• Assessing the Potential Risks of Digital Therapeutics (DTX): The DTX Risk Assessment Canvas 

      Denecke, Kerstin; May, Richard; Gabarron, Elia; Lopez-Campos, Guillermo H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
    • 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 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      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 ...
    • Designing personalised mHealth solutions: An overview 

      Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Gabarron, Elia; Ropero, Jorge; Denecke, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Introduction: Mobile health, or mHealth, is based on mobile information and communication technologies and provides solutions for empowering individuals to participate in healthcare. Personalisation techniques have been ...
    • Exploring the Evolution of Social Media in Mental Health Interventions: A Mapping Review 

      Gabarron, Elia; Reichenpfader, Daniel; Denecke, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background: With the rise of social media, social media use for delivering mental health interventions has become increasingly popular. However, there is no comprehensive overview available on how this field developed over ...
    • How Participatory Health Informatics Catalyzes One Digital Health 

      Denecke, Kerstin; Romero, Octavio Rivera; Merolli, Mark; Miron-Shatz, Talya; Petersen, Carolyn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Objective: To identify links between Participatory Health Informatics (PHI) and the One Digital Health framework (ODH) and to show how PHI could be used as a catalyst or contributor to ODH. Methods: We have analyzed the ...
    • Personalized Digital Solutions for Mental Health 

      Ropero, Jorge; Denecke, Kerstin; Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Gabarron, Elia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Introduction: Mental health is one of the major global concerns in the field of healthcare. The emergence of digital solutions is proving to be a great aid for individuals suffering from mental health disorders. These ...
    • Social media chatbot for increasing physical activity: usability study 

      Larbi, Dillys; Gabarron, Elia; Denecke, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Fully automated self-help interventions integrated with social media chatbots could serve as highly cost-effective physical activity promotion tools for a large population. We have developed MYA, a Telegram-based chatbot ...
    • Social media, digital health literacy, and digital ethics in the light of health equity 

      Rivera-Romero, Octavio; Gabarron, Elia; Miron-Shatz, Talya; Petersen, Carolyn; Denecke, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Objective: Social media is used in the context of healthcare, for example in interventions for promoting health. Since social media are easily accessible they have potential to promote health equity. This paper studies ...
    • Usability Testing of a Social Media Chatbot for Increasing Physical Activity Behavior 

      Larbi, Dillys; Denecke, Kerstin; Gabarron, Elia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      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 ...
    • 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 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      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 ...
    • What Do Autistic People Discuss on Twitter? An Approach Using BERTopic Modelling 

      Gabarron, Elia; Dorronzoro, Enrique; Reichenpfader, Daniel; Denecke, Kerstin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Social media provide easy ways to autistic individuals to communicate and to make their voices heard. The objective of this paper is to identify the main themes that are being discussed by autistic people on Twitter. We ...