Persuasive Technology: Design for Health and Safety

1. Front Matter

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2. Determining the Determinants of Health Behaviour Change through an Online Social Network

   • Noreen Kamal, Sidney Fels

   Pages 1-12

3. Empowering Independent Living for People with Autism: Designing Supportive, Low-Cost, Interactive E-Health Environments

   • Winslow Burleson, Naomi Newman, Ryan Brotman

   Pages 13-30

4. Persuasive Sensing: A Novel In-Home Monitoring Technology to Assist Elderly Adult Diabetic Patients

   • Samir Chatterjee, Jongbok Byun, Akshay Pottathil, Miles N. Moore, Kaushik Dutta, Harry (Qi) Xie

   Pages 31-42

5. Turning the Classic Snake Mobile Game into a Location–Based Exergame that Encourages Walking

   • Luca Chittaro, Riccardo Sioni

   Pages 43-54

6. Phone Row: A Smartphone Game Designed to Persuade People to Engage in Moderate-Intensity Physical Activity

   • Matthijs Jan Zwinderman, Azadeh Shirzad, Xinyu Ma, Prina Bajracharya, Hans Sandberg, Maurits Clemens Kaptein

   Pages 55-66

7. Developing Persuasive Technology for ASD Challenged Teenagers

   • Morten Aagaard, Peter Øhrstrøm

   Pages 67-78

8. Talk to Act: How Internet Use Empowers Users to Participate in Collective Actions Offline

   • Sandy Schumann, Olivier Klein, Karen Douglas

   Pages 79-89

9. The Illusion of Agency: The Influence of the Agency of an Artificial Agent on Its Persuasive Power

   • Cees Midden, Jaap Ham

   Pages 90-99

10. Tailoring Feedback to Users’ Actions in a Persuasive Game for Household Electricity Conservation

    • Luciano Gamberini, Anna Spagnolli, Nicola Corradi, Giulio Jacucci, Giovanni Tusa, Topi Mikkola et al.

    Pages 100-111

11. Motivational Technologies: A Theoretical Framework for Designing Preventive Health Applications

    • S. Shyam Sundar, Saraswathi Bellur, Haiyan Jia

    Pages 112-122

12. The Voluntariness of Persuasive Technology

    • Jilles Smids

    Pages 123-132

13. Persuasion and Reflective Learning: Closing the Feedback Loop

    • Lars Müller, Verónica Rivera-Pelayo, Stephan Heuer

    Pages 133-144

14. Normative Social Influence in Persuasive Technology: Intensity versus Effectiveness

    • Thijs Waardenburg, Robbert Winkel, Maarten H. Lamers

    Pages 145-156

15. Exploring Perceived Persuasiveness of a Behavior Change Support System: A Structural Model

    • Filip Drozd, Tuomas Lehto, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen

    Pages 157-168

16. Biometric Monitoring as a Persuasive Technology: Ensuring Patients Visit Health Centers in India’s Slums

    • Nupur Bhatnagar, Abhishek Sinha, Navkar Samdaria, Aakar Gupta, Shelly Batra, Manish Bhardwaj et al.

    Pages 169-180

17. The Neural Persuasion Model: Aligning Neural Readiness, Perceived Need, and Intervention Strategies

    • Susan Ferebee, James Davis

    Pages 181-192

18. Analyzing the Persuasion Context of the Persuasive Systems Design Model with the 3D-RAB Model

    • Isaac Wiafe, Muna M. Alhammad, Keiichi Nakata, Stephen R. Gulliver

    Pages 193-202

19. Towards a Data-Driven Approach to Intervention Design: A Predictive Path Model of Healthy Eating Determinants

    • Rita Orji, Regan L. Mandryk, Julita Vassileva

    Pages 203-214

20. Passengers’ Safety in Aircraft Evacuations: Employing Serious Games to Educate and Persuade

    • Luca Chittaro

    Pages 215-226

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2012, held in Linköping, Sweden, in June 2012. The 21 full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. In addition three keynote papers are included in this volume. The papers cover the typical fields of persuasive technology, such as health, safety and education.

• context aware
• multimedia services
• persuasive intervention
• social robotics
• virtual reality

From the reviews:

“This book would be of interest to researchers, faculty, and students from multiple disciplines who are interested in the use of persuasive technology and its application in healthcare, computer science, education, and social science. … This compilation of current research is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the study of persuasive technology.” (Deborah Lewis, Doody’s Review Service, January, 2013)

• Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden

  Magnus Bang, Eva L. Ragnemalm

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