DrDeepti Aggarwal

Hello everyone! I am Deepti Aggarwal, a Lecturer in Emerging Digital Health Technologies within the School of Information Technology at Deakin University, Australia. I am passionate about exploring the amalgamation of design, health, and technology to address contemporary issues related to health and wellbeing. Currently, I am investigating the role of emerging technologies to encourage positive eating practices among children and adults. I am keen on exploring the potential of wearable and tangible interactions, IoTs, Virtual Reality, board games, playful interactions and other hybrid systems to create awareness about positive eating practices and to guide easy adoption of nutritious eating in everyday life.  

I finished my PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. In my PhD, I explored the role of wearable technology to support bodily communication in video consultations of Physiotherapy. I developed a pair of smart socks that patients could wear during video consultations to communicate their bodily data related to lower limb to their remote physiotherapists in real-time. This work has won numerous accolades including the prestigious Victorian Fresh Science award for 2017, extensive media coverage with over 200 articles published in Australia and overseas with a combined coverage of over 86 million people. I have significant experience in leading collaborative inter-disciplinary research and has co-designed novel solutions with clinicians at Royal Children's Hospital and nutrition experts at Deakin University.

I am affiliated with the following research groups: Immersive Technologies Lab, Deakin University, Hearty Adventures in Food and Play Research Lab, RMIT University, and National Nutrition Network - Early Childhood Education and Care.