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Cicero: Middleware for Developing Persuasive Mobile Applications

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Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2016)

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Abstract

We present Cicero – a middleware solution to support developers design and implement persuasive mobile apps. Based on the Action-Behavior Model (ABM), Cicero provides developers with powerful class libraries and collaboration methodology to streamline the development of mobile persuasive apps without requiring a steep knowledge of behavior science theory or venturing into domain-specific knowledge and artifacts. Cicero guides the developers in following the ABM steps, provides APIs for cyber sense and cyber influence, and embodies the necessary model computations including measuring end-user compliance and response to influence and persuasion. Cicero also facilitates the engagement of domain experts in a clearly defined collaborative role. Here we also originally detail the design and implementation of an Android version of the Cicero middleware and we present a use case to practically exemplify how Cicero can facilitate the application developers’ work.

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    http://tasker.dinglisch.net/.

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    https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/location/package-summary.

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    http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/sensors/sensors_overview.html.

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    https://developers.google.com/android/guides/overview.

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    http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorManager.html.

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    http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/TelephonyManager.html.

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    http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaRecorder.html.

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    http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html.

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    http://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/debugging-devtools.html.

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    https://developer.qualcomm.com/software/trepn-power-profiler.

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    http://www.icta.ufl.edu/cicero.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Antonello D’Aloia, Matteo Lelli & Paolo Bellavista

  2. Creative Innovation Center, Advanced Convergence R&D Lab, LG Electronics, Seoul, South Korea

    Duckki Lee

  3. Mobile and Pervasive Computing Lab, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Sumi Helal

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  2. Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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  3. University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

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  4. University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

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D’Aloia, A., Lelli, M., Lee, D., Helal, S., Bellavista, P. (2016). Cicero: Middleware for Developing Persuasive Mobile Applications. In: Meschtscherjakov, A., De Ruyter, B., Fuchsberger, V., Murer, M., Tscheligi, M. (eds) Persuasive Technology. PERSUASIVE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9638. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31510-2_12

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