Adaptive persuasive systems: A study of tailored persuasive text messages to reduce snacking

ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Kaptein, Maurits ^a   De Ruyter, Boris ^b   Markopoulos, Panos ^a   Aarts, Emile ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

personalization; Persuasion; persuasion profiling; social influence; tailoring

Indexed keywords

MESSAGE PASSING; TECHNOLOGY; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; TEXT MESSAGING;

PERSONALIZATIONS; PERSUASION; PERSUASION PROFILING; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; TAILORING;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84983585711     PISSN: 21606455     EISSN: 21606463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2209310.2209313     Document Type: Review

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