November 28, 2023
Topic:
Novel Applications and Lessons Learned from Health Behavior Research using Ecological Momentary Assessment
Did you miss our last Tech Tuesday Talk? Below is a list of our previous seminars.
Novel Applications and Lessons Learned from Health Behavior Research using Ecological Momentary Assessment
The Moderating Role of Self-Regulation in the Interplay between Mindfulness and Affect/Cognition: Findings from an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
Introduction to REDCap: Survey Design and Beyond
Leveraging Social Networks and Gamification to Promote Physical Activity in Adults: Evolution of a Technology-based Research Line
Habit Theory Meets Technology: When, Why, and How to Integrate Habit Theory into Technology-Based Health Interventions
Designing and Evaluating Digital Interventions to Promote Healthy Lifestyles among Hispanic Families
Designing digital obesity treatments for medically vulnerable populations: What the literature doesn't tell you
Leveraging Telehealth to Extend the Reach of Behavioral Health Treatments via Primary Care
Using the Pathverse Platform to Rapidly Prototype and Evaluate mHealth Interventions: The Case of Generation Health, a Family-based Childhood Obesity Management Program
The Evolution of Technology Use in Behavioral Treatment of Overweight and Obesity
Changing Course Midstream: Adapting an In-Person Behavioral Weight Management Program for Remote Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Utilizing Passively Collected Data within Daily Life to Enhance Assessment and Treatment of Depression and Anxiety
Digital Self-Monitoring in Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions
Using Social Media to Deliver Weight Loss Treatments on College Campuses
Digital Strategies to End the HIV Epidemic among Youth
e-Learning to Facilitate Lifestyle Change: Developing Self-Guided, Online Modules to Enhance a Behavioral Intervention
Do as I Say, Not as I Did: Lessons Learned from a Text Message Delivered Sedentary Behavior Reduction Intervention
Does Incorporating Financial Incentives into an Online Weight Control Program Increase Behavioral Engagement and Weight Losses Achieved?
Using Ambualtory Assessment to Understand IntraIndividual, Intrapersonal, and Contextual Factors in Health Behaviors
Topic:
Social Computing and Health Informatics: Mining Big Twitter Data in regard to Diabetes,
Exercise, and Obesity
Speaker:
Amir Karami, PhD
Topic:
Panel Discussion: Publishing Your Tech-Related Research
Panelists:
Andy Kaczynski, PhD
Amir Karami, PhD
Courtney Monroe, PhD
Christine Pellegrini, PhD
Moderator:
Brie Turner-McGrievy, PhD, RD
Topic:
Optimizing an mHealth Physical Activity Intervention for Breast Cancer Survivors
Speaker:
Siobhan M. Phillips, PhD
Topic:
Understanding the Dynamics of Physical Activity Using Ecological Momentary Assessment
Methods
Speaker:
Jaclyn Maher, PhD
Contact:
jpmaher@uncg.edu
Topic:
Using Mobile Technologies in Gobal Health Research: Opportunities and Challenges
Speaker:
Jan Ostermann, PhD
Topic:
How Wearable Sensor Technologies can Improve Next-Gen Behavioral Interventions to
Promote Energy Balance
Speaker:
Yue Liao, PhD
Faculty Fellow, Duncan Family Institute for Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment
University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Topic:
Exploring Objective Measures of Physical Activity among Combat Veterans and PTSD Symptom
Severity
Speaker:
Danny Sauceda, MS
Topic:
Flex-An App that Applies Associative Learning Theory with Gamification to Target Non-Conscious
Physical Activity Behavioural Biases
Speaker:
Amanda Rebar, PhD
Senior Research Fellow, Central Queensland University, Australia
Topic:
Tracking Wrist Motion to Detect and Measure Energy Intake
Speaker:
Adam Hoover, PhD
Eric Muth, PhD
Topic:
A Distance and Technology Based Translation of the Look AHEAD Intensive Lifestyle
Intervention
Speaker:
Becca Krukowski, PhD
Topic:
Just Early Non-Response to an Internet-Delivered Weight Loss Program: How to Know
It When You See It and What to Do
Speaker:
Jessica Unick, PhD
Topic:
There is an “I” in Exercise: Leveraging Smartphones to Understand Time-Varying Intra-Individual
Antecedents of Exercise Behavior
Speaker:
Kelley Strohacker, PhD
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Topic:
Prospects for Breakthroughs in Behavioral Science: Is There a Role for Genomics?
Speaker:
Colleen McBride, PhD
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Topic:
Just-in-Time: Using digital technology and real time, real world assessment to shift
how behavioral scientists design interventions
Speaker:
Diane Ehlers, PhD
Topic:
Harnessing the Cognitive Power of IBM Watson to Enhance Academic Research
Speaker:
Jim Stritzinger, USC Arnold School of Public Health
Sourav Mazumder, IBM
Neset Hikmet, PHD, USC College of Engineering & Computing
Topic:
From Conception to Delivery: the Development of a Mobile Health Intervention for
targeting Weight, Stress, and Social Support among Pregnant Women
Speaker:
Alicia Dahl
PhD Candidate
Health Promotion, Education and Behavior
USC Arnold School of Public Health
Topic:
Expecting the Unexpected with Technology-Supported Behavioral Interventions
Speaker:
Christine Pellegrini, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Exercise Science
USC Arnold School of Public Health
Topic:
Behavioral Weight Control in a Wired World: Over a decade of RCTs to Improve Technology-Assisted
Weight Control” Challenges and Opportunities in Social Networking Research: Insights
from the NETworks for Weight Loss Study
Speaker:
Delia West, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Exercise Science
Director, TecHealth
USC Arnold School of Public Health
Topic:
Challenges and Opportunities in Social Networking Research: Insights from the NETworks
for Weight Loss Study
Speaker:
Courtney Monroe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior/TecHealth
USC Arnold School of Public Health
Topic:
Computerized training of single-word production in speakers with aphasia or apraxia
of speech
Speaker:
Dirk B. den Ouden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Neurolinguistics Laboratory Communication Sciences and Disorders
USC Arnold School of Public Health
Topic:
Stress Management: There’s an app for that
Speaker:
Sandra Coulon, Ph.D.
Psychologist
Primary Care Mental Health Integration, Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, Charleston, SC
Topic:
Women’s Health in the Digital Age
Speaker:
Beth L. Sundstrom, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Co-Director, Women’s Health Research Team
Faculty, Public Health
Graduate Faculty, University of Charleston
College of Charleston, South Carolina
Topic:
Everything you ever wanted to know about SBIR / STTR applications and then some
Speaker:
Chad Hardaway
Associate Director – Office of Economic Engagement
Director – Technology Commercialization Office
University of South Carolina
Topic:
Why grandma needs a robot in her retirement
Speaker:
Jenay M. Beer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director of the Assistive Robotics and Technology Lab (ART Lab)
Associate Director of Usability for SmartHOME Research Initiative
College of Engineering & Computing, and College of Social Work
University of South Carolina
Topic:
Using Technology for Weight Loss
Speaker:
Brie Turner-McGrievy, Ph.D., M.S., R.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior
Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina