Today, we had the honour of giving a pre-conference workshop on applying the Behaviour Change Techniques Ontology for selecting and specifying behaviour change techniques as part of the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change Behaviour Change Conference 2025. Want to learn more? Find the slides here: osf.io/ca5fn/
Human Behaviour-Change & APRICOT Project
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The HBCP, funded by the Wellcome Trust, has created an AI/ML-based knowledge system to transform behavioural science.
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The Human Behaviour-Change Project (HBCP), a Wellcome Trust-funded programme of work, has created an AI/ML-based ‘knowledge system’ to find research reports in a given area of behavioural science, extract key information from those reports using an ‘ontology’ of behaviour change interventions, and predict intervention outcomes in novel scenarios. The HBCP is a collaboration between behavioural scientists, computer scientists and systems architects from University College London (UCL), University of Cambridge, University of Aberdeen, and IBM Research.
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🔔 New paper alert! 🔔 🔗 Link: https://lnkd.in/dunn2YUZ 💡 This paper presents the Intervention Population Ontology—a framework for systematically classifying and describing characteristics of populations exposed to interventions. 📚 Why is this ontology needed? The effectiveness of interventions varies based on who is exposed, but population characteristics are often inconsistently reported. A classification system allows for better comparison, synthesis, and integration of findings across studies. 👥 Authors: Alison J. Wright Ailbhe Finnerty Emma Norris Marta Marques Janna Hastings Robert West Susan Michie
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Join our very own Susan Michie, Robert West and Janna Hastings for this webinar on AI in behavioural research on the 28th of January!
We've just updated the abstract for our upcoming webinar on the use of AI in behavioural research - rather timely given the announcement of UK Government's #AI Opportunities Action Plan which has been published today. If you use #behaviouralresearch, join us on January 28th to learn how AI can improve BR, understand what #GenerativeAI is versus #AnalyticalAI and how Generative AI can generate #evidence-based ideas for behavioural change interventions. Our speakers on this webinar are Susan Michie, Robert West and Janna Hastings. There will be opportunities for discussion and you can submit questions in advance when you register or during the webinar itself. Register at: https://lnkd.in/ecPr3SEB Note: this is one of three BR-UK planned webinars on the topic of AI. Two further webinars (to be announced) will focus on Analytical AI and Responsible AI respectively. Keep an eye on our feed for further details.
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Interested in ontologies, but not sure if you could ever apply them in your own work? Do not miss this exciting editorial about the APRICOT project, which is all about usability and accessibility of ontologies! Read the editorial here: https://lnkd.in/epCkhemK
The first APRICOT publication is officially online! Have a look at this editorial to learn more about our aims and plans! You can read it here: https://lnkd.in/epCkhemK
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Curious about what the Human Behaviour Change Project has done so far? Wellcome Open Research has just organized all of the HBCP's publications within a gateway. That makes it particularly easy to find what you're looking for! Protip: If you hit the track button, you get a notification whenever a new publication is added to this gateway ;) Feel free to have a look here: https://lnkd.in/emQAz-_9
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The first APRICOT publication is officially online! Have a look at this editorial to learn more about our aims and plans! You can read it here: https://lnkd.in/epCkhemK
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We are excited to see one of the Principal Investigators of the APRICOT Project receive an award for the paper on the Behaviour Change Technique Ontology! Congratulations, Marta!
STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA NOW! Behavioural Scientist - Health and sustainability, Digital and precision behavioural science
Last week, during the NOVA Science and Innovation event, I had the honour to receive an award from Universidade Nova de Lisboa for the publication with the highest Field-Weighted Citation Impact (2021-2023) from the Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Couldn't be happier to receive this award for the paper "The Behaviour Change Technique Ontology: Transforming the Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy v1" (https://lnkd.in/dugwM57a). A truly collaborative and exciting work done with the amazing researchers from the Human Behaviour-Change Project. Thank you Susan Michie and others for the opportunity to be part of such an impactful program of research. Stay tuned for new exciting work on Ontologies and Behaviour Change Interventions as part of our newly NIH-funded APRICOT project UCL Centre for Behaviour Change Human Behaviour-Change & APRICOT Project
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🔔 New paper alert! 🔔 The first version of the paper "Specifying the Schedule of Delivery of Interventions within the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology" has just been published, and is open for peer-review. 🔗Link to paper: https://lnkd.in/eCQXXKD8 💡 This research adds an important part, the schedule of delivery, to the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology. The ontology has been developed in 7 steps, including literature annotation and stakeholder review. Authors: Marta Marques, Robert West, Candice M. Moore, Janna Hastings, Ailbhe Finnerty, Emily Hayes, Paulina Schenk, Susan Michie
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🔔 New version of the paper for “Using machine learning to extract information and predict outcomes from reports of randomised trials of smoking cessation interventions in the Human Behaviour-Change Project” now published! 🔔 🔗Link to paper and responses to reviewers: https://lnkd.in/dxnVpx3S 💡This research explores the use of machine learning (ML) to automatically extract key data and predict outcomes from smoking cessation trial reports. The paper highlights the potential of ML in behavioural research, but also the challenges that need to be addressed for more accurate predictions. Authors: Robert West, Francesca Bonin, James Thomas, Alison J. Wright, Pol Mac Aonghusa, Martin Gleize, Yufang Hou, Alison O'Mara-Eves, Janna Hastings, Marie Johnston & Susan Michie
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