BACKGROUND

Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design and development of interactive technologies that may create, maintain, or change human thought and behavior. The combination of research methods from rhetoric, social psychology, and communication with cutting-edge mobile and information technologies brings the special flavor of the Persuasive Technology conference series.

The 8th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (Persuasive-2013) will be held in Sydney, Australia, and will build on the success of previous conferences held at Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Copenhagen, Claremont, Columbus, and Linköping. Academics, students, and practitioners interested in theory, technologies, design, and applications related to persuasion are invited to submit their works for presentation at the Conference.

THEME & SCOPE

The general theme of Persuasive-2013 is persuasive technologies in entertainment and eCommerce applications. This highlights the importance and challenges raised by the deployment of persuasive technologies in the commercial realm. The scope of the submissions includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:


•Theory and design of persuasion

•Persuasion and social media

•Persuasive interfaces and visualization

•Tailored and personalised persuasion

•Evaluation of persuasive applications

•Mass and organizational persuasion

•Persuasion through entertainment

•Persuasion in commercial applications

•Ethical/privacy aspects of persuasion

•Persuasion for healthy living

•Persuasion for sustainable environment

•Mobile and ubiquitous persuasion

•Persuasion in smart environments

•Learning through persuasion

SUBMISSIONS

We invite both long (12 pages) and short (6 pages) research papers. The submissions should be submitted electronically and comply with the Springer LNCS format. Accepted submissions will be presented at the conference and published by Springer Verlag. We also invite Doctoral Consortium papers and tutorial/workshop proposals on the above topics, which will be evaluated separately.

Important Dates (tentative)

• Abstract submission: 10-Nov-2012

• Paper submission: 15-Nov-2012

• Author notification: 21-Dec-2012

• Camera-ready version: 21-Jan-2013

ORGANISERS

Shlomo Berkovsky (NICTA)

Jill Freyne (CSIRO)