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Chris Bull

Chris Bull

Lecturer

christopher.bull@newcastle.ac.uk

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I am an interdisciplinary researcher spanning Digital Health, Software Engineering, and HCI. I am interested in designing, creating, and studying novel Digital Health software systems. These systems are used for sensing, understanding, and actioning health data to radically transform how people live their lives.

My research often focuses on creating secure health informatics and cybernetics platforms (and ecosystem elements) as a digital health infrastructure. These include healthcare technologies (including assistive, diagnostic, self-management, and healthcare professional systems) for healthy ageing, mental health, and neurodegenerative conditions using digital sensing, IoT, and mobile devices. Within this work, I often explore the development of novel digital health biomarkers and bespoke systems for handling digital health data (e.g., sensing, secure transmission, and analysis), Natural Language Processing tools, mobile/web analytics (Software-as-a-Service), and mobile applications. I use co-design/creation and other participatory design methods as part of my Requirements Engineering and design processes to create solutions applicable to patients, service users, and health professionals. I am also interested in considering the ethical challenges of healthcare technologies. One example of relevant research is the IDEA-FAST project (Identifying digital endpoints for fatigue and sleep for people living with chronic conditions)—within this project I have adopted the role as a Work Package co-lead.

Other research interests include collaborative aspects and human-factors of software engineering, and pedagogical approaches (particularly Studio-Based Learning) and educational technologies (Ed-Tech) for teaching Software Engineering. Within this space I have collaborated on novel software architectures, designed and developed tool concepts (collaborative IDEs, predictive modelling of bad smells using software versioning), and also exploring future tool and process designs that better support collaborative and reflective software engineering.

Project Title

IDEA-FAST: Identifying digital endpoints for fatigue and sleep for people living with chronic conditions

Digital Health

2022

Assessment of non-directed computer-use behaviours in the home can indicate early cognitive impairment: A proof of principle longitudinal study

Stringer G Couth S Heuvelman H Bull C Gledson A Keane J Rayson P Sutcliffe A Sawyer P Zeng XJ Montaldi D Brown LJE Leroi I

2022 – Aging & Mental Health

Open website 10.1080/13607863.2022.2036946

2021

Data Contribution Summaries for Patient Engagement in Multi-Device Health Monitoring Research

Rainey J Verweij D Dodds C Graeber J Farhadi F Ali R Zhang V Bull CN Smeddinck JD

2021 – Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp-ISWC ’21 Adjunct)

Open website 10.1145/3460418.3479371

Requirements Engineering for Well-Being, Aging, and Health: An Overview for Practitioners

Meira L Liu L Amyot D Yu E Alshammari M Baslyman M Bjarnason E Bull C Duarte CHC Groen EC Jantunen S Kopczynska S Lessard L Richardson I Weber J Wei Z

2021 – IEEE Software

Open website 10.1109/MS.2021.3058492

2020

GP Benchmark: Engineering a Crowd-Sourcing Platform for Real-Time Understanding of Personality and Cognitive Biases in Clinical Error

Hutchinson W Helal S Bull C

2020 – IEEE First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Well-Being, Aging, and Health (REWBAH)

Open website 10.1109/REWBAH51211.2020.00012

What Happens in Peer-Support, Stays in Peer-Support: Software Architecture for Peer-Sourcing in Mental Health

Honary M Lee J Bull C Wang J Helal S

2020 – IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

Open website 10.1109/COMPSAC48688.2020.0-184

Known and unknown requirements in healthcare

Sutcliffe A Sawyer P Stringer G Couth S Brown LJE Gledson A Bull C Rayson P Keane J Zeng X Leroi I

2020 – Requirements Engineering

Open website 10.1007/s00766-018-0301-6

2019

From Smart Homes to Smart-Ready Homes and Communities

Helal S Bull C

2019 – Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Open website 10.1159/000497803

Examining Interdependencies and Constraints in Co-Creation

Knowles B Bull C Davies N Simm W Bates O Hayes N

2019 – DIS '19: Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Open website 10.1145/3322276.3322317

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