Research themes
Our research themes at the eHealth Research Group centre around information technology in general practice, online communities and wellness, mobile technologies, games for wellness, applications of artificial intelligence to the detection of cancer related genes, digital and physical security in health and technological support for the blind.
Remote home-based healthcare
- Remote diagnostic devices
- Mobile applications to support remote health workers
- Remote data collection
- Communication between health workers and their clients
Effectiveness of online support in building communities
- Establishment of a viable online community
- Refinement of techniques for building community engagement
- Development of protocols for safe and ethical involvement
- Strategies for recognising and encouraging active participants
- Evidence of positive behavioural change
- Evidence of positive emotional investment and response
- Evidence of a philanthropic response to the Heart Foundation
- Importance of moderation role established
Identity acceptance in heart patients
- Community established as a valued online research laboratory
- Refinement of parameters of the online gift economy
- Issues around authenticity and self-protective non-disclosure
- Interrogation of the complexity of the moderator’s role
- Investigation of ‘lurking’ and ‘threshold’ behaviour
- Importance of positive support when developing a heart patient identity
- Highlights reluctance of single men to engage with online community
- Evidence of continuing uncertainty about symptoms of heart events
Games for exercise and wellness
- Effectiveness of exergames
- Flow in exergames
- Modeling physiological response to exercise
Support for the blind
- Development of GUIs for use by the partially sighted
- Development of fonts for the deafblind who have some remaining vision