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Bombaerts, Gunter (author), Anderson, Joel (author), Dennis, Matthew James (author), Gerola, Alessio (author), Frank, Lily (author), Hannes, Tom (author), Hopster, Jeroen (author), Marin, L. (author), Spahn, Andreas (author)The “attention economy” refers to the tech industry’s business model that treats human attention as a commodifiable resource. The libertarian critique of this model, dominant within tech and philosophical communities, claims that the persuasive technologies of the attention economy infringe on the individual user’s autonomy and therefore the...journal article 2023
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Albers, N. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author)Despite their prevalence in eHealth applications for behavior change, persuasive messages tend to have small effects on behavior. Conditions or states (e.g., confidence, knowledge, motivation) and characteristics (e.g., gender, age, personality) of persuadees are two promising components for more effective algorithms for choosing persuasive...conference paper 2023
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Chan, Megan (author)Space Mission Sanitas is a game-based health intervention to help cardiac patients maintain their physical activity level after cardiac rehabilitation. Often people find it hard to maintain their physical activity level after cardiac rehabilitation. They face different barriers that lower their motivation, resulting in an unhealthy lifestyle...master thesis 2022
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Ghantasala, Ramya (author)A significant cardiovascular health risk is insufficient physical activity. The World Health Organization recommends 150 minutes of strenuous physical activity every week. Inadequate physical activity increases the risk of chronic diseases and other health conditions like cholesterol and obesity. This thesis researches the role of data...master thesis 2022
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Tripathi, Jayanshi (author), de Vries, Roelof A. J. (author), Lemke, M. (author)Persuasion can be defined as an active attempt by a person to change the behavior and attitudes of others. The purposive attempt to influence one’s behavior can originate from different areas, and people who are able to do so are often referred to as influencers. Social media platforms such as Instagram or YouTube have become crucial platforms...journal article 2022
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Reichhardt, Bastian (author)With noticeably mounting indications for climate change the fatal consequences of human activities become more and more apparent. The majority of our everyday life products hold their share in the pollution of the environment. By unearthing resources, processing, transporting, use and disposal. Here, industrial designers and innovators have long...master thesis 2021
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Fedlmeier, Antonia (author)We live in a world in which chronic diseases are on the rise. Yet, improving personal health behaviours is a long-term goal, that is often undermined by alluring offers that provide instant gratification and other more pressing day-to-day matters. Often it is not the intention that is missing to change personal health behaviours, but there is...master thesis 2021
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van den Berg, Nadine (author)Societal problems related to climate change include increasing climate extremes, flood risk and environmental degradation of cities. It is important to address these problems in order to improve urban resilience, reduce flood damage, and promote quality of life. This thesis addresses these problems by focusing on increasing the ecosystem...master thesis 2021
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Albers, N. (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)A human therapist continuously adapts how they persuade a client to adhere to a behavior change intervention based on theoretical expertise, past experience with the client as well as other clients, and the client's current situation. We aim at incorporating these elements into the persuasive communication of a conversational agent that acts as...abstract 2021
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- Albers, N. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author) poster 2021
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Erdbrink, A.E. (author), Michael, J. (author), Kortmann, L.J. (author), Hamel, M. (author), Eijck, K. Van (author), Verbraeck, A. (author)Classical music venues in the Netherlands and throughout the world are struggling to attract new audiences. Especially younger visitors are underrepresented. Previous research emphasizes the importance of providing new, potentially interested audiences with more means to consume the music. This paper presents an exploratory case study with the...journal article 2021
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Lemke, M. (author), de Vries, Roelof A. J. (author)Theories from psychology or the social sciences are commonly used as a starting point when designing persuasive technologies that aim to evoke a specific behavior change. Ideally, using these theories would (1) help guide the design of the persuasive technology and (2) help evaluate and inform the theory. In this paper, we focused on the first...review 2021
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Alonso, Jose M. (author), Barro, Senén (author), Bugarín, Alberto (author), van Deemter, Kees (author), Gardent, Claire (author), Gatt, Albert (author), Reiter, Ehud (author), Sierra, Carles (author), Theune, Mariët (author), Tintarev, N. (author), Yano, Hitoshi (author), Budzynska, Katarzyna (author)We have defined an interdisciplinary program for training a new generation of researchers who will be ready to leverage the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based models and techniques even by non-expert users. The final goal is to make AI self-explaining and thus contribute to translating knowledge into products and services for economic...conference paper 2021
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- Albers, N. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author) conference paper 2021
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Moens, Suzanne (author)The aim of this graduation project is to increase physical exercise of employees with low socio economic status (SES) by engaging them in a health intervention. Individuals with low SES often negatively influence their health by having an unhealthy lifestyle. This lifestyle causes the individual problems and non-communicable diseases (NCD),...master thesis 2020
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Shah, J.S. (author)Faced with increased pressure due to the earthquakes in Groningen and global warming, the Netherlands government has decided to discontinue the production of and completely transition away from natural gas by 2050. This requires the transformation of the 95% of houses that are currently heated using natural gas into ones that are heated using...master thesis 2020
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Georgiev, Martin (author)Digital technologies have enabled uninterrupted mass persuasive communications everywhere and anytime, aiming at convincing people to change their beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors. Research has shown that persuasive technologies are most effective when the messages and means are tailored to people’s recipients’ unique characteristics,...master thesis 2020
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Kortmann, L.J. (author), Scholten, L. (author)Learning multi-cultural team competencies is important for engineering students to prepare for an increasingly global workspace. We evaluated the game BAFÁ BAFÁ with groups of Master students from varying engineering programmes using a mixed methods approach. The game experience of 118 participants was measured. These participants experienced...conference paper 2020
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van Gent, P. (author), Farah, H. (author), Nes, Nicole Van (author), van Arem, B. (author)Traffic congestion is a major societal challenge. By advising drivers on the optimal lane to drive, traffic flow can be improved, and congestion reduced. In this paper we describe the development of a lane-specific advice Human Machine Interface (HMI). Persuading drivers to follow an advice that is beneficial to the traffic situation, but may...journal article 2020
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Cash, Philip (author), Khadilkar, Pramod (author), Jensen, Joanna (author), Dusterdich, Camilla (author), Mugge, R. (author)Behavioural design has emerged as a critical new area of research and practice. However, despite the development of extensive lists of possible problem features and suggested solution principles there is little guidance on how these should be connected. Therefore, in this work we systematically examine interactions between major problem features...journal article 2020