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Persuasive games? “Every coin you pump into the bank is translated into gold, which can be used to buy weapons, items and armour for your character.”
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“A collection of interesting ideas curated by Joanne McNeil and Jerry Brito.” Via Ballardian (http://ballardian.com)
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“We saved our pocket money and bought a Forth-based dev environment called White Lightning. The manual was printed on dark green paper - we worked out why when we tried photocopying it so we could both read it at the same time…”
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“Escaping interfaces.” Similar to what happened with Lee Iacocca’s Interlock - http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/simple-control-in-products/#interlock
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“We need an anti-curfew that fills our streets with the vast mass of well-behaved and well-intentioned people, rather than just the marginalised few that have no private space to which to retreat.”
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Mark Hurst. Some very interesting readers’ comments too.
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An old-but-good, well-reasoned rant from Mark Hurst: “It’s like opening a four-star restaurant, where everything is excellent - the service, the food, the decor, the live music, everything - and then putting moldy bread on the tables for customers.”
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“Before the clock, time was not something measurable, but felt, and the invention of the clock changed the way society thought about time.”
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Design for Sustainable Behaviour
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Loughborough University, Leics
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28th October 2008
Brunel University, London
Presentation: Design with Intent: How designers can influence interaction and help users help themselves
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Making the user more efficient: Design for Sustainable Behaviour
International Journal of Sustainable Engineering (2008)
Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a Wider Context
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Architectures of Control in Product Design
Engineering Designer (2006)
Designs on your... freedom
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Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a Wider Context
Presentation given at Persuasive 2008, Oulu, Finland (2008)
Design for Sustainable Behaviour
Poster presented at ResCon, Brunel University engineering & design conference (2008)
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thanks, dan — the rpg tower goes right into my collection. if i only had such a device back in ye olde days, i might have saved all that money wasted on d&d expansions. play save!