Sentence examples for a desirable direction from inspiring English sources

Persuasive technologies are intelligent devices that interact intelligently with human behavior, with the explicit aim to influence this behavior in a desirable direction.

As Read (2000) argued, including more and more aspects of word knowledge to be assessed means that fewer and fewer words will become the target of assessment, which is certainly not a desirable direction to follow.

We design provably correct distributed algorithms that rely on the drifters opportunistically changing their depth so that the ocean flowfield takes them in a desirable direction to perform coordinated motion.

Also, as a result of the anisotropic nature of charge transport in organic micro-/nanocrystals, control on the azimuthal orientation of the crystals in a desirable direction (π π stacking direction in general) is critical to the optimal charge transport of the devices [24].

However in real experiments, small sample size is not a desirable direction to go; particularly the statistical power achievable is too low (less than 0.5 when sample size is less than 6, as shown in Table 1), hence small sample size should be avoided in real experiments at the experimental design stage.

A well-known challenge for anticipatory research, for instance, is the so-called Collingridge dilemma (Collingridge [1980]): although it is most effective to shape innovative technologies in a societally desirable direction at an early stage of development, it is difficult during this early stage to assess what the societal effects of the technology will be.

And those who think the root problem is neither taste nor practicality, but a wonderful conspiracy to shepherd fashion in a more desirable direction.

Dietary intake and physical activity behaviour may be prone to reporting bias in a socially desirable direction, with overweight women potentially more likely to do this.

Great thinkers of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries passed down to us the notion of civilisation moving in a single – and desirable – direction.

With neurobiological measures, it is harder to influence the outcome in a more socially desirable direction.

Following McLachlan and Gardner (2004), we did not present the study as being about sustainability, to keep participants from shifting their answers in a more socially desirable direction.