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Author Fogg, B. J.

Title Persuasive technology : using computers to change what we think and do / B.J. Fogg
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 283 pages) : illustrations
Series The Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies
Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies.
Contents Foreword / Philip Zimbardo -- Preface -- Introduction: Persuasion in the digital age -- Overview of captology -- The functional triad : computers in persuasive roles -- Computers as persuasive tools -- Computers as persuasive media : simulation -- Computers as persuasive social actors -- Credibility and computers -- Credibility and the World Wide Web -- Increasing persuasion through mobility and connectivity -- The ethics of persuasive technology -- Captology : looking forward -- Appendix: Summary of principles
Summary Can computers change what you think and do? Can they motivate you to stop smoking, persuade you to buy insurance, or convince you to join the Army? "Yes, they can," says Dr. B.J. Fogg, director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University. Fogg has coined the phrase "Captology"(an acronym for computers as persuasive technologies) to capture the domain of research, design, and applications of persuasive computers. In this thought-provoking book, based on nine years of research in captology, Dr. Fogg reveals how Web sites, software applications, and mobile devices can be used to change people's attitudes and behavior. Technology designers, marketers, researchers, consumersanyone who wants to leverage or simply understand the persuasive power of interactive technologywill appreciate the compelling insights and illuminating examples found inside. Persuasive technology can be controversialand it should be. Who will wield this power of digital influence? And to what end? Now is the time to survey the issues and explore the principles of persuasive technology, and B.J. Fogg has written this book to be your guide. * Filled with key term definitions in persuasive computing *Provides frameworks for understanding this domain *Describes real examples of persuasive technologies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Persuasion (Psychology) -- Computer programs
Human-computer interaction.
Persuasion (Psychology)
Persuasion (Psychology) -- Data processing -- Social aspects
World Wide Web -- Social aspects
Computers -- Social aspects
Persuasive Communication
Attitude to Computers
SELF-HELP -- Motivational & Inspirational.
World Wide Web -- Social aspects
Persuasion (Psychology)
Human-computer interaction
Gesellschaft
Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
Beeinflussung
Computer.
Mensch.
Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation.
Psychologie.
Persuasion (psychologie)
Informatique.
Société numérique.
Internet.
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002110617
ISBN 9780080479941
0080479944
9781281049278
1281049271