Agnis Stibe

Achieving hyper-performance is an essential aim not only for organizations and societies but also for individuals. Digital transformation is reshaping the workplace so fast that people start falling behind, with their poor attitudes remaining the ultimate obstacle. The alignment of human-machine co-evolution is the only sustainable strategy for the...

Transformation is inevitable, as rapid changes have always been part of any evolution. In business organizations and management, just like everywhere else, continuous improvements have been assuring the success of every company and project. Moreover, also outside forces have always kept pushing for more rapid organizational change. Such conditions...

This work on business transformation unifies knowledge about designing transforming technologies for business acceleration. It explains how technological innovations can go beyond limitations of traditional behavior design and change management. This science-driven work demystifies human change and reveals the secrets of transformation, thus making...

Contrary to popular belief, social influence encompasses a much more complex area of behavioral science than the explanation offered by those who call all forms of social influence a social norm, peer pressure, or simply social proof. To help scholars and practitioners develop a deeper understanding of social influence, this study presents a measur...

This paper explores the role of gamification in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) that are run through rules encoded as computer programs called smart contracts rather than being managed by people. DAOs operate on a decentralized blockchain network and allow for secure and transparent decision-making processes without the need for inter...

This paper presents the Interactive Behavior Change Model (IBCM 8.0), a system that integrates behavior change principles from neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science into a behavioral meta-theory. With its broad, application-agnostic nature, the IBCM provides insight into behavior change, how it operates, and offers an alternative explana...

Subjective career success describes an individual’s satisfaction with his/her professional life. We propose a novel model for evaluating the universal personal values as well as the behavioral and socio-demographic factors that lead to subjective career success. Data was collected from employees of organizations across 20 different industries in La...

Even though some animals are known to be superior to humans in many mental or perceptual tasks (Griffin, 2013), human intelligence has been still recognized in its superiority over many other forms of intelligence on earth. That axiom seems to be gaining adepts, namely in the era of artificial intelligence (AI) advancement like the one we are livin...

Tracing infectious individuals and clusters is a major tactic for mitigating the pandemic. This paper explores the factors impacting the intentions and actual use of COVID-19 contact tracing apps based on a technology acceptance model. A partial least squares structural equation model has been applied to understand determinants for the usage of tra...

Organizational change initiatives and societal health campaigns often fail or produce unsustainable outcomes. Intense trainings and knowledge sharing not necessarily lead to expected behavioral results. Is there a gap between what people know and what they do? This paper investigates ways for understanding and closing this gap. It reviews the liter...

Habits are automatic actions in stable contexts and can help sustain behavior change. State-of-the-art context-aware habit-support interventions are, however, in predominantly non-visual contexts (time, geolocation, and physical activity), and not in egocentric visual contexts, e.g., eating, meeting people, etc. Using a survey, N = 51 participants,...

Influencing systems and persuasive technology (PT) should give their users a positive experience. While that sounds attractive and many rush implementing novel ideas things such as gamification, a serious professional and scientifically rich discussion is needed to portray a holistic picture on technology influence. Relatively little research has b...

In the present era of pervasive mobile technologies, interconnecting innovations are increasingly prevalent in our lives. In this evolutionary process, mobile and social media communication systems serve as a backbone for human interactions. When assessing privacy risks related to this, privacy scoring models (PSM) can help quantifying the personal...

The term wellbeing is widely used in the field of persuasive technology, especially when helping people to achieve positive changes in their attitudes and behaviors. However, wellbeing as a concept is often poorly understood, thus making it difficult to evaluate the success of such technology-supported behavioral interventions. This is especially c...

Since its first proposition in 1984, the Kano model has been used extensively in a variety of contexts within industries and academic research demonstrating its wide applicability. The Kano model allows for describing the relationship between an objective aspect and a subjective aspect. Yet is this relevant for environmental quality as well? In thi...

The growing field of mHealth has often dealt with the modification of harmful behaviors, such as smoking, that are associated with medical conditions. Smoking behavior has been targeted by numerous mHealth smoking cessation interventions with the help of a wide range of behavior change support (BCS) techniques. However, the exploitation of the esta...

Majority of global problems and business challenges are byproducts of poor human attitude and behavior. Communities, societies, businesses, and organizations, basically everyone needs help with transformations. People often tend to perceive changes as something difficult, impossible, and mystical, thus are willing to avoid them. That attitude natur...

Transforming Sociotech Design (TSD) uncovers conceptual frameworks for designing and evaluating Persuasive Technology (PT) aimed at achieving sustainable transformations of our lives towards wellbeing. TSD explains ways how PT research can be extended beyond limitations of traditional behavioral change designs. TSD embodies fundamental understandin...

Theoretical and practical advances have been made within healthcare informatics. Yet, mainstream research has primarily focused on signs and consequences without consideration to causal factors. Likewise, there is an increase demand for better self-management interventions. This demand resulted from the growing elderly populations with chronic cond...

This study provides an interpretation to empirically explain and predict use continuance intention of students towards an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. A research model based on the information system continuance, the social identity theory, and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology was adopted and analyzed using parti...

Persuasive technologies for health behavior change often include social influence features. Social influence in the design of persuasive technology has been described as a black box. This case study sheds light on design practices by identifying factors that affect the design of social influence features in health behavior change applications and t...

The recent rapid evolvement and innovation in technology and particularly human computer interactions signifies the importance to advance research on formation, change, and reshaping of human behavior and attitude. Moreover, quality of life and the health of individuals are becoming essential subjects to be studied and improved through the creation...

To investigate the dynamics of online persuasion, this research uses the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) to determine the effects of argument quality as a central route to influence attitude change versus design and social elements as peripheral routes to attitude change. Additional to this research is an examination of change in issue involveme...

People continuously experience various types of engagement through social media, mobile interaction, location-based applications, and other technologically advanced environments. Integral parts of such sociotech contexts often are information systems designed to change behaviors and attitudes of their users by leveraging powers of social influence,...

The urban environment informs the behavior of its inhabitants and their actions in turns shape this environment. These recurrent, circular causalities make cities to be of complex, nonlinear nature reinforcing prevailing mobility practices. Thus, a city´s final characteristics are not determined by designers and planners, yet rather their citizens,...

Despite the inherent relationship between cars and their physical urban surroundings, many cities are hesitant to embrace the impact of autonomous mobility on urban design. Industry leaders envision autonomous vehicles soon penetrating global markets, although the relationship between autonomous vehicles and their urban context has been poorly disc...

https://youtu.be/DStzEQ1YrV0 - We often don’t have problems with defining our goals, but we have problems with getting there. Agnis shows us how socially influencing systems can help in transforming our lives. Improving our health and well-being, preferring eco-friendly choices will be so much easier once we become aware of others succeeding on the...

The promotion of cycling is of great importance for fostering sustainable and healthy modes of transport in urban areas. For this reason, many cities around the world organize biking competitions in order to motivate citizens to commute by bike. The success of such campaigns appears to demonstrate the positive effects of using playful settings for...

Can you imagine a city that feels, understands, and cares about your wellbeing? Future cities will reshape human behavior in countless ways. New strategies and models are required for future urban spaces to properly respond to human activity, environmental conditions, and market dynamics. Persuasive urban systems will play an important role in maki...

Can you imagine a city that feels, understands, and cares about your wellbeing? Future cities will reshape human behavior in countless ways. New strategies and models are required for future urban spaces to properly respond to human activity, environmental conditions, and market dynamics. Persuasive urban systems will play an important role in maki...

Cycling is an essential transport mode in a well-balanced urban transportation system. While most approaches for achieving an increase from today’s usually low levels of biking are focusing mainly on infrastructure measures and policies, this study presents the effects of the Biking Tourney, a bike commuting challenge between 14 companies aiming at...

Numerous scholars study how to design evidence-based interventions that can improve the lives of individuals, in a way that also brings social benefits. However, within the behavioral sciences in general, and the persuasive technology field specifically, scholars rarely focus-on, or report the negative outcomes of behavior change interventions, and...

Numerous scholars study how to design evidence-based interventions that can improve the lives of individuals, in a way that also brings social benefits. However, within the behavioral sciences in general, and the persuasive technology field specifically, scholars rarely focus-on, or report the negative outcomes of behavior change interventions, and...

Cycling is promoted by a variety of initiatives and events all around the world. Given the popularity of such campaigns, there is surprisingly limited literature assessing their effectiveness and investigating the involved social processes. This paper presents findings from two case studies of gamified biking initiatives which have been evaluated u...

Watch TEDx Talk: http://bit.ly/TEDxp Watch TEDx Interview: http://bit.ly/TEDxw Can you imagine a city that feels, understands, and cares about your wellbeing? Many of us live and work in an urban environment, however we often are not aware of how hugely our behavior is influenced by the environment. Future cities will alter human behavior in countl...

This paper outlines the second phase of an ongoing longitudinal research initiative aimed at exploring and describing why people use Twitter the way they do and what factors change their behaviors and attitudes over time. In a repeated online survey, 501 valid responses were collected from Twitter users. A comparative analysis of findings from both...

People continuously experience various types of engagement through social media, mobile interaction, location-based applications, and other technologically advanced environments. Often, integral parts of such socio-technical contexts often are information systems designed to change behaviors and attitudes of their users by leveraging powers of soci...

Persuasive technologies are commonly engineered to change behavior and attitudes of users through persuasion and social influence without using coercion and deception. While earlier research has been extensively focused on exploring the concept of persuasion, the present theory-refining study aims to explain the role of social influence and its dis...

This paper explores three persuasive strategies and their capacity to encourage biking as a low-energy mode of transportation. The strategies were designed based on: (I) triggering messages that harness social influence to facilitate more frequent biking, (II) a virtual bike tutorial to increase biker's self-efficacy for urban biking, and (III) an...

Persuasive technologies are commonly engineered to change behavior and attitudes of users through persuasion and social influence without using coercion and deception. While earlier research has been extensively focused on exploring the concept of persuasion, the present theory-refining study aims to explain the role of social influence and its dis...

People continuously experience various types of engagement through social media, mobile interaction, location-based applications, and other technologically advanced environments. Often, integral parts of such socio-technical contexts often are information systems designed to change behaviors and attitudes of their users by leveraging powers of soci...

The Social Web enables novel channels for voluntary feedback sharing through social media and technologically advanced environments. This chapter explores how social influence design principles can enhance the effectiveness of socio-technical systems designed to alter human behavior with respect to sharing feedback. Drawing upon social science theo...

Information systems can facilitate social influence when augmented with relevant persuasive design principles, such as social learning, social comparison, normative influence, social facilitation, cooperation, competition, and recognition. This implies that people can experience social influence not only from others around them, but likewise throug...

Organizations continuously strive to engage customers in the services development process. The social web facilitates this process by enabling novel channels for voluntary feedback-sharing and collaborative interaction through social media and technologically advanced environments. The component parts of these environments are information systems t...

This paper outlines the second phase of an ongoing longitudinal research initiative aimed at exploring and describing why people use Twitter the way they do and what factors change their behaviors and attitudes over time. In a repeated online survey, 501 valid responses were collected from Twitter users. A comparative analysis of findings from both...

Social influence concepts have great potential to positively affect the behaviors and attitudes of individuals. Drawing on socio-psychological theories, this study explores how social influence design principles alter user engagement in collaborative interaction during public events. Based on a theory- driven research model, a persuasive informatio...

A combination of high tech environments and social influence concepts holds great potential to positively effect behaviors and attitudes of individuals. Drawing upon socio-psychological theories, this study explores how social influence design principles change customer engagement in sharing feedback. For that purpose, an information system consist...

Behavior Change Support Systems (BCSSs) have emerged as a promising research area to study behavior change, directing interest into the software artifact. This research paper aims to provide practical examples of mobile and social applications using the Outcome/Change (O/C) Design Matrix in developing and evaluating BCSSs and conducting systematic...

Contemporary socio-technical environments hold a great potential to drive a positive influence on the behaviors and attitudes of individuals. Drawing upon social cognitive theory (SCT) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this paper explores how and to what extent persuasive social influence features (namely, social learning (SL), social compa...

The development of networked digital economy keeps opening up new ways for social interactions and interpersonal influences. Drawing upon social sciences theories and the Persuasive Systems Design (PSD) model, this paper explores the effects of social influence design principles on altering user behavior toward engagement in feedback sharing. A the...

This paper studies how and to what extent social influence design principles can persuade people to participate in sharing their feedback. For this reason, a Twitter-based system was designed with persuasive software features of social influence at its core. The effects of recognition and competition features were tested in a pilot study in two com...

Digitalization enables the development of existing social activities and the invention of new forms of social activities online. Social networks and microblogging are some of the most frequently used online social interaction services, and Twitter combines them. These channels handle intensive communication embodying persuasion in one way or the ot...

The Persuasive Technology Conference Series is for academics, practitioners, and policy makers with an interest in research, theory, technologies, design, and applications related to understanding and predicting persuasion processes and outcomes. Our interest is in how information and communications technologies might be used to help individuals an...

In the history of software development, there is a haven of different methodologies, approaches, and tools that have been designed to capture the expectations of customers and transfer them into requirements for information systems understandable by programmers. However, reality shows that the percentage of failures in development of information sy...