As part of the PRECIOUS project Campden BRI are conducting a study to investigate the usability of mobile health tools to monitor food intake and physical activity for different user groups.
Project timescale: From 01 August, 2015 to 30 January, 2016
Source of funding: European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 611366.
Aims: The objective of this intervention study is to investigate the usability of two freely available mobile health tools currently on the market, and one mobile health tools currently being developed through a EC-FP7 project. The study will look at the factors that affect the usability of each mobile health tool for different user groups.
Research project description: This intervention study is being conducted as part of the wider project ‘PREventive Care Infrastructure based on Ubiquitous Sensing’ (PRECIOUS), which has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 611366. Overall, PRECIOUS aims to provide a preventive care system to promote healthy lifestyles, and as part of this PRECIOUS aims to develop a new monitoring tool, and use motivational techniques for educating the user about healthy eating practices. The objective of this intervention study is to investigate the usability of two freely available mobile health tools currently on the market, and one mobile health tools currently being developed through a EC-FP7 project. The study will look at the factors that affect the usability of each mobile health tool for different user groups (Age 18 to 35 years, with no children living at home, Age 18 to 65 years, with at least one child under 18 years living at home, Age 36 to 60 years, with no children living at home, and Age 61 to 75 years, with no children living at home) in order to improve the design of the EU PRECIOUS mobile health tool. In total three hundred respondents will be recruited (100 per mobile health tool) to complete a 7 day user trial of one of the three mobile health tools. They will then be asked to complete an on-line survey about the usability of the mobile health tool. The outcomes from the study will be used to improve the mobile health tool currently being developed by PRECIOUS.
Results of the study will be reported on the PRECIOUS website; http://www.thepreciousproject.eu/
For further information on the study, please contact:
Miss Charlotte Holmes
Chief Investigator
Campden BRI
GL55 6LD
charlotte.holmes[AT]campdenbri.co.uk
01386 842257