20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Call for Workshop Proposals

*** Call for Workshop Proposals ***

20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025)

May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus

https://2025.persuasivetech.org


(*** Workshop proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***)


In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human
behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems,
studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and
information processing), is paramount.

Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design,
development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes
and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research
community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability
by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their
behavior.

The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina.
The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven,
Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago,
Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers
and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive
technology.


SCOPE

The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics:
• Persuasive systems’ design
• Behavior change support systems
• Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization
• Interactive agents in persuasive systems
• (Generative) AI for persuasive technology
• Tailored and personalized persuasion
• Gamification for persuasion
• Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications
• Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems
• Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems
• Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems
• Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion
• Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems
• Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology
• Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable
behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations
• Positive technology
• Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology
• Values and ethics in persuasive technology
• Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology
• Resilience and counter-persuasion
• Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts
• Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations

Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to:
• How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s
attitudes and behaviours?
• How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in
more detail why a design or intervention works?
• How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other
designs or interventions?
• How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design?
• How can design and intervention studies improve theory?


WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Workshops are meant to gather a number of people to work interactively on an emerging topic
and exchange ideas. Approved workshops will be announced on the conference website.
Workshops will take place during a half- or full-day session before the conference. If you want
to organize a workshop, please submit a proposal as a maximum 4-page description in
Springer LNCS format
(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines),
including a description of the topic, motivation, organization (including the list of
organizing members, how the organizers will form a program committee), duration of the
workshop, expected outcome, and supporting materials (if applicable).

Accepted workshop papers will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings to be
published by Springer in LNCS (pending approval). Alternatively, the workshop organisers
have the option of publishing the accepted papers to their workshops in CEUR
(https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html).

Workshop organisers must commit to creating their Call for Papers and their website within
one week of the notification.

Please email your proposal by January 10, 2025, to the workshop chairs: Wenzhen Xu
(wenzhen.xu AT r.hit-u.ac.jp), Rhoda Abadia (Rhoda.Abadia AT unisa.edu.au), and Kaoru Sumi
(kaoru.sumi AT acm.org).

The organizing committee will review the proposals and communicate the results by January
17, 2025.


IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop and tutorial proposals:
• Submission deadline: January 10, 2025 (AoE)
• Decision notification: January 17, 2025

Workshop papers submission:
• Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE)
• Decision notification: March 15, 2025
• Camera ready and author registration: March 28, 2025


ORGANISATION

General Chairs
• Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Chairs
• Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar
• Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia

Demo, Poster and Artefacts
• Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands

Workshops and Tutorial Chairs
• Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia
• Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan
• Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Doctoral Consortium Chairs
• Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA
• Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan
• Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia

Proceedings Chairs
• Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada

Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee
• Raian Ali – Chair
Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
• Luca Chittaro – General Member
Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science,
and Physics, University of Udine, Italy
• Roberto Legaspi – General Member
Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc.,
Japan
• Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member
Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland
• Kiemute Oyibo – General Member
Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, York University, Canada
• Khin Than Win – Secretary
Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia