Research
Publications
My research on digital health and behaviour change. Click a paper for the summary and a download.
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Built for Sprints, Needed for Marathons
Surveying 22 scientists and 108 users to prioritise 18 design principles for digital habit formation, exposing where scientific evidence, what users want, and what apps actually implement pull…
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Factors Influencing Personal Health Information Sharing
A PRISMA systematic review of 16 studies identifying 11 factors that shape whether people share personal health data, from trust and privacy to incentives and control, synthesised into…
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The App, the Habit, and the Change
An analysis of 585 behaviour recommendations across 36 habit apps, grouped into 20 meta-behaviours, showing how apps span multiple lifestyle domains, and why functional breadth alone doesn’t make…
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From Instant Cues to Fading Views
A pilot study testing two nudging strategies in a habit app, just-in-time prompts and gradually fading cues, to see how timing and weaning affect whether new habits actually…
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Tailoring Health: Contextual Variables in Health Recommender Systems
A systematic review identifying 24 contextual variables used by health recommender systems, organised into a four-part framework (objective/subjective × static/dynamic) to guide more balanced, personalised recommendations.
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Navigating the Digitalization Journey: Maturity of German Public Health Agencies
A first nationwide maturity assessment of German public health agencies, applying a maturity model to reveal how far along their digitalization journey they are, and what it takes…
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Building Habits in the Digital Age
Combining self-determination theory with hands-on practitioner knowledge to derive design guidance for habit-forming digital therapeutics that respect users’ psychological needs.
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Are Embodied Conversational Agents Effective for PROMs?
Exploring whether on-screen embodied conversational agents (avatars) can make collecting patient-reported outcomes more engaging, proposed as a novel approach in multiple sclerosis care.