Persuasive Tech Lab – Technologies for Reflection and Behavior Change

While recent research has emphasized the importance of understanding the lived experience of personal tracking, very little is known about…

We had the pleasure of welcoming two research visitors over the past months. Mr Olli Korhonen, PhD student at the…

We’re involved in the organisation of the Persuasive’18 conference to be held in Waterloo, Canada. Deadline for papers: November 1, 2017.…

We will be co-organizing a workshop on New Directions for Self-Quantification for Behavior Change as part of Mobile HCI 2017 in Vienna. Submit…

We received two awards at the 12th International conference on Persuasive Technology. The best paper award went to Ana’s work on…

With 50% of people spending over 6 h per day surfing the web, web browsers offer a promising platform for…

The use of motivational textual messages is a popular strategy for encouraging behavior change. Social media platforms, such as Instagram,…

We gave a talk in the WUD’16 Tallinn and WUD@ITMO events. The slides of the presentation are attached below.

Recent research reveals over 70% of the usage of physical activity trackers to be driven by glances – brief, 5-second…

I intentionally chose a provocative title. Can we really design behaviour? Can technologies have such an influence on individuals’ behaviour that…