The core principle of implementing healthy behavior change is making the healthy choice the easy choice. Putting this motto into practice requires us to remove the barriers that individuals face when trying to live a healthy lifestyle. It is important to look at the bigger picture when helping our patients reach optimal health, looking closely at exercise levels and home life. Environmental fac...

In this paper we describe an integrated model for supporting multifaceted behavior change. We propose to combine information used to inform a current behavior with information to motivate a relevant new behavior. Towards this goal, we propose a model composed of the transtheoretical model, the theory of planned behavior and the stage-based model of personal informatics to design multifaceted sy...

The mission of the National Institutes of Health,"... is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability". A wide range of factors contribute to longer life and to less illness. Although estimates vary, most analyses suggest that only about 10% of...

Sustainability research about using Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to reduce household energy consumption has recently focused on two potential strategies: “smart homes” that rely on sensors and technological innovations to automatically reduce the energy load, and tools that seek to persuade users to change their domestic habits, such as by using eco-feedback devices to rai...

Traditional memory systems based on memory technologies such as DRAM are fast approaching their cost and power limits. Alternative memory technologies such as Phase Change Memory (PCM) are being widely researched as a scalable, costand power-efficient alternative for DRAM. However, a PCM memory cell has a limited endurance of 10− 10 writes, resulting in an ideal lifetime of only a few years whi...

Turbofan engines generate a lot of data for maintenance purpose. During each flight the aircraft send information to the ground using small messages. On those messages one can find a description of the engine behavior (shaft speed, oil temperature, pressures, etc.) and the observation context (air temperature, aircraft attitude, altitude, etc.). Mainly those signals are used for trend analysis ...

Unhealthy behaviors are responsible for a large proportion of health care costs and poor health outcomes. 1 Surveys of large employers regularly identify unhealthy behaviors as the most important challenge to affordable benefits coverage. For this reason, employers increasingly leverage incentives to encourage changes in employees' health-related behaviors. According to one survey, 86% of large...

To assess behavior change in (binge) drinking and its positive /risk factors in adolescents admitted with alcohol intoxication. Multicenter retrospective study screening for underlying psychosocial and cognitive problems with a structural interview and behavioral checklists at follow up 8 weeks after the event. All adolescents < 18 years old, admitted with a BAC > 0.05 g/L and reduced conscious...

Language change has recently come to be seen as a complex dynamical system, along the lines of evolutionary biology and economics, as opposed to previous conceptions as a linear or cyclical system. We model the change of a particular phenomenon, vowel harmony, and look at the conditions under which the trajectory of change matches theoretical and empirical predictions. Our experimental work sho...