The Human Behaviour-Change Project: An artificial intelligence system to answer questions about changing behaviour

Susan Michie; James Thomas; Pol Mac Aonghusa; Robert West; Marie Johnston; Michael P. Kelly; John Shawe-Taylor; Janna Hastings; Francesca Bonin; Alison O'Mara-Eves

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15900.1

The Human Behaviour-Change Project: An artificial intelligence system to answer questions about changing behaviour

Susan Michie^*, James Thomas, Pol Mac Aonghusa, Robert West, Marie Johnston, Michael P. Kelly, John Shawe-Taylor, Janna Hastings, Francesca Bonin, Alison O'Mara-Eves

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Abstract

Changing behaviour is necessary to address many of the threats facing human populations. However, identifying behaviour change interventions likely to be effective in particular contexts as a basis for improving them presents a major challenge. The Human Behaviour-Change Project harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and behavioural science to organise global evidence about behaviour change to predict outcomes in common and unknown behaviour change scenarios.

Original language	English
Article number	122
Number of pages	5
Journal	Wellcome open research
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15900.1
Publication status	Published - 10 Jun 2020

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AcknowledgementsWith thanks to the HBCP research team: Ailbhe Finnerty, Debasis Ganguly, Martin Gleize, Emily Hayes, Yufang Hou, Eva Jermutus, Charles Jochim, Candice Moore, Emma Norris, Patrick O’Driscoll, Paulina Schenk, Gillian Stokes, Alison Wright, Silje Zink.

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Artificial intelligence
Behaviour change
Evidence synthesis
Interventions
Ontologies

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