Dr. Nahum-Shani will discuss common misconceptions and opportunities in harnessing powerful mobile and sensing technologies to adapt the delivery of interventions to the unique and dynamically changing needs of individuals, while minimizing participant effort, burden and habituation.
The presentation will highlight:
- The variety of intervention designs that can be deployed to adapt the delivery of digital interventions, including standard adaptive interventions, just-in-time adaptive interventions and multimodality adaptive interventions;
- the variety of experimental approaches that can be used to answer scientific questions about the development of different kinds of digital adaptive interventions; and
- the critical role of clearly defining, measuring and investigating engagement with digital Interventions.
About the Speaker
Dr. Nahum-Shani’s research focuses on harnessing adaptive interventions to transform health care. Adaptive interventions address the changing needs of individuals by modifying their treatment based on dynamic information about their state and progress. This work is highly multidisciplinary, spanning behavioral health and applied psychology, while also being tightly integrated with advanced research methodology. An important focus of her work is the Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention, a special type of adaptive intervention that leverages powerful mobile and sensing technologies to adapt the delivery of support in real-world settings—in near real-time, as well as interventions that blend human-delivered (e.g., coaching session) components with digital (e.g., mobile-based) components, which necessitates adaptation on multiple timescales.
