Seminar Series: Stephen Intille on “Personal, Behavioral Health Informatics: At the Interface of Human and Machine”

Professor Stephen Intille

"Personal, Behavioral Health Informatics: At the Interface of Human and Machine," April 2

Stephen Intille, Associate Professor of Computer & Information Science and of Health Sciences

Stephen Intille's work explores the development and evaluation of personal, behavioral health informatics – how sensor data acquired throughout everyday life from miniature mobile and in-home sensors might be used to improve wellness via novel human-computer interfaces. This research involves merging ideas from the computer science subfields of pattern recognition, machine learning, computational sensing, and artificial intelligence with ideas from behavioral science, behavioral medicine, social psychology, and preventive medicine. Intille is particularly interested in how algorithms that recognize everyday activities can drive the development of interactive preventive health tools that could ultimately be applied at the population scale in a cost-effective manner. Intille directs the mHealth Research Group at Northeastern, which has worked to create new tools that can be used to both measure and motivate behavior change, taking advantage of emerging sensor-based technologies.