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Technologies that are intentionally designed to change a person’s attitude or behaviors are emergent. Designers of these technologies frequently use implementations of influence...
This paper argues for evaluating the impact of persuasive systems on users beyond metrics that focus on system usage, based on an interview study of 16 Wii Fit users. While explor...
Victoria Schwanda, Steven Ibara, Lindsay Reynolds,...
This is a critical design paper offering a possible scenario of use intended to provoke reflection about values and politics of design in persuasive computing. We describe the des...
Stephen Purpura, Victoria Schwanda, Kaiton William...
Persuasive technologies for promoting physical fitness, good nutrition, and other healthy behaviors have been growing in popularity. Despite their appeal, the evaluation of these ...
Julie A. Kientz, Eun Kyoung Choe, Brennen Birch, R...
Though a variety of persuasive health applications have been designed with a preventive standpoint toward diseases in mind, many have been designed largely for a general audience. ...
Although the field of persuasive technologies has lately attracted a lot of attention, only recently the notion of ambient persuasive technologies was introduced. Ambient persuasi...
Maurits Clemens Kaptein, Panos Markopoulos, Boris ...
The unique capabilities of mobile, context-aware, networked devices make them an interesting platform for applying suggestion in persuasive technologies. Because these devices are ...
Adrienne H. Andrew, Gaetano Borriello, James Fogar...
Participatory design methods have the potential to produce ethical and useful persuasive technologies, particularly in support of environmental sustainability. I present the use a...
Goal-setting has been shown to be an effective strategy for changing behavior; therefore employing goal-setting in persuasive technologies could be an effective way to encourage b...
Sunny Consolvo, Predrag V. Klasnja, David W. McDon...
In this paper we argue that “persuasive technologies,” developed to motivate behaviour change in users, have so far failed to exploit the established body of empirical researc...
Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun Lawson, Derek Fos...