Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Persuasive Technology 2022 is planned as a hybrid conference, possibly even fully virtual depending on the pandemic status. The BCSS 2022 Workshop follows the same arrangements as the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submissions due: 6 February, 2022
Notification to authors: TBD
Final version due: 26 14 March, 2022 (deadline earlier for publication reasons)
Videoconference workshop date: 29 March, 2022 10:00(GMT+2) Zoom: https://oulu.zoom.us/j/64169831704 (Meeting ID: 641 6983 1704)
For our Call for Papers and submissions information, please go to our Submissions page.
Behaviour Change Support Systems (BCSS), already running for the 10th time at Persuasive Technology, is a workshop that builds around the concept of systems that are specifically designed to help and support behaviour change in individuals or groups. The highly multi-disciplinary nature of designing and implementing behaviour change strategies and systems for the strategies has been in the forefront of this workshop from the very beginning.
The persuasive technology field is becoming a linking pin connecting natural and social sciences, requiring a holistic view on persuasive technologies, as well as multi-disciplinary approach for design, implementation, and evaluation. So far, the capacities of technologies to change behaviours and to continuously monitor the progress and effects of interventions are not being used to its full potential.
The use of technologies as persuaders may shed a new light on the interaction process of persuasion, influencing attitudes and behaviours. Yet, although human- computer interaction is social in nature and people often do see computers as social actors, it is still unknown how these interactions re-shape attitude, beliefs, and emotions, or how they change behaviour, and what the drawbacks are for persuasion via technologies. Humans re-shape technology, changing their goals during usage. This means that persuasion is not a static ad hoc event but an ongoing process.
Technology has the capacity to create smart (virtual) persuasive environments that provide simultaneously multimodal cues and psycho-physiological feedback for personal change by strengthening emotional, social, and physical presence. An array of persuasive applications has been developed over the past decade with an aim to induce desirable behaviour change. Persuasive applications have shown promising results in motivating and supporting people to change or adopt new behaviours and attitudes in various domains such as health and wellbeing, sustainable energy, education, and marketing.
This workshop aims at connecting multidisciplinary researchers, practitioners and experts from a variety of scientific domains, such as information sciences, human-computer interaction, industrial design, psychology and medicine. This interactive workshop will act as a forum where experts from multiple disciplines can present their work, and can discuss and debate the pillars for persuasive technology.
Committee 2022
Programme co-chairs:
- Tikka, Piiastiina (University of Oulu, Finland contact: piiastiina.tikka@oulu.fi)
- Alpay, Laurence (InHolland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands)
General co-chairs:
- Oinas-Kukkonen, Harri (University of Oulu, Finland)
- van Gemert, Lisette (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Organising chair:
- Haque, Sanaul, LUT University, Finland
Programme committee:
- Alpay, Laurence (Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands)
- Arakawa, Yutaka (Kyushu University, Japan)
- Bijwaard, Harmen (InHolland University of Applied Sciences)
- Burri Gram-Hansen, Sandra (Aalborg University, Denmark)
- Chow, Kenny (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
- Dalling, Joan (InHolland University of Applied Sciences)
- Davis, Janet (Whitman College, USA)
- Enwald, Heidi (University of Oulu, Finland)
- Haque, Sanaul (LUT University, Finland)
- Iyengar, Sriram (University of Arizona, USA)
- Keikhosrokiani, Pantea (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
- Tikka, Piiastiina (University of Oulu, Finland)
- Vegt, Niko (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
- Vlahu-Georgievska, Elena (University of Wollongong, Australia)
- Xie, Bo (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
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