This paper written by Jorge Luis Zapico together with Daniel Spikol at CeLeKT has been accepted at Mobile Human Computer Interaction 2009 in the workshop on Sharing Experiences with Social Mobile Media.

Here is the abstract:

We have a personal relationship with mobile phones, since they are closer to us than any other technological device. They are ubiquitous (60% of the world population owns one), individual, and pervasive through our lifestyle (we have them with us all the time and everywhere). These modern devices are nearly as powerful as personal computers, always connected to Internet and loaded with sensors like GPS and accelerometers. These mobile devices offer the opportunity to persuade users to change attitudes and behaviors towards personal health and environmental issues. For this paper we will focus on the design of a mobile application for reducing in carbon dioxide emissions, using the definition of “Climate Persuasive Services” that can change personal attitudes and behaviors regarding climate change for reducing greenhouse gases emissions. The paper presents design practices that have resulted in a prototype mobile application.

I will post the pdf soon.

The paper Climate persuasive services: changing behavior towards low-carbon lifestyles by Jorge Zapico, Marko Turpeinen and Nils Brandt is online at ACM.

The PDF can be download directly here.

Prof Marko Turpeinen will be part of the organization for the workshop about Energy Awareness and Conservation through Pervasive Applications the 17 May 2010 at Pervasive 2010 in Helsinki, Finland.

The deadline for the workshop proposals is: 26 October 2009

Themes:

• Pervasive sensing of energy consumption.
• Energy efficient infrastructures for sensing energy and users.
• Pervasive interfaces including natural/ambient and mobile applications.
• Designing engaging applications that do not disrupt but support everyday activities.
• Understanding people awareness models.

The article Climate persuasive services: changing behavior towards low-carbon lifestyles by Jorge Zapico, Marko Turpeinen, and Nils Brandt, have been accepted for the conference Persuasive 2009 at Claremont California.

The conference will take place at Claremont, California between Sunday, April 26, 2009 8:00 AM – Wednesday, April 29, 2009.

Tatsuo Nakajima

Ichiro Satoh

David Kjelkerud

Jorge Zapico

Some pictures from the Persuasive Services Seminar. A good mixtures of participants, good presentations and really interesting discussions.

Kaarina Hyvönen

David Kjelkerud

Prof. Tatsuo Nakajima

Prof. Marko Turpeinen

Prof. Ichiro Satoh

All the pictures are available at Flickr with creative commons license.

The 25th of February there will be a one day seminar about Persuasive Services with presentations by KTH researchers, as well as invited guests from Sweden, Japan and Finland.

More information here.

Information about the place.

Registration.

UPDATE!

The seminar would be in Sydöstra Galleria, instead of at Sydvästra.

A detailed agenda for the seminar.

We are starting to develop some persuasive applications tailored for iPhone. For starting we have adapted our website for optimal view in the mobile safari. We have use the wordpress plugin WPTouch.

Just go to www.persuasiveservices.org from your iphone.

Photo of himself.

David Kjelkerud, student of Media Technology, is joining Persuasive Services. David is going to write his master thesis about the possibilities of persuasive technologies for help consumers to make better decisions in the supermarkets.

More info about David:

His website.

His company.

(Photo by Ramón Maldonado / Stockholm stadsmuseum)

Greger Henriksson, part of the Persuasive Services research team,
has published his interdisciplinary doctoral thesis about travel behavior in Stockholm. It shows how travel patterns depend on how the
city is planned and how the travel possibilities are organized.
Individuals are dependent of this given external conditions , the
social dimensions of how the people is supposed to travel in a given
context, and their personal situation.

This work is important for Persuasive Services as a theoretical
ground on if it’s possible to change people (travel) behavior towards
more sustainable options and how to do this using information and media
technologies.

More info in Swedish

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