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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.

Exploring Susceptibility Measures to Persuasion (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Vargheese, J. P., Collinson, M., & Masthoff, J. (2020). Exploring Susceptibility Measures to Persuasion. In S. B. Gram-Hansen, T. S. Jonasen, & C. Midden (Eds.), Persuasive Technology. Designing for Future Change (16-29). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45712-9_2

There is increasing evidence that indicates how personalising persuasive strategies may increase the effectiveness of persuasive technologies and behaviour change interventions. This has led to a wide range of studies exploring self reported, perceiv... Read More about Exploring Susceptibility Measures to Persuasion.

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.

A Dynamic Persuasive Dialogue Model for Encouraging Social Interaction for Older Adults (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Vargheese, J. P., Sripada, S., Masthoff, J., Oren, N., & Dennis, M. (2013). A Dynamic Persuasive Dialogue Model for Encouraging Social Interaction for Older Adults. In R. Aylett, B. Krenn, C. Pelachaud, & H. Shimodaira (Eds.), Intelligent Virtual Agents: 13th International Conference, IVA 2013, Edinburgh, UK, August 29-31, 2013, Proceedings (464-465). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40415-3

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.

Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and the source of music recommendations
Report
Wilson, M., Stephen, K., & Vargheese, J. P. Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and the source of music recommendations. Creative Informatics

Music recommender systems are utilised by many music streaming platforms to provide new artist and song recommendations on a personalised basis to listeners. These algorithm-based systems apply dynamic data modelling techniques and are a recommendati... Read More about Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and the source of music recommendations.