💡November Recap: Connecting with partners in digital health. We presented to the #ALPS delegation (27 countries) about Austria’s innovation landscape, LBI-DHP’s role in digital health research, and potential collaborations. Thanks to Salzburg Research & Innosbg for hosting & organizing. 🌍✨

Also presented MORE and LBI-DHP at FH Salzburg to a diverse digital health audience, thanks to Alex Kollmann & team for initiating. November was about collaboration and knowledge sharing across our digital health ecosystem. Excited to continue these conversations. #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety

Happy Holidays from LBI DHP 🎄✨ As we celebrate the season, we wish you a joyful Christmas and an active and healthy start to 2026. Thank you for advancing digital health, prevention, and innovation with us. We look forward to shaping a healthier future together in the year ahead. #DigitalHealth

ACM Interactive Health ‘26 call for submissions Short forms: February 12 Demos and Exhibitions: February 26 Workshops: January 15 Doctoral Colloquium: February 5 Early Career Workshop: April 1 See: ih.acm.org #CSCW #IH #IH2026 #HealthInformatics @acm-cscw.bsky.social @acm-sigchi.bsky.social

Interdisciplinarity Matters IK brings together many research fields in a single, collaborative environment, helping ask deeper questions and build more responsible systems. Join us to expand your perspective beyond your field. More info: interdisciplinary-college.org #InterdisciplinaryResearch

How can we make staying active more engaging? 🤔 Our research on Active Audio Adventures (presented at MuC 2025) shows that blending storytelling, gamification & real-time cues (like haptics) boosts motivation, lowers cognitive load & supports sustainable activity 🏃‍♂ #DigitalHealth #ScienceForSociety

🩺 New paper at Pervasive Health 2025 We explore healthcare professional insights on how wearable data can support personalized physical activity planning in cardiac rehab - pointing to design needs for trust, workflow integration, and adaptive data sensemaking. #PervasiveHealth #DigitalHealth #PGHD

Pavithren, PhD candidate in data-enabled cardiac prevention, has been selected for the Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Program 2025 by the World Heart Federation! One of 25 global leaders—congrats, and all the best in advancing the future of cardiac care globally! 🌍 #ScienceForSociety #WHFEL2025

🎉 Congrats to Prof. Dr. Dr. Mahdi Sareban on becoming Chair of Sports Medicine at University Clinic Krems and Professor at KL University! We’re glad he stays affiliated with our institute. His milestone reflects our mission: boosting careers, strengthening science, and driving #digitalhealth.

Our co-director Jan Smeddinck @smeddinck.bsky.social shared our latest work on personalized digital health applications for prevention and rehabilitation in a session chaired by co-investigator Mahdi Sareban.

This is not a AI slop. To commemorate the first time I actually (knowingly) "liked" an (obviously) generated "AI slop" video today ... with mixed feelings!

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

🚀 Missed the Digital Health Forum 2025 keynote? Watch our Research Co-Director, Jan Smeddinck (@smeddinck.bsky.social), dive into Generative AI in Personalized Health & Prevention! 🎥 Recording: youtu.be/Jtu-6G0JQ50 📑 Slides: cloud.lbidhp.at/s/eTXYHR2f9f...

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

Global warming reaches +1.5 °C this year and +2°C around 2037 Using a 15-year linear or 30-year nonlinear extrapolation. As global warming has accelerated, using a 30-year linear extrapolation is not the right approach to assess the state of the climate. 1/

Hey all in the @acm-sigchi.bsky.social community, or linked to it; and esp. those lucky enough to attend @chi.acm.org 2025 in Yokohama these days: our PhD candidate (recently submitted!) David Haag <[email protected]> from @lbi-dhp.bsky.social will be presenting our work ...

🧠 🤖 🧑‍🔬 Save the date! Interdisciplinary College 2026: March 13–20, 2026! Exciting focus theme: "Bridging Realities of Brains, Language & Technology" #IK2026 #AI #cognitivescience #neuroscience #interdisciplinary #research #springschool

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

A bit longer than your typical keynote, but I hope decently up to speed and perhaps of interest for those interested in personalized health and prevention. There have certainly been more straightforward times for considering what will happen / be most relevant next though! #digitalhealth #ai

@searchliaison.bsky.social Please give a clear pathway to choice when searching between a) traditional web search only, b) AI response, c) both ... AI on nearly every search is wasteful and results in cluttered UI!

This doesn't look good, folks www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Ing. Jan Smeddinck will deliver a keynote on "Generative AI in Personalized Digital Health & Prevention" at the Digital Health Forum, Spring 2025! 📅 April 1, 2025 | ⏰ 4:15 pm CET | 📍 Online via Zoom 🔗 More details: www.c4dhi.org/news/250401-... #ScienceForSociety

#ChatGPT #4o new #ImageGen trying to help us make sense of the weirdness of latent space ... quite on point, although the laws of physics arguably still govern even most complex computational realizations within the substrate of our universe ... right?

Der #Klimawandel und steigende #Hitzetage bedrohen die Gesundheit inaktiver Menschen in Österreich. Im Projekt #KlimaFIT erforschen wir gemeinsam mit unseren Partnern, wie aktives #Mobilitätsmanagement & gezieltes #Hitzemanagement kardiovaskuläre Risiken senken kann. Mehr unter: lnkd.in/dpyEb4PP

Welcome, Gergely Masek! 🚀 We're thrilled to have Gergely join us as a #SoftwareEngineer at LBI-DHP! With a Business Informatics degree and experience in AI-assisted development, full-stack engineering, and DevOps, he'll drive innovation in #digitalhealth. Glad to have you! 👏 #ScienceForSociety

🤩 Exciting news! Pavithren V S Pakianathan started a 2-month research internship at LASIGE, University of Lisbon, working with Tiago Guerreiro & Diogo Branco on improving health data sensemaking for cardiac care. Big thanks to LASIGE for the support and good luck to the team! #ScienceForSociety

Pre-print can be found at: arxiv.org/abs/2402.08658 Many thanks to all co-authors, including the fantastic lead-author work by David Haag, as well as Devender kumar, Sebastian Gruber, Dominik P. Hofer, Mahdi Sareban, Gunnar Treff, Josef Niebauer, Christopher Bull and @albrechtschmidt.bsky.social :)

Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science openrxiv.org/introducing-... @openrxiv.bsky.social

99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

o3, R1 und meine Klausuren Diese Woche waren Mathematik 2 und Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion dran. Ich habe die beiden Klausuren von ChatGPT o3-mini-high, o3-mini, o1, DeepSeek R1, Gemini 2.0 Pro (exp-02-05) und Claude 3.5 Sonnet durchnudeln las… (Link im ersten Kommentar) #bluelz #Bluecampus

This result keeps showing up in studies. GPT-4 does a good job on patient care tasks, better than the mean doctor, but doctor-AI teams do not outperform AI alone. Figuring out how to gain more when human & AI work together needs to be a bigger priority in integrating AI into work

While we are happy to see great interest in the focus topic of "Augmenting Minds and Bodies" and #IK2025 is already fully booked, we would like encourage and invite all participants to contribute to IK via a submission of a poster, a Spotlight Talk or a Featured Lecture.

A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...

Also, if this covers any paper that goes through the CDC co-author review process, it means interfering with *all* research globally that includes at least one CDC collaborator…

DeepSeek-R1! ⚡ Performance on par with OpenAI-o1 📖 Fully open-weight model & technical report 🏆 MIT licensed: Distill & commercialize freely! 🌐 Website & API are live now! Demo: chat.deepseek.com Models: huggingface.co/deepseek-ai

I don’t really have the energy for politics right now. So I will observe without comment: Executive Order 14110 was revoked (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence)

Join our team at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention (LBI-DHP) in Salzburg, Austria! We are seeking a talented Full Stack Developer / Research Software Engineer (f/m/x) to contribute to the development of innovative digital health solutions. In this role, you will: (1/5)

🔍 IK 2025: Augmenting Minds and Bodies 🌿🤖 Join us at Lake Möhne for IK 2025, where we’ll explore how advancements in technology and AI are intersecting with human biology and cognition to augment both bodies and minds.

🚀 Early-career researchers, are you ready for an unforgettable interdisciplinary adventure? Registration is OPEN for Interdisciplinary College (IK) 2025! 🌍✨ 🧠 Focus Topic: Augmenting Minds & Bodies 📆 March 14-21 at scenic Lake Möhne, Germany 💡 Cognitive Science, AI, Neuroscience, Robotics & more!

This is very interesting: arxiv.org/html/2411.07... ... in my mind, relating to what #cognitive / #neuroscience tell us about human cognition, this is something like "priming" and establishes a "live-attuned" runtime state of the model by updating parameters temporarily based on runtime context 👍

This concise 90 minutes free online symposium session on "The Future of Personalization in Digital Health" is happening tomorrow 16:30 - 18:00 CET; you can still register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Please feel invited join us! #DigitalHealth #medsky #personalization

❓ Curious what the future of personalization in #digitalhealth might look like? Please feel invited to join the according focus session of our online hashtag#symposium SDHPD 2024 👉 dhp.lbg.ac.at/symposium-20...

😊 We are happy to announce that Lis Neubeck will be bringing in the third keynote at our #SDHPD2024 on Monday! Lis is Professor of 💙 Cardiovascular Health in the School of Health and Social Care and Head of the Centre for Cardiovascular Health at Edinburgh Napier University.

We are looking for a Postdoc in Data Science & Digital Health Systems Engineering who is enthusiastic about data analytics and building digital health applications / systems with a focus on personalization. Wide range of backgrounds are welcome (CS, ML, HCI, etc.). dhp.lbg.ac.at/career/?lang...

The @twitter@LBI_DHP is happy to contribute to the @twitter@OIS_Center 2024 Open Innovation in Science Research Conference (in London / hybrid). Special topic: "Zeroing in on the scientist: Navigating Dynamic Challenges in the Modern Research Landscape" ois-research-conference.org #participatory

Exciting News: Registration for our Interdisciplinary College 2024 is now OPEN! The Focus Theme will be: Resilience, Robustness, Responsibility - March 1st to March 8th 2024 (interdisciplinary-college.org)! 🌟 #InterdisciplinaryCollege #InterdisciplinaryEducation #Networking

Together with our partner institution Salzburg Research we still have an amazing #job opportunity for a #PhD Student (f|m|non-binary) – Data Engineer in Digital Health. #DataEngineering #DataScience #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Personalization www.salzburgresearch.at/en/2023/want...

Calling UK-based healthcare professionals: Participate in our online study and help us optimise contextualised text messages to foster physical activity in #rehabilitation (e.g. post-cardiac events). Interested? [email protected] #digitalhealth #study #eHealth #mHealth 👩‍⚕️🏃💪🫀

Join an active audio adventure in Salzburg! A unique user study awaits you, featuring active sightseeing with a moderate level of exercises and innovative navigation methods. Dates: Nov. 27 to Dec. 15; €15 comp for 90 min.. For more information email [email protected]. 🏃🎧📱