IPAN’s digital technologies theme leverages technology to improve physical activity, nutrition and health across the entire lifespan, among people with and without specific health conditions.
Digital technologies improve the reach and sustainability of health behaviour interventions. For example, using digital platforms mitigates many barriers individuals face when attempting to access analogue physical activity and nutrition programs.
IPAN has experience using many digital technologies including hardware (e.g., wearable sensors, computers, conversational agents, smartphones and other mobile devices) and software (e.g., smartphone apps, web apps and websites, SMS, machine learning models and algorithms, image and pattern recognition) to address a broad range of health behaviour research challenges.
IPAN works closely with technical experts at Deakin, such as A2I2, IISRI, School of IT and beyond to deliver world-class digital health research and improve health and well-being.
Work within this cross-domain theme includes:
- Digital methods for collecting and processing information about physical activity and nutrition behaviours as well as other heath parameters;
- Developing digital technology-enabled health interventions that help people to be less sedentary, more active, and eat more healthily;
- Optimising digital health intervention engagement with human-centred design methods and tailored intervention content and delivery; and
- Robust evaluation of digital health intervention usability, acceptability, engagement, and efficacy.