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Designing technology to promote physical activity in families with young children
The aim of this project is to engage with families with young children to design technologies that promote physical activity spread across the day. To promote healthy growth and development, children aged 1-5 years should be physically active for at least three hours each day. This may include running, jumping and playful activities. In this project we will explore how parents currently promote an active lifestyle, the technologies that they use, and the obstacles they may face to find the …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
- Faculty
- Science and Engineering Faculty
- Lead unit
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
SleepBeta: a mobile app to improve sleep habits amongst students
Sleep, together with healthy diet and exercise, is a key pillar for a healthy lifestyle. It is important to feeling well and to performing well at university.However, students often have unhealthy sleep habits due to stress caused by exams, leisure activities and work commitments.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Science and Engineering Faculty
- Lead unit
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Medical selfies and patient generated health data
Smartphones and wearable technologies provide exciting opportunities for patients and health professionals to transform healthcare. Patients can benefit from photos (“medical selfies”) taken on their smartphone to record a condition that they want to discuss with a health professional. Wearable devices allow patients to semi-automatically collect data about their physical activity, sleep, mood, diet, etc. This data can help patients to better understand a health concern, its underlying causes, and the impact of treatments. Clinicians, on the other hand, can …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
- Faculty
- Science and Engineering Faculty
- Lead unit
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Designing and evaluating immersive scientific visualisation software
Scientific research of the 21st century is highly collaborative. Science teams are getting large and distributed around the world. While this is necessary to solve wicked problems, it poses difficulties for teams due to spatial and temporal dimensions of the teamwork. This project will focus on the design and development of scientific collaboration tools for a principal astrobiology data analysis tool for Mars 2020, NASA's next Mars rover that will be used by a distributed science team. The software will …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
- Faculty
- Science and Engineering Faculty
- Lead unit
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Designing mobile technology to engage people with diabetic foot ulcers in self-care
Every day in Australia, 50,000 people are suffering with a diabetic foot ulcer (DFU), 1,000 are in hospital because of DFU, 12 will undergo an amputation and four people will die with DFU. People with a DFU typically require frequent and intensive weekly treatment at a multi-disciplinary diabetic foot clinic to effectively heal their DFU over a period of multiple months, to avoid infection, hospitalisation and amputation. A key challenge to healing DFUs is effectively engaging people in their independent …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Science and Engineering Faculty
- Lead unit
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MyFootCare - Designing mobile technology to engage people with diabetic foot ulcers in self-care
Every day in Australia, 50,000 people are suffering with a diabetic foot ulcer (DFU), 1,000 are in hospital because of a DFU, 12 will undergo an amputation and four people will die with a DFU.People with a DFU typically require frequent and intensive weekly treatment at a multi-disciplinary diabetic foot clinic to effectively heal their DFU over a period of multiple months to avoid infection, hospitalisation and amputation.A key challenge to healing DFUs is effectively engaging people in their independent …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Science and Engineering Faculty
- Lead unit
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Human-centred design of medical selfies and patient generated health data
Smartphones and wearable technologies provide exciting opportunities for patients and health professionals to transform healthcare.Patients can take photos on their smartphone (“medical selfies”) to record a condition that they want to discuss with a health professional. Wearable devices allow patients to semi-automatically collect data about such as their physical activity, mood and diet. This data can help patients to better understand a health concern, its underlying causes and the impact of treatments.Clinicians can also benefit from medical selfies and patient-generated …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Science and Engineering Faculty
- Lead unit
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science