Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) Seminar

INTRODUCTION

Moderator

Participants 1.Jessica van der Zweth 2.Lonneke Brakenhoff 3.Samantha van Dalen 4.Hugo van Krimpen 5.Audrey Sie 6.Zeena Spijkerman 7.Anitha Nagarajan

THE SUBJECT

Persuasive technology & behavior change Intelligent User Interfaces Stress, health and happiness E-coaching

STRESS & HEALTH

Stress signs and symptoms Memory problems Inability to concentrate Poor judgment Seeing only the negative Anxious or racing thoughts Constant worrying

Stress signs and symptoms II Moodiness Irritability or short temper Agitation, inability to relax Feeling overwhelmed Sense of loneliness and isolation Depression or general unhappiness

Stress signs and symptoms III Aches and pains Diarrhea or constipation Nausea, dizziness Chest pain, rapid heartbeat Loss of sex drive Frequent colds

Stress signs and symptoms IV Eating more or less Sleeping too much or too little Isolating yourself from others Procrastinating or neglecting responsibilities Using alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs to relax Nervous habits (e.g. nail biting, pacing)

BEHAVIOUR CHANGE & PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY

INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES

Topics Emotion recognition Eye tracking Ambient intelligence Intelligent tutoring systems Agents and relationships Context monitoring Personal informatics Real-time feedback Searching and learning

THE COURSE

General Course code: INFOIUI Credits: 7.5 ects Period 4: Feb – April 2016 Timeslot: A (Wed )

General II Grade – Individual presentation, individual literature summary and discussion participation (50%) – Team project report, team presentations and peer review (50%) Attendance is obligatory

TEAM PROJECT

Team project Design an intelligent user interface to coach people in adopting a more healthy (or less stressful) lifestyle.

Team teams of 3 or 2 persons

Team presentations Each team will give 2 presentations about their project – progress presentation – final presentation

Team project (continued) In your team project you connect the literature and apply it to a self-chosen topic/application area.

Team project proposal In week 8 (3) (soon!) you hand in a project proposal – describing your application area including your user target group motivation why you have chosen this application area. The length of the proposal is 1/2 - 1 A4. Hand it in before Wednesday, 23.59h via

Report requirements Problem analysis (e.g., PACT) Requirement analysis State of the art Innovation step Prototype Evaluation Realization plan References

Report requirements II Total content is around pages Address as many of the topics of the individual presentations as you can. References to as many of the scientific papers as you can

EXAMPLES FROM PREVIOUS YEARS

My Diet Aid: a coaching app that assists a user in following a diet and also supports the connection with a human dietician.

The Psychology of Selves: an app that allows users to measure the strength of their Inner Critic and gives them the possibility to put their negative thoughts into perspective.

StressAway: A system for helping people to introduce calming habits into their lives

Hydration coach: a system aiming at helping people to avoid dehydration and drink more water

Other examples see website

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS & DISCUSSION PARTICIPATION

Individual presentations Each student gives a 15 minute presentation on one scientific paper Who? What? When? -> later

Discussions after every presentation a short discussion (5-10 minutes) led by the presenter

Discussion points every participant provides 1 discussion point per presentation due at least 24h before the session via Google groups forum best points are discussed (judged by presenter)

Literature (recent) scientific papers accessible via the web. You need to be logged in via Solis

Literature: Example Eye tracking Siyuan Chen, Julien Epps, and Fang Chen Automatic and continuous user task analysis via eye activity. In Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (IUI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, DOI= /

LITERATURE SUMMARIES

Individual literature summaries Each student writes for 10 papers a short literature summary (1 or 2 A4 page) consisting of a 1.summary of the paper written in your own words that is also understandable for others 2.one or more take-away / learning points for your own team project 3.a discussion point for the discussion on the topic on the forum You can choose the presented ones or other papers from the website.

Peer review A draft version of team project report will be peer reviewed.

SCHEDULE Individual presentations

Session 1 (Wed 24 Feb) S1 & S2. Concept of stress and stress and people: Lonneke I7. Personal Informatics: Jessica

Session 2 (Wed 2 March) S3 & S4. Stress Measurement and management: Audrey P2. & P3. Behavior modeling and types: Samantha S5 & S6. Resilience and stress-less ICT: Zeena

Session 3 (Wed 9 March) P1. Health behaviour change: Hugo P4 & P5. Persuasive and behavior change support systems: Anitha

SCHEDULE

Next steps 1.Form a team and let me know 2.Work on team project proposal 3.Start writing literature summaries 4.Subscribe to google groups forum: ( intelligent-user-interfaces) 5.Provide discussion points for session 1 6.Prepare your individual presentation