The DigiWELL Impact Forum 2026 Program Has Been Published

The two-day DigiWELL Impact Forum, which will take place on October 1–2, 2026, at the City Campus of the University of Ostrava, now has its program. The event will provide a space for sharing current outcomes of the DigiWELL project, professional discussion, and meetings among the project team, partners, and invited guests.

The first day of the program will focus primarily on expert thematic sessions. Participants can look forward to presentations on digital behavioral interventions, mHealth, wearable technologies, EMA data, the dynamics of everyday well-being, analytical approaches in digital well-being research, and the digital well-being of children and adolescents.

The program will also include discussions, networking opportunities, and informal activities. The first day will conclude with a sports activity and a social dinner.

The second day will offer parallel dissemination workshops, a poster session, and a thematic session focused on technology, artificial intelligence, aging, and care. The Forum will conclude with a panel discussion on future directions in digital well-being research, bringing together speakers from the thematic sessions, international guests, project partners, and other stakeholders.

The DigiWELL Impact Forum will thus present not only the current research outputs of the project, but also broader questions related to how digital technologies can contribute to our understanding of well-being, health, and everyday life.

Pre-registration for the event is already available here.

DigiWELL Impact Forum 2026

Preliminary Program

Day 1 – October 1, 2026

*Program in English language

* Each presentation is allocated 10 minutes for the talk, followed by 5 minutes for question

Session n. 1

EMA, Wearables, and the Dynamics of Everyday Well-being

9:00–10:45

Time	Presentation
9:00-9:15	Steriani Elavsky + Team DigiWELL: Opening and Welcome
9:15–9:30	Lenka Knapová – From Momentary Intentions to Action: Psychological and Environmental Influences on the Physical Activity Intention–Behavior Relationship
9:30–9:45	Lenka Knapová – Perceived Thermal Comfort in Daily Life: Comparing Wearable Environmental Sensing and Outdoor Temperature Using Ambulatory Assessment
9:45–10:00	Roman Filo – Lag-Specific Associations Between Recent Physical Activity and Subsequent Affect in Young Adults: An Ambulatory Assessment
10:00–10:15	Steriani Elavsky – Exploring HAPA-Related Predictors of Physical Activity in Adults with Obesity
10:15–10:30	Marek Brabec – Dynamical Statistical Modeling of EMA Data
10:30–10:45	General Discussion

10:45–11:00

Coffee Break

Session n. 2

Digital Behavioral Interventions and mHealth for Health

11:00–12:45

Time	Presentation
11:00–11:15	Martin Šašinka – Automated Dietary Quality Assessment for Personalised Nutritional Feedback in Free-Living Conditions
11:15–11:30	Andrea Duchoňová – Feasibility of Exercise Snacks and Self-Monitoring Using Fitbit and Garmin Wearables in People with Obesity
11:30–11:45	Tomáš Větrovský – Criterion Validity of Fitbit and Garmin Wearables for Monitoring Moderate-Intensity Exercise Snacks in People with Obesity
11:45–12:00	Steriani Elavsky – A Hybrid Counselling and Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) to Promote Physical Activity and Eating Behavior in Adults with Obesity
12:00–12:15	Marie Turčičová – Statistical Modeling for Timing Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions
12:15–12:30	Richard Cimler – HealthReact in Practice: Adaptive EMA and Wearable-Driven Research
12:30-12:45	General Discussion

12:45–13:45

Lunch Break

Session n. 3

Methodologies and Analytical Approaches in Digital Well-being Research

14:00–15:30

Time	Presentation
14:00–14:15	Tomáš Řiháček – Research on Feedback in Psychotherapy: A Study Design
14:15–14:30	Jiří Čeněk – Eye-Tracking in Social Sciences: Capabilities and Limitations
14:30–14:45	Patrícia Martinková – Interactive SIA Modules for Psychometric Research Dissemination and Data Analysis
14:45–15:00	Dana Hamplová – From Dissatisfied East to Dissatisfied West? Convergence and Reversal of the Life Satisfaction Gap
15:00–15:15	Radim Lískovec – Beyond the Time Stamp: The Role of Chronotopes in Interpreting Longitudinal EMA Data
15:15–15:30	General Discussion

15:30–16:20

Coffee Break

Session n. 4

Digital Well-being of Children and Adolescents

16:20–17:50

Time	Presentation
16:20-16:35	Libor Juhaňák – Mobile Phone Bans in Schools: A Simple Solution or a More Complicated Trade-Off?
16:35–16:50	Adéla Švestková – From the iMEW to Interventions: The Mechanism Gap We Have Yet to Theorize
16:50–17:05	Hana Macháčková – Findings from the EU Kids Online V Project
17:05–17:20	Anna Pidnebesna – Beyond Screen Time: App Usage Patterns and Adolescent Wellbeing
17:20–17:35	Nikol Kvardová – Evaluating informative theory-based hypotheses about digital media effects
17:35–17:50	General Discussion

17:50–18:45

Sport Activity (Running, yoga or climbing)

19:00–20:00

Social Dinner

20:00 onwards

Evening Social Programme

 

 

Day 2 – October 2, 2026

9:00-10:30 Parallel Dissemination Workshops

 

Workshop: Bringing Together Roma and Non-Roma Students 

Workshop: UPOL Challenge accepted: organising a press conference within a scientific conference

 

9:00-10:30 Poster Session

Roman Filo – Sleep-Physical Activity Associations in Young Adults Across Day-to-Day, Burst-to-Burst, and Between-Person Levels: An Ambulatory Assessment

Zoe Guerrero – Both Support and Burden: A Generative Co-Design Focus Group Study of Well-Being Apps

Veronika Horká – The Impact of Bariatric-Metabolic Surgery on Biopsychosocial Wellbeing

Michal Doležel – CZprev2-MAUQ in Practice: Initial Validation Through a Calorie-Tracking mHealth Application

Jiří Mertl – Digitalisation of Czech Labour Offices: A Creeping Loss of Social Work Discretion and Mandate

Michaela Cichrová – Spline-Based Methods for Differential Item Functioning with Continuous Covariates

Marie Volaříková Pinďáková – Robot Robin in a nursing home: Preliminary Study

Marcela Ely – Co-Designing an MHealth Intervention to Improve Health and Well-being in Individuals with Obesity: Stakeholder Perspectives on Eating-Related Components

Veronika Dostálová – Co-Designing Gamified EMA with Children: Improving Engagement and Data Quality in mHealth Research on Movement Behaviors (The ReDiKid Study)

Session n. 5

Technology, AI, and Wellbeing in Aging and Care

10:40–12:25

Time	Presentation
10:40–10:55	Adéla Švestková – How Do We Choose Physicians Online? A Mixed-Methods Eye-Tracking Study
10:55–11:10	Xingyue Su – AI Integration in Institutional Elder Care: A Qualitative Study of Care Workers’ Experiences in an Advanced Smart Nursing Home in Shanghai
11:10–11:25	Xiaoyue Hu – Institutionally Embedded Peer Warm Experts: How Older Volunteers Are Formed in Digitalized Hospital Care
11:25–11:40	David Jakeš – Validation of Virtual Environments for Remote Self-Guided Exposure Therapy in Social Anxiety Disorder
11:40–11:55	Marcela Ely – Older Adults as Citizen Scientists: Participatory Mapping of Environmental Factors Supporting Safe Movement and Fall Prevention through the Our Voice Initiative
11:55–12:10	Vojtěch Mýlek – How different types of social media use relate to loneliness compared to offline social interactions: Preliminary findings from a longitudinal study
12:10–12:25	General Discussion

12:25–13:00

Lunch Break

Panel Discussion

Future Directions in Digital Well-being Research

13:00–14:30

Open discussion involving speakers from all thematic sessions, international guests, project partners, and stakeholders.

WP leaders’ discussion on funding opportunities.

14:30

Closing Remarks and Farewell