Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab is a research centre that looks at how computing products can be designed to change what people believe and what they do. Here are videos that illustrate some applications.
I doubt there is any rational justification for feeling unsettled at the prospect of being nudged by machines, but it does strike me somehow as more insidious than being nudged by a human.
My alarm clock nudges me awake every morning.
ReplyDeleteI hate it. But I don't think it cares :)