associate Professor of Human Computer Interaction -
Jon Bird
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science -
Kenton O'Hara
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction -
Dan Bennett
Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction -
Anne Roudaut
Professor of Human Computer Interaction and the director of BIG
Researchers
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Elaine Czech
Research Associate -
Matt Wragg
Research Associate -
Ewan Soubutts
Senior Research Associate -
Matthew Guy
Senior Research Associate in AI for Health Ecosystems
Visiting & Honorary
- Rachel Eardley
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Amid Ayobi
Honorary Lecturer of Human-Computer Interaction -
Jonah Aprioku
Associate Professor Pharmacology, University of Port Harcourt
Recent Publications
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Burnout by Design: How Digital Systems Overburden Neurodivergent Students in Higher Education
Alex Tcherdakoff, Paul Marshall, Anna Dowthwaite, Jon Bird & Anna Cox
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work, 2025. -
Creatively Supporting Mental Wellbeing: A Tangible Toolkit to Scaffold Self-Tracking through Mindful Colouring
Jingxin Yu, Amid Ayobi, Paul Marshall & Aisling O'Kane
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 2025. -
Integrating Technology into Self-Management Ecosystems: Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes in the UK using Smartwatches
Sam James, Miranda Armstrong, Zahraa Abdallah, Harry Emerson & Aisling O'Kane
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025. -
Rethinking Lived Experience in Chronic Illness: Navigating Bodily Doubt with Consumer Technology in Atrial Fibrillation Self-Care
Rachel Keys, Paul Marshall, Graham Stuart & Aisling O'Kane
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025. Honorable Mention -
"You Can Fool Me, You Can't Fool Her!": Autoethnographic Insights from Equine-Assisted Interventions to Inform Therapeutic Robot Design
Ellen Weir, Ute Leonards & Anne Roudaut
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025.