The mDOT Center
Transforming health and wellness via temporally-precise mHealth interventions
mDOT@MD2K.org
901.678.1526
901.678.1526
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM MT
The Visioning Workshop on Optimizing interventions leveraging Brain, Behavior, and Physiology interactions in the Natural Field Environment is designed as a dynamic and forward-thinking event bringing together experts from academia and industry. The workshop utilizes a multifaceted approach, incorporating presentations, brainstorming sessions, demos, breakout groups, and networking opportunities. This format ensures active engagement, collaborative discussions, and knowledge exchange among participants.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from neuroscience, behavioral science and AI with mHealth experts from the mDOT Center to explore how recent advances in generative AI, foundation models, and digital twins can be used to develop a new unified framework to link brain, behavior, and physiology in people’s natural environment, to design and optimize the next generation of treatments and interventions.
The workshop will explore new frontiers by integrating neuroscience, behavioral science, and AI to create a unified framework that bridges brain, behavior, and physiology in real-world settings. It will leverage advanced technologies like generative AI, foundation models, and digital twins to pioneer innovative, personalized, and adaptive interventions. Emphasizing real-world application, the workshop aims to ensure that research and interventions are grounded in natural field environments, leading to more scalable solutions. Collaborative innovation will be encouraged, fostering a multidisciplinary approach to solving complex problems at the intersection of these fields, ultimately pushing the boundaries of current mHealth research and application.
The workshop will focus on identifying both opportunities and challenges in advancing the integration of brain, behavior, and physiology within mHealth. It aims to map key opportunities by exploring how generative AI, foundation models, and digital twins can be used to create more precise interventions. The workshop will assess the potential for technological integration across neuroscience, behavioral science, and AI, while also evaluating the real-world implementation of these technologies, including the logistical, ethical, and technical challenges. Additionally, it will address the complexities of managing and interpreting data, identify gaps in current research and practice, and balance the pursuit of innovation with the feasibility of practical, scalable interventions.
The workshop will address the ethical and technical challenges of advancing brain, behavior, and physiology integration in mHealth by exploring the ethical implications of using generative AI, foundation models, and digital twins, with a focus on privacy, consent, and data security. It will emphasize responsible AI usage, ensuring transparency, fairness, and alignment with individuals’ best interests, while also tackling the technical challenges of data privacy, security, and the integration of complex systems into real-world environments. The workshop will address bias, promote equity, and focus on designing interventions that respect autonomy, enhance well-being, and are culturally sensitive, ensuring that innovation is both responsible and effective.
A pivotal goal of the workshop is to develop a strategic roadmap. Through report-back sessions and working groups, attendees will summarize key findings, insights, and gaps identified during the workshop. These inputs will contribute to the development of a white paper outlining the research agenda for this emerging research area, guiding future studies and innovations in the field.
The closing session of the workshop will provide a platform for summarizing outcomes and contributions. Participants will share insights gained and discuss the next steps for the research community. The workshop aims to foster a sense of community, encouraging ongoing collaboration, knowledge exchange, and joint initiatives in the evolving landscape of generative mHealth interventions.
2200 W Parkway Blvd
West Valley City, UT 84119
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4028 Parkway Blvd
West Valley City, UT 84120
Phone: 801-679-8222
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The workshop will take place in the Franklin Covey Global Headquarters in Salt Lake City, UT. The meeting will be held in world renowned Training Center on campus at the Hyrum Smith Auditorium.
Franklin Covey Co., trading as Franklin Covey and based in Salt Lake City, is a coaching company which provides training and assessment services in the areas of leadership, individual effectiveness, and business execution for organizations and individuals.
Franklin Covey Global HQ & Training Center
Hyrum Smith Auditorium
2200 W Parkway Blvd
Salt Lake City, UT 84119
The majority of workshop attendees will be staying at the Home2 Suites by Hilton in West Valley City, UT.
The hotel is conveniently located 2 miles from the Franklin Covey Training Center (6 minute drive) and only 11 minutes to Salt Lake City International Airport.
Home2 Suites by Hilton (West Valley, UT)
4028 Parkway Blvd
West Valley City, UT 84120
Phone: 801-679-8222
Continental breakfast, freshly brewed coffee, and hot tea will be available from 8:00 am onwards just outside the meeting room in the Hyrum Smith Auditorium. Attendees are encouraged to join between 8:00 am and 8:30 am, allowing ample time for networking and catching up before the workshop begins.
For attendees staying at the Home2 by Hilton, a shuttle that runs to the conference venue on the Franklin Covey Campus will run each morning. A shuttle will also run back to the Home2 Hotel from the conference venue on Day 1 only. The shuttle schedule is as follows:
DAY 1: MONDAY, OCT 14 – SHUTTLE DEPARTS HOME2 HILTON HOTEL @ 7:45 am MT
DAY 1: MONDAY, OCT 14 – SHUTTLE DEPARTS FRANKLIN COVEY CAMPUS @ 5:00 pm MT
Nestled on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and overlooking the largest inland lake in the western US, Salt Lake City, UT is home to a pioneering past, and an exciting future.
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state.
Salt Lake City was founded on July 24, 1847, by early pioneer settlers led by Brigham Young who were seeking to escape persecution they had experienced while living farther east. The Mormon pioneers, as they would come to be known, entered a semi-arid valley and immediately began planning and building an extensive irrigation network which could feed the population and foster future growth. Salt Lake City’s street grid system is based on a standard compass grid plan, with the southeast corner of Temple Square (the area containing the Salt Lake Temple in downtown Salt Lake City) serving as the origin of the Salt Lake meridian. Owing to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named Great Salt Lake City. In 1868, the word “Great” was dropped from the city’s name. Immigration of international members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), mining booms, and the construction of the first transcontinental railroad brought economic growth, and the city was nicknamed “The Crossroads of the West”. It was traversed by the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, in 1913. Two major cross-country freeways, I-15 and I-80, now intersect in the city. The city also has a belt route, I-215.
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Jason Hong, PhD | Professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute | Carnegie Mellon University
David C. Mohr, PhD | Professor of Preventive Medicine | Northwestern University
David Kennedy, PhD | Professor of Psychiatry | University of Massachusetts Medical School
Veena Misra, PhD | MC Dean Distinguished University Professor | NC State University
Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD | Professor of Medicine | Harvard Medical School
Santosh Kumar, PhD | Lillian & Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence Professor | University of Memphis – Center Director, Lead PI, TR&D1, TR&D2, TR&D3
Jim Rehg, PhD | Founder Professor of Computer Science | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Center Deputy Director, TR&D1 Lead
Susan Murphy, PhD | Professor of Statistics & Computer Science | Harvard University – TR&D2 Lead
Benjamin Marlin, PhD | Associate Professor | University of Massachusetts Amherst – Co-I, TR&D1, TR&D2
Emre Ertin, PhD | Associate Professor | The Ohio State University – TR&D3 Lead – Workshop Co-Chair
Mani Srivastava, PhD | Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | University of California, Los Angeles – Co-I, TR&D3 – Workshop Co-Chair
Vivek Shetty, DDS, MD | Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery/Biomedical Engineering | University of California, Los Angeles – Training & Dissem. Lead
Debra Burns, PhD | Dean, College of Communications & Fine Arts | The University of Memphis
Rhiannon Cowan, PhD | Department of Neurosurgery | The University of Utah
Mitch Frankel | Senior Computational Scientist | Epitel, Inc.
Luis Garcia, PhD | Assistant Professor | The University of Utah – Workshop Co-Chair
Corey Inman, PhD | Assistant Professor | The University of Utah
Alan Kuntz, PhD | Assistant Professor | The University of Utah
Agatha Lenartowicz, PhD | Associate Professor | UCLA
Ramana Vinjamuri, PhD | Associate Professor | University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Neng Wan, PhD | Associate Professor | The University of Utah
Sameer Neupane | Doctoral Student | The University of Memphis
Wanting Mao | Doctoral Student | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Maxwell Xu | Doctoral Student | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
