Selecting Effective Strategies for Tailoring Persuasive Health Games to Gamer Types

Does One Size Fit All? Personalizing Persuasive Games for Health by Gamer Types

Video Games and Virtual Reality as Persuasive Technologies for Health Care: An Overview

Over the last two decades, persuasive technology has gained much of interest and attention. One of the major disciplines of focus for persuasive technology is health care. The vast majority of persuasive technologies for health care are predominantly based on web and mobile platforms. Nevertheless, video games and virtual reality are recognized as effective persuasive platforms, as computer sim...

Selecting Effective Influence Principles for Tailoring Gamification-Based Strategies to Player Roles

Gamification is a term that refers to the use of game elements in nongame contexts with the goal of engaging people in a variety of tasks. Gamification can be an effective persuasive tool for motivating learners and lately we have witnessed a growing interest in gamified learning systems. However, the efforts of the research community in the last years have shown the weakness of one-size-fits-a...

Preface to the Second International Workshop on Personalizing Persuasive Technologies

Personalizing Persuasive Technologies (PPTs) is a growing research area which investigates how interactive systems can be designed to better suit people of various dispositions, inclinations, and capabilities, and hence increase the efficacy of persuasive technology to motivate behavior change. Research has found that individual characteristics such as personality type [21–23], age [20], gender...

Using Tailoring to Increase the Effectiveness of a Persuasive Game-Based Training for Novel Technologies

A vast majority of people with motor disabilities cannot be part of the today’s digital society, due to the difficulties they face in using conventional interfaces (i.e., mouse and keyboard) for computer operation. The MAMEM project aims at facilitating the social inclusion of these people by developing a technology that allows computer operation, solely by using the eyes and mind. However, tra...