The world’s population is aging. While people are living longer, they are also suffering from many chronic diseases. Obesity, diabetes, and congestive heart failure to name a few are becoming common throughout the world in older adult populations. In particular, heart failure is the leading cause of death for men and women in the US. Professor Chatterjee’s lab is actively engaged in designing remote monitoring technologies that can assist such patients to live healthy and age in place with technology support.

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In the span of just a few short years, Bitcoin has grown from a peripheral open-source project into a major catalyst for the development of decentralized, trustless digital payments and contracts. In the spirit of the Internet's wide reach, this technology has the potential to positively impact billions of people and become a crucial part of daily life. In spite of Bitcoin’s rapid growth, the path to widespread adoption remains challenging, and many tough decisions will need to be made in order to ensure the technology’s long-term success.

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Imagine a wealthy Swiss asks you to build a 12-unit apartment building today – but according to the envisioned standards of climate change neutrality in 2050.

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This talk is open to the public and will be webcast live.

In this interactive workshop, Dr. Brian Cugelman will discuss motivation from an evolutionary-psychology and neural chemical point of view, and discuss how ancient motivators drive online behavior. He will discuss how these principles can be used to design technologies that trigger more positive feelings, while aiming to reduce the risk of accidentally triggering negative emotions.

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The reThink Food Annual Leadership Conference brings together a diverse group of thought leaders and innovators at the intersection of technology, behavior, design, and food. Our assembled speakers, experts, and provocateurs will spotlight areas of innovation all along the food industry’s chain of supply and demand—from agriculture to the consumer food experience—and offer solutions for rethinking the future of food amid radically changing food markets around the globe.

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The Disrupting Mobility Hackathon 2015 will be about creating your own concepts for an Urban Autonomous Delivery system that moves goods, services, or people within a city.

The application of urban autonomous delivery is wide ranging. The six focus areas for this Hackathon are:

1. Moving people (Seniors, people without a driver’s licence, drunk drivers, distracted drivers)
2. Small packages (max. 17.88" x 12.38" x 3", e.g., Electronics/Books/small Furniture)
3. Food & Beverages (Fit to temperature requirements)

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The Transtheoretical Model can be applied with individual patients and entire populations to produce unprecedented impacts. Assessing and understanding the change dynamics at each stage of change can lead to more effective engagement of patients in the change process. Helping patients to set smarter goals can facilitate four effects that predict long-term success across a broad range of behaviors. Robust intervention approaches will be presented that are effective across a broad range of populations.

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State of the art technology has made it possible to monitor various physiological signals for prolonged periods. Using wearable sensors, individuals can be monitored; sensor data can be collected and stored in digital format, transmitted to remote locations, and analyzed at later times. This technology may open the door to a multitude of exciting and innovative applications.

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One third of US adults have low health literacy, the ability to obtain, read, and use healthcare information. These individuals also tend to have low computer literacy, and studies have shown that even the simplest conventional UIs are unusable by this population for finding health information. Developing health education and behavior change interventions for these individuals thus represents a significant HCI challenge. To address this disparity, Dr.

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