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Kindness is Contagious: Demonstration of a Persuasive Intervention for Wellbeing

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Ana Ciocarlan,

Judith Masthoff,

Nir OrenAuthors Info & Claims

UMAP '18: Adjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Pages 219 - 220

https://doi.org/10.1145/3213586.3225226

Published: 02 July 2018 Publication History

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Participating in kindness activities, being generous and showing gratitude, can help people increase their overall happiness levels and improve their levels of wellbeing. This paper describes an installation which will run during the UMAP 2018 Conference. We demonstrate how a gamified digital behavior change intervention can be used to encourage people of different personality types to engage in simple acts of kindness. The system will have implications for future work on personalising persuasive interventions for wellbeing and developing user models through self-assessment and objective behavioural outcomes.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3514488

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Kindness is Contagious: Demonstration of a Persuasive Intervention for Wellbeing
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
      1. Computer games
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. User studies

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UMAP '18: Adjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

July 2018

349 pages

ISBN:9781450357845

DOI:10.1145/3213586

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Tanja Mitrovic
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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Jie Zhang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Li Chen
Hong Kong Baptist University, China
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University of Hawaii, USA

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Overall Acceptance Rate 162 of 633 submissions, 26%

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Tang QHu XZeng ZZhao Y(2022)Co-Orb: Fostering Remote Workplace Gratitude with IoT TechnologyExtended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491101.3514488(1-6)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3514488

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