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Subliminal Priming of Nonconscious Goals on Smartphones

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Charlie Pinder,

Robert HendleyAuthors Info & Claims

MobileHCI '15: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct

Pages 825 - 830

https://doi.org/10.1145/2786567.2793707

Published: 24 August 2015 Publication History

Abstract

We present a theoretical justification for and design of an experiment to explore the use of subliminal priming of nonconscious goals on smartphones to achieve behaviour change.

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MobileHCI '15: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct

August 2015

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ISBN:9781450336536

DOI:10.1145/2786567

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Sebastian Boring
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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University of Ulm, Germany
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Lancaster University, UK
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Microsoft Research Redmond, USA

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Caraban AKarapanos EGonçalves DCampos PBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)23 Ways to NudgeProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300733(1-15)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
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