The voluntariness of persuasive technology

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7284 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 123-132

  Smids, Jilles ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

coercion; controlling influences; ethics of persuasive technology; intentional action; manipulation; persuasive technology; voluntary change

Indexed keywords

COERCION; CONTROLLING INFLUENCES; INTENTIONAL ACTION; MANIPULATION; PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY; VOLUNTARY CHANGE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84864670248     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31037-9_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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