doi: 10.4108/eai.8-12-2017.153401

This research aims to explore the use of persuasive technology within the educational context. Technology has previously been applied to aid teaching and to encourage skills development and learning in various educational settings, primarily targeting students who are already in education. This research, however, addresses individuals who are not involved in education or who may choose not to c...

Translational Science is receiving increasing attention in order to accelerate the process of developing useful clinical interventions starting with basic biological discoveries. The stages in translation are denoted T0, T1, T2, T3, T4. The four transitions between stages can pose formidable difficulties and are called the four ‘Valleys of Death’. In this paper we suggest that the methodologies...

Social software (SSW), nowadays increasingly widespread, has excellent potential for use as persuasive technology. What differentiates it from many other persuasive technology platforms is that it is inherently collective, making group dynamics a powerful factor in any SSW context of persuasion. Based on the psychology of groups, persuasion, and cross-cultural theory, we discuss affiliation, ac...

Participatory design methods may help account for the ethical implications of persuasive technology. But how can participatory design methods both address ethical issues and lead to effective persuasive technologies? This paper presents the early stages of participatory design with a college EcoHouse. I discuss concepts resulting from an Inspiration Card Workshop [1], finally considering furthe...

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...

In this short paper we aim to give a brief introduction to persuasive technology, especially as it pertains to human well-being. We discuss a number of current research opportunities in areas of healthcare, environmental conservation, and education. We conclude by highlighting what we regard as the key research challenges that need to be addressed, focusing on context sensing and appropriate fe...

The surveillance in public and private places, both physically and digitally, is increasing for different reasons. In this paper we intend to discuss surveillance and persuasive technology in an ethical perspective with an eye to its historical and cultural context. In section 1, we present some different tendencies of surveillance in society. In section 2, we elaborate on some important histor...