About the event

In June 2019, CLS hosted its first-ever showcase of new technology for data collection. The day comprised presentations and tech demonstrations, and facilitated collaboration between technologists and scientists, from both academic and commercial sectors. The aims of the event were to:

1. Explore new technologies that could be used to collect data on individuals and their environments in future data collections of large-scale surveys. For commercial companies, this represents an opportunity to have their technology used at scale in future, in some of the most prestigious scientific studies run in the UK.
2. Develop collaborative links between academics working on large-scale studies, academics developing innovative approaches to measurement, and those working in/with new technology, including commercial companies.

Delegate materials

• Programme (PDF)
• Descriptions of plenary presentations (PDF)
• Descriptions of exhibitors (PDF)

Speaker presentations

Welcome and introduction

• Introduction to CLS and outline of the day, Dr David Bann, UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (PDF)

Session 1: Health and medical

• High definition system for remote monitoring and control of vital signs, Dr Denislav Boichev, CheckPoint Cardio (PDF)
• Dr Mert Aral, Medopad Health
• Dmitry Alexeev, Atlas Biomed Group

Session 2: Behaviours and social media data

• Objective gait assessments ‘in a box’, Dr Patrick Esser, Oxford Brookes University (PDF)
• Application of wrist-worn raw accelerometry in large-scale population-based studies, Dr Kirsten Rennie, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge (PDF)
• Mark Holloway and Giles Quick, Kantar
• Linking survey and social media data, Curtis Jessop, National Centre for Social Research (PDF)

Session 3: The wider environment and advances in survey data collection

• Contextual thermagraphy: Understanding energy and comfort in society, Dr Pilar Garcia Souto, UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (PDF)
• Leveraging tech to access in-the-moment and drive validity in insights, Dr Pippa Bailey, Ipsos MORI (PDF)
• Voice assistants: Leveraging the power of voice, Steven Ginnis, Ipsos MORI (PDF)
• Conversational AI: Tell me something I don’t know, David Wright and Stephanie Pineda, Kantar (PDF)

Exhibitors

• AgenT: A blood diagnosis of Alzheimer’s
• Cambridge Cognition Ltd: CANTAB Connect Research
• CheckPoint Cardio: The internet of care
• Healthbit: Healthbit iQ, a digital health monitoring platform
• Kymira: Real-time ECG monitoring garment
• Makerble: Trackerble, a FitBit-style app for anything
• Owlstone Medical: ReCIVA® Breath Sampler
• Qardio Europe Ltd: QardioArm, QardioBase 2 and QardioCore
• Therapy Box: Inclusive and accessible apps to help support people with communication difficulties
• Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit: StopWatch for smoking detection and DataWatch, wearable EMA

Scientific organising panel and funding

The is a collaborative event organised by the below scientific organising panel:

• Dr David Bann (lead), Prof Alissa Goodman, Dr Emily Gilbert, Dr Lisa Calderwood, Mr Matt Brown; from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies
• Prof Nish Chaturvedi, Prof Alun Hughes, Dr Andrew Wong; from the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL
• Prof Ann Blandford, Dr Rebecca Shipley, Dr Mirco Musolesi; from the Institute of Digital Health / Institute of Healthcare Engineering, UCL
• Prof Alison Fuller; from the Collaborative Social Science Domain, UCL
• Prof Annette Jackle; from University of Essex / Understanding Society

We thank the following for their funding to enable this event to take place: UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering Workshop Award, UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain.