Persuasive Technology

1. Front Matter

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2. Technology That Motivates Health Behavior

   1. Persuasion, Task Interruption and Health Regimen Adherence

      • Timothy Bickmore, Daniel Mauer, Francisco Crespo, Thomas Brown

      Pages 1-11

   2. Promoting Physical Activity Through Internet: A Persuasive Technology View

      • Weimo Zhu

      Pages 12-17

   3. Digital Therapy: The Coming Together of Psychology and Technology Can Create a New Generation of Programs for More Sustainable Behavioral Change

      • Pål Kraft, Harald Schjelderup-Lund, Håvar Brendryen

      Pages 18-23

   4. Designing Persuasion: Health Technology for Low-Income African American Communities

      • Andrea Grimes, Rebecca E. Grinter

      Pages 24-35

3. Persuading People with Video Games

   1. Fine Tuning the Persuasion in Persuasive Games

      • Rilla Khaled, Pippin Barr, James Noble, Ronald Fischer, Robert Biddle

      Pages 36-47

   2. Captivating Patterns – A First Validation

      • Sabine Niebuhr, Daniel Kerkow

      Pages 48-54

4. New Form Factors for Persuasive Technology

   1. Promoting New Patterns in Household Energy Consumption with Pervasive Learning Games

      • Magnus Bang, Anton Gustafsson, Cecilia Katzeff

      Pages 55-63

   2. iParrot: Towards Designing a Persuasive Agent for Energy Conservation

      • Abdullah Al Mahmud, Pavan Dadlani, Omar Mubin, Suleman Shahid, Cees Midden, Oliver Moran

      Pages 64-67

   3. The Pet Plant: Developing an Inanimate Emotionally Interactive Tool for the Elderly

      • Teddy McCalley, Alain Mertens

      Pages 68-79

5. Surrounded by High-Tech Persuasion

   1. Distributed User Experience in Persuasive Technology Environments

      • Katarina Segerståhl, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen

      Pages 80-91

   2. The PerCues Framework and Its Application for Sustainable Mobility

      • Wolfgang Reitberger, Bernd Ploderer, Christoph Obermair, Manfred Tscheligi

      Pages 92-95

   3. Persuasive Technologies Should Be Boring

      • Conrad Wai, Pete Mortensen

      Pages 96-99

6. Controlling People by Using Digital Punishment

   1. Electronic Monitoring of Offenders: Can a Wayward Technology Be Redeemed?

      • Robert S. Gable

      Pages 100-104

   2. Logical Modeling of Deceptive Negative Persuasion

      • Neil C. Rowe

      Pages 105-108

   3. Surveillance, Persuasion, and Panopticon

      • Julie Leth Jespersen, Anders Albrechtslund, Peter Øhrstrøm, Per Hasle, Jørgen Albretsen

      Pages 109-120

7. Technology That Motivates Groups to Unify

   1. Support Services: Persuading Employees and Customers to Do what Is in the Community’s Best Interest

      • Mark Brodie, Jennifer Lai, Jonathan Lenchner, William Luken, Kavitha Ranganathan, Jung-Mu Tang et al.

      Pages 121-124

   2. Improving Cross-Cultural Communication Through Collaborative Technologies

      • Alyssa J. O’Brien, Christine Alfano, Eva Magnusson

      Pages 125-131

   3. Group Reactions to Visual Feedback Tools

      • Joan Morris DiMicco, Walter Bender

      Pages 132-143

   4. Can Brotherhood Be Sold Like Soap...Online? An Online Social Marketing and Advocacy Pilot Study Synopsis

      • Brian Cugelman, Mike Thelwall, Phil Dawes

      Pages 144-147

Persuasive technology is the general class of technologies that purposefully apply psychological principles of persuasion – principles of credibility, trust, reciprocity, authority and the like – in interactive media, in the service of changing their users’ attitudes and behavior. Only one year ago, in 2006, the first international conference in this area, PERSUASIVE 2006 was hosted in Eindhoven. The conference was entirely geared towards communicating the progress made in the area of persuasive technology, and towards presenting recent results in theory, design, technology and evaluation. It brought together a wide range of research fields, including social psychology, HCI, computer science, industrial design, engineering, game design, communication science, and human factors, and the formula worked: plans for a follow-up were made immediately upon its conclusion. PERSUASIVE 2007, the second international conference on persuasive technology, was hosted by Stanford University, April 26–27. The program featured a large number of presentations, both oral and in poster format, on new findings, new conceptualizations and designs, and new reflections on persuasion through technology. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, this conference featured the best new insights into how video games, mobile phone applications, and Web sites can be designed to motivate and influence people.

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• environmental psychology
• game design
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
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