With Persuasive Tech, Computers Know Best
Can a computer help you quit smoking, watch less TV, or improve your eating habits? Researchers are studying how people interact with their devices — and how "persuasive technologies" might help us stay on track.
Such devices could be as simple as a pillbox that reminds a patient to take medication, or as complicated as the design of computer applications that encourage users to return to a Web site and interact with it.
Guests:
B. J. Fogg, experimental psychologist and director of the Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University
Stephen Intille, technology director, House_n Consortium, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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