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  • Fogg is the leader of an emerging field called captology, shorthand for the study of computers as persuasive technology.

    Clearing the Cache: Cell Phones and Shrines 2009

  • Fogg is the leader of an emerging field called captology, shorthand for the study of computers as persuasive technology.

    ...And Goodwill to Facebook Friends 2009

  • Dubbed "captology," or the study of computers as persuasive technology, Fogg's research shows how people are influenced by their relationship with technology.

    Boagworld recommends 2010

  • Dubbed "captology," or the study of computers as persuasive technology, Fogg's research shows how people are influenced by their relationship with technology.

    Boagworld recommends 2010

  • Think Nudge meets the web, and a recent piece in Seed Magazine explored how captology might work in the political context.

    Clearing the Cache: Cell Phones and Shrines 2009

  • Think Nudge meets the web, and a recent piece in Seed Magazine explored how captology might work in the political context.

    ...And Goodwill to Facebook Friends 2009

  • New column at Search Engine Land will look at "captology, persuasive web design, user experience and usability topics and how it all ties into the world of search engines, marketing and your every day life."

    Internet News: Internet Use Archives 2009

  • New column at Search Engine Land will look at "captology, persuasive web design, user experience and usability topics and how it all ties into the world of search engines, marketing and your every day life."

    Internet News: November 2008 Archives 2008

  • Consider blended approaches, online assessments and self-assessments, performance support, informal learning, knowledge management, communities of practice, and captology.

    Sometime I Feel Like a Dine-Oh-Saur David Grebow 2005

  • Consider blended approaches, online assessments and self-assessments, performance support, informal learning, knowledge management, communities of practice, and captology.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Richard 2005

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  • "Fogg is director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, an independent research center that explores a discipline he invented, called "captology." Captology stands for Computers As Persuasive Technology, and it looks at how certain technologies intentionally persuade us to do their bidding."

    Salon's Machinist, Why is Facebook so addictive?, by Denise Caruso, August 7, 2008

    August 8, 2008

  • I should put Fogg on my demons list.

    August 8, 2008