Persuasibility and its assessment

Persuasive technology is the use of computers, devices or applications to change a person’s attitudes or behavior. Persuasibility design within the system life-cycle is a nascent area of research which is different from design in the traditional method. This paper focuses on the research of persuasibility design and its assessment in the system life-cycle. A life-cycle oriented systemic general theory is developed in this paper to evaluate persuasibility design. Persuasibility assessment is considered as a part of persuasibility design. Its procedure and method are explored and analyzed based on the system life-cycle in this paper. A possible research direction is to create more explicit and detailed persuasion design and assessment methods which can be used not only in personal computer persuasive application, but also many other electric devices that are designed for persuasion purposes.