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Cohort 3 student Tim publishes via JMIR

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Cohort 3 student, Tim Arueyingho publishes a paper in JMIR entitled ‘Insights Into Sociodemographic Influences on Type 2 Diabetes Care and Opportunities for Digital Health Promotion in Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Quantitative Study’.

Tim had the following to say about the publication: ‘Using Port Harcourt as a case study, we explored the sociodemographic profile of people with T2D through traditional and automated quantitative approaches. This informed the design of digital health promotion strategies and the adoption opportunities we identified for this demographic. From this study, we can assert that people with T2D residing in the city of Port Harcourt are receptive to technological interventions for managing their condition. Although the specific nature of this intervention remains uncertain, we are confident that, with the right approach, issues related to use, adoption, compliance, and referral will not pose significant challenges. We advocate for the replication of this study in similar global South contexts, incorporating any overlooked questions, exploring alternative platforms to Twilio, and refining sampling or recruitment practices’.

Link to the paper: https://diabetes.jmir.org/2024/1/e56756

Cohort 3 student Tim publishes in AfriCHI ’23: Proceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference

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Cohort 3 student Tim Arueyingho publishes a paper in AfriCHI ’23: Proceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference entitled: ‘Exploring the nexus of Social Media Networks and Instant Messengers in Collaborative Type 2 Diabetes care: A Case Study of Port Harcourt, Nigeria’.

Tim had the following to say about the publication:

‘Having identified limitations in the use of technology for Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) care, as well as the need for context-specific T2D self- and collaborative care technologies, I designed a mixed-methods study to explore the interpersonal relationships between people with T2D, caregivers, and community pharmacists, and how contextual factors affect these relationships in T2D care. The essence of this study is to identify context-specific design opportunities for emerging T2D self- and collaborative technologies, and to discover new ways of conducting remote health research and codesign activities in global southern community contexts. The first phase of this study resulted in the collection of 110 questionnaire responses and the conducting of 51 interviews using WhatsApp and traditional methods of data collection. While this study generated significant insights, an empirical contribution that could not be overlooked was the use of social media (SM) and instant messengers (IM) for T2D care in this context. This short paper describes these unique findings, exploring SM and IM for self- and collaborative T2D care in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.’

Link to Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3628096.3628744

Cohort 3 student Tim attends the 4th African Human-Computer Interaction Conference in South Africa

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Cohort 3 student Tim Arueyingho had this to say about the experience:

‘I participated in the 4th African Human-Computer Interaction conference held in East London, South Africa. Firstly, I actively engaged in the doctoral consortium, meeting new people and gaining fresh insights into thepossible direction of my doctoral research. I also presented a short paper/note titled ‘Exploring the Nexus of Social Media Networks and Instant Messengers in Collaborative Type 2 Diabetes Care: A Case Study of PortHarcourt, Nigeria’ during the conference. At the summer school co-design academy, I learned aboutAfrocentric perspectives in co-design, the state of the art in co-design, and distinct approaches to organizing adesign workshop. My team generated lo-fi prototypes to address a design challenge.

I intend to conduct several co-design workshops in the next phase of my study. Participating in the summerschool and receiving external advice on my PhD work were among the expectations that were met.’

Cohort 2 student Sam and Cohort 3 students Eszter and Tim attend the CHI conference

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Cohort 2 student, Sam James attends the CHI Conference submitting a paper entitled: ‘Chronic Care in a Life Transition: Challenges and Opportunities for Artificial Intelligence to Support Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes Moving to University’

Cohort 3 student Eszter Vigh submitted two Workshop papers entitled : ‘Bridging HCI and Implementation Science for Innovation Adoption and Public Health Impact’ and ‘Intelligent Data-Driven Health Interfaces’

Cohort 3 student Tim Arueyingho submitted a work-in-progress paper entitled ‘Afro-Centric Collaborative Care: Technology Support for Type 2 Diabetes Management in Port Harcourt Nigeria’

Cohort 3 students Eszter, Lois and Sydney attend UCL Workshop

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Cohort 3 students Eszter Vigh, Lois Holliday and Sydney Charitos attend the ‘How to get the most out of your PPI activities’ Workshop at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

https://uclpartners.com/event/ppi-training-facilitation-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-ppi-activities-2/

Cohort 3 student Tim publishes an Article in IEEE

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Cohort 3 student Tim Arueyingho publishes a Journal Article entitled ‘Digital Health Promotion For Fitness Enthusiasts In Africa’ in the IEEE Journal.

Tim had this to say about the publication:

‘The review paper takes a different approach in understanding the role of technology in promoting exercise among fitness enthusiasts in Africa. It begins by discussing what health promotion is and extends it to Digital Health promotion. It also differentiates between fitness enthusiasts/recreational athletes, athletes and persons who engage in fitness as a form of lifestyle modification. Thereafter, it highlights technological interventions being used by fitness enthusiasts globally before streamlining to the African context. The paper stresses on the lack of sufficient literature on interventions being used in Africa and absence of focus on fitness enthusiasts. It is an educational piece and riveting read that hopes to create awareness for gaps in literature that might be interesting points of research.

1. This paper highlights interesting gaps in academic literature that might be worth researching
2. This paper establishes the need for contextualization and afro-centric studies
3. This paper elaborates on concepts that may have been easily overlooked e.g. The difference between Fitness enthusiasts/Recreational athletes, regular gym goers, athletes and persons who visit the gym for lifestyle modification purposes
4. The paper suggests important strategies for encouraging the adoption of digital health technologies among fitness enthusiasts
5. It provides information relevant in understanding the existing landscape of fitness and Digital Health technologies’

Cohort 3 student Tim attends the IEEE International Conference on Digital Health in Barcelona

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Tim Arueyingho had this to say about their experience:

‘The conference ran for five days and there were different stakeholders. Doctoral students, professors, and person’s working in the industry. The topics covered by the different panels include – the future of digital health, health data and services, analytics and visualization, health policy, systems and interoperability, IOT Data analytics and health data analytics. I was able to make a few new connections.

I was invited to the conference because I made an academic contribution in the form of a short paper and was required to make a presentation. I was the corresponding/major author and I invited master’s student, Korede Sanyaolu to collaborate with me. The conference paper would be published soon.

I am a digital health enthusiast and currently my PhD project is interested in exploring diverse ways in which technology is being used in collaborative healthcare management of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in informal settings in Nigeria. Life style modifications are prerequisites for the long term management of chronic diseases and I am also a fitness enthusiast. Thus, I thought it would be interesting to write a review exploring the use of technology by fitness enthusiasts in Africa. Although there is no direct relationship, the review provides a corpus of literature that would be essential in establishing the current use of tech for the purpose of exercise in Nigeria. Exercise would be an interesting part of my PhD project as it is paramount in life style modifications.’

Cohort 3 student Dan attends Digital Methods Winter School at the University of Amsterdam

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Dan Joinson had this to say about his experience:

‘This was a training course run by the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), who are a research group with the purpose of designing methods and tools to use online devices and platforms for research. The training course was attending by a range of participants, including international PhD candidates, new media postgraduate students and journalists. The course involved several keynote speeches from digital methods researchers, and tutorials highlighting the use of several of the methods that the Initiative has developed. The main portion of the course was spent participating in a group project, alongside a digital methods academic. My project comprised of both PhD and Masters students, and was focused on exploring the communication of science information and misinformation around three areas of debate (monkeypox, low traffic neighbourhoods, genetically modified organisms). This involved harvesting content from both

Tik Tok and Twitter, and performing data and network analysis on the themes emerging in this content.

The course ended with a poster event, in which our project was presented to digital methods academics and other participants. The poster will also be posted on the DMI website, alongside a video presentation I produced, explaining it. We were also required to write a report providing more details on our methodology and results. There is an opportunity for me to be credited on future publications stemming from this project. Furthermore, the aim is to present this work to the relevant British Research Council organisation.

This course provided me with the opportunity to learn new digital methods skills, which will help with future analysis I perform in my PhD project. Furthermore, I developed skills in highly interdisciplinary group work.’