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Social Support TAT: Theory, Applications, and Technology
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Description
and Aim Social support is vital to human health
and well-being. For example, people with larger social networks live longer
(Holt-Lunstad et al, 2010). Greater social activity
is associated with higher self-worth, creativity, productivity, and reduced
neural, cardiovascular, endocrinological stress
responses (Taylor & Broffman, 2011). In daily
life, intimate relations and socializing are the most important contributors to
well-being, even more important than popular soothing activities like eating
and shopping (Kahneman et al., 2004). While the
benefits of social support are clear, the field remains in its infancy in
understanding the exact conscious and non-conscious mechanisms. Goals The primary goal of this workshop will
be to bring together different perspectives on social support (e.g. biological,
neurological, psychological), thereby getting a better understanding of why and
how social support is so important to human beings. Importantly, another goal
of this workshop will be to use these insights to develop technological
applications of indirect social support that can be used both for research
purposes and for society (e.g. use in therapy). The workshop itself will
be considered a success if participants (as a group) can offer a first concrete
solution for innovative and feasible technological developments to 1) use in
research, 2) apply in therapy, while also lasting collaborations are forged.
In other words, the academic thirst of our guests should be
quenched, while we explicitly aim at developing applications of our knowledge. Format The workshop program offers multiple opportunities for insightful
discussions and knowledge exchange, such as Talks.
Speakers will share their thoughts and work on social support from different
perspectives. In the so-called “Debate” sessions speakers will present
contradictory perspectives in order to elicit discussions on the following
topics: embodied, non-conscious, and social support; sharing of emotions; and
social relationships and health. Brainstorm sessions. The brainstorm sessions will be used as a first step to developing
technological applications together with the Maker Communities. Flash & poster presentations. Research Master and PhD student from around the world will give 2-minute
flash presentations on their work. They will also present their work through posters,
and these posters will be available during the rest of the workshop. Complementary to the workshop's talks and discussions, a group of
entrepreneurs, designers and developers will work on innovative e-mental health
concepts and products, together forming an "open living lab" - a
real-life development environment where researchers, technologists and
creatives co-create innovations as driven and inspired by our workshop's
research goal. The living lab will employ four main activities:
2. Exploration: discovering
emerging usages, behaviors and market opportunities 3. Experimentation:
implementing live scenarios within research and therapy 4. Evaluation:
assessment of concepts, products and services according to socio ergonomic,
socio-cognitive and socio-economic criteria.
This workshop is being organized as part
of the NIAS-Lorentz Program, to stimulate research bridging the natural
sciences with the humanities and social sciences. For more information about the NIAS-Lorentz
Theme Group 2014/15: Social Support, please see: http://www.nias-lorentz.nl/nltg-14-15-ijzerman.html [Back] |
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