There is a growing number of eHealth interventions aiming at enhancing lifestyle to address obesity. However, the existing interventions do not take the emotional aspects of obesity into account. Forty percent of the overweight population is an emotional eater. Emotional eaters gain weight because of …

Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies are embraced by designers, scholars and charities alike, some primarily for their entertaining properties, others also for the opportunities in education, motivation or persuasion. Applications with the latter objective, that of persuasion, are designed …

This chapter concerns itself with the way in which China uses mainly non-kinetic means to broaden its power and influence in the South China Sea. The old writings of Sun Tzu and the modern writings of Liang and Xiangsui, together with the analysis of the tensions in the South China Sea, demonstrate that …

Persuasive games exist for a wide variety of objectives, from marketing, to healthcare and activism. Some of the more socially-aware ones cast players as members of disenfranchised minorities, such as migrants, prompting them to 'see what they see'. In parallel, a growing number of designers has recently …

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Self-tracking and Persuasive eCoaching in Healthy Lifestyle Interventions: Work-in-progress Scoping Review of Key Components.This presentation is given during the Workshop Behavior Change Support Systems (BCSS 2016): Epic for Change, the Pillars for Persuasive Technology for Smart Societies. The presentation …

Eetsnelheid is een zeer hardnekkige gewoonte die moeilijk te veranderen blijkt. Toch is het belangrijk dat snelle eters leren om langzamer te eten. Mensen die langzaam eten zijn namelijk sneller verzadigd en eten doorgaans minder dan mensen die snel eten. In dit onderzoek wordt getest of het gebruik …

The combination of self-tracking and persuasive eCoaching in healthy lifestyle interventions is a promising approach. The objective of this study is to map the key components of existing healthy lifestyle interventions combining self-tracking and persuasive eCoaching using the scoping review methodology …

Een digitaal product ontwerpen dat debiteurenbeheer overneemt van ZZP-ers en MKB-ers. Een product neerzetten dat organisaties kan helpen bij debiteurenbeheer, door gebruik te maken van een “persuasive design” dat debiteuren moet overtuigen hun betalingen binnen een redelijke termijn te voldoen.