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My flight was affected by the Ciara storm, but I ended up giving the talk remotely, as part of a…
Technologies for Reflection and Behavior Change
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…
mHealth has undoubtedly made significant progress over the past decade. Yet, tools such as physical activity trackers are rather naive as fitness coaches:…
As HCI shifts “to the wild”, in-situ methods such as Diary Methods and the Experience Sampling Method are gaining momentum.…
Technologies for behavior change have immense potential. Consider, for instance, the case of physical activity trackers. Our healthcare systems are…
Human behavior accounts for a significant chunk of domestic energy consumption. In fact, simple things like turning off the lights in empty…
For long, HCI had neglected longitudinal studies. As a result, our understanding of the qualities of interactive technologies was limited…