#persuasive technology

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Ask A Genius 1472: How AI and Augmented Humanity Could Shape Population, Pleasure, and Survival

Rick Rosner is an accomplished television writer with credits on shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Crank Yankers, and The Man Show. Over his career, he has earned multiple Writers Guild Award nominations—winning one—and an Emmy nomination. Rosner holds a broad academic background, graduating with the equivalent of eight majors. Based in Los Angeles, he continues to write and develop ideas while…

Ask A Genius 1472: How AI and Augmented Humanity Could Shape Population, Pleasure, and Survival

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Social Dilemma

By Marivel Guzman Use your “quarantine time,” and watch this powerful docu-drama, Social Dilemma will make you to reevaluate your life. If you are not paying for a product, then you are the product being sold. The dangerous persuasive technology used by Facebook, Google, Twitter, Snapshot, and YouTube to manipulate your habits, behavior, beliefs and choices:From presidential elections ads,…

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[aram]

BJ Fogg and the Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab share a methodology for achieving behavior change: the Fogg Behavior Model (FBM) and Fogg Behavior Grid (FBG)

The model shows us when people are most open to nudges, be they treats or tools to support behavior change.

If something is easy to do, a small incentive can tip them over. If something is challenging to do, a new tool can unlock the desired change.

What's in your portfolio of behavior change triggers? How can you create the environment and deliver the nudge at the right place and right time?

Are you pushing change on people or are you creating centers of pull?

[joachimvlieghe]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTUWrXJId_Y)

Full lenght lecture on Persuasive Technologies and Captology. It’s quite long, so rather than spending all day to transcribe and highlight it, I would like to encourage you to just watch it.

I will add some images that I found online which summarize the information provide in certain sections in this video.

Source: http://image.slidesharecdn.com/sgdforcas-150407053511-conversion-gate01/95/speculative-game-design-22-638.jpg?cb=1428403120

Source: http://www.behaviormodel.org/triggers_files/page6_3.jpg

Source: http://captology.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/behavior_model_650.gif

Source: http://captology.stanford.edu/wp-content/plugins/spotlight-gallery/images/Designing_For_Behavior_Change4.jpg

Source: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e1/bf/d8/e1bfd88dbedd86f21f1389653d505a98.jpg

Here is an excerpt from "Playing Games Is Hard Work: An Excerpt From Reality Is Broken", the book by Jane McGonigal to which the lecturer refers.

After all, we play games, and we've been taught to think of play as the very opposite of work. But nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, as Brian Sutton-Smith, a leading psychologist of play, once said, “The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.” When we're depressed, according to the clinical definition, we suffer from two things: a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity. If we were to reverse these two traits, we'd get something like this: an optimistic sense of our own capabilities and an invigorating rush of activity. There's no clinical psychological term that describes this positive condition. But it's a perfect description of the emotional state of gameplay. A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we're good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.

[medeamalmo]

Call for Papers: People and Computers - HCI 2012 (Sep, Birmingham, UK)

Technology is now common in all walks of life and HCI practitioners and researchers have more areas of impact than ever before. The theme of the conference is People and Computers, this to encapsulate and highlight the growing diversity of our field of HCI in one event.

The dates for submission for Short Papers, Work in Progress, Alt HCI and the Doctoral Consortium is June, 15, 2012. HCI 2012, Sep 12-14, 2012, Birmingham, UK.

View full call here: http://hci2012.bcs.org/calls.html

Relevant topics areas include but are by no means limited to:

Persuasive Technology

Mobile Interactions

User Experience

Touchtable interactions

Affective Computing/Interactions

Usability Engineering

Accessibility

Child Computer Interaction

Interaction Design

UCD4D

Recommender Systems

Annotation

Brain Computer Interfaces

Technology and Culture

E-Government

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The Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior change, by the Stanford Captology lab

Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change

#1 Relying on willpower for long term change

Imagine willpower doesn't exist. That's step 1 to a better future.

#2 Attempting big leaps instead of baby steps

Seek tiny successes, one after another.

#3 Ignoring how environment shapes behaviors

Change your context & you change your life.

#4 Trying to stop old behaviors instead of creating new ones.

Focus on action, not avoidance

#5 Blaming failures on lack of motivation

Solution: Make the behavior easier to do.

#6 Underestimating the power of triggers

No behavior happens without a trigger.

#7 Believing that information leads to action

We humans aren't so rational.

#8 Focusing on abstract goals more than concrete behaviors

Abstract: Get in Shape Concrete: Walk 15 minutes today.

#9 Seeking to change a behavior forever, not for a short time.

A fixed period works better than "forever"

#10 Assuming the behavior change is difficult

Behavior change is not so hard when you have the right process To learn more, check out Stanford's Persuasive Tech lab. We've spent time learning about true behavioral change because we think it's what people need in an ocean of flawed quick fixes. We're committed to continually embedding the latest science and understanding about creating lasting positive behaviors into all of our products.