Full Program
Registration and Reception Tea/Coffee
Opening Ceremony
Prof. Panos Markopoulos - Industrial Design TU/e, Steering Committee
Prof. dr. Karin Coninx, Hasselt University, Program Chair
Prof. Imrich Chlamtac - EAI President
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
Explores conversational agents and large language model (LLM) applications for health coaching, behavior change, and personalized data summarization.
Chair: Qi Wang
— Talking to Avatars: How HumanLike Should Virtual Health Assistants Be in Medical History Collection? (Ying Chen; Amirreza Gholami; Jun Hu)
— PersuAgent: A DualRoute Expressive Agent Driven by LLM for Healthful Lifestyle Guidance (Haoyang Yuan; Ruiyi Liu; Chulei Deng; Jingwen Yang; Yate Ge; Bin Yu; Qi Wang)
— ContextESM: Using LLMGenerated Summaries from Contextual Data to Support Experience Sampling Methods (Tianqin Lu; Rong-Hao Liang; Jun Hu; Pieter Van Gorp; Panos Markopoulos)
— Lost in Translation? Assessing User Perception of PromptEngineered Chatbot ToneofVoice for Smoking Cessation (Arian Kashefi; Kyana Bosschaerts; Lieven De Marez; Femke Ongenae; Peter Conradie)
— From Stress to Preparedness: TeachAhead — LLMsupported Virtual Class Interaction as Mental Rehearsal for Preservice (Kecheng Jin; Yinqing Li; Xueyan Cai; Mengru Xue; Hao Jiang; Cheng Yao)
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.
Chair: Maarten Houben
— An Intelligent Multi-Agent Health System to Enhance Elderly Care (Ayoub ALLALI; Ibtihal Abouchabaka; Hiba Elkabbaj; Nouama Bouanani)
— Continual Learning of Feedback-based Molecular Communication (Siddhant Setia; Junichi Suzuki; Tadashi Nakano)
— Memory Usage Attack Mitigation Strategies in Modern Healthcare Environments (Alwaisi; Zainab)
— Investigations of Relay Placements to Enhance Communication in Biofilm (Yanahan Paramalingam; Adam Noel)
— Evolutionary Multi-objective 3D Topology Optimization Using SIMP-Based Density Interpolation (Fermin Del Valle Vega; Enrique Escamilla-Hernandez; Hector Perez-Meana; Sato Hiroyuki)
Lunch Break
Workshop 1: Design with or Design by: Pervasive Technologies to Empower Vulnerable Populations in Health-Related Daily Challenges
Chair: Maarten Houben
— Inclusive design, co-creation and evaluation of digital health for individuals with a mild intellectual disability
—From Affordances to Action: Designing Familiar Health Data Interfaces for Older Adults
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
—Designing for Behavioural Compliance in Post-Stroke Rehabilitation: Insights from the NeuHand Digital Therapy System
—Rethinking Lifestyle Telemonitoring Design Through the Lens of Patient Life Contexts
Workshop 3: Walking Together for Motivating Environment
—Designing Outdoor Intergenerational Games with Physical Web Technologies to Promote Outdoors Physical Activity (Fatima Badmos, Emma Murphy, Damon Berry)
—From Negative Moods to Collective Energy: Physical Interfaces for Mood-Aware Workspaces (Wu, Tzuhui; Cmentowski, Sebastian; Hu, Jun; Bernhaupt, Regina)
—MR-based Walking Companions for Socially-Motivated Physical Activity: Elemental Allies Beside You (Li, Jingya; Dong, Yuexi; Jia, Yibo).
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
Focuses on IoT ecosystems, multimodal sensing, and machine learning for sleep, respiratory health, and cognitive load assessment.
Chair: Qi Wang
— Exploring Sleep at Home with an InternetofThings Ecosystem (Tudor Vacaretu; Sigrid Pillen; Anne-Wil Burghoorn; Melanie Knufinke-Meyfroyt; Peter Lovei; Sebastiaan Overeem; Carmen Van Der Zwaluw; Thomas Visser; Panos Markopoulos)
— Exploring Heart Rate Variability Feature Importance for REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Classification (Umberto Mosca; Irene Rechichi; Alessandro Cicolin; Gabriella Olmo)
— Detection of Oxygen Desaturation Events from PSG Data Using Minimal Annotations (Hrishi Preetham; Akshay Prasad Honnavalli; Aaryan Hemant Badyal; Adithya Sharma C A; Gowri Srinivasa)
— MultiModality Improves Cognitive Load Classification Of Naturalistic Tasks Under Varying Signal Quality (Christoph Anders; Sidratul Moontaha; Samik Real; Fabian Stolp; Bert Arnrich)
— Understanding the Effectiveness of FewShot Learning in Cough Sound Classification (Yoga Disha Sendhil Kumar; Manas V Shetty; Sudip Vhaduri)
Paper Session 2b: Mental Health Sensing & JustinTime Support
Presents sensing, predictive modeling, and just in time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) for stress, affect, and mental health conditions.
Chair: Alina Huldtgren
— Personalized OneStepAhead Prediction of Mental Health in EarlyStage Breast Cancer Survivors (Aristeidis Petrakis; Eugenia Mylona; Konstantina Kourou; Georgios Manikis; Haridimos Kondylakis; Kostas Marias; Paula Poikonen-Saksela; Panagiotis Simos; Evangelos Karademas; Ketti Mazzocco; Ruth Pat-Horenczyk; Berta Sousa; Dimitrios Fotiadis)
— Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence in the Identification of Burnout Syndrome: A Systematic Literature Review (Renan Campos Silverio de Oliveira; Wanderley Lopes de Souza)
— Predicting Schizophrenia States with Behavioral Sensing and Network Analysis (Andy Davies; Hane Aung; Omar Costilla-Reyes)
— StressGrove: Visualizing Collective Stress to Facilitate Workplace Stress Awareness and Management (Farzaneh Amrollahi; Mengru Xue; David Nkem; Omogolo Omaatla Morake)
— Daily Behavioral and Environmental Factors Association with Affective States and Quality of Life (Maissa Bouneb; Igor Matias; Katarzyna Wac)
Lunch Break
Paper Session 3a: Aging, Community Care & Assistive Technologies
Addresses technology design for older adults, community living, prehabilitation, and staff training in care contexts.
Chair: Bianca Șerban
— Design Considerations of Technology to Promote Outdoors Physical Activity for Older Adults (Fatima Badmos; Emma Murphy; Damon Berry)
— Patient Perspectives on Telemonitoring during Colorectal Cancer Surgery Prehabilitation (Irina Bianca Șerban; Dimitra Dritsa; David ten Cate; Loes Janssen; Margot Heijmans; Sara Colombo; Aarnout Brombacher; Steven Houben)
— DelirSens VR: Sensitizing Care Staff to Delirium (Sandra Radzanowski; Holger Klapperich; Alina Huldtgren)
— From Menopause to Aging: Exploring TechnologyMediated Coping Strategies and Broader Aging Challenges (Weiwei Zhang; Han Bao; Chenyang Li; Yuxiang Zhai; Tongxin Sun; Meng Li)
— Practitioner Insights of Autonomous RobotLed Physiotherapy in the Community (Carl Bettosi; Tom McKeever; Lynne Baillie; Susan Shenkin; Marta Romeo)
— “Not in the Caf?”: Older Adults’ Perceptions of AI Companions in Community Living Settings (Karina LaRubbio; Alyssa Lanter; Malcolm Grba; Amulya Velamakanni; Jennifer Tran; Alexandra Hogue; Diana Freed)
Paper Session 3b: Physical Activity: Analytics, Decision Support & Engagement
Examines measurement, shared decision making, and engagement strategies for promoting physical activity.
Chair: Karin Coninx
— Assessing the Value of Digital Tools for Effective Shared Decision Making on Physical Activity in Cardiac Secondary Prevention (Karin Coninx; Shahrzad Babaei Balderlo; Wim Ramakers; Sevda Ece Kizilkilic; Rosa Lilia Segundo Diaz; Paul Dendale; Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium) Department of Cardiology; Dominique Hansen)
— Towards DataEnabled Physical Activity Planning: HCP Perspectives on Integration of Patient Generated Health Data (Pavithren V S Pakianathan; Hannah McGowan; Isabel Höppchen; Daniela Wurhofer; Gunnar Treff; Mahdi Sareban; Josef Niebauer; Albrecht Schmidt; Jan David Smeddinck)
— Motivating Environment: A Conceptual Framework Connecting Personal Physical Activity Data to the Public Environment (Mengyan Guo; Steven Houben; Steven Vos; Jun Hu)
— Benefits and Drawbacks of Sharing Heart Rate Data during Collaborative Exercise: A Qualitative Study (Wesly S. Menard; Kevin Childs; Oluwatomisin Obajemu; Toni V. Earle-Randell; Kristy Elizabeth Boyer)
—Assessing FreeLiving Stepping Cadence as a Putative Digital Physical Behaviour Outcome (Craig Speirs; Mark Dunlop; Marc Roper)
— “It felt more real”: Investigating the User Experience of the MiWaves Personalizing JITAI Pilot Study (Susobhan Ghosh; Pei-Yao Hung; Erin Bonar; Lara Coughlin; Yongyi Guo; Inbal Nahum-Shani; Maureen Walton; Mark Newman; Susan Murphy)
Coffee Break
Demo and Posters
— Nova: A Tangible Conversational Support System for Family-Centric Cardiac Rehab
— Design of Wearable-Based Real-Time Stress Detection and Breathing Intervention
— Virtual Agents for Post-COVID Syndrome Patients
— Leveraging AI for Low Literacy: Rethinking Interaction Accessibility Through Document Simplification
— CentraMate
— Evaluating OpenDBM for Emotion Intensity Prediction: A Comparative Study Using Facial and Physiological Data
— Predicting Numeric Hemoglobin A1c for Individualized Type 2 Diabetes Care Using Machine Learning: A MIMIC-IV Study
— StressIT: An ECG Dataset for Stress Detection Using a Polar H10 Sensor
— Multi-center Machine Learning Challenges and Evaluation: A clinical use case
— Empowering Patient-Centered Care: AI-Driven Pre-Visit Tool to Enhance Patient Engagement and Diagnostic Accuracy
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
Highlights user centered design and evaluation of digital interventions across diverse populations and modalities.
Session Chair: Jun Hu
— Understanding User Needs for a MindfulnessBased Mobile App to Improve Psychological Wellbeing and Glycemic Control in
Gestational Diabetes (Prabhadini Godage; Oonagh M Giggins; Julie Doyle; Anita Byrne)
— CHOctrl: A Culturally Contextualized Digital Intervention for Carbohydrate Portion Control in China (Yibo Meng; Rongqi Bei)
— TacoTask — A Homework Task Management Tool for Children and their Parents (Yunfei Hu; Pinhao Wang; Jun Hu)
— Designing VR for Chronic Pain: Transforming AIPowered Biofeedback to Interoceptive Awareness and Neuromodulation (Sara Khalilipicha; Diane Gromala; Armin Froozanfar; Chris Shaw; Patti Derbyshire; Efe Erhan)
— EmoStory: CoDesigning Storytelling with Children to Support SelfReflection for Mental Wellbeing (Siming Wang; Jiaxin Wu; Yuzhen Hu; Mingyang Sun; Tong Guo; Wenjie Zhao; Xiaoqing Sun; Xipei Ren)
— An Empirical Study on the Design of Dynamic Music Visualization for Therapy Based on Synesthesia Feature Mapping (Hua Ma; Qin Zhou; Yixin Chen; Qixuan Chu; Dujiao Yang; Xu Sun)
Paper Session 4b: Design, Requirements Health Data Representation
Focuses on design requirements, data representation, and ethical sharing in digital health systems.
Session Chair: Lorenzo James
— A UserCentred Design Process Framework for Wearable Air Pollution Monitoring Devices (Wensi Cai; Mike Mannion; Daria Morozova; Laura Pruszko)
— Eliciting Design Requirements for Emerging Microscopy Technologies (Hannah van Iterson; Drew Ehrlich; Shanshan Chen; Yohei Rosen; Mircea Teodorescu; Edwin En-Te Hwu; Rong-Hao Liang; Sri Kurniawan)
— Exploring Data Physicalization and Hydration for Office Wellbeing (Hans Brombacher; Amna Strojil; Steven Vos; Steven Houben)
— Clarity or Abstraction? Semantic Preferences for Health Data Representations among Older Adults and Experts (Peterson Jean; Enda Bates; Emma Murphy)
— Exploring Stakeholder Perspectives on Sharing ContextSensitive Data with an mHealth App for LLMGenerated Personalized Content (Lorenzo James; Carlijn Dielemans; Suzan Evers; Maria Ribeiro; Laura Genga; Barbara Montagne; Pieter Van Gorp)
Closing Ceremony
Best Paper Award
Announcement regarding EAI PervasiveHealth 2026
