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Various mobile apps have been released to track and promote mental health and well-being. Despite the high interest in developing these apps, they suffer from high attrition rates. These apps have limited utility if they are delivered in a manner that ...

Promoting growth mindset and resilience through Positive Psychology Interventions (PPIs) could be beneficial for young unemployed adults, as many have weak beliefs in their capacity to learn, and job-search adversity could reinforce a poor self-image. ...

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2020, necessitated the roll-out of contact tracing apps (CTAs) worldwide. However, there is limited work to understand the various factors that influence the adoption of CTAs, and the moderating effect of persuasive ...

Exergames have the potential to reduce sedentary behavior and motivate physical activity. However, they suffer from retention problems mainly because the level of interest declines over time. In this paper, we report on the results of a social ...

Endogenous smartphone interruptions have changed many aspects of people's daily lives, particularly in the study and work environment. We create a robot that could persuade you inherently by enhancing the desk lamp with posture changes and facial ...

The endogenous interruptions of smartphones have impacted people's everyday life in many aspects, especially in the study and work scene under a lamp. To mitigate this, we make a robot that could persuade you intrinsically by augmenting the lamp on your ...

In this interactivity paper, we present the design and demonstration of Hicclip, a smart snacking sealing rack that leverages eating-related sounds as persuasive strategies to interact with different snacking behaviors of the user to possibly intervene ...

This paper examines the use of physical persuasive cards for novice designers in ideation sessions. Through experimental study, we found that the tools a designer uses affects the kind of outcome they will get. The observations from four workshop ...

Excessive salt intake is increasingly seen as global health threat. As contemporary education campaigns and current mHealth solutions only reach health literate users, an often unaffected minority, there exists demand for more inclusive solutions. ...

Objective: The objective of the current study was to develop and evaluate a persuasive decision-support aiming at reducing pre-hospital delay and increasing ambulance service use for patients who suffer from a recurrent myocardial infarction.

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Ensuring high-quality, civil social interactions remains a vexing challenge in many online spaces. In the present work, we introduce a novel approach to address this problem: using psychologically "embedded'' CAPTCHAs containing stimuli intended to ...

Prior research indicates that many people wish to limit aspects of their smartphone use. Why is it that certain smartphone use feels so meaningless? We examined this question by using interviews, the experience sampling method, and mobile logging of 86,...

Contemporary knowledge work is typically characterized by sedentary work habits, which in turn have an impact on workers' well-being and creativity. Persuasive technologies can be designed as a means for reducing the amount of sitting at work. Here, we ...

Could recycling become an interesting activity instead of a compulsive requirement? 20 participants in Stockholm, Sweden participated in a study to determine why recycling is still a problem on an individual scale. The designers of the project were the ...

There is a gap between people's attitudes and feelings toward sustainability, the environment, and their own contribution. Attitudes and knowledge can predict environmental behaviour and it is essential to establish positive habits for children to ...

Distractions in the office do not only disturb co-workers and prevent them from being productive, but also cost the company a lot of money. The following paper describes an ambient lighting system for large office spaces called STARS. It is intended to ...

This paper describes the participatory design methods used to produce a design with an aim of creating an emotional investment for the users. The designers in the project were the users themselves with facilitators guiding them throughout the five ...

Many theories and models have been generated from the fields of informatics, medicine, psychology, and sociology on the topic of persuasion to describe aspects of human behavior, human/computer interaction, and information systems involved in supporting ...

With the global adoption and implementation of smart grid technology, the coherent and steady involvement of consumers is required for the successful use of available technology. Changing consumer behavior has always been a challenge, particularly ...