Norina obtained a MPH (Hons.), BHSc (Hons.) and BA at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). Her broad research interests are in the implementation and evaluation of innovative digital health technologies. She continues to collaborate with the Centre for Automation and Robotic Engineering Sciences group in New Zealand, working on developing and evaluating socially capable robots for public and healthcare settings. Norina has previously worked on various digital health projects, using mobile apps, patient portals and social media.

Prior to moving to Manchester for her PhD, Norina worked on a participatory design project to develop home-care and cognitive games robots for older adults. The research team was centered at Ewha Womens University (South Korea) and the University of Auckland, partnering with WEDO (software company), Robocare and retirement villages. Norina also joined the international COVID-19 Stress and Health Study team- a collaboration between the University of Nottingham, Kings College London and the University of Auckland. The study tracked psychological and behavioural changes during the pandemic using surveys and biomedical methods (hair samples), as well as explored barriers and facilitators to using a contact tracing app. 

Norina's PhD in Health Informatics was funded by the NIHR-ARC (GM). The project was a realist evaluation of extended reality (augmented and virtual reality) training to upskill care home workers in hand hygiene.  In 2023 she was appointed a Research Associate in digital health in the NIHR ARC GM and Fellow of Advance HE for her teaching. She is currently a Research Fellow and works on the following projects (among others):

• CAPPRRI - Consensus for APP Review Reporting Items
• Evaluation of virtual wards across Greater Manchester
• Predictive modelling (algorithm) to manage outpatient no-shows at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
• Co-design of a smartphone app to support genetics education in the British Pakistani Community

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• HIMSS
• Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ)

Editor: BMC Digital Health

Committee member: University Research Ethics Committee (UREC2), The University of Manchester

Peer-reviewer (journals): Epilepsy Research (Elsevier), Nature Human Behaviour (Springer Nature), Health and Social Care in the Community (Wiley), ACM Transactions of Human-Robot Interaction (ACM), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE) & BMJ Open (BMJ).

Peer-reviewer (conferences):

• Nursing Informatics (NI2024)
• ACM/IEEE International Conference for Human Robot Interaction (HRI'24)
• 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI'22)
• 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'22)
• 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'21)
• ACM/IEEE International Conference for Human Robot Interaction (HRI'21)

Organising committee member:

• 2019 International Society for Research on Internet Interventions conference (ISRII)

Groups

• NIHR ARC-GM Digital Health theme
• Digital Health and Social Care research group

Students

Past

• Deborah Paripoorani (2022/23 NIHR ARC-GM research intern) co-supervised with Prof Dawn Dowding & Dr Helen Hawley-Hague

Current

• Aysha Badat (2024/25 NIHR ARC-GM research intern)
• Ellen Turrell (MRes, DNMSW)
• Kathryn Phillips (MSc Health Informatics, DIIDS) co-supervised with Dr Sabine van der Veer

Conferences and invited talks

       2024

• Guest lecture. Evaluation. UCL/UoM joint award MSc/PGDip/PGCert Health Informatics
• Guest lecture. HRI evaluation, ethics and participant recruitment strategies. COMPSYS 731 - Human-Robot Interaction, Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Guest lecture. Evaluating mHealth apps. MSc Nursing. University of Manchester
• Invited talk. VR hand hygiene training. University of Manchester digital health showcase.

       2023

• Guest lecture. Evaluation. UCL/UoM joint award MSc/PGDip/PGCert Health Informatics
• Invited talk. Conducting a systematic review of commercially available mobile health apps: the TECH approach and a step-by-step methodological guide. Systematic reviews interest group, University of Manchester.

       2022

• Poster. Learning by doing: Extended reality for improving hand hygiene in care home staff. Sustainable Digital Health Innovation conference [Galway, Ireland].
• Invited talk. Systematic app review methods: Digital Health and Social Care Research Group, University of Manchester.
• Gasteiger, N., Lim, JY., Hellou, M., MacDonald, B. & Ahn, HS. (2022, 29 Aug- 2 Sep). Moving away from robotic interactions: Evaluation of empathy, emotion and sentiment expressed and detected by computer systems. 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication: Napoli, Italy (pp. 1365-1370), doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900559.
• Invited talk. Realist evaluation methods: Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research, University of Manchester. 
• Gasteiger, N., van der Veer, S.N., Wilson, P & Dowding, D. (2022, 14 March). Exploring How, for Whom and in Which Contexts Extended Reality Training ‘Works’ in Upskilling Healthcare Workers: A Realist Review. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces [poster].

       2021

• Gasteiger, N., Ahn, HS., Lee, C., Lim, JY., MacDonald, BA., Kim, GH. & Broadbent, E. (2021, 11 November). Developing assistive health robots for older adults: an international four year project and participatory design case study. 13th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) [Social AI for Human-Robot Interaction of Human-Care Robots KROS workshop]: Singapore.
• Gasteiger, N., Hellou, M. & Ahn, HS. (2021, 12-14 July). Optimizing human-robot interaction through personalization: An evidence-informed guide to designing social service robots. 18th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR): Gangneung, South Korea (pp. 53-56).

       2018-2020

• Gasteiger, N. (2020). Invited talk. Co-designing robots. Digital Research and Reading Group, University of Manchester.
• Gasteiger, N., Anderson, A. & Day, K. (2019, June). Rethinking engagement: Exploring women’s technology use during the perinatal period through a Kaupapa Māori consistent approach. Poster presented at the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Gasteiger, N., Fleming, T. & Day, K. (2019, February). High tech, high touch: Patient portals and rapport in mental health services. Paper presented at the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Gasteiger, N., Anderson, A. & Day, K. (2018, November). Telehealth: Rethinking health literacy and engagement with Māori mothers. Abstract presented at the HiNZ conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
• Guest lecture. Conducting Research. Third-year undergraduate Health Services course, University of Auckland, New Zealand. September 2018 and April 2019.
• Guest lecture. Social Media for third-year undergraduate Health Informatics course, University of Auckland, New Zealand. May 2018 and 2019.

2024- Postdoc teaching fellow CDSP (Division of Informatics, Imaging & Data Sciences). Digital transformation & data visualisation modules.

GTA: University of Manchester (2022-2023)- School of Health Sciences

• MSc/PGDip/PGCert Health Informatics (UCL/UoM joint award) dissertation module

GTA: University of Manchester (2021)-School of Medical Sciences

• Research Methods 

GTA: Auckland University of Technology (2020-2021)- School of Interprofessional Health Studies and Public Health

• Knowledge, Enquiry & Communication (first year undergraduate)
• Research Methods (third year undergraduate)

Tutor & GTA: University of Auckland (2018-2020)- School of Population Health

• Health Informatics Knowledge Management; Principles (postgraduate)
• Health Sytems; Health & Society (first year undergraduate)
• Research Methods (second year undergraduate)
• Health Informatics (third year undergraduate)