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Get A Move On
Leveraging technology to enable mobility and transform health.
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- Digital technology to support exercise snacking for older adults
- EMA to understand physical activity of cancer patients
- Behaviour change theory-driven design
- Steps towards mental health
- Get moving to manage stress
- Artificial Intelligence Conversational Intervention for Encouraging Physical Activity in Older Adults
- Online Physical Activity Assessment and Feedback Tool for Older Adults
- Improving health using reward nudges through a gamification system
- A mobile application co-designed by football fans to promote physical activity and active travel specifically among middle-aged men
- Assessing and improving the mobility of wheelchair users
- Exploring the effect of an intervention on families using an intelligent personal system to deliver behaviour change techniques, compared to non-technology based delivery
- Investigating the effectiveness of providing phone messages to older adults in urban Bangladesh to encourage them to engage in physical activity
- Rise and recharge! An app to individualise the suggestion of when to stand up
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Events
- GetAMoveOn Policy Dialogue
- HCI, Health and the Body
- Combatting Physical Inactivity at Work - July 2nd 2019
- Behaviour change interventions: the Person-Based Approach - July 1st 2019
- Fast Track Your Impact - June 12th 2019
- CHI 2019: BAaST Workshop on Inbodied Interaction
- Sept 2018 - What does health look like? Exploring visual feedback from wearables
- Sept 2018: What does health feel like? Exploring sensory feedback from wearables
- Sept 2018 - Exploring affective and sensory dimensions of data
- Sept 2018 - Secrets of Successful Grant Applications
- August 2018: How does health feel? Stretch Orchestra
- July 2018: Mindfulness on-the-go with Rohan Gunatillake
- July 2018: Active minds: physical activity, mental health & digital technology
- July 2018: Innovation workshop - wearables in primary care
- Feb 2018: Workshop on Behaviour Change to Address Sedentarism
- June 2017: Older Adults & Physical Activity Workshop
- May 2017: 1st GetAMoveOn Symposium
- May 2017: Inbodied Interaction Course CHI2017
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- Symposium 2017 - workshop report
- Behaviour Change to Address Sedentarism
- GetAMoveOn Years 1 & 2
- Feasibility study reports & journal papers
- Guidance for providers, practitioners & commissioners
- Policy and practice
- ACM Interactions: Special Topic - InBodied Interaction
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Blog
- Do fitness trackers make you fitter?
- A brief history (and look into the future) of fitness technology
- How to fast track your impacts
- Fitness trackers and personalised training programmes - the way to get healthier at work
- Visibility Workshop
- How we discovered the dark side of wearable fitness trackers
- When it comes to Fitbit's 10,000 steps, one size doesn't fit all
- How fitness trackers help motivate us to keep in shape
- Laser tag, trampolining and water parks — what teenagers told us would make them more active
- Mindfulness On the Go
- Technology, mental health and physical activity
- What's in store for wearables?
- Tackling sedentarism - the new smoking
- Is your fitness tracker taking over your life?
- The daily mile - making it fun
- Exercise your way to a better relationship
- How to use habit science to stick to your New Year resolutions
- Has Singapore cracked the secret to helping people move more?
- Deep Dive Series - Intro
- Deep Dive #1
- Deep Dive #2
- Deep Dive #3
- Deep Dive #4
- Deep Dive #5
- Lessons from the DAPPA project
- Sitting at work - the cost to business & what to do about it
- Social distancing and exercise: are active video games the solution?
- Running collaborative research workshops online: how hard can it be?
- Rise and Recharge: Can your mobile phone make you less sedentary?
- The GetAMoveOn Fellows programme - One Year On
- WFH: policy recommendations for managing the impact on wellbeing
- Living online: long-term impact on wellbeing
- Do we really need to walk 10000 steps a day?
- GAMO Network+ Fellowship: Reflections on a multidisciplinary collaboration to create a device that supports exercises at home
- The digital behaviour change challenge
- Activity Trackers. Can they help people living with and beyond cancer build habits? Let’s find out.
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News
- Call for Papers for CHI2019 workshop
- Announcing six new events for summer 2018
- NEW workshop report: Behaviour Change Interventions to Address Sedentarism in Different Communities
- NEW publication - Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Interventions in Older Adults using Digital Technologies with Special Emphasis on Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs)
- NEW: Call for Proposals - Events & Activities Feb 2018
- NEW: Feasibility Funding Call Jan 2018
- Call for proposals - summer & winter schools
- New thinkpiece published
- BOOK NOW new workshop: Behaviour Change to Address Sedentarism
- Latest thinkpieces published online
- NEW publication - designing for agency and compassion
- NOW OPEN - Call for proposals - small events and activities
- NEW publication: exergames review 11/8/17
- Missed out on our workshop on activity tech for older adults?
- See the highlighs from our Symposium 2017
- Workshop announced for June 2017
- Hold the date! 1st Annual Symposium 24th/25th May 2017
- Call for Papers : 10 awards of up to £5000 each
- Ann Blandford awarded for achievements in Computing
- How 3D Printing May Help Cut Childhood Obesity By Getting Children Active
- Many children aren’t physically ready to start school
- Working at a desk is deadly
- Why academics need to get moving
- Public event: Mindfulness on-the-go with Rohan Gunatillake
- Public event: How does health feel? Exploring sensory feedback from wearables
- Public event: What does health look like? Exploring visual feedback from wearables
- NEW workshop: What does health feel like? Stretch Orchestra
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What is the GetAMoveOn Network+ ? The GetAMoveOn Network+ is an interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners, funded by an EPSRC grant running from June 2016 to the end of May 2021. Aim Our aim is to transform health by enabling people to lead more active lives with the help of …Funding
GetAMoveOn: leveraging technology to enable mobiliy and transform health
Grant Reference: EP/N027299/1
An EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Grand Challenges Networks Plus
