Currently the world is going through a demographic shift that projects the proportion of ageing population will be more than double in the next four decades. This has serious consequences for our current healthcare systems for the ageing population that are prone to chronic diseases. One possible solution is to provide in-home assisted healthcare through technology intervened approaches. This w...

Since a while the ethics of persuasive technology (PT) have been discussed. One interesting approach is the assessment of PTs in the light of discourse ethics and the speech-act theory as proposed recently. While some see such an approach as promising, the author will illustrate that the application of discourse ethics is only appropriate for a few limited persuasive strategies. It is argued th...

Dynamic carbon footprint reflects potential differences between instances of the same product. To deliver dynamic carbon footprint to end consumers, we should adopt a new and innovative style as it cannot be implemented by common physical labels. This paper presents how EPCglobal network can be used to track carbon emissions, which then are the input of Sourcemap to create a lifecycle map. What...

In this paper I propose a new theory for the study of persuasiveness within digital games. This theory aims to make visible how persuasiveness can be structured within digital games and to be useful to identify specific aspects of games' persuasiveness that might not be obvious to the naked eye, by giving them order and conferring them intelligibility. The theory that I propose here is based on...

Research has shown that social influence is a strong motivator of behavior change. However, in persuasive technology research, limited studies exist showing the influence of age and gender on its effectiveness. To bridge this gap, we conducted a study among 323 participants on the level of susceptibility to four social influence strategies: Social Learning, Social Comparison, Competition and Re...

A recent study in Saudi Arabia uncovered certain prevalent health-risk behaviors in the adolescent population. One of the most prevalent behaviors identified by this study is health-risk dietary behavior. In general, adolescents in Saudi Arabia reported poor dietary behaviors. Adolescents in Saudi Arabia have received minimal attention over the past decades. This study aims to examine the effic...

In this paper sustainable consumption is conceptualized as the result of various types of interactions between users and systems. We review attempts to promote sustainable behavior and discuss contributions by using persuasive technology. In particular, we focus on the appraisal of climate risks and interactive approaches to influence energy consumption in households.

In this paper the authors evaluate Chevron’s Energyville, as an example of a persuasive technology, which is used to change attitudes and behaviours. The authors want to explore this simulation in terms of it’s potential to be transplanted as a persuasive technology into the South African context, given the fact that South Africa is experiencing an energy crisis currently and will continue to d...

We aim to design a persuasive technology to help college students, who are particularly susceptible to sleep deprivation, get better, longer, and more regular sleep. In order to gain the insights of our future users, we applied a participatory design approach that included experience prototypes, which aim to actively engage designers and participants with the functions that new technology might...