SLOWBot healthy ageing chatbot
In 2018, we partnered with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Italy to build SLOWBot, a chatbot designed to deliver personalised dietary and lifestyle coaching for healthy ageing.
The project tested whether conversational AI could semi-automate lifestyle coaching using personal health data. We used existing technology to simulate the chatbot's features and assessed its effectiveness in promoting adherence to healthy ageing programs for people over 45.
The research was published in the ACM Digital Library: 'SLOWBot Chatbot: Lifestyle Assistant'.
Women's health decision-making: values and personality traits
A research collaboration with Dr Laura Le Duc at James Madison University (Virginia, USA) investigating how personality traits and personal values influence health decision-making in women.
The study used validated psychometric instruments to examine what shapes health choices beyond clinical information alone. The research has implications for how patient education programs are designed and personalised.
Disease-fighting eating plan
An ontology-based personalised nutrition platform that matches dietary recommendations to individual health profiles and disease risk factors.
The platform draws on published evidence linking specific foods and dietary patterns to chronic disease prevention and management. It forms the basis of the SLOWageing eating program.
Live Long, Live Strong
A musculoskeletal and chronic disease risk assessment tool designed for women. The program assesses body composition, metabolic markers and lifestyle factors to generate a personalised risk profile and action plan.
SLOWageing research and education platform
A consumer-facing platform for evidence-based healthy ageing education, covering longevity science, body composition, nutrition, skin health, hormonal health and lifestyle medicine. Audience includes health consumers (primarily women 40+), GPs, allied health professionals and public health stakeholders.
SLOWageing connects to the Fast Living, Slow Ageing book series and provides the research and education base for iaso health's patient education work.