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Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs), such as nail biting, impact a wide demographic, and can negatively affect physical, psychological, and social well-being. Although pharmacological and behavioral therapies are common treatments, many avoid ...

Sedentary behavior has been linked to numerous detrimental health outcomes. This is particularly pronounced among office workers. Sitting breaks can attenuate some of these detrimental health effects. Thus, our goal was to design a persuasive system to ...

ICT is an enabler for sustainable development and contributes to sustainability problems arising from different human activities aided by ICT interactive software and services. Consequently, these ICT-aided activities contribute to a vast amount ...

Childhood obesity and overweight are concerning issues worldwide with significant health and social implications, making it necessary to implement prevention and intervention policies. Engaging children through creative and playful methods is an ...

YouTube remains a site of problematic persuasive media consumption, often overriding the goals of users when on the platform. In resistance, we present Attention Receipts — artifacts that materialize the cost of being persuaded by the engagement driven ...

Energy efficiency is essential in overcoming environmental, economic, and energy security challenges. Public buildings, from a global perspective, are a significant source of electrical energy waste and are currently considered dominant objects in energy ...

Public media and researchers in different areas have recently focused on perhaps unexpected problems that derive from an excessive and frequent use of technology, giving rise to a new kind of psychological “digital” wellbeing. Such a novel and pressing ...

In today’s connected society, many people rely on mHealth and self-tracking (ST) technology to help them adopt healthier habits with a focus on breaking their sedentary lifestyle and staying fit. However, there is scarce evidence of such technological ...

Food waste presents a substantial challenge with significant environmental and economic ramifications, and its severity on campus environments is of particular concern. In response to this, we introduce FoodWise, a dual-component system tailored to ...

Digital mindfulness applications and tools are increasingly developed to improve the wellbeing of technology users. In this study, we present Chai, an Android live wallpaper application designed to reduce absent-minded smartphone usage. The wallpaper is ...

The Adaptive and Personalized Persuasive Technologies (ADAPPT’23) workshop holding in Cyprus this year is the third edition of the ADAPPT series, which commenced in 2019. The workshop is organized in conjunction with the 31st Association for Computer ...

One way to counteract anthropogenic climate change, is to reduce individual energy consumption. An especially energy-intensive everyday practice is doing the laundry. In Germany, laundry accounts for about 5% of domestic electricity consumption. In part,...

Many goals people have, like getting into shape or getting good grades on important exams, require small daily deferrable efforts, like exercising or studying. To help people sustain these efforts over time, behavioral research explored the use of ...

Happiness, or subjective wellbeing, brings lasting positive effects to individuals, communities, and societies. Intentional engagement in kind behaviours can have a significant effect on increasing and sustaining subjective wellbeing in humans. In ...

Setting goals is a basic functionality of digital behaviour change interventions aimed at improving health. A challenge is to motivate and define personally relevant, small, easy-to-achieve (”baby step”) goals, to which a person can adhere to over ...

We developed a virtual agent that motivates church-going users to change their health behavior by telling existing cultural narratives that have high relevance with the counseling topic in an engaging way. We evaluated this agent in a between-subjects ...

Data Videos (DVs), or animated infographics that tell stories with data, are becoming increasingly popular. Despite their potential to induce attitude change, little is explored about how to produce effective DVs. This paper describes two studies that ...

The dark side of technology, such as technology overuse, has received growing concern. Prior studies have developed a variety of stand-alone techniques to support technology non-use, but few have attempted to build interventions directly into ...

Research increasingly depends on software, yet software work is often relatively invisible to the reputation economy shaping research careers. To address this, we demonstrate CiteAs, a system designed to improve incentives for high-quality software ...

The PROMISS trial studies the effect of dietary advice to increasing protein intake on physical function in older adults with a relatively low protein intake, to promote healthy ageing. Part of this 6-months trial is the persuasive technology sub study,...