PARTNERS

WELL-BEING IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY – WHEN THE MIND BREAKS
in Turku, Finland on 25 – 26 August 2022

Every time, WIS seeks high-quality contributions based both on scientific research and practical experience. The conference is multidisciplinary in nature, gives room for qualitative and quantitative analysis, empirical surveys, case studies as well as for conceptual work; thereby making WIS a perfect forum for exchange of information and ideas. Welcome to WIS 2022!

Since 2006, WIS has focused on various topics from the field of Well-being in Information Society. The overarching themes of the WIS were:

2020 – Fruits of Respect
2018 – Fighting Inequalities
2016 – Building Sustainable Health Ecosystems
2014 – Safe and Secure Cities
2012 – Exploring the Abyss of Inequalities
2010 – Navigating the Fragmented Innovation Landscape
2008 – Promoting Health in Urban Living
2006 – European Cooperation in Health Impact Assessment

Well-being in the Information Society  WIS 2022 Program 

Presentation allotted time per paper: 45 minutes total, including 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for Q&A.

	Thursday 25.8.2022
	Conference opening and Session I. Mental Well-being and E-Health https://utu.zoom.us/j/61032182415 Meeting room Säätiö (3. floor) at TSE Session chair Kaisa Mishina
10.00	Welcome to WIS 2022  Conference Chair Reima Suomi
10.15	Well-being of Hong Kong DSE students in the post-COVID-19 age: Opportunities and Challenges for Mental Health Education and Promotion  Wai Sun Derek Chun, Siu Ho Yau, Wai Man Chan and Ting Ting Fung
11.00	Important Features Associated with Depression Prediction and Explainable AI  Vincent Peter C. Magboo and Ma. Sheila A. Magboo
11.45	Mental Health Monitoring at Work: IoT Solutions and Privacy Concerns Dana Naous and Tobias Mettler
12.30	Understanding University Students’ Health Information Seeking Behaviours on Social Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Developing Country Perspective Aung Pyae and Shahrokh Nikou
	Keynote and Session II. Social Media and Well-being  https://utu.zoom.us/j/68833942765 Meeting room Säätiö (3. floor) at TSE Session chair Jukka Kärkkäinen
14.00	Keynote: Supporting Health Behavior Change through Digital Interventions: Persuasive Systems Design Professor Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu, Finland
15.00	Thinspiration Inspired by K-pop: A Comparison of K-pop Related Thinspiration Imagery and Texts to Regular Thinspiration Content on Tumblr  Linda Achilles, Thomas Mandl, and Christa Womser-Hacker
15.45	Mental Health Communication on Social Media in India: Current Status and Predictors  Sairaj Patki and Anika Iyer
16.30	Design and Development of an NLP-based Mental Health Pre-Screening Tool for Undergraduate Students in Thailand: A Usability Study Prima Pangsrisomboon, Aung Pyae, Noppasorn Thawitsri and Supasin Liulak

	Friday 26.8.2022
	Session III. Innovative Solution for Well-being in the Information Society  https://utu.zoom.us/j/63049657716 Meeting room Yhdistys (4. floor) at TSE Session chair Katja Heikkinen
9.00	Classification of Healthcare Robots  Rong Huang
9.45	Digital Solutions for the Marginalised in Society: A Review of Systems to Address Homelessness and Avenues for Further Research  Michael Oduor
10.30	Investigating Students’ Engagement, Enjoyment, and Sociability in Virtual Reality-Based Systems: A Comparative Usability Study of Spatial.io, Gather.town, and Zoom  Summa Sriworapong, Aung Pyae, Arin Thirasawasd, and Wasin Keereewan
	Session IV. Driving Well-being in the Information Society and conference closing   https://utu.zoom.us/j/64186223281 Meeting room Yhdistys (4. floor) at TSE Session chair Robert Krimmer
12.00	A review of health beliefs and their influence on asylum seekers and refugees’ health-seeking behavior  Hamed Ahmadinia
12.45	Measuring the maturity of healthcare testbeds  Eva Collanus, Emilia Kielo-Viljamaa, Janne Lahtiranta and Antti Tuomisto
13.30	Study Structures in the Interplay of Stress and Coping in Higher Education  Eija-Liisa Heikka, Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Outi Keränen, and Pia Partanen
14.15	What Drives User Engagement of Theme Park Apps? Utilitarian, Hedonic or Social Gratifications  Ting Long
	End Session
15.00	Awarding the best paper   Open discussion  Goodbye  Conference Chair Reima Suomi
15.15	End of the conference

WIS conference proceedings

The proceedings will be available until 19 September at Springer

Session chairs

Session 1	Kaisa Mishina
Session 2 and keynote	Jukka Kärkkäinen
Session 3	Katja Heikkinen
Session 4	Robert Krimmer

Thursday 25.8.2022  at 14.00

Supporting Health Behavior Change through Digital Interventions: Persuasive Systems Design

Professor Harri Oinas-Kukkonen

University of Oulu, Finland

 

WIS 2022 Conference Chair:

• Professor Reima Suomi
  Information Systems Science, University of Turku, Finland
  reima.suomi@utu.fi

WIS 2022 Conference Programme Chairs:

• Robert Krimmer, University of Tartu, Estonia
• Jukka Kärkkäinen, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

WIS 2022 Organizing Chair

• Doctoral Candidate Chenglong Li
  Information Systems Science, University of Turku, Finland
  chenglong.li@utu.fi

Conference Management Group:

• Brita Somerkoski, University of Turku
• Gunilla Widén, Åbo Akademi University
• Hongxiu Li, Tampere University
• Jukka Kärkkäinen, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare