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Assistant Professor Ioannis Ioakeimidis (KI) and Professor Anastasios Delopoulos (AUTH) were invited to present in JRC’s Marketplace for Best practices in Ispra, Italy at May 14-15, 2019, focusing on behavioural analysis of eating and physical activity behaviours at schools. During the 2 day event, the two representatives had the possibility to present current advances in…

The results of one of the first pilot studies of the BigO project were presented as an oral presentation entitled “BigO: Big Data Against Childhood Obesity – A Clinical Pilot Study in Greece” at the 12th State of the Art Adolescent Medicine Course, Athens, Greece on the 6th of April, 2019. This pilot study was carried out…

The ASOI (Association for the Study of Obesity in Ireland) hosted its 7th Annual Conference and AGM on 17 and 18 May 2019 in Dublin.  Speakers came from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, including clinical, social science, media and patients. Many sessions were led by patient representatives. Topics included the role of genetics in determining…

BigO sponsored an educational event that took place on Wednesday the 8th of May, 2019 on the beautiful site of Agios Nikolaos, Imathia (Greece). In a green environment, students of the 1st EPAL Kalamarias (Greece) participating in the BigO program discussed healthy lifestyle issues, learned about the benefits of systematic exercise, participated in sports activities, danced, and…

The ‘myBigO‘ app was one of the two applications that were used for data collection for the European Big Data Hackathon. During the event, the hackathon teams were given raw data collected by the app, meal self-reports and pictures, as well as behavioural indicators extracted by the BigO system related to physical activity, transportation modes …

On March 7th and 8th, scientists from Karolinska Institute gave a series of invited lectures to around 90 students of Internationella Engelska Skolan in central Stockholm, regarding the social challenge of childhood obesity, presenting them with up-to-date scientific information on the matter. The presentation also covered potential use of novel methodologies, like the myBigO app,…

Prof. Gerardine Doyle, Dr Shane O’Donnell and Mr. James O’Connor proudly presented research undertaken as part of the BigO project at the 4th European Health Literacy conference which took place in University College Dublin last week. The conference featured two scientific posters outlining the latest findings from the BigO Delphi panel study, as well the…

On 18 February, 2019 KI and IEGS personnel visited the secondary school Internationella Engelska Skolan in Länna, in order to answer students’ and teachers’ questions about using the BigO system during projects organized through physical education. The visiting personnel met with around 90 enthusiastic students (13-14 years old) from three classes and their physical education…

The myBigO app has been released in the iOS App Store! The app is available for both iPhone and iPad running on iOS 10.0 or higher and can be found by simply searching for “myBigO”. Users must receive a registration code through their participating school or clinic. This registration code will be asked at first…