News and Updates

11th June 2020

Update on Research Paper and Conference Proposals Research Paper Profile on Research Gate

Type	Submitted to (conference)	Published in (journal)	Date of conference/Publication		1st Author	Title
Conference Poster	ECFS 2020	Journal of CF	Jun-20	Accepted	ROC	Use of the Polar™H10 Heart Rate Sensor during the Modified Shuttle Walk Test in children with cystic fibrosis: can we demonstrate maximal response?
Conference Poster	ERS 2020	ERJ	Sep-20	Accepted	HD	Identifying heart rate threshold for moderate to vigorous physical activity in children and young people wearing activity monitors

19th Oct 2019

Update on Conference Papers and Poster Proposals Research Paper Profile on Research Gate

Type	Submitted to (conference)	Published in (journal)	Date of conference/Publication		1st Author	Title
Conference Poster	NACFC 2019	Pediatric Pulmonology	Oct-19	Accepted	HD	613: Establishing valid wear-time of activity trackers for the assessment of daily physical activity in children and young people with CF
Conference Poster	NACFC 2019	Pediatric Pulmonology	Oct-19	Accepted	ER	612: Can brass or wind instruments facilitate airway clearance in people with CF?
Conference Poster	NACFC 2019	Pediatric Pulmonology	Oct-19	Accepted	NF	212: A multivariable composite outcome to define disease severity in children with cystic fibrosis

11th Jan 2020

We have now a Project Fizzyo Research Project Profile on Research Gate

The Goal of Project Fizzyo: Remote monitoring and gaming technology for improving physiotherapy prescriptions, adherence of clinical outcomes in children with cystic fibrosis.

5th Oct 2019

Yesterday the @TrudellMed team came from Canada to present us with our beautiful (and very heavy) #ACTNow award 🏆, recognising our work to improve airway clearance for children and young people with CF.

2nd Oct 2019

Excited that our paper was accepted to @NeurIPSConf @WiMLworkshop: “Identification of Patterns in Cystic Fibrosis Physiotherapy with Unsupervised Learning”! The data science aspect of @FizzyoCF is just one piece of a huge project, thank you to all involved! #MicrosoftCSElife

1st Oct 2019

Thanks to #Microsoft for inviting me to talk at #FutureDecoded about my passion for @FizzyoCF and gamifiying healthcare

29th Sept 2019

Congratulations Kunal Kapoor @uclphysio @FizzyoCF for excellent delivery of your first ever conference presentation!! Take home: Use Mean of lowest 5 HR minutes to calculate Resting Heart Rate for MVPA threshold. read more about the project here

Kunal Kapoor and Eleanor Main presented physical activity monitoring data from @FizzyoCF @uclphysio this morning @EuroRespSoc #ers2019. We believe there’s a balance to be achieved between purist research instruments and what children will wear! read more about the project here

27th Sept 2019

@KonolomerateG amazing work are so happy to announce that we have been selected as finalists in the Converge Impact Challenge! We can’t wait to show the judges how we can help 😁

19th Sept 2019

Update on Research Papers

Type	Submitted to (conference)	Published in (journal)	Date of conference/Publication		1st Author	Title
Conference Poster	ERS 2019	ERJ	Sep-19	Accepted	HD	Assessment of activity tracker wear-time in longitudinal measurement of physical activity in children and young people with CF
Conference Poster	ERS 2019	ERJ	Sep-19	Accepted	KK	Determining resting heart rate in children using wearable activity monitors

10th Sept 2019

Today it is exactly 1 year since we recruited our first Fizzyo participant. What a year!

9th Sept 2019

Well done for your hard work, to the @uclphysio MSc. students who presented their dissertation projects today (especially to our 3 Fizzyo MSc. students!) and good luck to those who are still waiting to present tomorrow!

15th July 2019

@KonolomerateG amazing work we are thrilled to announce that Archipelayo has won the gold medal at the Serious Play Awards 2019!! Thanks to all the judges and everyone who has supported us or played the game. We are so excited for the future 🎉🎉 #SeriousPlay #cysticfibrosis #physiotherapy

9th July 2019

Hackfest AI and ML, we are so lucky all these data science geniuses have come to work with us from all over the world, to help us get the most out of the Fizzyo data

8th July 2019

Our games programming team @KonolomerateG @jamie_b818 from Abertay University is heading out to the Serious Play Conference in Montreal! He’ll be showing off how gamification can be used for physiotherapy for cystic fibrosis 💪 #seriousplay19 #cysticfibrosis #gamification @SeriousPlayConf

2nd July 2019

We are now fully recruited at all sites! ✅ @GreatOrmondSt
✅ @RBandH ✅ @RoyalLondonHosp Thanks to everyone who is onboard for the next (up to) 16months of data

20th June 2019

Update on Research papers

Type	Submitted to (conference)	Published in (journal)	Date of conference/Publication		1st Author	Title
Conference ePoster	ECFS 2019	Journal of CF	Jun-19	Accepted	ER	The complexity of defining adherence to airway clearance treatments in clinical trials
Conference Presentation	ECFS 2019	Journal of CF	Jun-19	Accepted	GD	Multi-professional expertise and high performance informatics infrastructure supports innovative health technology research and clinical care in CF: Project Fizzyo
Conference Poster	ECFS 2019	Journal of CF	Jun-19	Accepted	ER	Technical support requirements for remote monitoring of physiotherapy in children with cystic fibrosis​
Conference ePoster	ECFS 2019	Journal of CF	Jun-19	Accepted	HD	Quantifying moderate to vigorous physical activityusing heart ratein children and young people with CF

19th June 2019

We can measure every single breath, of every single treatment, of every single day, while playing a game. It’s a miracle that data is pouring in, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Eleanor Main: Professor of Physiotherapy, University College London

Project Fizzyo is changing the way that physiotherapy is done for children with Cystic Fibrosis. Eleanor Main, Professor of Physiotherapy at University College London says, “We can measure every single breath, of every single treatment, of every single day, while playing a game. It’s a miracle that data is pouring in, the likes of which we’ve never seen before.”

Data is analysed in Microsoft Azure, where data scientists apply machine learning and artificial intelligence to create highly focused advice for individual patients. Cian’s father is delighted with the project, concluding, “It’s really about motivation, making Cian see all the good things outside CF, and I think it makes life a little easier.” read more about the project and Cian here

14th June 2019

Back in 2017, Simon Jackson joined the Fizzyo project working in specifically on the Gaming Framework

The aim of the project was to simply ask the following question:

What physiotherapy treatments do children and young people with cystic fibrosis actually use, and is the frequency of doing them related to health outcomes?

It might sound odd, but it’s not actually known if the prescribed treatment is wholly beneficial, or if regular exercise and medication is a better path. It should be, based on current evidence, but it’s not been scientifically proven.

The Fizzyo Project’s goals

Cystic Fibrosis causes a build-up of thick sticky mucus in the lungs, digestive system and other organs, causing a wide range of challenging symptoms affecting the entire body.

The Fizzyo project was created to focus on the breathing exercise treatment a patient undergoes to clear the mucus from their lungs, where they blow long and hard into an airway clearance device in repeated sessions for upwards of 20 to 30 minutes at a time, several times a day. As you can imagine, for any individual this would be very boring. For a child, however, this would seem like an eternity.

For research, the project wants to capture data and feedback to validate the effectiveness of the treatment, finally proving or disproving the effects. Or, better yet, identify ways to improve the exercises and tailor them to each patient for the best effectiveness.

As a secondary effect, we wanted to make these time consuming and sometimes painful exercises more fun, encouraging kids to do them through gaming.

The Fizzyo Framework

From breath to game to analytics Sensor Inputs

The framework takes input from a custom input module attached to an airway clearance device that vibrates the air as a patient blows through it (attempting to loosen any mucus in their lungs). This module has two inputs:

A pressure sensor to capture how strong/long the patient is blowing A single button to drive interaction Paired with the sensor is a FitBit, to also track the patient’s pulse and other health data but this isn’t available to the games at this time. If you want to see the full details of the Fizzyo project, including the framework, future plans and details of the games themselves, you can do so by checking out the full post on Medium.

8th June 2019

The FizzyoCF team are Back home after a great 42nd Cystic Fibrosis Conference #ECFS2019 It was great to catch up with so many people, I’m exhausted but inspired!

Here are a few @FizzyoCF 📸highlights

30th May 2019

Today we are part of line up of speakers for the respiratory led @UCL_RCCA symposium including our own @MainEleanor and @DrSamRay come along and stay for chat after @UCLchildhealth

11th May 2019

FizzyoCF team speaking today Developing a system to monitor adherence to airway clearance, and adding games to airway clearance (because ‘airway clearance is massively boring’) @FizzyoCF @MainEleanor @ICCRPT #GlobalPT #WCPT2019

29th March 2019

Today we were shooting a short film about the study, with thanks to our brilliant participants who were happy to be filmed, @MicrosoftUK, @RichInteractuk, Nicky at @RBandH, @Fizzy_Emma and @MainEleanor

14th March 2019

Exciting time the University of Abertay Game Development students are play testing their FizzyoCF games today with children.

1st March 2019

New Month, New Hub! We are really pleased to have released a new version of the #FizzyoHub last night, thanks to @gregsaul especially for working non-stop day and night to make these improvements.

1st Jan 2019

Happy New Year! The FizzyoCF team started off the year with a trip to east London for our first recruitment @RoyalLondonHosp with @RachelPhysio

4th of Dec 2018

Last week of term for the University of Abertay students they just presented their game pitch to the rest of the students in our classes. The other students were very interested with the Fizzyo device, with people asking us about it afterwards and watching us test the game #Fizzyo #gamedev #abertay #CysticFibrosis

30th Nov 2018

The trial is now in full swing at GOSH with over 30 patients recurited and the team have been at the Royal Brompton today onboarding new patients into the Fizzyo Trial. Exciting Time.

28th Nov 2018

First look at Abertay University team, @KonglomerateG as they start on FizzyoCF building games for Cystic Fibrosis patients. Check out the teams progress here

12th Nov 2018

Nov 2018 Updates - Creating a Game for Fizzyo We’ve made it incredibly easy to start building your Fizzyo project and registering it with the Fizzyo cloud services. To get started, you can follow these guides: Register your Game with the Fizzyo cloud services - Used to integrate your game with the Fizzyo backend. Downloading the Fizzyo Framework and integrating it with your project Adding the Fizzyo Framework to your Scene Building your Project for UWP Once your Windows 10 UWP package is created, it’s read for submitting to the Fizzyo project see more details here

1st Nov 2018

Project Fizzyo: improving physiotherapy care for children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) at Microsoft Future Decoded Download the presentation

Project Fizzyo is about using technology to transform physiotherapy healthcare for children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). It is also about the extraordinary things that happen when experts across different industries collaborate. Lung clearance techniques and exercise can slow down the progression of CF lung disease, but these routine physiotherapy treatments are boring and burdensome. Families find it really hard to adhere to the full prescription. For Project Fizzyo, we worked with engineers and computer scientists from Microsoft, UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital to build electronic chips for airway clearance devices and a secure and sustainable data transfer platform. We also designed computer games that are played by breathing through the chipped airway clearance device, to try and make the treatments less boring and more enjoyable. Using these innovative big data and machine learning methods, we can start to understand how sticking to prescribed treatments can improve clinical outcomes. In this session we will walk you through the project and talk about the outcomes, as well as discussing how in the future this kind of work has the potential to radically change the way we deliver and evaluate the effects of medical interventions like physiotherapy and may facilitate personalised and evolving care plans as children grow and change with life circumstances.

30th Oct 2018

Hello to Konglomeate Games from Abertay University who will be spending the next 12 weeks developing a game for Project Fizzyo.

5th Oct 2018

Fizzyo devices all ready for patients

2nd Oct 2018

Project Fizzyo at the GOSH Open House Event

25th Sept 2018

Getting all of the Fizzyo tablets with Windows 10 devices ready for the trial.

13th Sept 2018

The trial begins and the application forms are ready for posting

7th Sept 2018

Its been 18 months in preparation but its totally worth it, Fizzyo the platform for transforming physiotherapy for children with Cystic Fibrosis has the permission to GO Live! Information packs will be posted to applicants soon. We will be posting information packs over the coming days to eligable familes.

5th Sept 2018

Student Project Presentations Well done to our students Nils and Claudia who presented #Fizzyo preliminary work about the Fitbit physical activity and Fizzyo sensor ACT data. Vital work before we start the study, Thank you both.

22nd Aug 2018

Its time to move to the live environment, Tim and Greg moving the infrastructure over to its final home on Azure Cloud

18th Aug 2018

Getting closer to approval for the Fizzyo trial, Still a few more steps to go, but the ethics committee are happy but its great progress from the team.

24th July 2018

UCL Computer Science Students games showcase to Cystic Fibrosis patients at Great Ormond Street Yesterday some visitors to @GreatOrmondSt had a demo of the #Fizzyo games. BIG thanks to Tom on Leopard ward, it was brilliant to see you enjoying physio! Big thanks as well to Tiernan a @uclcs student who has been working hard to debug the games.

13th July 2018

Programming the Fizzyo Devices.. its a day of learning and fun for the Fizzuyo team 5th July 2018

8th July 2018

Project Fizzyo reaching milestone for Patient Trial Go Live

3rd July 2018

Data Science and device testing the devices and services, exciting times and our devcies are being now setup and tested

1st March 2018

UCL 1st Year Computer Science Students, are presenting their Fizzyo Game Concepts to the Fizzyo team.

22nd May 2018

Project Fizzyo presenting the project at Microsoft AI and Health Summit @MicrosoftUK, @GreatOrmondSt TransformativeAI for health.

12th July 2017

Project Fizzyo Announced as Winner of AbilityNet Tech4Good Award 2017 - Digital Health Award Both of Vicky Coxhead’s sons have Cystic Fibrosis and because of this they have to do regular physio to keep infections at bay. She applied to feature on a a new BBC2 documentary asking for families with a problems to get in touchand was introduced to Haiyan Zhang, who volunteered to help. Haiyan works as Innovation Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. She enlisted the help of Creative Technologist Greg Saul to create a device that could take the boys’ breaths and turn them into controls for a videogame. Together, with Lee Stott at Microsoft UK, they organised hackathons where volunteer designers and engineers from across the UK came along to make new video game experiences for the Coxhead boys. Tech4Good 2017 Winners

19th June 2017

We are proud to announce the that Fizzyo has been shortlisted as a finalists for this year’s AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards 2017 – 32 amazing businesses, charities and individuals who use digital technology to make the world a better place. They have been shortlisted in eight categories but you can vote for your favourite to win the Tech4Good People’s Award, which will be announced at our awards ceremony on 11 July. Tech4Good 2017 Finalist Shortlist

1st April 2017

Understand Game Play and how patients undertake Physio during a gaming session - Example of the Qubi Game Play Project Fizzyo.

Understand how to get started with the Project Fizzyo Project Fizzyo Source Control.

21st March 2017

D&AD Impact & Microsoft Present Innovative Technology For Good - Project Fizzyo

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21 Feb 2017

How IOT and data is changing lives