People, communities, societies, businesses, industries, basically everyone needs help with transformations. Many people want to achieve sustainable changes, but we also know how often our new year’s resolutions end in February. Majority of the current global challenges are driven by unsuitable human attitude and behavior. Why? Because, people tend to perceive changes as something difficult, impossible, and mystical, thus are willing to avoid them. Such attitude naturally leads to poorer decisions and consequent behavioral outcomes. This talk will help to demystify transformation and introduces Transforming Wellbeing Theory (TWT) that contains 8 applicable instruments for immediate use. The talk will reveal how TWT is emerging as an inevitable response to the ever-growing imbalance in our lives across the globe. Every crucial domain of our lives continuously provides evidence of how things are getting imbalanced despite us making huge progress in building increasingly capable technological innovations, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, and drones, just to name a few. The TWT provides scientific insights and practical applications to transform societies at global scale. Due to its strong fundament that intertwines technological innovations with human nature, this work is applicable in many essential life contexts, including health, education, sustainability, equality, governance, safety, emergency, management, marketing, ecology, economy, and dwelling.
9. 2019
Empowering Sustainable Change: Emergence of
Transforming Wellbeing Theory
Agnis Stibe1
, Kathrin Röderer2
, Michaela Reisinger2
, and Tobias Nyström3
1
ESLSCA Business School Paris, France
agnis@transforms.me
2
Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
{kathrin.roederer, michaela.reisinger}@ait.ac.at
3
Uppsala University, Sweden
tobias.nystrom@im.uu.se
Abstract. Majority of global problems and business challenges are byproducts
26. Persuasive Cities for Sustainable Wellbeing:
Quantified Communities
Agnis Stibe(&)
and Kent Larson
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA
{agnis,kll}@mit.edu
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 to2016
32. Towards a Framework for Socially Influencing Systems:
Meta-analysis of Four PLS-SEM Based Studies
Agnis Stibe( )
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
agnis@mit.edu
Abstract. People continuously experience various types of engagement through
social media, mobile interaction, location-based applications, and other tech-
nologically advanced environments. Often, integral parts of such socio- 2015
34. 2019
Unfolding Social Influence in Interactive Persuasive
Technology: Scale Development and Research Model
Abstract. Contrary to the popular perspective held by many scholars and de-
signers, social influence encompasses a much broader and deeper area of be-
havioral science than the commonly used principles of social norms, peer pres-
sure, or social proof. To help scholars develop a deeper understanding of social
influence, this study presents a measurement instrument for evaluating suscep-
tibility to seven social influence principles. The tool was developed over three
iterative rounds of instrument design, and validated through an online survey
38. Advancing Typology of Computer-Supported Influence:
Moderation Effects in Socially Influencing Systems
Agnis Stibe( )
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
agnis@mit.edu
Abstract. Persuasive technologies are commonly engineered to change beha-
vior and attitudes of users through persuasion and social influence without us-
ing coercion and deception. While earlier research has been extensively focused 2015
42. Persuasive Backfiring: When Behavior Change
Interventions Trigger Unintended
Negative Outcomes
Agnis Stibe1(&)
and Brian Cugelman2,3
1
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
agnis@mit.edu
2
Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group,
University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
brian@alterspark.com
3
AlterSpark, Toronto, ON, Canada
2016