Persuasive Technology - Persuasive, Motivating, Empowering Videogames

1. Front Matter

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2. Covert Persuasive Technologies: Bringing Subliminal Cues to Human-Computer Interaction

   • Oswald Barral, Gabor Aranyi, Sid Kouider, Alan Lindsay, Hielke Prins, Imtiaj Ahmed et al.

   Pages 1-12

3. Designing a Mobile Persuasive Application to Encourage Reduction of Users’ Exposure to Cell Phone RF Emissions

   • Stefano Burigat, Luca Chittaro

   Pages 13-24

4. Opportunities for Persuasive Technology to Motivate Heavy Computer Users for Stretching Exercise

   • Yong-Xiang Chen, Siek-Siang Chiang, Shu-Yun Chih, Wen-Ching Liao, Shih-Yao Lin, Shang-Hua Yang et al.

   Pages 25-30

5. Changing User’s Safety Locus of Control through Persuasive Play: An Application to Aviation Safety

   • Luca Chittaro

   Pages 31-42

6. What’s Your 2%? A Pilot Study for Encouraging Physical Activity Using Persuasive Video and Social Media

   • Drew Clinkenbeard, Jennifer Clinkenbeard, Guillaume Faddoul, Heejung Kang, Sean Mayes, Alp Toygar et al.

   Pages 43-55

7. The Effect of Credibility of Host Site Upon Click Rate through Sponsored Content

   • Martin Colbert, Adam Oliver, Eleni Oikonomou

   Pages 56-67

8. Informing Design of Suggestion and Self-Monitoring Tools through Participatory Experience Prototypes

   • Nediyana Daskalova, Nathalie Ford, Ann Hu, Kyle Moorehead, Benjamin Wagnon, Janet Davis

   Pages 68-79

9. Persuasion in the Wild: Communication, Technology, and Event Safety

   • Peter de Vries, Mirjam Galetzka, Jan Gutteling

   Pages 80-91

10. Mitigating Cognitive Bias through the Use of Serious Games: Effects of Feedback

    • Norah E. Dunbar, Matthew L. Jensen, Claude H. Miller, Elena Bessarabova, Sara K. Straub, Scott N. Wilson et al.

    Pages 92-105

11. Sentiment Variations in Text for Persuasion Technology

    • Lorenzo Gatti, Marco Guerini, Oliviero Stock, Carlo Strapparava

    Pages 106-117

12. Do Persuasive Technologies Persuade? - A Review of Empirical Studies

    • Juho Hamari, Jonna Koivisto, Tuomas Pakkanen

    Pages 118-136

13. Wicked Persuasion: A Designerly Approach

    • Bran Knowles, Paul Coulton, Mark Lochrie, Jon Whittle

    Pages 137-142

14. Credibility and Interactivity: Persuasive Components of Ideological Group Websites

    • Genevieve Johnson, William D. Taylor, Alisha M. Ness, Michael K. Ault, Norah E. Dunbar, Matthew L. Jensen et al.

    Pages 143-154

15. Managing Depression through a Behavior Change Support System without Face-to-Face Therapy

    • Sitwat Langrial, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Päivi Lappalainen, Raimo Lappalainen

    Pages 155-166

16. Using Ambient Lighting in Persuasive Communication: The Role of Pre-existing Color Associations

    • Shengnan Lu, Jaap Ham, Cees J. H. Midden

    Pages 167-178

17. ‘This Is Your Life!’

    • Geke D. S. Ludden, Saskia M. Kelders, Bas H. J. Snippert

    Pages 179-190

18. Investigating the Influence of Social Exclusion on Persuasion by a Virtual Agent

    • Peter A. M. Ruijten, Jaap Ham, Cees J. H. Midden

    Pages 191-200

19. An Empirical Comparison of Variations of a Virtual Representation of an Individual’s Health

    • Andreas Schmeil, L. Suzanne Suggs

    Pages 201-223

20. Using Social Influence for Motivating Customers to Generate and Share Feedback

    • Agnis Stibe, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen

    Pages 224-235

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2014, held in Padua, Italy, in May 2014. The 27 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. In addition to the themes of persuasive technology dealt with in the previous editions of the conference, this edition highlighted a special theme, i.e. persuasive, motivating, empowering videogames.

• ambient intelligence
• behavior change
• heuristic evaluation
• interactive games
• social networks

• Human Technology Lab, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

  Anna Spagnolli

• Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

  Luca Chittaro

• Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy

  Luciano Gamberini

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