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A Quantitative Field Study of a Persuasive Security Technology in the Wild (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Vargheese, J. P., Collinson, M., & Masthoff, J. (2022). A Quantitative Field Study of a Persuasive Security Technology in the Wild. In Social Informatics: 13th International Conference, SocInfo 2022, Glasgow, UK, October 19–21, 2022, Proceedings (211-232). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19097-1_13

Persuasive techniques and persuasive technologies have been suggested as a means to improve user cybersecurity behaviour, but there have been few quantitative studies in this area. In this paper, we present a large scale evaluation of persuasive mess... Read More about A Quantitative Field Study of a Persuasive Security Technology in the Wild.

Persuasive Strategies for Encouraging Social Interaction for Older Adults (2016)
Journal Article
Vargheese, J. P., Sripada, S., Masthoff, J., & Oren, N. (2016). Persuasive Strategies for Encouraging Social Interaction for Older Adults. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 32(3), 190-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2016.1136176

Social isolation among older adults represents a significant societal challenge in which persuasion offers a potential solution. To develop a persuasive interactive system for this purpose, we conducted a modeling study with carers to discover how p... Read More about Persuasive Strategies for Encouraging Social Interaction for Older Adults.

Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Vargheese, J. P., Harrison, R., Balbontin, M. M., Aldea, A., & Brown, D. (2015). Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients. In Artificial Intelligence for Diabetes: 1st ECAI Workshop on Artificial intelligence for Diabetes, Proceedings (26-27)

Self-management of type 1 diabetes is a challenging and complex task due the constant need for self monitoring and the diverse range of factors to consider in order to effectively regulate blood glucose levels. Recommender systems have been demonstra... Read More about Increasing transparency of recommender systems for type 1 diabetes patients.

Persuasive Dialogue for Older Adults: Promoting and Encouraging Social Interaction (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Vargheese, J. P., Sripada, S., Masthoff, J., Oren, N., Schofield, P., & Hanson, V. L. (2013). Persuasive Dialogue for Older Adults: Promoting and Encouraging Social Interaction. In CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (877–882). https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468513

We describe a persuasive dialogue component for promoting and encouraging social interaction for older adults. In order to identify effective persuasive strategies we conducted an interview study with formal carers for older adults. From the results... Read More about Persuasive Dialogue for Older Adults: Promoting and Encouraging Social Interaction.

Cameras as cultural probes in requirements gathering — Exploring their potential in supporting the design of assistive technology (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Caleb-Solly, P., Flind, A., & Vargheese, J. P. (2011). Cameras as cultural probes in requirements gathering — Exploring their potential in supporting the design of assistive technology. In 2011 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2011.5999158

A pre-requisite for a human-centred design approach to technology development is gaining an intimate understanding of not only the people for whom the technology is being designed, but also the contexts within which they will be using it. This paper... Read More about Cameras as cultural probes in requirements gathering — Exploring their potential in supporting the design of assistive technology.