Tipping positive change

The Tipping Point of the ‘tipping Point’ Metaphor: Agency Amd Process for Waves of Change

This paper asks how certain ideas become fashionable and what conditions underpin the innovation and diffusion of knowledge. It investigates the emergence of the „tipping point‟ metaphor, which has been widely used in academia and the media to describe, account for and/or predict a process or potential process of change or even cataclysmic occurrences in a range of contexts, including urban stu...

Tipping Points and Ambiguity in the Economics of Climate Change

We model optimal policy when the probability of a tipping point, the welfare change due to a tipping point, and knowledge about a tipping point's trigger all depend on the policy path. Analytic results demonstrate how optimal policy depends on the ability to affect both the probability of a tipping point and also welfare in a post-threshold world. Simulations with a numerical climate-economy mo...

Tipping Points, Abrupt Opinion Changes, and Punctuated Policy Change

Motivational Interviewing for Probation Officers: Tipping the Balance Toward Change*

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING (Miller & Rollnick, 1991) is a way of talking with people about change that was first developed for the field of addictions but has broadened and become a favored approach for use with populations in a variety of settings (Burke, Arkowitz & Dunn, 2002). It has been introduced to criminal justice in general (Birgden, 2004; McMurran, 2002; Farrall, 2002) and probation ef...

HCI for Positive Change

This paper aims to outline some of the key challenges towards a HCI for positive change. Drawing on previous empirical studies concerning the development of positive expressive technologies for social wellness, this paper is a delineation of some of the key challenges in terms of theoretical underpinnings, design and evaluation of technologies that aim to contribute to happy beings in