Final Program
Registration and Reception Tea/Coffee
Opening Ceremony
Keynote talk: Designing Warm Technology, Opportunities for accessible technology for people living with dementia
Rens Brankaert
University of Technology Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Rens Brankaert
Coffee Break
Paper Session 1a: AI Companions & LLMDriven Behavior Change
This session explores conversational agents and large language model (LLM) applications for health coaching, behavior change, and personalized data summarization.
— Talking to Avatars: How HumanLike Should Virtual Health Assistants Be in Medical History Collection?
— PersuAgent: A DualRoute Expressive Agent Driven by LLM for Healthful Lifestyle Guidance
— Lost in Translation? Assessing User Perception of PromptEngineered Chatbot ToneofVoice for Smoking Cessation
— ContextESM: Using LLMGenerated Summaries from Contextual Data to Support Experience Sampling Methods
— From Stress to Preparedness: TeachAhead — LLMsupported Virtual Class Interaction as Mental Rehearsal for Preservice
Paper Session 1b: Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT)
Understanding of key principles, processes, and mechanisms in biological systems for the development of novel information and communications technologies
— An Intelligent Multi-Agent Health System to Enhance Elderly Care
— Continual Learning of Feedback-based Molecular Communication
— Investigations of Relay Placements to Enhance Communication in Biofilm
— Evolutionary Multi-objective 3D Topology Optimization Using SIMP-Based Density Interpolation
— Memory Usage Attack Mitigation Strategies in Modern Healthcare Environments
Lunch Break
Workshop 1: Design with or Design by: Pervasive Technologies to Empower Vulnerable Populations in Health-Related Daily Challenges
— Inclusive design, co-creation and evaluation of digital health for individuals with a mild intellectual disability
Coffee Break
Workshop 2: Rethinking Healthcare Technology Innovation: Design for Behavior Change
— Re-examining the role of co-design in digital health interventions: the SO-NUTS case
— Constitutional AI and Behavior Change: Ethical Frameworks for Trust and Adoption in Clinical LLM Deployment
Workshop 3: Walking Together for Motivating Environment
Coffee Break
Welcome Coffee/Tea
Keynote: Meaningful innovation in the hands of healthcare professionals
Eva Deckers
Head of AI Center of Excellence at Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Eva Deckers
Coffee Break
Paper Session 2a: Sleep & Physiological Monitoring: IoT, Signals & ML
This session focuses on IoT ecosystems, multimodal sensing, and machine learning for sleep, respiratory health, and cognitive loadassessment.
— Exploring Sleep at Home with an InternetofThings Ecosystem
— Exploring Heart Rate Variability Feature Importance for REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Classification
— Detection of Oxygen Desaturation Events from PSG Data Using Minimal Annotations
— Understanding the Effectiveness of FewShot Learning in Cough Sound Classification
— MultiModality Improves Cognitive Load Classification Of Naturalistic Tasks Under Varying Signal Quality
Paper Session 2b: Mental Health Sensing & JustinTime Support
This session presents sensing, predictive modeling, and justintime adaptive interventions (JITAIs) for stress, affect, and mental health conditions.
— StressGrove: Visualizing Collective Stress to Facilitate Workplace Stress Awareness and Management
— Daily Behavioral and Environmental Factors Association with Affective States and Quality of Life
— Predicting Schizophrenia States with Behavioral Sensing and Network Analysis
— Personalized OneStepAhead Prediction of Mental Health in EarlyStage Breast Cancer Survivors
— “It felt more real”: Investigating the User Experience of the MiWaves Personalizing JITAI Pilot Study
— Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence in the Identification of Burnout Syndrome: A Systematic Literature Review
Lunch Break
Paper Session 3a: Aging, Community Care & Assistive Technologies
This session addresses technology design for older adults, community living, prehabilitation, and staff training in care contexts.
— “Not in the Caf?”: Older Adults’ Perceptions of AI Companions in Community Living Settings
— Design Considerations of Technology to Promote Outdoors Physical Activity for Older Adults
— From Menopause to Aging: Exploring TechnologyMediated Coping Strategies and Broader Aging Challenges
— Practitioner Insights of Autonomous RobotLed Physiotherapy in the Community
— Patient Perspectives on Telemonitoring during Colorectal Cancer Surgery Prehabilitation
— DelirSens VR: Sensitizing Care Staff to Delirium
Paper Session 3b: Physical Activity: Analytics, Decision Support & Engagement
This session examines measurement, shared decisionmaking, and engagement strategies for promoting physical activity.
—Assessing FreeLiving Stepping Cadence as a Putative Digital Physical Behaviour Outcome
— Assessing the Value of Digital Tools for Effective Shared Decision Making on Physical Activity in Cardiac Secondary Prevention
— Towards DataEnabled Physical Activity Planning: HCP Perspectives on Integration of Patient Generated Health Data
— Motivating Environment: A Conceptual Framework Connecting Personal Physical Activity Data to the Public Environment
— Benefits and Drawbacks of Sharing Heart Rate Data during Collaborative Exercise: A Qualitative Study
Coffee Break
Demo and Posters
Welcome Coffee/Tea
Keynote: Using Technology to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: Lessons Learned by a Clinician
Paul Dendale
Past President of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology
Paul Dendale
Coffee Break
Paper Session 4a: Designing & Evaluating Digital Health Interventions
The session highlights usercentered design and evaluation of digital interventions across diverse populations and modalities.
— Understanding User Needs for a MindfulnessBased Mobile App to Improve Psychological Wellbeing and Glycemic Control in
Gestational Diabetes
— CHOctrl: A Culturally Contextualized Digital Intervention for Carbohydrate Portion Control in China
— An Empirical Study on the Design of Dynamic Music Visualization for Therapy Based on Synesthesia Feature Mapping
— EmoStory: CoDesigning Storytelling with Children to Support SelfReflection for Mental Wellbeing
— TacoTask — A Homework Task Management Tool for Children and their Parents
— Designing VR for Chronic Pain: Transforming AIPowered Biofeedback to Interoceptive Awareness and Neuromodulation
Paper Session 4b: Design, Requirements Health Data Representation
The session focuses on design requirements, data representation, and ethical sharing in digital health systems.
— A UserCentred Design Process Framework for Wearable Air Pollution Monitoring Devices
— Eliciting Design Requirements for Emerging Microscopy Technologies
— Exploring Data Physicalization and Hydration for Office Wellbeing
— Clarity or Comfort? Semantic Preferences in Health Data Representation with Older Adults and Experts
— Exploring Stakeholder Perspectives on Sharing ContextSensitive Data with an mHealth App for LLMGenerated Personalized Content
Closing Ceremony
Best Paper Award
Announcement regarding EAI PervasiveHealth 2026
