Thanks are due to my MPhil supervisor, Dr David Reiner (University of Cambridge), course director Dr Bill Nuttall (University of Cambridge) and in no particular order, Frank Field (MIT), Steve Portigal (Portigal Consulting), Andreas Bovens (K.U. Leuven, Meiji University), Bill Thompson (BBC), Cory Doctorow (Electronic Frontier Foundation, BoingBoing), Stuart Constantine (Core77), Chris Weightman (Tangerine), Hamish Thain (Burgopak), Rob Lemos (SecurityFocus), James Howison (Syracuse University), Julian Wood (Active Fasteners), Peter Moar (University of Cambridge), Michael O’Donnell (Brunel University), Paul Turnock (Brunel University), Burak Arikan (MIT Media Lab), David Harrison (Brunel University), Arnaud Bonnet (University of Cambridge, Gown), Tom Clarke (Logica CMG), Megan Meredith-Lobay (University of Cambridge, Gown), Tricia McLaughlin (Downing College), Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah, John Williams, Nigel Olding—and to my family, for suggesting many architectures of control, and keeping me motivated.
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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
Persuasive 2008, LNCS 5033 (2008)
Magazine articles
Architectures of Control in Product Design
Engineering Designer (2006)
Designs on your... freedom
Gown Magazine (2005)
Presentations & posters
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)
Design with Intent: Behaviour-Shaping through Design [coming soon]
Presentation given at New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living, Lancaster, UK (2008)
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Unscheduled intermission Another possible avenue for the Mosquito Normalising paranoia Product psychology to discourage anti-social behaviour links for 2008-07-04 Design with Intent Do you really need to print that? Getting someone to do things in a particular order (Part 4) Dependence Some links: miscellaneous, pertinent to architectures of control
exceechap: Is this gonna end someday??
Skaters R Gay: Grow up, get a life and get a job you long haired student fucks. You’re playing on a plank of...
Andy: Thanks for the advice. My Daughter has broken a bulb in her new flat and asked me to replace it. I have been to...
Nick: If you are old you probably have am older computer cause it doesnt matter to you so your sound card is bad and...
Anonymous: I completely disagree, I think we have just described the use of the verb ‘engineer’. A...
il10o: I don’t print much anymore, but I still go to the café a couple of times a day for a cup of coffee,...
Carol: Thank you Dan for this fascinating article. I am a landscape architect and one my conclusions after university...
Persuasive Technology 2008: Amy Goes to Oulu, Plus 2 Paper Features: Summary: Dan’s paper introduced the field of...
: Take it with a few less grains of salt
Bio: Modify the Environment (Buckminster Fuller)
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Journal & conference papers
Making the user more efficient: Design for Sustainable Behaviour
International Journal of Sustainable Engineering (2008)
Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a Wider Context
Persuasive 2008, LNCS 5033 (2008)
Magazine articles
Architectures of Control in Product Design
Engineering Designer (2006)
Designs on your... freedom
Gown Magazine (2005)
Presentations & posters
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)
Design with Intent: Behaviour-Shaping through Design [coming soon]
Presentation given at New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living, Lancaster, UK (2008)
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