• Defining and Scoping Participatory Health Informatics - An eDelphi Study 

      Denecke, Kerstin; Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Petersen, Carolyn; Benham-Hutchins, Marge; Cabrer, Miguel; Davies, Shauna; Grainger, Rebecca; Hussein, Rada; Lopez Campos, Guillermo; Martin-Sanchez, Fernando J.; McKillop, Molle; Merolli, Mark; Miron-Shatz, Talya; Trigo, Jesús Daniel; Wright, Graham; Wynn, Rolf; Hullin, Carola; Gabarron, Elia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-14)
      Background - Health care has evolved to support the involvement of individuals in decision making by, for example, using mobile apps and wearables that may help empower people to actively participate in their treatment and health monitoring. While the term “participatory health informatics” (PHI) has emerged in literature to describe these activities, along with the use of social media for health ...
    • Ethical Issues of Social Media Usage in Healthcare 

      Denecke, Kerstin; Bamidis, Panagiotis D.; Bond, Carol; Gabarron, Elia; Househ, M; Lau, A. Y. S.; Mayer, Miguel A.; Merolli, Mark; Hansen, Margareth (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-08-13)
      OBJECTIVE: Social media, web and mobile technologies are increasingly used in healthcare and directly support patientcentered care. Patients benefit from disease self-management tools, contact to others, and closer monitoring. Researchers study drug efficiency, or recruit patients for clinical studies via these technologies. However, low communication barriers in socialmedia, limited privacy and ...
    • Usability Testing of a Social Media Chatbot for Increasing Physical Activity Behavior 

      Larbi, Dillys; Denecke, Kerstin; Gabarron, Elia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-20)
      Digital interventions for increasing physical activity behavior have shown great potential, especially those with social media. Chatbots, also known as conversational agents, have emerged in healthcare in relation to digital interventions and have proven effective in promoting physical activity among adults. The study’s objective is to explore users’ experiences with a social media chatbot. The ...
    • What do adults living with obesity want from a chatbot for physical activity? – a qualitative study 

      Larbi, Dillys; Wynn, Rolf; Trondsen, Marianne Vibeke; Årsand, Eirik; Zanaboni, Paolo; Denecke, Kerstin; Gabarron, Elia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-21)
      Background - Regular physical activity helps to reduce weight and improve the general well-being of individuals living with obesity. Chatbots have shown the potential to increase physical activity among their users. We aimed to explore the preferences of individuals living with obesity for the features and functionalities of a modern chatbot based on social media, Artificial intelligence (AI) and ...
    • What Do We Know About the Use of Chatbots for Public Health? 

      Gabarron, Elia; Larbi, Dillys; Denecke, Kerstin; Årsand, Eirik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      <i>Background and objective</i>: The number of publications on the use of chatbots for health is recently increasing, however to our knowledge, there are no publications summarizing what is known about using chatbots for public health yet. The objective of this work is to provide an overview of the existing scientific literature on the use of chatbots for public health, for which purpose have chatbots ...