Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble Équipe Ingénierie de l'Interaction Humain-Machine

Équipe Ingénierie de l'Interaction
Humain-Machine

ePsyCHI

ANR contract, jan. 2022 - jan. 2026

Engineering digital behaviour change intervention: from Psychological theories to Computer-Human Interaction (ePsyCHI)

ePsyCHI will develop a set of semi-formal languages, called the ePsyCHI language, to formalize, articulate, and make operational key psychological theories related to behaviour change. This language will serve as a common unified tool for the psychology and computer science communities involved in Digital Behaviour Change Intervention (DBCI) systems, much as UML does in Software Engineering. For research in psychology, the tool will help to express and relate existing DBCI theories in a more formal way, expecting improved understanding of the theories. For HCI and DBCI systems development, the tool will help to use DBCI theories without having to first master the underlying theories, expecting improvements in design methods. The project tasks form two cycles: T1-Baseline knowledge elicitation in psychology and computer science as theoretical reference for T2&T3&T4; T2-ePsyCHI language definition; T3-Cards-based tool and Software Tools iincluding experimental evaluation; T4-added-value preliminary assessment of the language.

Contact

Yann Laurillau, Sybille Caffiau, Gaëlle Calvary

Partners

4 Partners coordinated by Univ. Grenoble-Alpes/LIG/IIHM: Université de Lorraine/PERsEUs, Université Aix-Marseille/LPS, ESTIA Recherche