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December 31, 2007
Submit papers to Persuasive 08 -- 14 days left
You have 14 days to submit a paper to Persuasive 08. I know the website says the deadline is Jan 1, but I happen to know the deadline is really January 14th.
You don't need to have "Ph.D." after your name to submit. Last year some of the best papers were from non-academics. But remember: this is a peer-reviewed conference, with mostly academic reviewers. So your paper needs to have academic merit.
--BJ Fogg
More about Persuasive 2008
Research themes
Research themes of the conference include:
- Motivational technology
- Persuasive games
- Smart environments
- Web2.0
- Mobile persuasion
- Well-being and health behaviour
- Theory of persuasive technology
- Ethics of persuasive technology
- Social and organizational issues
- Business models for persuasive systems
- Conceptual and theoretical approaches
Submission categories
Full paper: 12 pages in LNCS format
Short paper: 4 pages
Poster: 4 pages
The proceedings will be published through a respected publication series.
To support the blind review process, you must prepare an anonymous version of the paper with author names and affiliations removed. See other formatting guidelines at Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes for Computer Science pages: LNCS formatting guidelines
A two-day doctoral consortium will precede the conference. The expected dates are June 1-2. The application deadline is expected to be on February 1, 2008.
Key dates (BJ's note: the deadlines I believe are really Jan 14th)
Paper submission: January 1, 2008
Author notification: January 31, 2008 Febuary 8, 2008
Final version submission: February 28, 2008 March 8, 2008
Doctoral consortium: June 2-3, 2008
Conference: June 1-3, 2008
Submit
Submission has been opened!
Please note that for the blind review process you must submit an anonymous version of the paper with author names and affiliations removed.
To submit a full paper, a short paper or a poster, go to https://precisionconference.com/~persuasive/
If you have any questions or problems, do not hesitate to contact katarina.segerstahl@oulu.fi.
Posted by BJ Fogg at 01:05 PM | Comments (0)
December 28, 2007
Apple Mobile Checkout Skips Lines
As mobile phones continue to augment our experiences everyday, Apple hopes to patent a processing system "that includes a wireless communication interface that wirelessly communicates with one or more wireless client devices in the vicinity of an establishment. The wireless communication interface receives a remote order corresponding to an item selected by at least one of the wireless client devices. A local server computer located in proximity to the establishment generates instructions for processing the remote order received from the wireless communication interface. The local server computer then passes the processing instructions to an order processing queue in preparation for processing of the remote order" according to a recent patent application from engineer Anthony Fadell. Whether this exclusive technology will eliminate lines at our local Starbucks is yet to come, but hints at the coming intersection of location disclosure and consumer interests.
Posted by Enrique at 01:22 PM | Comments (0)
December 03, 2007
Mobile Story Bestsellers
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, half of Japan's top-10 selling works of fiction in the first six months of the year were composed on the tiny handset of a mobile phone. They sold an average of 400,000 copies prompting president of Goma Books, Masayoshi Yoshino, "to establish this not simply as a fad, but as a new kind of culture". The stories traverse teen romance, sex, drugs and other adolescent terrain in a succession of clipped one-liners, emoticons and spaces (used to show that a character is thinking), all of which can be read easily on a mobile phone interface. Mobile phone novels - or keitai shousetsu - may soon reach the bestseller lists outside Japan and provide inspiration for new channels of expression.
Posted by Enrique at 01:54 AM | Comments (0)