Introducing LifeGuide+:

a powerful, flexible platform that enables you to easily and efficiently develop interactive digital interventions

What is LifeGuide+?

LifeGuide+ offers a set of software tools to allow intervention designers with no experience of programming to create interactive web-based interventions and  has been used by hundreds of researchers to develop and trial digital interventions over the last 15 years in the UK and internationally.

Easy to use

LifeGuide+ can be easily used by novices with no prior programming knowledge. The built in page builder and simple flow logic make creating interventions a breeze.

Creative Designs

It can be used to create modern responsive digital interventions with mobile friendly designs that can be iteratively optimised and tested.

Advanced customisation

More experienced web developers can use a wide range of modern web features such as animation, in-app notifications and gamification via JavaScript libraries.

The LifeGuide Research Programme

The LifeGuide research programme is a multidisciplinary initiative led by Professor Lucy Yardley (Psychology), Professor Mark Weal (Computer Science) and Dr Judith Joseph (Psychology) at the University of Southampton.

LifeGuide commenced in 2008, offering a unique set of software tools, that allowed intervention designers with no experience of programming to create interactive digital interventions to support healthy behaviour. Using LifeGuide, we developed and successfully trialled numerous digital interventions including public health interventions (e.g. for weight management, physical activity support, hand hygiene and smoking cessation) and illness management interventions (e.g. for hypertension, diabetes, cancer, cognitive impairment in older people, back pain and dizziness).

Since its inception, research collaborations with our team to develop and trial digital behavioural health interventions using LifeGuide have attracted funding of well over £80 million (from MRC, EPSRC, ESRC, NIHR, EC and medical charities). These interventions have been rolled out to millions of people through the NHS, public health teams, charities and commercial organisations.

How it Does work?

LifeGuide+ is quick and easy to use, even for researchers with no programming knowledge. 

Register

Contact us to discuss the needs of your project and we will get you set up with a LifeGuide account.

Build

Use the built in page builder (or external tools) to build your intervention and control the flow using our custom logic.

Test

Easily test your intervention, from quick iterative user feedback studies to large scale clinical trials.

Analyse

Download the securely collected data that you defined in your logic, along with comprehensive usage data.

Features

LifeGuide+ is packed with features to make designing, building and trialling your intervention as simple as possible, as well as providing all the tools you need to create innovative and interactive interventions.

The team

LifeGuide was created by behavioural scientists and computer scientists at the University of Southampton

Dr Don Cruickshank

Lead Programmer

Senior Research Fellow

Dr James Dennison-Day

Senior Programmer

Senior Research Fellow

Mrs Victoria Hayter

Administrative Coordinator

Research Administrator


Dr Judith Joseph

Deputy Director

Senior Research-Enterprise Fellow

Dr Leanne Morrison

Senior Advisor

Associate Professor in Health Psychology

Dr Sebastien Pollet

Senior LifeGuide Advisor

Research Fellow

Prof Mark Weal

Deputy Director

Professor in Web and Internet Science

Prof Lucy Yardley 

Director

Professor of Health Psychology

Dr Jin Zhang

Front Support and Senior LifeGuide Advisor

Senior Experimental Officer

PRICing

LifeGuide+ is currently only available to researchers at the University of Southampton. 

We can currently support funded projects which are able to cost for direct support from the LifeGuide team.

To make LifeGuide+ sustainable, we charge fees for funded projects as detailed below. These are essential for maintaining the LifeGuide platform and funding the LifeGuide team.

Base Fee


  • £1000/Set up cost *
  • PLUS
  • £2500/year *
  • *All prices are exclusive of VAT
  • This price includes:
  • Full access to the LifeGuide+ platform
  • Unlimited users for one project
  • Hosting
  • 2 hours of support per month
  • Access to the LifeGuide community and resources

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Additional Support


We are also happy to support projects which may require more involvement from our team.

For example if you are planning to develop a large or complex intervention (e.g. linking data over several sessions and a lot of interactivity) or if you would like personal support.

This might include direct training in using LifeGuide+, helping to build pages and write LifeGuide logic, or even developing new features that you need for your project.

Please get in touch your project and we will be able to provide a full cost.


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Frequently asked questions

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