Dr Emmanuel Tsekleves is Senior Lecturer in Design Interactions at Imagination Lancaster. His main research interests are in designing and co-designing interactions, experiences, tools and games that inform and influence behaviour change, promote a better society and facilitate health and wellbeing.
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    Apple Watch: The answer to a healthier life?

    There has been a lot of hype in the media about wearable tech helping you to live longer, with the Apple Watch being characterised as a comprehensive health and fitness device and articles claiming that it will revolutionize personal fitness as well as the wider health care industry – but are these claims well-founded, or just hype?

  • The rise of wearable health tech could mean the end of the sickie

    Now that the sun is shining and the temperature is rising, it’s officially sickie season: go to work, or get struck down with “flu”, a “24-hour virus”, or that faithful stand-by, the dodgy prawn takeaway.