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Dr. Christos Diou will present the BigO project at the annual SSIB meeting, which is this year held online. The Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) is a non-profit organization committed to advancing scientific research on food and fluid intake and its associated biological, psychological, and social processes. The Society provides a multidisciplinary…

The BRFAA team in Athens will present three abstracts at the upcoming European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Meeting, held online from 22-26 September 2021. These are the titles of the abstracts: Evaluation of the BigO system in a clinical setting in Greece (Ref. No.: 262, presented by Athanasia Tragomalou) Evaluation of the BigO system during…

BigO will be featured in three presentations at the upcoming 2nd International Conference on Children’s Well-being, held 9-11 July. The theme of the conference is “Children’s well-being and perspectives on its enhancement”. These are the abstracts from the Athens team: Evaluation of Big Data Methodologies for the prevention and management of overweight and obesity in…

Congratulations to Niamh Arthurs from University College Dublin who presented  ‘Big Data Collection in Vulnerable Populations: Application to Real World Clinical and Public Health Settings’ at the European Congress on Obesity, held online from 10-13 May, 2021.   You can view the presentation on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/98q9OBjHLHo  

Congratulations to a group from many of the BigO consortium members, led by Petter Faberberg and Ioannis Ioakimidis, for publishing their work relating eating speed to body mass index (BMI) in High-School students. The paper used the BigO system to show that individuals with a higher BMI also had a faster eating rate, both self-reported…

Congratulations to BigO consortium members for the publication of their recent paper  “Big Data Warehouse for Healthcare-Sensitive Data Applications” (Shahid, Nguyen and Kechadi)  in the journal Sensors, MDPI, March 2021 The article can be accessed here: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/7/2353/htm

Last month, Dr. Ioannis Ioakeimidis attended the eHealth 2021 conference on behalf of BigO.  eHealth is a 1-day conference on the developments in eHealth research in South-Eastern Sweden. It was organized by Linköping University and the Östergötland country on March 16th. BigO got the opportunity to contribute to this conference with a keynote presentation. The…

In Thessaloniki, two different municipalities have joined the BigO project in the last years. These municipalaties differ not only in socioeconomic levels, but also in urban and food environment. In total, approximately 1000 students of Ampelokipi-Menemeni and Pylea-Hortiatis joined the BigO project as citizen scienctists. They used the MyBigO app and collected data for the…

Last week, Esther Kok, presented the BigO project during the mastercourse Data Science for Smart Environments at Wageningen University. During this course, students use data science to analyse a case. These casus all focus on the effects of the environment. BigO is an excellent example of such a project, as it foccusses on the effect…