Unlocking the Power of Belonging Digital Summit

If people only knew how to master changes in their lives and organizations?

How that would increase the everyday happiness and business performance around the world?

Welcome to enjoy a session on Transformation Algorithm for Human Happiness at the World Happiness Foundation 2-day digital summit on Unlocking the Power of Belonging. Join some of the leading researchers, educators, and community builders, along with the workshop facilitators from over 40 cities worldwide!

Over the last years, we have quite naturally arrived to an evolutionary point, where we know enough about our human nature to start becoming the masters of our own transformations. Yes, there is still a long way ahead to study details and particular effects in various contexts. Nevertheless, we have made a huge leap in demystifying ways for elevating personal identities and profoundly enhancing corporate leadership.

We have uncovered a transformation algorithm for human happiness.

It streamlines our understanding about human potential and capacity to achieve any desired long-term changes. The good news is that everyone already has an inherent wisdom of change, called a transformation gene. Thus, the remaining task is only to activate and make it work sustainably. Join and see it for yourself!

Transformative Technology Conference

Welcome to join this community breakout session on Human Artificial Intelligence at the annual Transformative Technology Conference.

Tremendous achievements are demonstrating our humane ability to evolve and progress. On this journey, let's remember that all the key answers are already encoded in our basic nature. Thus, artificial intelligence is only something that can serve us for the next big leap of the mankind. Technology is nothing more than a huge mirror that reflects all the good and the bad sides of what we have inherited as human beings.

Artificial intelligence is learning from what we can offer.

Developer bias is at the core of all our expectations and speculations for the future of man-machine co-evolution.

TransTech Paris 2nd Event

Together with our community we explored and enjoyed the experience and expertise around transformative technology for wellbeing and design for a better future.

A network of TransTech experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, scholars, and enthusiasts. A community hosting events, empowering disruption, facilitating tech development, helping to find partnerships, funding, and purposeful evolution. Welcome to expand your knowledge, practice, and future vision on TransTech.

TransTech Global

Join the largest global community of entrepreneurs and innovators leveraging technology to expand human potential and flourishing - Transformative Technology Lab.

Transformative Technology Community Opening Event

We are proudly announcing the launch of TransTech Paris Chapter. A network of Transformative Technology experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, scholars, and enthusiasts.

A community hosting events, empowering disruption, facilitating tech development, helping to find partnerships, funding, and purposeful evolution. Welcome to expand your knowledge, practice, and future vision on Transformative Technology.

Join the largest global community of entrepreneurs and innovators leveraging technology to expand human potential and flourishing. Our mission is to permanently move a billion people into a state of wellbeing and flourishing by 2030.

Transformative Technology - Global Community

We sit at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, tech, entrepreneurship, and innovation. We leverage exponential technologies like AI, AR/VR/XR, networks and sensors, biotech, neurofeedback, robotics and more to build tech to enable human wellbeing at scale. We start with this premise – the Future of Work, Society, and Tech depends on the State of the Human Mind.

How do we enable every human to develop their full potential?

Together, we can create an unprecedented era of human flourishing. We can take the tech that has taxed our thinking and relationships and use it instead to transform our hearts and minds. We can have greater clarity, joy and connection, and ultimately more possibility for all of humanity.

We must have flourishing because we cannot solve our other problems without having healthy human minds. Psychological wellbeing was once considered a luxury – something you get at the end of a stressful and fear-filled life. But now we need flourishing – to work, to live, to thrive. This is why we need to build the tech that we really, actually, need. The tech that helps us know ourselves better than algorithms, that helps us connect to ourselves and one another. The tech that supports our hearts and minds. Remember: We can design tech to serve us, to prioritize human contact and connection.

Transforming Response to COVID-19

Discussing how data can help us understand and transform the response to COVID-19 by addressing these three main questions:

What data sources would you suggest can help us best understand the COVID-19 situation from a civic / municipal angle, and how?

You work with changing populations’ behaviours through feedback loops. What do you see as some easy wins we could be aiming for in this regard?

The question CoronaWhy SHOULD be asking — How to help people efficiently achieving their desired transformations?

CoronaWhy

CoronaWhy’s mission is to mobilize volunteers and community partners to address the world’s biggest challenges through data science, artificial intelligence and knowledge sharing. Our focus is the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

We are all in this together. For the sake of our high risk segments of the population every member of society, every business and every government must make an effort in solidarity to overcome this pandemic using all the tools available with the collective creative problem solving capability of human society worldwide.

Visions that Compose a New Reality

We invite you to the fourth week of Wisdom Health, where we are going to share different visions of some of the people who have accompanied us in this first stage, to compose a new reality. To achieve a cross-linked dialogue that gives birth to a common message, integrating what is happening to us, what we can learn from the past and what moves us committing ourselves to a regenerated future.

Wisdom Health is an emerging community of conscious leaders that promotes the relationships sustaining the process of regeneration and cohesion in vulnerable times. Focusing on three main areas:

• Being with our Present - Regenerative Humanity

• Learning from our Past - Ancient Wisdom Resilience

• Committed to our Future - Humane Economy and Technology

Wisdom Health: Emerging Community for Conscious Leaders

Human flourishing and societal wellbeing can be achieved through purposefully designed innovations that successfully blend technological advancements with behavioral science.

In the moments of global transformations, how to use technology in a humane way?

Wisdom Health is an emerging community for conscious leaders committed with cohesion and transformation in vulnerable times.

Demystifying Transformation

Majority of global problems are byproducts of poor human attitude and behavior. Often people find reasons outside themselves for why we have such environmental issues and cultural segregation. We tend to see changes as something difficult, impossible, and mystical, thus something to avoid. Such attitude naturally leads to questionable choices and consequent results. This talk will demystify human change and reveal the secrets of transformation, thus making it easy for everyone to apply globally.

Demystifying Human Change: Transformation Made Easy for Everyone

People, businesses, communities, societies, basically everyone needs help with transforming their lives and activities. Many want to permanently change or walk the path of sustainable transformation, but we also know how often our new year's resolutions end in February. People are often unsuccessful with transformation because they don't have knowledge about it, and thus it seems mystical to many. This talk will revolutionize this aspect by introducing:

• Transforming Wellbeing Theory — that explains the essentials of and the inevitable need for global transformations (Stibe et al. 2019),

• Typology of Change — that clarifies the variety of changes and provides ways to consciously separate them (Stibe et al. 2019),

• Transforming Framework — that contains 8 applicable tools for immediate use (Stibe et al. 2019), and

• Transforming Sociotech Design — that bends technological innovations with human nature to empower sustainable changes at scale (Stibe et al. 2018, Stibe & Larson 2016).

Our world is going crazy, so what? Therefore, this talk will reveal how the Transforming Wellbeing Theory & Practice is emerging as an inevitable response to the ever-growing imbalance in our lives across the globe. Over the decades, we have been advancing technologies to make our lives better. The fundamental question still remains: with all the evolving innovations, are we gaining decent success in achieving happier and more sustainable societies? Every crucial domain of our lives continuously provides evidence of how things are getting imbalanced despite us making huge progress in building increasingly capable technological innovations, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, and drones, just to name a few. The talk will provide scientific insights and practical applications to transform lives at global scale. Due to its strong fundament that intertwines technological innovations with human nature, this work is applicable in many essential life contexts, including health, education, sustainability, equality, governance, safety, emergency, management, marketing, ecology, economy, and dwelling.

Emergence of Transforming Wellbeing Theory (TWT) Tutorial

Majority of global problems and business challenges are byproducts of poor human attitude and behavior. Communities, societies, businesses, and organizations, basically everyone needs help with transformations. People often tend to perceive changes as something difficult, impossible, and mystical, thus are willing to avoid them. That attitude naturally leads to poorer decisions and consequent behavioral outcomes. This science-driven tutorial demystifies transformation by introducing:

• Transforming Wellbeing Theory (TWT) — that explains the essentials of and inevitable necessity for transformation,

• Typology of Change — that clarifies the variety of different changes, and

• Transforming Framework — that provides 8 (eight) applicable tools for bending technological innovations with human nature to empower sustainable changes at scale.

Due to its scientific richness and practical nature, this transforming tutorial is applicable in many essential contexts, including wellbeing, health, innovation, leadership, autonomy, commercialization, education, diversity, culture, sustainability, dwelling, equality, social change, governance, automation, emergency, management, marketing, art, safety, ecology, and economy.

Transforming Wellbeing Theory

Transforming Wellbeing Theory is emerging as an inevitable response to the ever-growing imbalance in our lives across the globe [15]. Over the decades, we have been advancing technologies to make our lives better and businesses growing. The fundamental question still remains: with all the evolving technologies, are we gaining decent success in achieving healthier societies and well performing organizations? Every crucial domain of our lives continuously provides evidence of how things are getting imbalanced despite us making huge progress in building increasingly capable innovations. This work summarizes the state-of-the-art scientific insights and practical applications to transform lives and accelerate businesses at global scale.

Present knowledge on persuasive technology often reveals how behavior change designs and interventions are limited in sustaining their effects [5-6]. There is an increasing need for novel ways to design technology that helps people not only to achieve their goals, but also to support sustaining their newly developed habits. Transforming innovations should ultimately empower people and organizations to succeed in their desired and more often even inevitable changes. Thus, the theory aims at extending the understanding beyond limitations of traditional change management and behavioral designs.

The theory is highly instrumental for organizations and communities that are designing for and undergoing transformations, as it provides and helps internalizing easy to use methods and tools for achieving permanent behavior change. This science-driven work embodies advanced knowledge on how to design sustainable changes, including Typology of Change and Transforming Framework.

Typology of Change

Scientific literature [1] [3-4] [16] reveals three general types of change: transactional, transitional, and transformational (Fig. 1). Transactional change is usually defined as an occurrence producing an outcome that differs from previous preferences. Then, transitional change is often defined as a period, in which certain outcomes significantly differ from what was habitual before. However, transformational change manifests itself as a continuum having direction as well as magnitude to produce apparently irreversible shifts.

The three types of change have their characteristics, including general descriptions, overall perspective, perceived timelines, orientations, nature, metrics, underlying psychology, and some examples provided in Table 1.

Transforming Framework

Despite acknowledgeable progress in designing persuasive technologies, many behavioral design interventions still produce unsustainable effects on target audiences [8]. To help scientists and practitioners creating technology designs for sustainable change [7] and wellbeing [10], a science-driven Transforming Framework is introduced (Fig. 2).

Transforming Framework embodies 8 (eight) scientifically driven tools that leverage prior knowledge on triadic reciprocal determinism (TRIANGLE) [2], elaboration and behavioral modeling (CURVE) [6] [9], essential components for defining transformation (METRIC) [14], susceptibility to influence and change (CIRCLES) [14], key layers of transforming technology design (ARCHITECTURE) [14], fundamentals of socially influencing systems (SOCIUM) [11], typology of computer-supported influence (MODERATION) [12], and dark patterns and persuasive backfiring (ETHICS) [13].

Event

This is the fourth sequential event succeeding the “Persuasive Urban Mobility” workshop in 2015, the “Empowering Cities for Sustainable Wellbeing” workshop in 2016, and the “Transforming Sociotech Design” tutorial in 2018. The number of participants has significantly grown over these events, which evidences their importance and relevance to the Persuasive Technology community, especially the conference participants. This upgraded tutorial will introduce and explain how the

Transforming Wellbeing Theory (TWT) contributes to the Persuasive Technology (PT) research by extending our understanding beyond limitations of traditional behavioral change designs and interventions.

This tutorial addresses highly important research direction that influences the future of PT and ways to properly and ethically design our ever-increasing technology-supported environments. The PT community will benefit from the advanced knowledge and immediate capacity of applying the fundamental strategies and frameworks to transform lives.

Organizers

• Prof. Agnis Stibe, ESLSCA Business School Paris, France

• Kathrin Röderer, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria

• Michaela Reisinger, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria

• Tobias Nyström, Uppsala University, Sweden

Transforming Sociotech Design tutorial 2018

References

1. Amado, G., Ambrose, A.: The Transitional Approach to Change. Karnac Books (2001)

2. Bandura, A.: Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1986)

3. de Biasi, K.: The Interdependent Relation between Continuity and Change. In Solving the Change Paradox by Means of Trust, pp. 45-75. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden (2019)

4. Burke, W. W., Litwin, G. H.: A Causal Model of Organizational Performance and Change. Journal of Management, 18(3), pp. 523-545 (1992)

5. Chatterjee, S., Price, A.: Healthy Living with Persuasive Technologies: Framework, Issues, and Challenges. American Medical Informatics Association Journal 16, 171–178 (2009)

6. Fogg, B.J.: Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann (2003)

7. Mustaquim, M. M., Nyström, T.: A System Development Life Cycle for Persuasive Design for Sustainability. In: MacTavish, T., Basapur, S. (eds.) Persuasive Technology, LNCS, vol. 9072, pp. 217–228. Springer, Heidelberg (2015)

8. Orji, R., Moffatt, K.: Persuasive Technology for Health and Wellness: State-of-the-Art and Emerging Trends. Health Informatics Journal (2016)

9. Petty, R. E., Cacioppo, J. T.: The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion. In Communication and Persuasion, pp. 1-24. Springer, New York, NY (1986)

10. Röderer, K., Reisinger, M. R., Stibe, A.: Well-Being in Persuasive Technology Research: A Systematic Review (forthcoming)

11. Stibe, A.: Towards a Framework for Socially Influencing Systems: Meta-Analysis of Four PLS-SEM Based Studies. In: MacTavish, T., Basapur, S. (eds.) Persuasive Technology, LNCS, vol. 9072, pp. 171–182. Springer, Heidelberg (2015)

12. Stibe, A.: Advancing Typology of Computer-Supported Influence: Moderation Effects in Socially Influencing Systems. In: MacTavish, T., Basapur, S. (eds.) Persuasive Technology, LNCS, vol. 9072, pp. 251–262. Springer, Heidelberg (2015)

13. Stibe, A., Cugelman, B.: Persuasive Backfiring: When Behavior Change Interventions Trigger Unintended Negative Outcomes. In International Conference on Persuasive Technology, pp. 65-77. Springer (2016)

14. Stibe, A., Larson, K.: Persuasive Cities for Sustainable Wellbeing: Quantified Communities. In International Conference on Mobile Web and Information Systems (MobiWIS), pp. 271-282. Springer International Publishing (2016)

15. Stibe, A.: Envisioning the Theory of Transforming Wellbeing: Influencing Technology and Sociotech Design. The 7th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO). IEEE Conferences. Page 6. Keynote. June 10-14, 2018, Budva, Montenegro (2018)

16. Vito, G. F., Higgins, G. E., Denney, A. S.: Transactional and Transformational Leadership: An Examination of the Leadership Challenge Model. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 37(4), pp. 809-822 (2014)

Transforming Wellbeing Theory & Practice

The Faculty for Social Wellbeing at the University of Malta will be hosting a Public Lecture on How Transformation Actually Works to Improve Wellbeing.

In this interactive event, participants will apply 8 transforming tools, practice making life-changing transformations, experience own personal paradigm shifts, bring real-life challenges to solve, see the end of all previously failed transformations, and finally succeed with their new year's resolutions.

Prof. Agnis Stibe is the global thought leader on science-driven transformation. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he established research on Persuasive Cities. At ESLSCA Business School Paris, he advances sustainable innovations and business acceleration. Worked for Fortune 100, including Hewlett-Packard and Oracle. Received prestigious awards from MIT (USA) and Nokia (Finland). Serves on several advisory boards, e.g. Sanitarium (Australia) and ETH Library Lab (Switzerland). His TEDx talks continue gaining global popularity.

Permanently Shifting Human Behavior and Attitude

In this session, you will learn 8 transforming tools that you will be able to apply immediately to any of your challenges related to human behavior and attitude.

Have you ever tried to change something in yourself or others? How many times you have had a New Year’s resolution that succeeds? Most of us strive for better lives and try our best to achieve changes. However, we rarely get to celebrate victories in really transforming our habits, behaviors, and thoughts, thus changing our lives and businesses for good.

This session blends science and practice to help participants gaining rich understanding on how transformation works, what are its essential components, how to design and apply influential strategies, what novel technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and advanced sensing) are effectively facilitating change process, and what to do first thing each morning.

Most of us already want changes for better. What we oftentimes miss is to know how to make such transformations succeed. This session helps you develop and internalize the necessary competences.