Kindness is contagious: Demonstration of a persuasive intervention for wellbeing

Ana Ciocarlan; Judith Masthoff; Nir Oren

doi:10.1145/3213586.3225226

Kindness is contagious: Demonstration of a persuasive intervention for wellbeing

Ana Ciocarlan
, Judith Masthoff
, Nir Oren

Human-Centered Computing

University of Aberdeen
extern

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Abstract

Participating in kindness activities, being generous and showing gratitude, can help people increase their overall happiness levels and improve their levels of wellbeing. This paper describes an installation which will run during the UMAP 2018 Conference. We demonstrate how a gamified digital behavior change intervention can be used to encourage people of different personality types to engage in simple acts of kindness. The system will have implications for future work on personalising persuasive interventions for wellbeing and developing user models through self-assessment and objective behavioural outcomes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UMAP 2018 - Adjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	219-220
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450357845
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3213586.3225226
Publication status	Published - 2 Jul 2018
Event	26th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2018 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 8 Jul 2018 → 11 Jul 2018

Conference

Conference	26th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2018
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	8/07/18 → 11/07/18

Keywords

Adaptation
Engagement
Kindness
Personality
Persuasive Games
Persuasive Technology
Wellbeing

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Ciocarlan, A, Masthoff, J & Oren, N 2018, Kindness is contagious: Demonstration of a persuasive intervention for wellbeing. in UMAP 2018 - Adjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 219-220, 26th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2018, Singapore, Singapore, 8/07/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3213586.3225226

Kindness is contagious: Demonstration of a persuasive intervention for wellbeing. / Ciocarlan, Ana; Masthoff, Judith; Oren, Nir.
UMAP 2018 - Adjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 219-220.

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