Precision Health Engineering - Designing Health-Centered Mundane Technology to Increase Adherence

Опубликовано 2 января 2020, 22:12

With the advent of ubiquitous computing, precision health, defined as the practice of personalized health, promises a future where we can prevent disease and maximize well-being. To succeed, we must engage healthy individuals to comply with continuous monitoring and behavior change. In this talk, I focus on the challenge of engineering precision health approaches in mundane environments by leveraging concepts from effective and embedded computing, behavioral economics, and human-centered design. I will discuss in depth flagship projects on stress management: a) repurposing existing devices into “sensorless” stress sensors, and b) minimal transformation of car and office furniture to regulate breathing. I will close with a vision of the future of precision health engineering where affordable design and machine learning can drive long-term behavior change. I will quickly describe some forward-looking exploratory projects to help improve people’s health by recommending personalized interventions that are easy to use, that defeat novelty effects, that force users to adopt healthy behaviors, or that can even operate at a subconscious level.

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