Why do people change? In time, most people with alcohol or drug problems adjust to a new style of life, give up their damaging habits and move on often without any professional interventions. This observation is the starting point of an enquiry that has had far-reaching consequences for the way treatments for harmful behaviours are conducted throughout the world.

This book first appeared approximately 10 years ago and quickly became a classic exposition …

Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change.

Human Factors in Ambient Intelligence Environments

Persuasive systems (PS) are effective at motivating behaviour change using various persuasive strategies. Research shows that tailoring these systems increases their effectiveness. However, there is little knowledge on how PS can be tailored to people's Stages of Change (SoC). We conduct a large-scale study of 568 participants to investigate how individuals at different SoC respond to various strategies. We also explore why the strategies motivate behaviour change using the ARCS motivation model. Our results show that people's SoC plays a significant role in the perceived persuasiveness of different strategies and that the strategies motivate for different reasons. For instance, people at the precontemplation stage tend to be strongly motivated by self-monitoring strategy because it raises their consciousness or self-awareness. Our work is the first to link research on the theory of SoC with the theory of motivation and Persuasive Systems Design (PSD) model to develop practical guidelines to inform the tailoring of persuasive systems.

Tailoring Persuasive and Behaviour Change Systems Based on Stages of Change and Motivation

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Persuasive technology : first international conference on persuasive technology for human well-being, PERSUASIVE 2006, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 18-19, 2006 : proceedings

The development of persuasive interactive systems is typically achieved in an opportunistic way for shipping one persuasive system at a time, thus negatively affecting internal modularity (persuasion concepts are typically mixed up throughout the development life cycle) and reusability (parts or the whole persuasive system is of little reuse for another domain of human activity). In order to address these challenges, this paper introduces, motivates, and defines MOST4P, a Mission-Operation-Strategy-Tactic 4-level model for structuring the development of a persuasive interactive system and ProSPer, a MOST4P-based framework for developing persuasive interactive systems, software-based and/or manual-based that explicitly satisfy modularity (MOST concepts satisfy the separation of concerns) and multiple-domain applicability (MOST concepts could be reused from one domain to another). The paper then reports on a pilot study involving twelve participants evaluating how MOST4P concepts have been used in a self monitoring bracelet and in a mobile ProSPerbased persuasive interactive system. This study suggests that overall subjective satisfaction and usefulness are the most appreciated criteria, followed by interaction and information qualities.

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ProSPer: modeling the change, driving the persuasion

Smoking cessation has become a real social challenge in healthcare domain and persuasive technologies combined with ambient intelligence figure as a possible approaches against this addiction. Choosing an effective persuasive design relies on different models and principles coming from several scientific contexts. We evaluate the triggers defined by the B.J.Fogg’s model in different design strategies implementing three experiments: the first using smoking tools, the second with an Android application and a third one using the same application coupled with an Arduino-based ambient device. The CRegrette system’s proof of concept suggests that statistics combined with an ambient device are more effective than notifications, mirroring and self-monitoring approaches. This article furthermore proposes some design strategies and research perspectives to support further research in the field of persuasion and ambient device design.

Persuasion Through an Ambient Device: Proof of Concept and Early Evaluation of CRegrette, a Smoking Cessation System

Developing persuasive interactive system faces the challenge of describing multiple-domain goals to be achieved, along with an context-aware driving of persuasion. We developed ProSPer, a model capable of dealing with this challenges and we implemented two experiments using an Android application and a selfmonitoring bracelet. The preliminary results shows that participants understood and applied effectively the model, giving further design prospectives of research and development.

ProSPer: a MOST model extension applied to persuasive interactive system

Developing persuasive interactive system faces the challenge of describing multiple-domain goals to be achieved, along with an context-aware driving of persuasion. We developed ProSPer, a model capable of dealing with this challenges and we implemented two experiments using an Android application and a self-monitoring bracelet. The preliminary results shows that participants understood and applied effectively the model, giving further design prospectives of research and development.

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ProSPer: a MOST model extension applied to persuasive interactive systems

The exploration and discovery of nature through walking, cycling, touring, trekking and hiking are targeted by this work, part of an on-going research on mobile-based persuasive user interaction. Considering HCI solutions dedicated to discover and explore nature, we uncover the concept of persuasive event and several classes of roles that users may endorse during a long-term usage of such interactive solutions. We claim the importance of these events and roles as, leveraging persuasion, they may contribute to improve nature discovery experience and to sustain motivation through user interaction. In this work we share these insights from our studies on the Mhikes platform, designed for such kind of nature-involved activities.

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Alessandro Fenicio

Papers

Persuasion Through an Ambient Device: Proof of Concept and Early Evaluation of CRegrette, a Smoking Cessation System

ProSPer: modeling the change, driving the persuasion

ProSPer: a MOST model extension applied to persuasive interactive system

ProSPer: a MOST model extension applied to persuasive interactive systems

Persuasive Events and User's Roles in Mobile-Based Interactive Solutions for Nature Discovery