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Last week, the Division of Human Nutrition and Health of Wageningen University & Research organized the online conference eICDAM2021. ICDAM is an international conference focussing on improving methods and measures for diet and physical activity. Over 350 participants from all over the world visited the conference. BigO got to contribute with the ePoster shown below.…

Sixth grade students of primary school Ekpaidefteria N. Mpakogianni joined the BigO project. They collected data by wearing the BigO smart watches. Last week, EKP held a ceremony for the students. Here, the 21 students received gold and silver medals for their contribution. The students were very enthusiastic about the BigO project. They were also…

Last December, the Stratford College has completed the BigO data collection study. Stratford College is a secondary school in the Rathfarnham area in Dublin, Ireland. The BigO project in Stratford college was lead by computer science teacher Helen O’Kelly. Other school teachers who supported the BigO study include David Fennell, Linda Finnegan, Roisin Cahill, and Sean…

Last week, the 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa2020) took place. MADiMa aims to bring together researchers from the diverse fields of engineering, computer science and nutrition who investigate the use of information and communication technologies for better monitoring, assessment and management of food intake. The researchers present and demonstrate their latest…

The Public Health Authorities (PHA) portal on the BigO website is live. The PHA portal constitutes one of the main outcomes of the BigO project. The PHA is a tool for the extraction of associations between children’s obesogenic behaviours and local environment using big data. The portal has four main functionalities. These functionalities include, (a)…

On 10-15 January the 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management will take place. However, this year, the conference is in conjunction with ICPR2020, the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. MADiMa aims to bring together researchers from the diverse fields of engineering, computer science and nutrition who investigate the use of information and…

Last week, the Delphi Panel study is published in the journal BMC Public Health. The article is titled: ‘Establishing consensus on key public health indicators for the monitoring and evaluating childhood obesity interventions: a Delphi panel study’. The aim of the study was to indentify indicators pertaining to childhood obesity that should be prioritsed in monitoring…

Saterday 7 November, Big O presented an event, called:  “Schools as sites for Food System Transformation”. The Open Classroom Conference 2020 “New challenges for school change”, organized this event. Which is aiming to highlight the concept of Open School Culture. Therefore, the goal of the session is to explore new approaches for overcoming the growing…

Children participating in the BigO project are collecting pictures of the meals they eat. Last week, we reached the milestone of 5000 registered users for the myBigO app. Together, these 5000 citizen scientists have submitted 100,000 meal pictures. When looking at all 5000 users, 72% took at least one meal picture. Only 35% of the users…