Persuasive Technology News & Articles

This year's Persuasive Technology conference in Copenhagen -- a conference dedicated to new insights, research and practice into how technology may change and influence our behavior, thoughts, and feelings -- has extended their deadline for paper submissions to February 19th. 

The conference takes place June 7-10, and is expected to gather any and all interested in networking, presenting, discussing and reflecting on themes associated with persuasive design and technology. 

Some of the themes to be covered include: 

• Motivational technology and design
• Mobile persuasion
• Motivational information behavior
• Social and organizational issues
• e-Interventions for addictions
• Persuasive Technologies in inclusive ICT
• Persuasive Technologies in Library and Information Science.

For more information, including formats and previous submissions, head over here. For information on other events in your area, check out our events list. 

In his opening keynote this morning at the J. Boye 2009 conference, BJ Fogg presented his views on why Facebook and Twitter are the rock stars of social media, and how they got there.

Weaving in psychology and behavior models into the conversation about technology and new media, Fogg introduced the notion of persuasion being all around us and tried to help the audience understand better how exactly it works.

Love it or hate it, Facebook is the #1 persuasive technology of all time. Here's how they hook us.