Health & Behavior Data Symposium

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Technology has made it possible to study people’s behavior at an unprecedented level of detail. The advent of mobile devices and sensors allows both passive and active individual-level data collection. This opens opportunities for research, particularly in the fields of health and human behavior. High-resolution data can be collected from devices as diverse as mobile phones, wearables, social media platforms, and online surveys.
Data can be collected both purposefully (controlled studies) and as a side-effect of other processes (secondary use). It can then be processed and analyzed for various purposes from "quantified self" feedback to digital phenotyping and personalized medicine. These topics have a high impact on modern research, business, and society.
This symposium will gather the data collection community both in the Helsinki region, Finland, and internationally to discuss and network. The symposium will provide an opportunity to see the state of the art of data collection from humans, both on the tools needed to collect data and applications and analysis of that data. Topics will include design and technology, research questions, analysis and computation, ethics of human data collection, and the current ecosystem at Aalto, in Finland, and beyond.
Symposium talks are available on YouTube:
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Program
8:30 Coffee
- DIY Conference Badges available on site!
9:00 Welcome, Jouko Lampinen, Dean of School of Science, Aalto University
Keynote & talks begin
• The public value of data: challenges and opportunities. Ciro Cattuto, Scientific Director, ISI Foundation, Italy
• Long-term data and wearables - learning from your body reactions. Heli Koskimäki, Senior Data Scientist, Oura Health and Adjunct Professor, University of Oulu
Break and Coffee
10:30 Talks continue
• Sleep and sleepiness monitoring. Jussi Virkkala, Medical Physicist, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
• Secondary use of health and social data. Jarkko Reittu, Data Protection Officer, THL
• Panel discussion & questions
Lunch
12:30 Talks continue
• A doctor’s dream of future digital era healthcare. Kiti Müller, Senior Neuroscientist, Nokia Bell Labs
• How to turn heartbeat into a secret key... and why your WiFi router already knows it. Stephan Sigg, Assistant Professor of Ambient Intelligence, Aalto Department of Communications and Networking
• Aalto Research Showcase
• Panel discussion & questions
13:50 Closing and workshop orientation
14:05 Closing remarks, Kimmo Kaski
Break and coffee
14:30–16:00 Afternoon Workshops
See workshop subjects below.
After-work session at restaurant Fat Lizard