A persuasive agent architecture for behavior change intervention

Behavior change following a persuasive communication.

Persuasive Cities: Health Behavior Change at Scale

Can you imagine a city that feels, understands, and cares about your wellbeing? Future cities will reshape human behavior in countless ways. New strategies and models of urban spaces are required for creating future cities to properly respond to human activity, environmental conditions, and market dynamics. Persuasive urban systems will play an important role in making cities more livable and r...

Behavior selection architecture for tangible agent

Tangible agent (TA) is a new medium that communicates the senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste of human to computer. Intelligent behavior is a key property to realize the agent because it must interact with human to grasp all the information. We have adopted behavior-based approach for high-level hehaviors such as navigation of office, conversation with human, and cleaning of room....

Persuasive Backfiring: When Behavior Change Interventions Trigger Unintended Negative Outcomes

Numerous scholars study how to design evidence-based interventions that can improve the lives of individuals, in a way that also brings social benefits. However, within the behavioral sciences in general, and the persuasive technology field specifically, scholars rarely focus-on, or report the negative outcomes of behavior change interventions, and possibly fewer report a special type of negati...

Selecting Effective Persuasive Strategies in Behavior Change Support Systems

The Third International Workshop on Behavior Change Support Systems provides a place to discuss recent advances in BCSS research. The selected papers show that research into behavior change support systems is expanding: not only by trying to reach more and other people, but also by expanding the contexts where BCSSs are employed. A key point for all BCSSs, for each target group and for each con...