International Workshop on New Computationally-Enabled Theoretical Models to Support Health Behavior Change and Maintenance

组织这次研讨会的目的是让不同学科的领导者和科学家汇聚一堂，他们拥有互补的专业知识，包括行为改变理论、健康和健康系统、行为测量和测量技术、工程学、计算机科学和各种类型的“说服性”干预方面的专家。研讨会的主要目标是确定在使用计算、网络和信息技术支持行为变化方面的挑战，以使医疗保健更具主动性和预防性。拟议的研讨会计划在网络、信息技术和行为改变的交叉点上解决一些开放的基本问题。研讨会正在努力确定目前阻碍网络和信息技术使用的基本障碍，如何使用它们来协调实现行为变化的过程，以及实时评估和建模行为、情感状态以及这些行为发生的环境的新方法。无法预防疾病的反动“疾病护理”系统在财务上已变得不可持续。全球的当务之急是将医疗保健转变为一种先发制人的模式，以“预先”促进健康。全球疾病负担与可通过促进关键人类行为改变而预防和治疗的疾病密切相关。因此，以经济上可行的方式在人口规模上改变行为的能力，可能会对医疗保健成本产生重大影响。此外，健康的行为通常与更好的生活质量和幸福感相关。

This workshop is organized to bring together leaders and scientists in a variety of different disciplines with complementary expertise including experts in behavior change theory, health and wellness systems, behavior measurement and measurement technology, engineering, computer science, and various types of "persuasive" interventions. The main objective of the workshop is to identify challenges in using computing and networking and information technology in support of behavioral change that would enable healthcare to be more proactive and preventive. The proposed workshop plans to address a number of open fundamental issues at the intersection of networking, information technology and behavior modification. The workshop is striving to identify the fundamental barriers that currently hamper the use of networking and information technology, how they can be used to mediate processes enabling behavioral change, as well as new methods for the real-time assessment and modeling of behavior, affective states, and the environments in which these behaviors occur. Reactionary "sick-care" systems that fail to prevent disease have become financially unsustainable. It is a global imperative that healthcare is transformed to a preemptive model that advances health "up front." The global burden of disease is tightly related to conditions that are preventable and treatable through promoting changes in key human behaviors. The ability to change behaviors on a population scale, in an economically feasible way, is therefore likely to have a major impact on the cost of healthcare. In addition, healthy behaviors are typically associated with better quality of life and wellbeing.