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Cees Midden Human Technology Interaction

Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands

c.j.h.midden@tue.nl

Using Persuasive Technology to promotesustainable behavior

Changing behavior by changing behavioral environment:

Persuasive technology intervenes in user-systeminteractions

Technological environments shapehuman behavior

Most energy consumption decisions aremade in user -system interactions.

What is Persuasive Technology?

Any interactive intelligent system designed to changepeople's attitudes and/or behaviors (Fogg, 2003).

- intentional

- non-coercive > user in the loop

- interactive > responsive to user choices

- adaptive > to needs, type of use, context

- easy > low cognitive effort

Persuasive tools, experiences and social actors

Supportive tools

Ambient Persuasive Technology

T Nakajima etal,

Ambient Persuasive Technology

T. Nakajima etal,

Design : Har Hollands

Color intensity color meaning and colorpresence of ambient light feedback

Action motivating experiences:experiencing virtual flooding risks

Ps walked through virtual polderobserved dike failures observed dike breachwater with localized soundflooding of own house (3 mt)(Zaalberg & Midden, 2012)

Agents capable of socialinteraction

Researched since late 70’s

Weekly or monthly messages abouthousehold consumption

Ambivalent results: issues with action-feedback links and feedback-goal links(3-10%)

Late 90’s: Interactive feedback (McCalley & Midden, 2002, 2003)

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Feedback on energy use

User and action specific

Immediate and interactive

Effect: 18% energy saving

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Interactive feedback(McCalley & Midden, 2002)

Persuasive social agents:Can feedback systems change

behavior by exerting socialinfluence?

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Hypothesis: Social feedback from artificial persuasive

agent promotes behavioral change.

Interactive feedback

Interactive social feedback

Social feedback savesenergy

Energy consumptionEnergy consumption

Energy consumption

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47% lower energy consumption!

2. Factual vs Evaluative vs socialfeedback

evaluative feedback refers to factualstandard> enhances information valueand ease of processing

social feedback refers to socialstandard > enhances ‘socialness’

Socialfeedback

Evaluativefeedback

Result: Social source makes thedifference with factual feedback

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Smart systems as Persuasive socialagents

What happens in human-agentinteractions to create the illusion of socialinteraction?

Social realism may enhance social responsesto artificial agents (through social verification;a.o. Blascovitch, 2002). Results mixed

Social agency needed for meaningfulinteraction (Guadagno etal., 2007; Kraemer, 2008). Resultsmixed

CASA: Simple social cues may evoke socialattributions to source: e.g. language (Reeves & Nass,1996 a.o.). Similarity effect, gratitude effect, in/outgroup effect

3. Single vs multiple social cues

Is a single feature triggering an automaticprocess or will multiple social features make an

agent more social realistic?

Joint effect of two social cues:embodiment and speech

Color Speech

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"verybad""verybad"

Embodiment

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social cues on energy use: both work, one suffices: suggestsautomatic triggering of script

suggests that one cues triggers a social script; social realism doesno add

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colored light

colored light

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Social agent vs watchingeyes?

What makes the robot’s social cuespersuasive?

Social realism or a basic socialcue?Automatic association eyes-human presence?Feeling of being watched. (Bateson etal, 2006)

Sze Ho Wan, Midden & Ham,2010

Control

social agent

eyes only‘you’r being watched!’

Level of Energy consumption

control‘eyes’ social cuesocial realistic agentcontrol

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social realistic agent

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Do people control for limitations ofnon-human agents?

1. test effect of different levels of agency on behaviorthrough social feedback

2. test whether agency effect is mediated byawareness of agency

3. test effect of feedback by social realistic agent vsnon-social agent

Agent

Avatar+ human (high agency)

Random: No agency

Factual evaluative feedback (nosocial realism)

Agency judgments!

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