BCSS 2018: 6th International Workshop on Behavior Change Support Systems |
Website | https://bcssworkshop.wordpress.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcss2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 5, 2018 |
Submission deadline | February 5, 2018 |
BCSS2018
The Behavior Change Support Systems (BCSS) workshop, already running for the sixth time at Persuasive Technology, is a workshop that builds around the concept of systems that are specifically designed to help and support behaviour change in individuals or groups. The highly multi-disciplinary nature of designing and implementing behaviour change strategies and systems for the strategies has been in the forefront of this workshop from the very beginning. This year the workshop comprises of new and interesting work on BCSSs in general and also a more focused theme of using extensive data in design and evaluation of BCSS.
Technology enables us to use real world data tracked in daily life over longer periods of time in persuasive systems, which introduces a number of challenges, for example, chosing the timing, modality, content, and possibly the device of persuasive strategies. These challenges are related to both the research and the development of persuasive systems in different contexts, such as health, energy, or the everyday workplace. Especially, the evaluation over extensive time periods is complicated, as to optimize the effect of BCSS the interaction can change over time by personalization of the system, based on context and interactions, and interactions with the system can be very different between persons. We believe this also requires a more holisitic view on evaluation than a-priori decided more quantitative analysis.
These challenges surpass domains– be it design, methodological, technological or even ecological. The challenge cannot be tackled by researchers from one discipline alone, and as such they require a collaborative, interdisciplinary perspective. Stakeholders range from professionals, designers, programmers, to end-users as well.
The BCSS workshop aims at connecting researchers, practitioners, and experts with a great variety of backgrounds who are developing, implementing and/or evaluating BCSSs. During the workshop we will discuss, share, and develop insights about the use of more and more types of data and over a longer period for better fitted persuasive systems and development and/or evaluation thereof.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
We encourage submissions in three categories:
- Research papers (max. 16 pages in the LNCS format)
- Work-in-progress papers (max. 6 pages in the LNCS format)
- Position papers (2-4 pages in the LNCS format)
Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Accepted research papers and work-in-progress papers are planned to be published via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Links to previous years’ workshop proceedings can be found at: https://bcssworkshop.wordpress.com/proceedings-bcss-2016/
Should you wish to submit something that does not fit within these submission guidelines, please contact the organisers to see if we can accommodate you.
Submission will be through Easychair
List of Topics
Topics for submissions include, but are not limited to:
- Smart monitoring for persuasive coaching especially in (but not limited to) the area of health and well-being.
- Developing just-in-time persuasive prompts and feedback to support behavior and to create adherence and engagement to different technologies, using data generated by smart sensors, self-tracking devices, wearables, etc.
- Engagement, integration, connectivity, personalization, and changes in Persuasive Technology.
- Interactive visualizations (including virtual coaches and dialogues) for personalization and social support.
- High tech, human touch/humanizing technology.
- Connectivity designs for social support, e.g. for lifestyle change and improving wellbeing.
- Design guidelines for the design, implementation and evaluation of BCSSs.
- Persuasive strategies related to different outcomes (engagement; resilience; attitudes; compliance; behaviors) and levels (individual; community; society) of change.
This year, we especially welcomed papers regarding the evaluation of BCSS:
- Methods for measuring the impact of BCSSs and smart persuasive environments on individuals, community, and society.
- Methods for measuring the effect of persuasive strategies on task adherence (e.g., via fractional factorial designs).
- Methods (including mixed methods approaches) for measuring various aspects of BCSSs in the wild; considering context and including process and product measurements in a real-life setting.
- Methods or approaches to evaluate the persuasiveness of different technologies for BCSSs (mobile, ubiquitous, ambient technologies, virtual environments, sensor-based, etc.).
- Advanced big data analytics for analyzing and interpreting usage data and self-tracking data from (multimodal) sensors.
- Translating the outcomes into multimodal feedback cues, and their effects on adherence and outcomes.
- Advanced analytics to predict adherence and to identify usage patterns and its effects on adherence.
- Implementation strategies to deal with proprietary closed algorithm layers to gather reliably gather data of daily use, using commercial sensor devices.
For any submissions we wish to highlight that this year’s workshop aims at discussing especially the challenges we run into while developing effective coaching strategies and technologies and how and what kind of data is used for better fitted persuasive systems, the development of these systems and/or evaluation thereof. Therefore the papers are encouraged to reflect on the challenges the authors run into and on the (possible) ways these challenges have been or can be overcome. We also welcome position papers under this workshop theme.
Committees
Program Co-Chairs
- Floor Sieverink, University of Twente, the Netherlands
- Randy Klaassen, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Organizing Co-Chairs
- Robby van Delden, University of Twente, the Netherlands
- Jobke Wentzel, University of Twente, the Netherlands
General Co-Chairs
- Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen, University of Twente, the Netherlands
- Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, the Netherlands
- Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu, Finland
Publication
Accepted research papers and work-in-progress papers are planned to be published via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Links to previous years’ workshop proceedings can be found at: https://bcssworkshop.wordpress.com/proceedings-bcss-2016/
Venue
The conference will be held at the University of Waterloo, in conjunction with the Annual International Conference on Persuasive Technology.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to BCSS2018@outlook.com.