Persuasive Technology: Second International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2007, Palo Alto, CA, USA, April 26-27, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

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Persuasion, Task Interruption and Health Regimen Adherence....Pages 1-11
Promoting Physical Activity Through Internet: A Persuasive Technology View....Pages 12-17
Digital Therapy: The Coming Together of Psychology and Technology Can Create a New Generation of Programs for More Sustainable Behavioral Change....Pages 18-23
Designing Persuasion: Health Technology for Low-Income African American Communities....Pages 24-35
Fine Tuning the Persuasion in Persuasive Games....Pages 36-47
Captivating Patterns – A First Validation....Pages 48-54
Promoting New Patterns in Household Energy Consumption with Pervasive Learning Games....Pages 55-63
iParrot: Towards Designing a Persuasive Agent for Energy Conservation....Pages 64-67
The Pet Plant: Developing an Inanimate Emotionally Interactive Tool for the Elderly....Pages 68-79
Distributed User Experience in Persuasive Technology Environments....Pages 80-91
The PerCues Framework and Its Application for Sustainable Mobility....Pages 92-95
Persuasive Technologies Should Be Boring....Pages 96-99
Electronic Monitoring of Offenders: Can a Wayward Technology Be Redeemed?....Pages 100-104
Logical Modeling of Deceptive Negative Persuasion....Pages 105-108
Surveillance, Persuasion, and Panopticon....Pages 109-120
Support Services: Persuading Employees and Customers to Do what Is in the Community’s Best Interest....Pages 121-124
Improving Cross-Cultural Communication Through Collaborative Technologies....Pages 125-131
Group Reactions to Visual Feedback Tools....Pages 132-143
Can Brotherhood Be Sold Like Soap...Online? An Online Social Marketing and Advocacy Pilot Study Synopsis....Pages 144-147
Social Comparisons to Motivate Contributions to an Online Community....Pages 148-159
Can Companies Initiate Positive Word of Mouth? A Field Experiment Examining the Effects of Incentive Magnitude and Equity, and eReferral Mechanisms....Pages 160-163
Source Salience and the Persuasiveness of Peer Recommendations: The Mediating Role of Social Trust....Pages 164-175
An Examination of the Influence of Involvement Level of Web Site Users on the Perceived Credibility of Web Sites....Pages 176-186
Embedded Persuasive Strategies to Obtain Visitors’ Data: Comparing Reward and Reciprocity in an Amateur, Knowledge-Based Website....Pages 187-198
The Behavior Chain for Online Participation: How Successful Web Services Structure Persuasion....Pages 199-209
Exploring Persuasive Potential of Embodied Conversational Agents Utilizing Synthetic Embodied Conversational Agents....Pages 210-213
The Importance of Interface Agent Visual Presence: Voice Alone Is Less Effective in Impacting Young Women’s Attitudes Toward Engineering....Pages 214-222
Embodied Agents on a Website: Modelling an Attitudinal Route of Influence....Pages 223-230
Is it Me or Is it what I say? Source Image and Persuasion....Pages 231-242
Digital Television as Persuasive Technology....Pages 243-252
The Use of Mobile Phones to Support Children’s Literacy Learning....Pages 253-258
Toward a Systematic Understanding of Suggestion Tactics in Persuasive Technologies....Pages 259-270
Modelling a Receiver’s Position to Persuasive Arguments....Pages 271-282
Persuasive Recommendation: Serial Position Effects in Knowledge-Based Recommender Systems....Pages 283-294
Persuade Into What? Why Human-Computer Interaction Needs a Philosophy of Technology....Pages 295-306
Classical Rhetoric and a Limit to Persuasion....Pages 307-310
Persuasion Theories and IT Design....Pages 311-314
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