Time Travel Simulations for Transformative Health

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Presentation given by Virgil Wong at ISHSH 2013

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TIME TRAVEL SIMULATIONSFOR TRANSFORMATIVE HEALTH

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Graphic by TheVisualMD

KATIEMcCURDY

Stomach went bad- morning issues, !ne rest of day- worse when eat carbs

4 months of good guts- after antibiotics for spider bite- was also drinking lots of kombucha

Double vision recurrence- daily severe gut probs- few recent missed nights of sleep- double vision came on suddenly- spiked Prednisone for few months

Double vision recurrence- while/after Rifaximin- did not change meds- slowly resolving- double vision better w/probiotics

Voice weakness

Antibiotics

New symptoms- heart palpitations & pain- tingling & cold legs- achy joints

Weakness is problematic:Wild inexplicable "uctuation, eventhroughout one day - Voice weakness- No smile/weak facial muscles- Di#culty chewing- General fatigue- Double vision mostly better though

Guts feeling better- strong probiotics seem to help- can now tolerate carbs w/out bloating- gained weight & muscle back- still some urgency- swollen joints in the morning

2005 2010 2011 Present20092008200720062004

Antibiotics

Antibiotics

Antibiotics

Antibiotics Antibiotics

Antibiotics Antibiotic - Rifaximin

Positive hydrogen breath test

Nov 16: New Diet

2012

Strong probiotics

HALF DOME at Yosemite (8,840+ ft)

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Age-progressed embodiments of the future self in a virtual environment may increase likelihood of future saving behavior (Hershfield et al., 2011)

443,000 deaths/year in the U.S. attributable to smoking

10%

21%

4%

28%

8%

29%

Lung CancerOther CancersIschemic Heart DiseaseStrokeChronic Obstructive Pulmonary DiseaseOther Diagnoses

Average annual number of deaths 2000-2004,including from secondhand smoke

Source: MMWR 2008; 57(45): 1226-1228.

Vicarious reinforcement through mass media show limited influence (Alcalay, 1983; Witte & Allen, 2000; Solomon et al., 2009)

Changing Health BehaviorPrecontemplation

Contemplation

Preparation

Action

Maintenance

Termination

Sources: Prochaska, Diclemente & Norcross, 1992Prochaska and Velicer, 1997

6 stages in health behavior change

Personalized mental model

Precontemplation

Contemplation

Preparation

Action

Maintenance

Termination

Contemplation and Preparation

Single Channel Hypothesis (Broadbent, 1987)

Audio

Dual-coding theory (Paivio, Sternberg, Mayer)

Audio + Images

Embodied cognition (Scott, Harris & Rothe, 2001)

Audio + Images+ Embodiment

Free Recall Task

Audio

Audio + Images

Audio + Images + Embodiment

0 25 50 75 100

Content Match Intrusion Errors

Participants asked to verbally recall all content presented. Responses audio-recorded and converted to written text for analysis.

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30

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90

Audio Audio + Images Audio + Images + Embodiment

Recognition TaskParticipants then answered a recognition task questionnaire.“Please indicate whether or not you remember hearing each of these exact statements.”

GENETIC TWIN COMPARISONS

non-smoker smoker non-smoker smoker

C O N T R O L P E R S O N A L I Z E D F U T U R E S E L F

Generic AvatarAnimation of short-term effectsAnimation of longer-term effects

Personalized AvatarAnimation of short-term effectsAnimation of longer-term effects

Personalized AvatarAnimation of short-term effectsAged AvatarsAnimation of longer-term effects

FACE AND GENDER MATCHES EACH PARTICIPANT

FACE AND GENDER MATCHES EACH PARTICIPANT

SELF-PERCEPTION THEORY

THE PROTEUS EFFECT

(Yee & Bailenson, 2007)

Time Travel in Your Own Body

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