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.
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.
It can be used to create modern responsive digital interventions with mobile friendly designs that can be iteratively optimised and tested.
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 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.
LifeGuide+ is quick and easy to use, even for researchers with no programming knowledge.
Contact us to discuss the needs of your project and we will get you set up with a LifeGuide account.
Use the built in page builder (or external tools) to build your intervention and control the flow using our custom logic.
Easily test your intervention, from quick iterative user feedback studies to large scale clinical trials.
Download the securely collected data that you defined in your logic, along with comprehensive usage data.
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.
Easily handle account creation and authentication to allow users to securely register and sign in to your intervention
Use the built in drag and drop page builder to create stylish and responsive pages without needing to know how to code
Set up screening and randomisation, including block randomisation and minimisation
Send email and text messages from LifeGuide to directly connect with your users and participants
Developers with programming skills can use JavaScript and external libraries to add additional functionality
Use our logic to control what users see and when, including customising page flow and content based on user data
Define what data you want to collect and store it securely on the University of Southampton network
Track users, active sessions, sent and queued messages, user data, and much more to support running trials
Automatically collect detailed usage data to get clear insights into how participants are using your internvention
Share your projects with other researchers to collaboratively develop your interventions
LifeGuide was created by behavioural scientists and computer scientists at the University of Southampton
Lead Programmer
Senior Research Fellow
Senior Programmer
Senior Research Fellow
Administrative Coordinator
Research Administrator
Deputy Director
Senior Research-Enterprise Fellow
Senior Advisor
Associate Professor in Health Psychology
Senior LifeGuide Advisor
Research Fellow
Deputy Director
Professor in Web and Internet Science
Director
Professor of Health Psychology
Front Support and Senior LifeGuide Advisor
Senior Experimental Officer
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.
We don't want cost to be a barrier to using LifeGuide and are keen to support students and projects with small or no budget.
Where possible we will discount or waive fees for student, PhD and small projects.
Our ability to offer discounts may vary depending on our current capacity, and as such are offered on a case by case basis taking into account our capacity and the needs of your project.
Use the button below to go to our contact form to get in touch to discuss your project.
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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