A project was designed with a supermarket in a small community to provide point of sale signs or nudges. These signs encouraged consumers to purchase healthier foods in main supermarket categories accompanied, in the intervention community and store, by overall healthy choice signs and messages to increase the sale of produce and other healthier food items. The community education reinforcement...

This work discusses a nudging intervention mechanism combined with an artificial intelligence (AI) system for early detection of learners’ risk failing or dropping out. Different types personalized nudges were designed according to educational principles and the classification. The impact on performance, dropout reduction, satisfaction was evaluated through study 252 learners in first-year cour...

We investigate how to provide personalized nudges to aid a user’s exploration of linked data in a way leading to expanding her domain knowledge. This requires a model of the user’s familiarity with domain concepts. The paper examines an approach to detect user domain familiarity by exploiting anchoring concepts which provide a backbone for probing interactions over the linked data graph. Basic ...

"Nudge"-style interventions are typically evaluated on the basis of their effects on behavior, not social welfare. We use a field experiment to measure the welfare effects of one especially policy-relevant intervention, home energy conservation reports. We measure consumer welfare by sending introductory reports and using an incentive-compatible multiple price list to determine willingness-to-p...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(2) Background My circle of friends, knowing that I work in what can only be called an ‘interesting’ profession, are rarely taken aback when I announce that I am going off to a conference about erectile dysfunction or researching a feature about loss of desire. But even they were taken aback when I mentioned that I was writing an article about sex ...