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The rapid rise of persuasive technologies (PT) in healthcare, education, and e-commerce has raised ethical concerns. This study explores ethical PT design through focus groups with ten HCI experts, revealing two main themes: visual information ...

Persuasive technologies, which are intended to change users’ attitudes or behaviors and encourage specific actions, are widely applied across various domains. However, the fine line between persuasion and coercion raises significant ethical concerns, ...

Consider a decision maker (he) who may receive an exogenously fixed reward if he takes a costly action above an unknown threshold. The information available to the decision maker about the threshold is controlled by a designer (she), whose utility ...

Problematic smartphone use negatively affects physical and mental health. Despite the wide range of prior research, existing persuasive techniques are not flexible enough to provide dynamic persuasion content based on users’ physical contexts and mental ...

This study examined the behaviors and emotional expressions that artifacts such as four-legged pets use to persuade people. On the basis of a preliminary study, we created six types of emotional expressions (joy, sadness, confusion, anger, ...

The convenience of mobile applications and social networking services in our daily lives has caused an increase in addiction to mobile devices, posing many adverse effects. While there are many products on the market that combat this addiction using ...

Health-related social control refers to intentional attempts to influence people's health behaviors, often seen in personal relationships. Social robots hold promise in influencing people's health by exerting health-related social control, but it is ...

Manipulation is a concern in many domains, such as social media, advertising, and chatbots. As AI systems mediate more of our digital interactions, it is important to understand the degree to which AI systems might manipulate humans without the intent ...

Virtual humans are employed in various contexts, including mental health interventions, to encourage users to adopt healthy behaviors. Establishing rapport with users can enhance the effectiveness of these virtual agents. One way to build rapport is by ...

Agents often exert influence when interacting with humans and non-human agents. However, the ethical status of such influence is often unclear. In this paper, we present the SHAPE framework, which lists reasons why influence may be unethical. We ...

Deliberation among individuals online plays a key role in shaping the opinions that drive votes, purchases, donations, and other critical offline behavior. Yet, the determinants of opinion change via persuasion in deliberation online remain largely ...

Data visualizations are vital to scientific communication on critical issues such as public health, climate change, and socioeconomic policy. They are often designed not just to inform, but to persuade people to make consequential decisions (e.g., to get ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a transformative force in communication and messaging strategy, with potential to disrupt traditional approaches. Large language models (LLMs), a form of AI, are capable of generating high-quality, humanlike text. We ...

Social robots are being groomed for human influence, including the implicit and explicit persuasion of humans. Humanlike characteristics are understood to enhance robots’ persuasive impact; however, little is known of how perceptions of two key human ...

In this paper, we report on field tests of a hand sanitizer robot, which tracks people's movements using gaze and which uses several different persuasive utterances when people are approaching. Our results show that adding speech made people ...

Health promotion is a complex communication process that involves identifying and recommending adoption of the best available evidence-based guidelines for addressing the most dangerous health risks confronting modern society. Despite the steady ...

This article theorizes infrastructures and their components as rhetorical objects for analysis and persuasive use. Though the term infrastructure has been applied broadly to several studies in the social sciences, writing, technical communication, and ...

Robot’s persuasive abilities have previously shown contradictory results with some depending on robot gender and some on user gender. Therefore, we conducted a replication study with the Furhat robot. The study measured differences in how persuasive (...

The importance of designing for actual security, i.e., security in practice, is underlined by previous work. However, clear design principles for actual security are missing. This paper reports early work on establishing such design principles based on ...

The Bayesian persuasion paradigm of strategic communication models interaction between a privately informed sender and an ignorant but rational receiver. The goal is typically to design a (near-)optimal communication (or signaling) scheme for the sender. ...