Our Science & Studies

HiJo has been carefully developed from research design, which incorporated hundreds of hours of design-thinking sessions with teachers, students and parents across the globe. These studies sought to implicitly understand the student’s relationship to the classroom environment, curriculum, mentors and peers, using those insights to shape our approach to this very real issue.

This research, along with numerous scientific studies by notable industry experts in the fields of early emotional development, child and young adult behaviours, psycho-social aspects of motor behaviour, and physical activity and nutrition has been our guiding light in the development of the HiJo wellness ecosystem. 

The data HiJo collects is also based on science. One of the key philosophies we employ is the circumplex theory of affect, which allows us to assess the emotional state of students along with the relative relationships to those emotions. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) involves repeated sampling of student’s current behaviours and experiences in real time, in their natural environment. EMA aims to minimize recall bias, maximize ecological validity, and allow study of microprocesses that influence behaviour in real-world contexts.

Aggregating data from a number of essential sources, HiJo then uses AI and machine learning to combine this information and make it available, in an ‘easy to understand’ format via a secure portal.