Persuasive Cities for Sustainable Wellbeing: Quantified Communities

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Abstract

Can you imagine a city that feels, understands, and cares about your wellbeing? Future cities will reshape human behavior in countless ways. New strategies and models are required for future urban spaces to properly respond to human activity, environmental conditions, and market dynamics. Persuasive urban systems will play an important role in making cities more livable and resource-efficient by addressing current environmental challenges and enabling healthier routines. Persuasive cities research aims at improving wellbeing across societies through applications of socio-psychological theories and their integration with conceptually new urban designs. This research presents an ecosystem of future cities, describes three generic groups of people depending on their susceptibility to persuasive technology, explains the process of defining behavior change, and provides tools for social engineering of persuasive cities. Advancing this research is important as it scaffolds scientific knowledge on how to design persuasive cities and refines guidelines for practical applications in achieving their emergence.

Keywords

Persuasive technology Socially influencing systems Wellbeing Sustainability Urban design Health behavior change Quantified communities 
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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge Matthias Wunsch, Alexandra Millonig, Katja Schechtner, Ryan C.C. Chin, Stefan Seer, Chengzen Dai, Felipe Lozano-Landinez, Francesco Pilla, Rosalind Picard, Pattie Maes, Kevin Slavin, Liz Voeller, Christiana von Hippel, Leo Brown, Shin Bin Tan, Austrian Institute of Technology, and the Schoeller Research Center, for their support and contribution to this research.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.MIT Media LabCambridgeUSA

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