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The Human Behaviour Change Project, and its follow-up the APRICOT aim to improve evidence synthesis using ontologies and ontology tools.

London, England
Joined August 2016
Curious about what we have done so far? We have just organized all of the HBCP's publications within a gateway. Protip: If you hit the track button, you get a notification whenever a new publication is added to this gateway! More here: buff.ly/41HURDe
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The first APRICOT publication is officially online! Have a look at this editorial to learn more about our aims and plans! You can read it here: lnkd.in/epCkhemK
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Check out this recent publication on the newest addition to the BCIO: the Schedule Ontology, led by Marta Marques! Full paper here: wellcomeopenresearch.org/art…
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🚨 New version of paper! 🚨 "Using machine learning to extract info & predict outcomes from smoking cessation trials" now published! 🔗 Read here: lnkd.in/dxnVpx3S
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Big news! We're evolving: HBCP is now HBCP & APRICOT. Good news – we have a 5-year NIH grant to expand the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology and make it more useful and useable. Learn more about APRICOT: humanbehaviourchange.org Stay tuned for updates! 🍑
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4️⃣ @Lisa_Zhang_ contributed to the roundtable “When 1+1 =/= 2: Challenges in the specification and measurement of dyadic mechanisms”, focusing on how individual and interpersonal mechanisms are specified in BCIO
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3️⃣ @paulina_schenk contributed to the roundtable “Protecting pluralism or committing to consensus? Risks and opportunities of ontologies in behavioral sciences”. Find the slides here: osf.io/6myxw/
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2️⃣ @paulina_schenk and @Lisa_Zhang_ convened a workshop, “Putting a good idea into practice: Using the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology (BCIO)”, focusing on applying the BCIO for different purposes
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1️⃣@SusanMichie chaired a symposium on “Applying ontologies across the research ecosystem to advance health psychology” with presentations by @robertjwest on using AI across the research ecosystem & @SusanMichie on integrating behavioural theories. Slides: osf.io/vzanh
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👏Thank you to all the attendees who joined us for various sessions at @EHPS2024 in Cascais, Portugal – we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! #EHPS2024 💡Here’s a thread of what our team was involved in:
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✅Who can use the toolkit? Public health decision-makers considering the use of an AI system could use this as part of a public consultation. Those working in evidence-based public health, trust in AI, or developing digital apps to improve health services may also be interested
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💡What is in the toolkit? The toolkit consists of a 5-step set of resources that can facilitate people critically questioning the nature of an AI system.
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🔔NEW RESOURCE ALERT!🔔 📣Introducing the AI in Public Health Decision Toolkit📣 👥What was the project about? We carried out a public engagement project to co-produce a toolkit of resources to help those who need it to make decisions around AI systems and public health
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🗣️We are excited to announce that we are developing an ontology of Mental Health! ✏️The next step is a stakeholder consultation of the ontology. If interested in joining us as a reviewer, please fill out this form: uclpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jf… @GALENOS_Global @paulina_schenk
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🔔New paper alert🔔 📖Creating a body of physical activity evidence to test the generalisation of annotation methods for automated evidence synthesis by @oscarcastroPALs @EJ_Norris @dralisonjwright @EllaHowes1 @CandiceAMoore @robertjwest @SusanMichie 🔗wellcomeopenresearch.org/art…
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