Persuasive Technology for Human Well-Being: Setting the Scene -- Persuasive Technology for Human Well-Being: Setting the Scene -- Psychological Principles of Persuasive Technology -- The Six Most Powerful Persuasion Strategies -- Changing Induced Moods Via Virtual Reality -- Technology Adds New Principles to Persuasive Psychology: Evidence from Health Education -- Persuasiveness of a Mobile Lifestyle Coaching Application Using Social Facilitation -- Cueing Common Ecological Behaviors to Increase Environmental Attitudes -- Persuasive Appliances: Goal Priming and Behavioral Response to Product-Integrated Energy Feedback -- The Persuasive Power of Mediated Risk Experiences -- Social Presence as a Conduit to the Social Dimensions of Online Trust -- Persuasive Technology: Theory and Modelling -- Feeling Strangely Fine: The Well-Being Economy in Popular Games -- Our Place or Mine? Exploration into Collectivism-Focused Persuasive Technology Design -- Persuasion Artifices to Promote Wellbeing -- Well-Being to “Well Done!”: The Development Cycle in Role-Playing Games -- Using Computational Agents to Motivate Diet Change -- Investigating Social Software as Persuasive Technology -- Towards an Architecture for an Adaptive Persuasive System -- Persuasive Technology: Design, Applications and Evaluations -- Persuasive Design: Fringes and Foundations -- The PowerHhouse: A Persuasive Computer Game Designed to Raise Awareness of Domestic Energy Consumption -- Break the Habit! Designing an e-Therapy Intervention Using a Virtual Coach in Aid of Smoking Cessation -- Persuasive Technologies in Education: Improving Motivation to Read and Write for Children -- Communication and Persuasion Technology: Psychophysiology of Emotions and User-Profiling -- Effect of a Virtual Coach on Athletes’ Motivation -- Self-management of Vascular Patients Activated by the Internet and Nurses: Rationale and Design -- Visualizing Energy Consumption of Radiators -- Ethics of Persuasive Technology -- Captology: A Critical Review -- Persuasive Gerontechnology -- Persuasive GERONtechnology: An Introduction -- Persuasive Technology for Leisure and Health: Development of a Personal Navigation Tool -- Persuasive Story Table: Promoting Exchange of Life History Stories Among Elderly in Institutions -- Persuasive Pillboxes: Improving Medication Adherence with Personal Digital Assistants -- Persuasive GERONtechnology: Reaping Technology’s Coaching Benefits at Older Age -- Ambient Intelligence and Persuasive Technology -- perCues: Trails of Persuasion for Ambient Intelligence -- Biofeedback Revisited: Dynamic Displays to Improve Health Trajectories -- Erratum -- The PowerHouse: A Persuasive Computer Game Designed to Raise Awareness of Domestic Energy Consumption.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Persuasive Technology for human well-being, PERSUASIVE 2006, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in May 2006. The 31 revised full papers presented together with 1 introductory paper were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on psychological principles of persuasive technology, persuasive technology: theory and modelling, design, applications and evaluations, ethics of persuasive technology persuasive gerontechnology, and ambient intelligence and persuasive technology.