Democracy would be a far more persuasive model than Chinese or Russian autocracy if some of its main proponents were less eager to believe that the open society comes out of the barrel of a gun.
Now a new-ish entrant thinks it has come up with a very persuasive model, and has raised cash to go for broke with the idea.
Based on recently published work in the field of psychology, the proposed persuasive model depicts real-time electricity consumption information in the dynamically changing state or reaction of a virtual object, such as a digital pet, which is visually presented to users on a display device.
As this report discusses, the initiatives supported by the Hunter Foundation have presented a rare and persuasive model of integrated, multi-sectoral programming.
To support the extension of electricity monitoring to the mobile app market, persuasive design models were created to target major factors which would appeal to consumers, such as saving money and environmental impact.
In this study, an IT-based persuasive feedback model is proposed, and a prototype system for inducing behavioral change in building users with regard to energy conservation is developed.
It cannot be accidental that Kate Moss, the most persuasive contemporary example of a model as an artistic catalyst, has assiduously guarded what she says throughout her career.
Every day, millions of users interact in real-time via avatars in online environments and these avatars or virtual self can even be programmed to behave independently of the physical self, maximizing its utility as a persuasive agent/health behaviour modelling [ 18, 19].
We know about this incident almost wholly from Cicero's side; in fact, four speeches that he delivered accusing Catiline of treason and revealing what he knew of the plot went on to the Roman school curriculum almost immediately, as models of persuasive oratory, and have been read and studied ever since.
