BACK
Research Background

CHIAT research and project staff began their PACE and other research work in 1990 at San Diego State University (SDSU) and have continued the line of research at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). It is the basic and formative research conducted at SDSU and UCSD that has laid some of the groundwork for subsequent translational research, and more recently, commercialization of new PACE products and services by the Center for Health Interventions and Technology, LLC.

CHIAT research scientists have experience in developing paper-based tools (manuals and protocols for providers, manuals and tip sheets for teens and adults, manuals and tip sheets for parents), telephone-based intervention development and delivery, Internet and cell phone intervention development and delivery, use of technologies such as accelerometers, pedometers and GPS, and development of electronic research measurement tools.

• Current Research Focus Areas
• Web & e-mail supported behavioral interventions
• Cell-phone for behavioral monitoring and intervention
• Wearable technologies for energy balance (e.g. pedometer)

For a review of recent and ongoing PACE university-based research, please refer to the Publications section of the PACE Projects' website or simply click on this link to the PACE website publications page: PACE Publications List