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

本次研讨会汇集了来自不同学科的领导者和科学家，他们具有互补的专业知识，包括行为改变理论、健康和保健系统、行为测量和测量技术、工程、计算机科学和各种“有说服力的”干预措施方面的专家。讲习班的主要目标是确定在使用计算和网络以及信息技术支持行为改变方面面临的挑战，从而使医疗保健更加主动和预防性。拟议的讲习班计划在网络、信息技术和行为改变的交叉领域解决一些公开的基本问题。本次研讨会将努力确定目前阻碍网络和信息技术使用的基本障碍，如何利用它们来调解导致行为改变的过程，以及实时评估和建模行为、情感状态和这些行为发生的环境的新方法。不能预防疾病的反动“疾病护理”系统在财政上已变得不可持续。全球迫切需要将医疗保健转变为一种先发制人的模式，以“预先”推进健康。全球疾病负担与可通过促进关键人类行为的改变来预防和治疗的病症密切相关。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有关。

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.