Workshop:
Designing for Long-Term Transfer of Healthy Behaviours
Scope
In recent years, digital health research has gradually shifted from focusing on short-term engagement and immediate intervention effects toward understanding how health-related skills are formed, maintained, and transferred into real-life contexts. However, existing systems mostly emphasize completing tasks or specific behaviours, while offering limited support on transferring these skills for independent use in everyday life. At the same time, whilst research fields like behavioural science, digital health, and human-computer interaction (HCI) have all been accumulating valuable insights on promoting healthy behaviour, self-regulation, and long-term transfer, theories and design insights are often fragmented and are difficult to directly apply to concrete design tasks. In response, this workshop proposes a design tool that guides participants through structured design activities addressing long-term skill transfer in digital health. The workshop aims to provide an operational design medium that systematically addresses key issues in promoting healthy behaviours through specific design tasks. Through this process, we seek to explore digital health design pathways that support both skill development and real-world transfer.
Timeline
Submission deadline: 30 June, 2026
Notification deadline: 20 July, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: 30 July, 2026
Topics
Publication
All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.
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Submission Guidelines
Workshop papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format.
The workshop accepts position papers of 4+ pages (published as a part of the EAI PervasiveHealth 2026 Conference Proceedings in a non-indexed Annex section).
The paper submissions must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (see Author’s kit).
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Workshop Organizers
Qi Chen
Qi Chen is a lecturer and researcher at Wuhan Textile University and a PhD candidate at Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on digital health, human-computer interaction, healthy behaviour support, emotion regulation, rehabilitation design, and long-term skill transfer. She has published in digital health, holds related invention patents, and received a Best Paper Award at CHI 2026 for her work on a breathing biofeedback game for women in compulsory isolation drug rehabilitation centers. Her interdisciplinary experience and collaboration with hospitals and experts provide a strong foundation for this workshop.
Xijing Chen
Xijing Chen is an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her work focuses on music therapy, mental health, and clinical practice. She holds a PhD in Music Therapy from Aalborg University, completed postdoctoral training at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has participated in major national research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology. Her expertise contributes valuable perspectives on sustainable health support and intervention design.
Zhihao Yao
Zhihao Yao is a postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University. He received his PhD from the Future Laboratory at Tsinghua University, with training in both design and electronic engineering. His work spans human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and digital health, and he has published in venues such as CHI and UIST. He has also received international design awards including Red Dot and DIA. His expertise in design research, prototyping, and tool development provides important support for this workshop.
Michael Detsiang Li Jr
Michael Detsiang Li Jr is a Master’s student at Tsinghua University with an interdisciplinary background in human-computer interaction and psychology. His research has been published in conferences such as CHI and HRI. His interdisciplinary training contributes useful perspectives on user engagement, behaviour change, and psychologically informed design.
Yuan Yao
Yuan Yao is an Assistant Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University. She holds a PhD in Design from Tsinghua University, and her research focuses on human-computer interaction, design research, human-environment interaction, and user experience design. Her expertise in design methods
