BCD cards available
The Behavior Change Design cards are now available at persuasive.ac.cy/bcdcards. For more information on their creation and evaluation, you may…
Technologies for Reflection and Behavior Change
The Behavior Change Design cards are now available at persuasive.ac.cy/bcdcards. For more information on their creation and evaluation, you may…
Evangelos will be giving a keynote speech at Persuasive Technology 2022 that takes place on March 29-31, 2022. The conference…
Our interactions article summarised our recent work on nudging: the ’23 ways to nudge’ framework and the Nudge Deck. Read…
The Nudge Deck is now available to download from the following link: http://persuasive.cut.ac.cy/nudgedeck
We’re joining the upcoming panel on “Teaching a Persuasive Technology course” that takes place as part of the Persuasive Technology…
On March 9, I gave a keynote at the closing event of the project ‘Mobile monitoring of movement and joint…
My flight was affected by the Ciara storm, but I ended up giving the talk remotely, as part of a…
We’ve just came back from a productive sabbatical. Chrysanthi spend two months at the Telefonica research labs in Barcelona, supported…
One of our very own, Rúben Gouveia, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Tracking in the wild: Exploring the everyday…
We had the pleasure of hosting between February and April 2019, Elçin Hancı – Ph.D. candidate at the Human-Technology Interaction…
We recently published an article summarizing our work and our vision for a methodological paradigm we call Technology-Assisted Reconstruction. You…
Ten years ago, Thaler and Sunstein introduced the notion of nudging to talk about how subtle changes in the ‘choice…
Ruben Gouveia has been selected as a finalist for the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award at Ubicomp 2018 along with four…
We’re proudly hosting Persuasive’19 in Limassol, from April 9 to 11, 2019. Persuasive Technology (PT) is a vibrant interdisciplinary research community,…
Dr. Tuomas Kari visited our lab during the period 3-7.9.2018. His background is in information systems science, and his main research…
The official kick-off of the H2020 project Co-Inform took place in May’18. Co-Inform is about empowering citizens, journalists and policy-makers…
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…
In her recently published work, Jordan Etkin asked individuals to count their steps over the course of a day. Not surprisingly, she found…
With multiple studies highlighting high abandonment rates of physical activity trackers, a question is raised as to how well they…
Together with Ruben Gouveia and Marc Hassenzahl, we received an Honorable Mention Award for Best Paper for the paper How Do…
We report on a 10-month in-the-wild study of the adoption, engagement and discontinuation of an activity tracker called Habito, by…