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Technological Determinism and Persuasive Technology

How does technology and its design persuade us to adopt and use it?

1. Technological Determinism

2. Human Factor Engineering: Kim Vicente

3. Persuasive Technology: B.J. Fogg

• Three Views of Persuasive Computers
• Computers as Persuasive Social Actors: Primary Types of Social Cues:
  1. Physical: Ananova Video
  2. Psychological: Decoding Error Messages
  3. Language: Haiku Error Messages
  4. Social Dynamics: Conversive Inc; The Sims
  5. Social Roles: Error Messages for Windows; Ask Jeeves

4. Affordances: Don Norman's Psychology of Everyday Things

5. Elements of User Experience: Jessie James Garrett

© Dr. Marshall Soules, Malaspina University-College, 2007