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Final version review paper published

25 October 2022

Our last news item already described our newest paper: Toward Systems Models for Obesity Prevention: A Big Role for Big Data. 
The final version of the review paper is now published in Current Developments in Nutrition.

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New scientific publication

22 November 2019

A new scientific paper about BigO has been published on november 4 2019. This paper which is titled “A methodology for obtaining objective measurements of population obesogenic behaviors in relation to the environment” is published in the Statistical Journal of the IAOS. In the paper, an overview of the BigO methodology for collecting evidence on…

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BigO presented at the European Childhood Obesity Group Annual Congress (ECOG) 2019

19 November 2019

BigO had a strong presence at the ECOG 2019 conference on November 13-16 at Katowice Poland. The conference brought together professionals from all around Europe dealing with childhood obesity and overweight. In collaboration with the ECOG’s board, BigO organized a plenary session to inform the audience around “Smart technologies and BigO data to help policy…

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BigO presented at ICOST 2019

15 November 2019

Last October, the International Conference On Smart Living and Public Health (ICOST 2019) took place in New York City, USA. This conference was fundamentally oriented to Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Public Health and Urban Living. On October 15, BigO was represented by Sergio Guillen, Deputy Project Coordinator of ACTIVAGE and Chief Innovation Officer of…

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Data of clinical feasibility study presented at FENS

30 October 2019

The clinical team from Childrens’s Health Ireland (Temple Street, Dublin) attended the FENS meeting in Dublin. FENS is the European Nutrition Conference, one of the biggest conferences on Nutrition in Europe. The team presented data from their mHealth and BigO feasibility study.

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300 students from EPAL Kalamarias will contribute to BigO project

25 October 2019

October 24th was World Anti-Obesity Day. To mark that day, teachers of 1st EPAL Kalamarias (Department of Agriculture, Food & Environment) lectured about obesity. They presented facts about obesity, for example, that it is related to several mental and physical health conditions. In addition, students were informed about the BigO project. Teachers instructed the students…

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ePoster presentation

BigO clinical pilot study presented at ESPE 2019

14 October 2019

Last week, 19-21st September, the 58th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) took place in Austria. Athanasia Tragomalou (Resident in Pediatrics) was the representative of BigO and  presented an ePoster on a clinical pilot study of BigO: “BigO: The use of novel technologies for the management of childhood obesity – A…

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Dutch students developed a lesson program regarding the myBigO app

26 June 2019

Hello, we are five students (Dries, Naomi, Lisanne, Marije en Tessa) from Het Streek Bovenbuurtweg (Ede, The Netherlands). We are in our fourth year of pre-university education. For our O&O class we were given the assignment to put together a lesson program consisting of two lessons, based on the BigO-app. We had to give those…

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Researchers from BigO team up with researchers from KI for ISBNPA

21 June 2019

On June 6th, 2019 researchers from the BigO project were present during the annual meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) in Prague. During this conference, the BigO researchers presented the project during the symposium entitled: ‘Use of Behavioural Big Data and Citizen Science to enrich scientific data on (un)healthy…

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BigO team members reunited in Thessaloniki, Greece

5 June 2019

On 22-24 May, 2019, the BigO consortium partners gathered in Thessaloniki. The meeting was focused on the evaluation of data collection at the schools (EA, EKP, IEGS) and the clinics (BRFAA, Mando, TSCUH) while using the myBigO app and portals. In addition, plans were made to increase participant involvement and boost data collection in the coming…

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