The first keynote by Kristina Hook was really interesting. Basically she and her team are taking affective computing to another level. I would almost say, that she de facto is investigating “pathos” appeals in technology (mobile, tablet and gamings systems). I really liked her presentation.

Standford has made a super cool presentation on Facebook and is thus taking the lead in the sense of new learnings. B.J. Fogg and Daisuke Lizawa had a great paper on differences in types of interaction in Japanese social networks versus Facebook/western social spaces.

Brian Cugelman made a nice presentation on website credibility:

I had my own session on the persuasive design of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) and I had both positive and negative feedback.

Also really interesting at the persuasive is the short paper sessions. This year short papers are presented for 10 minutes in clusters of three and then a short discussion. This is a great format, since you get a lot of short pitches

For instance Evan Rosenfeld had a good session entitled: “How to build persuasive web applications: Three fundamental feedback loops”

Again we got some some nice practical design patterns from Stanford. It seems that they have undertaken the task to actually map out all persuasive interaction design patterns that they can find. This will be very useful in taking Persuasive Technology Design to the next level – enabling us to prescribe design.

Below professor B.J. Fogg and Julie Leth:

Day 1 will close with a closed with a panel where I will be participating.

Overall a lot of interesting viewpoints emerged on day 1 and it was evident that there is still plenty of issues to be discussed in regards to the future of rhetoric and persuasion.

More on this tomorrow – where I will use a better compression for the pictures ;-)

If you want the whole thing you will have to download the whole set in one nice 43MB PDF file it is print quality! Right click and choose “save as”, and then print! I can tell you, you will not be disappointed.

My main view with all the nice trees and people hanging out on the grass.

Then there is this red container which some hate. I kind of like it. It looks kind of rough:

Then there is the MONSTER!!!!

and again!

I really hope I am suffering from the typical “Everything new sucks and so do all changes”-syndrome, but normally I don’t.

I wonder what they are going to have under the monster? Drug addicts and winos? Anyway, nothing that teargas and a Chinese air pellet gun wont solve.

They put up notes calling for participation. They begged the whole neighborhood to participate. I did not spend as much as 4 minutes on their begging for talent…

I was lazy and naïve. I underestimated the range of stupidity that humans can exhibit.

Now they are building what they thought would be a nice idea. Luckily my apartment does not face directly at this monstrosity that they are erecting as a monument of idiotic stupidity.

Oh architects have you no shame…