The Voluntariness of Persuasive Technology

Smids, Jilles

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31037-9_11

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“…Our interactive floor can also help the users to reflect on their behavior (awareness) and be persuaded in that way to change their gait. We agree with Smids' view that ends do not justify (inappropriate) means, such as coercion, manipulation or deception [231]. Although the games use steering mechanisms and are intended to be played in one way, we do not coerce users with overwhelming or annoying feedback and only offer the exercises as an optional (alternative) way of delivering therapy, both for therapists and the users.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 59%

“…It does not primarily aim to change long-term lifestyle behaviors outside the game, such as smoking, (un)healthy diets, medication intake, or daily level of physical activity. It is different from constraining behavior [31], or manipulation and deception [231], even if the participant might not perceive this as such the first time: it does not deliberately hide options or enforce a way of interaction by making it the only means of input. Instead, and similar to using different ways to explain suggested use to people [255] or explicitly leaving it out for intended ambiguity [276], it tries to change the play interaction itself: influence the players' activity, performance, or role, change the interactions between players, the locations players visit, or the type of interaction players perform [89,128,260].…”

Section: Adaptive Balancing and Steering Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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(Steering) Interactive Play Behavior

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 59%

Section: Adaptive Balancing and Steering Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Steering) Interactive Play Behavior

Delden¹

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“…According to Smidt [43], who argues that the voluntariness of behavioral changes is an essential ethical requirement for persuasive technologies, we believe that users should always be aware of systems using subliminal persuasion. When the user knowingly agrees to interact with a system that uses subliminal stimuli to assist him during the interaction, the assistive, covert influence that eventually could be exerted is not in contrast with the user's voluntariness previously expressed.…”

Section: Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of the Research on Subliminal Techniques for Implicit Interaction in Symbiotic Systems

Negri

Gamberini

Cutini

2014

Symbiotic Interaction

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Abstract. Subliminal perception is a long-standing topic in psychology, which has been strongly debated throughout the twentieth century. Recently, unconscious information processing has gained attention in human-computer interaction (HCI) research on the basis that subliminal stimulation can covertly trigger automatic responses without generating mental workload. The aim is to increase the interaction efficiency between humans and systems by embedding subliminal stimuli in user interfaces. Moreover, the currently thriving research on adaptive and symbiotic systems makes the interest for unconscious processes even greater.The purpose of the present paper is to give an overview of both the most recent findings about subliminal stimuli applied to concrete contexts and the main stimulation techniques to obtain unconscious perception. The techniques reviewed here are the binocular rivalry, visual masking, visual crowding, and rapid serial visual presentation with some latest variants of these classic paradigms.

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“…Ethical 1 issues arise when technologies are designed to shape the users' behavior towards a target not intentionally defined by them. As pointed out by Smids [17], the voluntariness condition is key and must consider external influences and whether the user acts intentionally.…”

Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards effective ethical behavior design

Oliveira

Carrascal

2014

CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Many of today's persuasive systems are designed taking into account cognitive biases to foster positive changes in people's behavior (e.g. adopt greener attitudes). However, these biases are also exploited to shape the users' behavior in a way that not necessarily benefit them (e.g. user retention in a website). Scholars addressed this problem by developing design guidelines and methods for ethics in persuasive computing, but these approaches alone have proved to be inefficient since they require every designer to be aware, understand, and comply with the recommended ethical practices. We propose preventive approaches that shall support higher compliance, as well as a remediation-based approach that does not require compliance from every designer. These approaches aim to help users understand persuasive elements embedded in systems, as well as to take more rational decisions when interacting with them. We expect that using preventive and remediation-based approaches will more effectively implement ethics in behavior design.

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The Voluntariness of Persuasive Technology

Cited by 40 publications

References 12 publications

(Steering) Interactive Play Behavior

(Steering) Interactive Play Behavior

A Review of the Research on Subliminal Techniques for Implicit Interaction in Symbiotic Systems

Towards effective ethical behavior design

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