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Ambient Influence for Promoting Balanced Participation in Group Brainstorming

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2014)

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In this paper we present an ambient persuasive system designed to promote balanced participation during group brainstorming. The system gets information from participants’ attention behavior during a brainstorming session and provides visual messages for facilitating balanced participation. In the present study, we investigated the effect that using subtle visual animations and explaining to the users the meaning of the subtle message had on influencing group behavior. Objective measures from data acquired through depth sensors, and subjective responses to questionnaires on usefulness and perceived influence of the technology intervention were collected. The results suggest that the ambient system is better accepted when the persuasive message is expressed in a subtle manner and an explanation of the system’s persuasive strategy is provided.

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  1. University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Gianluca Schiavo & Eleonora Mencarini

  2. FBK-irst, Povo, Trento, Italy

    Gianluca Schiavo, Eleonora Mencarini, Alessandro Cappelletti, Oliviero Stock & Massimo Zancanaro

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  1. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Emile Aarts

  2. Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Boris de Ruyter

  3. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Panos Markopoulos

  4. Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Evert van Loenen

  5. Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany

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  6. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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  7. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Jacques Terken

  8. Waag Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Rob Van Kranenburg

  9. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Elke Den Ouden

  10. University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Gregory O'Hare

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Schiavo, G., Mencarini, E., Cappelletti, A., Stock, O., Zancanaro, M. (2014). Ambient Influence for Promoting Balanced Participation in Group Brainstorming. In: Aarts, E., et al. Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8850. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14112-1_12

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