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On Wednesday June 3th 14:00 (CET) the BigO consortium will host a webinar in which the project, platform, and first results will be presented. You can register now! The BigO project is a European funded ICT big data which aims to develop and validate a digital platform to collect data on children’s behavior patterns and their living environment. With…

Two new preprints from BigO are now online! The first preprint is titled ‘Collecting big behavioral data for measuring behavior against obesity’. This paper presents a system which can objectively and automatically extract and collect behavioral information on the individual-level. The behavioral information extracted is all related to physical activity, for example, types of visted…

A pre-print of a new scientific paper about BigO is now published. The paper is titled “BigO: A public health decision support system for measuring obesogenic behaviors of children in relation to their local environment”. The paper presents an overview of BigO. It discusses the data acquisition, indicator extraction, data exploration, and analysis components of…

The corona virus affects our daily live and thus, the data collection of the BigO project. To explain these consequences, we made a new animation video for all citizen scientists. It is now online on our YouTube channel! To make it understandable for all children participating in the BigO project, the videos have subtitles in…

On 14 and 15 February,  the Annual Conference of the Hellenic College of Pediatricians took place. The Biomedical Research Foundation presented on behalf of BigO.  The presentation was titled: “BigO: Big Data for the Prevention and Management of Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence”. The presentation not only discussed the concept of BigO itself, but also…

Researches of the International Hellenic University frequently present the BigO project at schools to explain the project and recruit students. They already presented the BigO project at six Primary Schools and fourteen High Schools in two different Municipalities of Thessaloniki, Greece. Among these schools were the 3rd Primary School of Ampelokipoi, the 1st Primary School of…

BigO collects data from children through school projects and clinics in different European countries. As all the BigO countries are currently taking measures by closing schools and switching to online education, no new data collection attempts will be started in the coming weeks. Children that are already collecting data for BigO can continue to do…

Stockholm and Athens   New BigO explainer videos are now online on the BigO YouTube channel! December last year, BigO published an explainer video featuring the cities Stockholm & Athens. The new video’s feature the cities Dublin & Thessaloniki and Uppsala & Larissa. In all these cities, citizen scientist are helping us to collect data! To…

The EA team had the opportunity to collaborate with the Bringing Research Into The Classroom (BRITEC) project. The aim of the BRITEC project is to introduce the citizen science approach at schools as a way of engaging students in scientific research. During this project, EA shared the experiences they gained from participating in the BigO project…