BetterPoints: Motivating behaviour change using technology-driven incentivisation

Motivating Ontology-Driven Information Extraction

Ontologies can provide Information Extraction Systems (IES) with much needed domain and task knowledge. Yet, it has to be analysed to what extent and in which form ontologies can be utilised to enhance the overall performance of an IES. Further, the use of ontologies requires an accurate management of the same. The most important issue with this respect is to keep the ontology up-to-date, becau...

Technology driven strategy model in Research and Technology Organization

The purpose of this study was to provide a technology driven strategy model with an interpretive structure approach in the Petrochemical Research and Technology Company. The present study is descriptive, survey in terms of the nature of the research and applied in terms of purpose. By reviewing the research literature and expert opinion polls, 10 effective factors were identified along with the...

Motivating Behavioral Change through Personalized Visual Narratives

This paper discusses the introduction of personalized explorable visual narratives into the Technology Enhanced Learning domain, which were used by 233 students as part of their undergraduate degree program during two successive academic years. The research proposes evaluating the usage of visual narratives to indicate positive behavioral change in student engagement levels. It highlights the i...

A Virtual Change Agent: Motivating Pre-service Teachers to Integrate Technology in Their Future Classrooms

In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for an anthropomorphic change agent to motivate pre-service teachers to integrate technology into teaching and learning. This agent is designed with a hybrid persona that simulates a mentor and plays both motivation and companion roles. Based on the theoretical grounding in motivation and change agency and related research, we propose that a comp...

1 Technology and Behaviour Change , for Good and Evil